News tagged with entertainment
Hollywood scores win over Pirate Bay, 4 convicted
Apr 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The entertainment industry won round one Friday in a legal battle against file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, with guilty verdicts and one-year prison sentences handed down to four men accused of running ...
Norway court snubs call to block The Pirate Bay
Nov 06, 2009 |
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A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay.
'Avatar' video game to expand film's alien world
Nov 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- James Cameron was thinking beyond the big screen when he created the alien world of Pandora. The "Titanic" director worked in tandem with video game developer Ubisoft Montreal on the game based on ...
iPhone porn goes 3D
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 20, 2009 |
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IPhone lovers can use their hot devices to view steamy adult videos in 3D.
Sweden: hundreds protest Pirate Bay conviction
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wearing bandanas and waving Jolly Roger flags, hundreds of supporters of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay demonstrated on Saturday against a Swedish court's conviction of the Internet site's organizers.
Sony latest to demo videogame motion-sensing controller
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Sony on Tuesday demonstrated a prototype motion-sensing videogame controller, as the maker of PlayStation consoles joined rivals in a trend away from playing with complicated buttons and joysticks.
RF remote control is a superior alternative to infrared control
Mar 04, 2009 |
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The ZigBee Alliance and the RF4CE Consortium, founded by Panasonic, Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics and Sony have reached an agreement to deliver a standardized specification for radio frequency-based (RF) remote ...
'Digital living room' getting closer
Mar 11, 2009 |
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The digital living room is still under construction, but consumers can now get a glimpse of what it might look like.
Spaniard sued for music file-sharing networks
May 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Recording companies went to court Tuesday claiming euro13 million ($17.5 million) from a Spaniard they accuse of profiting from computer programs he designed to allow free music downloads over the Internet.
PlayStation 3 price cut by $100; slimmer model to come
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- After months of rumors and anticipation, Sony Corp. is slashing the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100 in hopes of boosting sales of the console ahead of the important holiday season.
Ubisoft's madcap 'Rabbids' breeding US fans
May 31, 2009 |
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French videogame titan Ubisoft is turning E3 into a playground for "Rabbids," madcap videogame rabbits breeding fans throughout Europe and the United States.
Digital Entertainer brings PC content to big screen
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 02, 2009 |
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So there you are with all those videos, photos and MP3 music files, and the only place you can play all that digital entertainment is on your computer. It's probably sequestered away somewhere in the room you've designated ...
'P.B. Winterbottom' finds a home at 2K Games
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Matt Korba and his pals are busy turning his interactive media thesis project from a rudimentary silent film-themed video-game prototype into a fleshed-out puzzler featuring over 80 levels that will ...
Sony unveils new PSP Go
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Sony on Tuesday unveiled a sleek next-generation PSP Go handheld videogame, movie and music gadget in a direct challenge to Nintendo's freshly-launched DSi devices.
Liberty Media CEO says DirecTV sale 'possible'
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The chief executive of Liberty Media Corp. said Friday that a sale of DirecTV to a phone company is possible after its planned spin-off.
