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Take-Two ordered to explain why it's not pulling its weight with FTC investigation into EA takeover bid
Shenanigans are afoot at Take-Two Interactive Software, publishers of that surprise video game hit, Grand Theft Auto IV. Shenanigans that lead to a full blown brouhaha if it’s not careful. A federal court has now asked the company to attend a hearing to explain why it has refused to comply with the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into the takeover bid by Electronic Arts.
That's no moon! It's a plutoid
For today’s little nugget of space news, we turn our eyes away from the red planet to one a bit smaller, darker and colder: Pluto…
NASA scientists celebrate as Mars Lander successfully soils itself
Now I know that none of you were even remotely interested in what has been happening in the world of mobile telephony, so I bring you another report from the icy depths of space. Scientists are jubilant this morning because it seems yesterday’s desperate battle against Mars’ fiendishly ‘clumpy’ soil has been won and samples are now being delivered to the lander’s Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA).
HP hopes Voodoo magic will defeat MacBook Air – world's new thinnest laptop
While most of the computing world is dedicating itself to creating the smallest possible laptops from baked bean cans and bits of string, it’s easy to forget that there is still a market for full sized notebooks that look good and weigh next to nothing. Hewlett Packard hasn’t though; it has just launched the Voodoo Envy 133.
At 0.7-inches thick and sporting a 13.3″ display, there obviously one target in mind: the MacBook air. The Envy has a price tag of $2099, which also puts it in the same ballpark as the Air, and it offers the same choice of 1.6 or 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo CPUs and 64GB SSD or 80GB HDDs. The Air, however, is just a shade thicker, at 0.76-inches thick…
Microsoft hits software pirates with 21 lawsuits
Software giant Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits against alleged pirates spread across 14 American states. Its goal is to protect customers from the risks of pirated and counterfeit software. It also mentions that software piracy has resulted in over $8 billion of economic loss in the US alone.
Phoenix Lander in pitched battle with Martian soil
Thanks to announcement of some important kind of shiny phone handset, it seems that there’s little earth-bound technology news left to report. We expect a good three days before we can stop ourselves from spontaneously typing ‘IPHONE!’, ‘3G!’ or wasting the whole opening paragraphs of our posts providing a connection between utterly unrelated news and said handset announcement. We appreciate your patience.
Ubisoft calls for Sony to "go back to the drawing board" with the PlayStation Portable.
Games publisher, Ubisoft, has criticised Sony’s PlayStation Portable for its failure to keep pace with the Nintendo DS handheld. UK Managing Director Rob Cooper has said in a recent interview that PSP lacks direction and that Sony has over-complicated and over-priced the console…
So long, internet: BBC One to be streamed online
Did you enjoy having the web? It sure has been a hoot having it around. I’m certainly going to miss it. We’d better get the most of it while we can, now that the BBC has decided to bring it crashing to its knees…
Sony PlayStation 3 to become a dynamic in-game advertising platform
Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have announced that a new dynamic in-game advertising system is being launched in order to harvest the rapidly growing in-game advertising market. Advertisement distribution company, IGA Worldwide, has been selected as its first partner though more are expected to follow…
10 Million hear the Call of Duty
Game publisher, Activision, has proudly announced that its much-lauded first person shooter, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, has passed a major milestone and sold its 10 millionth copy.
