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Game giants glom (Dec 04 2003 23:47 GMT) - Business News: IGN, GameSpy merge in bid for Net synergy GameSpy Industries and IGN Entertainment, the two biggest providers of sites, software and other technology for Internet gaming, have agreed to merge into an entity valued at $125 million-$175 million. |
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Comcast, Motorola ready DVR rollout (Dec 04 2003 23:47 GMT) - Business News: Deal is a blow to TiVo Shares of digital video recording pioneer TiVo tumbled 12.5% Thursday as cable giant Comcast firmed up its rollout of similar technology along with set-top box maker Motorola. |
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Bronfmans exit Viv U board (Dec 04 2003 23:47 GMT) - Business News: Edgar Jr. ankles after acquiring Warner Music Vivendi Universal said Thursday that Edgar Bronfman Jr. and his father Edgar M. Bronfman have resigned from the French conglom's board of directors. |
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Equity warns on talks (Dec 04 2003 23:47 GMT) - Business News: Negotiations to center on health care, tours Leaders of Actors' Equity have announced that health care and non-Equity tours will be the top priorities at upcoming negotiations and warned that bargaining could be bumpy. |
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'Change' reaps Rich rave (Dec 04 2003 23:47 GMT) - Legit News: Leaked Times review offers different 'Caroline' take Fax machines have been working overtime on Broadway. |
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Madsen takes wheel in Driv3r game (Dec 04 2003 23:47 GMT) - Home Ent News: Atari casts Rhames, Rodriguez, Rourke in franchise Atari is putting big-name talent at the wheel of its upcoming game Driv3r, casting Michael Madsen, Ving Rhames, Michelle Rodriguez and Mickey Rourke as voices in the latest installment of its hit Driver series. |
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Zeitgeist lays out 'Divan' (Dec 04 2003 23:47 GMT) - Film News: Docu's theatrical preem set for March Zeitgeist Films has picked up North American rights to Pearl Gluck's doc feature "Divan." |
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Trebitsch to exit namesake shingle (Dec 04 2003 23:47 GMT) - Business News: Grundy head de Haas to replace exec Katharina Trebitsch is ankling as CEO of TV-film producer Trebitsch Produktion Holding, which she founded in 1985, due to differences with majority shareholder UFA Film & TV Produktion. |
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Debian GNU/Linux Advisory: rsync (Dec 04 2003 23:46 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - "The rsync team has received evidence that a vulnerability in all versions of rsync prior to 2.5.7, a fast remote file copy program, was recently used in combination with a Linux kernel vulnerability to compromise the security of a public rsync server... |
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*crickets* (Dec 04 2003 23:45 GMT) - ('dithering) Time for that quarterly update. I hope none of you took "stay tuned" literally and have been refreshing my blog every five minutes for 2 months. I should make it my New Year's resolution to update this more often. I spent a few hours last week reading all the really old entries (at least the ones still archived- some of you might recall I deleted about 6 months worth of writing when there was ... |
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Japanese Train Sets New Speed Record (Dec 04 2003 23:45 GMT) - A high-speed Japanese train set a new record of 581 km/h, breaking its own previous record. The Superconducting Maglev had real passengers on board this time. They proved that the distance between Osaka and Tokyo can be covered in one... |
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Japanese Train Sets New Speed Record (Dec 04 2003 23:45 GMT) - A high-speed Japanese train set a new record of 581 km/h, breaking its own previous record. The Superconducting Maglev had real passengers on board this time. They proved that the distance between Osaka and Tokyo can be covered in one... |
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Dean's response to the Club for Growth attack ad (Dec 04 2003 23:45 GMT) - The conservative Club for Growth just started airing --today! -- anti-Dean ads in NH and Iowa, attacking him as the usual 'liberal tax and spender'. Dean's already got an add in the ready and a new bat is coming out to pay for it:Title: 'Club for Truth' |
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Stamp on Paul Robeson (Dec 04 2003 23:45 GMT) - Anna writes of the new Paul Robeson stamp and much more here.The stamps might be discontinued though - people won't know what side to spit on. |
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Jackson TV special may have led to molestation charges (Dec 04 2003 23:45 GMT) - LOS ANGELES - More than a year ago, Michael Jackson let a BBC crew into his bizarre world for a TV documentary he no doubt hoped would boost his fading career. Instead, ''Living With Michael Jackson'' may have triggered the child molestation case that threatens to destroy the pop star. |
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Sting hands out Bad Sex Fiction Award (Dec 04 2003 23:45 GMT) - Noted tantric-sex practitioner Sting presented this year's totally not-coveted Bad Sex Fiction Award to an Indian investigative journalist. The award is for the most inept description of doing the nasty in a novel. |
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