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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Disney closed its recently acquired LucasArts gaming division only to contract with Electronic Arts to make Star Wars games.
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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
NEWS
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HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, ENTERPRISE, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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Qualcomm kicked off the Uplinq 2012 developer conference with a keynote by Dr. Paul Jacobs. In his talk, we managed to see a lot of product and technology demos, as well as performance comparisons between competitors.
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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Following the continuous decline in numbers of subscriptions, Netflix management aborted the idea of spinning off the DVD rental business which became known as Qwikster.
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APPLE
NEWS
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Steve Jobs will never grace the stage in Silicon Valley again. The celebrity who never walked the red carpet in a formal tux, but shone brightly in a black turtle neck and blue jeans, has died.
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SOFTWARE
NEWS
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While dealing with their own internal troubles, Hewlett Packard is active in humanitarian issues. The HP Hackathon draws upon software developers from the general community to build applications to help autistic children.
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SECURITY, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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Kids used to want a bicycle, an Etch-a-Sketch, and a quarter for the movies. Now they want a Razor, a TouchPad, and an MP3 player.
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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
NEWS
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Scary movies such as Scream, Halloween, as well as stories with a more sophisticate bent, such as Academy Award winners The Piano, Shakespeare in Love, and The English Patient will be available on Neflix in June.
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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
NEWS
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In advance of the theater release of Cars 2, the Disney Interactive Studios production will launch as a video game on Sony’s PlayStation 3. The video game is 3D friendly: racing, spying, and even menu interfaces are all in 3D.
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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CBS and Netflix have joined forces to provide streaming TV shows to subscribers. Netflix gets more content, CBS gets a new revenue source, and everyone is happy. That is everyone except competitors Hulu and Amazon.
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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Disney will be streaming on Netflix under a licensing deal between the two companies. As you can imagine, Warner Bros isn't in favor of the implications and fears content subscriptions might devalue retail movie sales.
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SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
NEWS
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Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, R2D2, C-3PO and the gang are finally coming to you on Blu-ray. So says George Lucas, the genius behind the seven Star Wars episodes.
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BUSINESS, BLOGS
ANALYSIS
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Lowry Digital transformed Marlon Brando’s The Godfather, Richard Burton’s The Robe, and now Buzz Aldrin’s 1969 moon walk into modern viewing formats.
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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That's right. "Moon" music. NASA's recent moon launch and its purpose, to find H2O, inspired the project's deputy director to write and record a beautiful, rockin' song, Water on the Moon.
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