Star Trek: More popular than ever

The new Star Trek reboot has been greenlit for a sequel before it's even out in theaters. This sequel will be written by the same people doing the first one, and scheduled to be written and submitted by christmas.

iTunes variable pricing

Certain songs on iTunes will now be sold at $1.29, while others will be sold for 69¢. This variable pricing model makes more money on better songs, while making songs that do poorly possibly sell better.

Rockband hits $1,000,000,000 mark

Rock Band, the mammoth rhythm/music gaming franchise from Harmonix/MTV Games/EA, has topped the billion dollar mark in sales, according to the people who make the game. This number includes the hardware, software, and downloadable content that you can purchase for Rock Band, and comes at the 15 month mark in the game's life cycle.

Woz carries on

Last night's Dancing with the Stars proved the power of geeks to be unfathomable. Steve Wozniak is still in the game, despite having the lowest scores in DWTS history.

iPhone 3.0 SDK

The iPhone has gone 3.0, at least to developers. The SDK went live, and brought with it features such as Copy/Paste, In-App purchasing, and MMS messaging.

IE 8

Internet Explorer 8 was released recently, to much applause (not). Boasting feature such as faster surfing, and safer... something, IE 8 will be the death of us all.

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Hulu's Birthday!

Hulu celebrates it's birthday today, with a new feature that lets you link your myspace/facebook profiles with your hulu account!

iPhone Prototypes on ebay

For quite a while now there have been iPhone prototypes available on ebay, and while they were basic (Apparently only designed to test the hardware), they did function. However, they looked like someone put windows mobile in a blender with an iPod.

Who Watches The Watchmen? $70,000,000 worth of people!

Ticket sales outpacing "300" 4-1, approaching $210 MILLION in North America alone... This is crazy guys...

Pot makes you suck at games, says Uncle Sam

"Getting high affects your brain in ways that may directly influence your gaming ability," says the government's latest above the influence videos. These videos (which feature elves who are telling you to smoke less pot, instead of the usual kind) bring a much needed sense of realism to the war on drugs. I could believe that Drugs make me suck at games far more than I'd believe my brain is an egg on a frying pan.

Youtube Symphony!

Youtube has announced the winners of it's Symphony contest! Sending the youtube-voted winners to Carnegie hall to play with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, composer Tan Dun and others.

Take a sad song, and make it better!

Rockband, the popular alternative to Guitar Hero, now features songs from the Beatles! Their record label, which in the past has exhibited acute technophobia, is offering a whole new addition to the Rockband suite which features the band's songs, as well as replica instruments.

Who Watches The Watchmen?

"Who watches the watchmen?". This phrase has been tagged all over New York City, in what some call a marketing ploy, and some call vandalism by enthusiastic fans. I'm going with the first one, mostly because it's shorter to say.

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Mac Mini Update!

Apple updated their Mac Mini line of computers with such diverse features as a faster video card, greener operating efficiency, and a 320gb HD option.

iPhone Comic book

Hexed, a comic book published by distributor iVerse Media, has launched on the App store today. At a price of zip, zilch, nada, it flips the panels one at a time to create readability.

Tiny wall computer!

With a 1.2GHz Marvell Sheeva™ CPU processor equipped, 512Mbytes of FLASH and 512Mbytes of DRAM. This tiny computer (hereafter refered to as Chibi-Plug) uses low power to conserve energy and draws on average, less than five watts under normal operation compared to 25-100 watts for a PC being used as a home server. Chibi-Plug can run Linux or Windows XP, and also has a USB input for... Printers? I guess...