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  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Guitar Hero, RIP (2005-2011)

    The game that stunted the growth of a million actual-guitar hero careers: Guitar Hero​ Rolling Stone is reporting the impeding demise of guitar-with-buttons videogame Guitar Hero: The Guitar Hero video game franchise is officially dead. According to publisher Activision, which will close its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Online Emmy Searches Leading To Malicious Websites

    ​And the winner is ... not you. At least not if you searched online for Emmy victors and came up with a computer virus instead. Security virus firm Symantec warned on Monday that as much as 57 percent of certain Emmy-related search results online will lead users to malicious sites that will at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    L.A. City Hall's Move To Google's Free Gmail So Far A FAIL; Could Cost Nearly $2 Million

    ​The city of Los Angeles was supposed to be using Google's Gmail webmail services by now, a controversial move announced nine months ago as a money saving measure that actually cost the city $1.5 million above it's old email contract with Novell. The migration from Novell's email services to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    New World Record (We Assume) For Speed Consumption of KFC Double Down

    The "sandwich" that keeps making headlines continues to do so. We found this video via Kotaku.com of two Activision video game testers having a KFC Double Down speed eating contest in the break room. The winner managed to put down both fried chicken breasts, both strips of bacon, both slices of chee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Chinese Government Sued In L.A. Over Censorship Software

    Lenovo​The Chinese government was sued in Los Angeles court this week over its imposition of content-filtering software that is allegedly based on code stolen from CYBERsitter, LLC. The $2.2 billion suit claims that the People's Republic of China distributed "Green Dam Youth Escort" censorship ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    In NYT Op-Ed, Bono Worries on the Destruction of Creativity (Never Mind That Whole Negativland Thing)

    Bono penned an Op-Ed for the New York Times yesterday morning listing his "Ten for the Next Ten," and one of his ten predictions concerns the future of creativity. Specifically, in a section called "Intellectual Property Developers," Bono warned of the catastrophe facing the TV and movie business ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Free Email To Cost City $1.5 Million Extra

    That city deal to take on Google's free email services as a cost-cutting measure will actually cost the taxpayers $1.5 million more next year than if City Hall would have stayed with its old email system.​In what seems like bizarre math, Google competitor Novell points out that the cost of trainin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 16, 2009

    If the Dorks are Cool, Can We Still Beat Them Up?

    That city deal to take on Google's free email services as a cost-cutting measure will actually cost the taxpayers $1.5 million more next year than if City Hall would have stayed with its old email system.​In what seems like bizarre math, Google competitor Novell points out that the cost of trainin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 12, 2009

    I WAS A GEEK BEFORE YOU WERE A GEEK

    That city deal to take on Google's free email services as a cost-cutting measure will actually cost the taxpayers $1.5 million more next year than if City Hall would have stayed with its old email system.​In what seems like bizarre math, Google competitor Novell points out that the cost of trainin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    Gawker's Nick Denton: End for the King of Snarkasm?

    Just before New Year's, news came out from AlleyInsider and others about the imminent sale of  Defamer, the online wagazine that touts itself as "The L.A. Gossip Rag." Defamer is among a clutch of Web titles, including Consumerist and Wonkette, that are up for sale or have been folded by Nick D ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 30, 2008

    Smart Art

    Just before New Year's, news came out from AlleyInsider and others about the imminent sale of  Defamer, the online wagazine that touts itself as "The L.A. Gossip Rag." Defamer is among a clutch of Web titles, including Consumerist and Wonkette, that are up for sale or have been folded by Nick D ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 24, 2008

    At L.A.'s E3 Summit: The Business of Beautiful Killing Games

    Faster, Dracula! Kill! Kill! Bloodthirsty peeks at the latest versions of Flock, BioShock, Borderlands, WolfQuest and Castlevania, plus Konami designer Koji Igarashi

  • Film+TV

    May 18, 2006

    The Wrath of Pong

    Putting down the Kalashnikov, picking up the Joola blade

  • Art+Books

    August 10, 2000

    FBI to E-Mailers: Bite You

    Carnivore is a natural-born privacy predator

  • Art+Books

    November 18, 1999

    Patently Mine

    Microsoft and Amazon test new open-door policy at U.S. Patent Office

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