Nintendo drops DSi and DSi XL prices $20 Nintendo is dropping the prices by $20 on its DSi and DSi XL handheld game devices as of Sept. 12, the company said Monday. The DSi will go for $150, and the larger XL will cost $170 after the price drops. That may make consumers happy — [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Xbox Live Price Hike: A Higher Cost for Microsoft
Xbox Live Price Hike: A Higher Cost for Microsoft This wasn’t entirely unexpected, but Microsoft announced that it’s raising the price of Xbox Live Gold, effective November 1. Yearly subscriptions will increase from $50 to $60, quarterly subscriptions will jump from $20 to $25, and monthly subscriptions will go up from $8 to $10. Before [...]
MySpace users can now Sync up with Facebook
MySpace users can now Sync up with Facebook In what may be a case of “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” MySpace Inc. on Monday introduced Sync, a way for its users to automatically send their status updates to their Facebook profiles and pages. In a blog post, Jennifer Ruffner, MySpace’s director of the [...]
Microsoft Brings Bing To Verizon Android Users
Microsoft Brings Bing To Verizon Android Users Android owners who’ve been pining for a new mobile search option can now avail themselves of Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)’s new Bing for Mobile Android application, but it’s only available to Verizon (NYSE:VZ) Wireless subscribers. Unveiled Monday, Bing For Mobile faithfully reproduces the Bing Web search experience on the smaller [...]
Intel buys wireless chip tech in mobile-phone push
Intel buys wireless chip tech in mobile-phone push As the world’s biggest maker of computer chips, Intel Corp. can’t afford to ignore its huge blind spot in mobile phones. Eighty percent of today’s personal computers use Intel processors. But Intel is absent in smart phones, which are threatening PCs as gateways to the Internet. One [...]
Lea Michele: Britney Spears Is “So Tiny!”
Lea Michele: Britney Spears Is “So Tiny!” Lea Michele couldn’t believe her eyes when a super-fit Britney Spears walked onto the Glee set last week. “She was so professional,” Michele, 24, tells Access Hollywood. “She looked incredible. She’s so tiny!” Michele says Spears, 28, was “great to work with. It was one of those things [...]
Google may start pay-per-view movies on YouTube
Google may start pay-per-view movies on YouTube Buh-bye Blockbuster, hello Google! The search giant — and owner of YouTube — is reportedly negotiating with Hollywood studios to launch a pay-per-view service by the end of the year. The Financial Times reports that Google will launch the service first in the United States, but in its [...]
Temple Grandin’s big night at the Emmys
Temple Grandin’s big night at the Emmys Temple Grandin has many stories to tell, and the night an HBO movie about her won seven Emmy awards is just the latest story in her remarkable life. “I never dreamed this day would come,” Grandin said. “When I was getting kicked out of Scottsdale feed yard – [...]
Ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist has two boys with his wife of nine years, Perla Ferrar.
Ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist has two boys with his wife of nine years, Perla Ferrar. Slash has filed for divorce from his wife of nearly nine years, according to TMZ. In documents filed Monday (August 30) in Los Angeles Superior Court, Slash (real name: Saul Hudson) cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for his split [...]
Paris Hilton denies the cocaine in the purse she was carrying was hers
Paris Hilton denies the cocaine in the purse she was carrying was hers The socialite was arrested with her boyfriend Saturday in Las Vegas. Police found 0.8 grams of cocaine in her purse. She is expected to be charged with felony drug possession. Paris Hilton denied that a purse she was carrying that contained drugs [...]
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