Tomorrow, Microsoft’s [MSFT] Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 starts, and runs until October 30, 2008. In addition to a schedule chock-full of content for developers, there is some anticipation among the reporters and analysts that maybe more details will be revealed about Windows 7. N.B. If you aren’t able to attend PDC 2008, but you [...]
October 2008
Say it isn’t so! A news report from Japan surfaced about a serious food crisis that began earlier this week, culminating in a shocker yesterday. Yesterday (in Japan time, it’d be earlier “today”), Nissin Food Products issued a 500,000 unit recall of its Cup Noodles product, that iconic just-add-water instant food staple of the poor, beleaguered, [...]
In an uncharacteristic position, Apple [AAPL] has publicly declared that California’s Proposition 8 is a civil rights violation and so it opposes it, as well as urging readers to do likewise by voting against it. On the Apple homepage, for its October 24 entry, Apple posts the following: No on Prop 8 Apple is publicly [...]
As many of you already know, I’ve been tracking and collecting the iTunes freebies that are offered periodically at Starbucks [SBUX] outlets. However, for those of you just joining us here and are unfamiliar with this topic, you can “catch up” quickly with these (which are presented in reverse chronological order, to further shake you [...]
Just in time for the holiday season, and to entice the developer community to reconsider the “big wigs” for the next year: The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced that next year’s E3 will be held June 2-4, at the Los Angeles Convention Center again. The earlier date gives game developers additional time to get [...]
The news from Namco had come out a few days earlier, and with such timeliness with regard to the Soulcalibur IV tournament, too: Darth Vader is available later today as an Xbox LIVE downloadable item for the Soulcalibur IV game. Priced at 400 MS points (about $5.00 USD), it should introduce the dark fella for [...]
Hurry up, before it’s too late! For those of you who were wondering what that odd blurb in the booklet and the inside jacket of your Soulcalibur IV game case was all about… the tournament for Namco’s Soulcalibur IV has officially kicked off. Already, the first of the three Brackets has filled up. However, you still have [...]
Remember when the news about the T-Mobile [DT] G1 smartphone came out, and the news about the updated (first “official” 1.0) Google [GOOG] Android SDK? Well, today is the official release date of the G1 to the public. A lot of reporters and analysts have already said their piece about the G1, so now it’s [...]
Is Sprint [S] finally becoming customer-oriented? The Problems Since Dan Hesse came into power at Sprint, there seemed to be a lot of restructuring of plans to grab more wealth from hapless customers. It seemed to most analysts and pundits that Sprint was somehow repositioning itself as a “luxury” carrier, in a market that cannot [...]
