Can Harry Potter save the day (and quarter) for EA?
Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. Interactive announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game will be in stores worldwide on June 30.
The long-awaited launch should be a big deal for EA’s fiscal quarter that ends June 30, and the launch will be just ahead of the July debut of Warner Bros. Pictures film based on the sixth novel in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
In the game, Harry Potter will return to Hogwarts to… Continue Reading
Roundup: Ashton’s new show, Woz’s new company and more
Here’s the latest action:
Pansonic lays off 15,000: The consumer electronics giant shed 5 percent of its work force. It joins NEC, Sony, Hitachi and other Japanese companies in announcing major layoffs.
Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst Media teams up with Slide on new series — The show, called KatalystHQ, is the first sponsored web series to premiere on Facebook.
Steve Wozniak takes a job at storage startup Fusion-io — The Apple co-founder already sat on the Salt Lake City company’s advisory… Continue Reading
Roundup: Tech salary raises in ‘08, Supreme Court knocks down anti-porn law, and more layoffs
Here’s the latest action, depressing as half of it is:
Apple will make an appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2010 (at least in spirit) — The company has already said it will stop attending the Macworld event, so rumors that it will go to CES instead, persist. Apple or no Apple, CES is doing its best to woo the third-party developers and manufacturers with what has been dubbed the iLounge Pavilion for iPod and… Continue Reading
MySpace’s Primetime App launches, Hulu invades homepages and profiles
MySpace has just launched its internally developed Primetime Application, a free video service that it hopes will keep users glued to their screens. How? Four words: Every. Video. On. Hulu. That’s right. MySpace users will now be able to view every single video from online video service Hulu on their MySpace homepages and profiles, plus MySpaceTV originals, and videos from more than 150 licensed content partners, including Warner Bros and Sony. The app embeds the… Continue Reading
Roundup: AjaxWindows, Lemonade, MobiBucks, “racetrack” memory and more
Summary:
*AjaxWindows offers operating system in the browser
*IBM researcher says “racetrack memory” could unseat flash
*Noise reducing headset Jawbone wins backing from Sequoia
*Lemonade, latest company to offer online kiosks
*Adobe previews Photoshop Express
*MobiBucks, the latest start-up targeting mobile payments
*Scouta, offers personalized video and podcast recommendations
AjaxWindows offers operating system in the browser — Michael Robertson, creator of the SIPphone and the Gizmo Project, has unveiled something called ajaxWindows, which lets you do all your computing straight from your browser. It’s… Continue Reading