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Entries from March 2008

AT&T to reveal Mobile TV to consmers

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

AT&T has revealed their plans to bring AT&T Mobile TV to consumers. The new service will launch in May, and is expected to be as good, if not better than a similar service offered by rival Verizon Wireless.
The new service will be launched with two handsets. The new mobile TV service will also […]

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Tags: Sci/Tec

Dell jumps onboard with Blu-ray

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Dell has revealed a brand new Inspiron notebook. The new notebook will retail for under $1,000 and will feature a built-in Blu-ray player.
The Blu-ray drive built-in has the ability to not only read and write to Blu-ray discs, but it can also read and write to DVDs and CDs.
The new Dell Blu-ray Inspiron 1525 […]

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Tags: Sci/Tec

Rockstar partners up with Amazon for GTA IV

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Rockstar has announced a new partnership with Amazon to launch a music service along with the release of Grand Theft Auto IV on the Xbox 360 and PS3.
It will be pretty unique in how it works.
When gamers hear a song they like on the Liberty City radio stations in the game, they can use the […]

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Tags: Sci/Tec

French architect wins the 2008 Pritzker Architecture Prize

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

French architect Jean Nouvel has won the 2008 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
The announcement came on Sunday, as Nouvel joins Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, and I.M. Pei with winning the award.
Nouvel is world-renowned for his extremely modern architectural style.
He stated “I think they understood very well that I fight for specific architecture against generic architecture. Every […]

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Tags: World

Journalist Dith Pran dies of pancreatic cancer

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Journalist Dith Pran, whose story was the foundation of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields, has died of cancer.
He died on Sunday morning at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.
Colleague and former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg confirmed his death on Sunday.
Pran spent 30 years of his life teaching the […]

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Tags: Entertainment

Hollywood unions still not happy

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Hollywood’s top two actors’ unions are currently far from unified. This is making labor talks with movie studios very difficult.
As the strike deadline nears, it appears that the two unions are trying to work out separate deals.
The two unions, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, as well as the Screen Actors Guild, […]

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Tags: Entertainment

The Rolling Stones and Scorsese to debut Rolling Stones movie

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

The Rolling Stones and Director Martin Scorsese are set to debut the new Rolling Stones movie, “Shine A Light” on April 4.
The new film is a concert documentary shot at New York’s Beacon Theater in October 2006.
On Sunday, Scorsese and Rolling Stones’ members Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, and Charlie Watts held a press […]

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Tags: Entertainment

Nickelodeon says no one is safe from the slime

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

It was a slime-filled evening at the 21st Annual Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, as many top Hollywood stars got drenched in that glorious green goop.
Harrison Ford, Orlando Bloom, and others were among those who were covered from head to toe in the slime.
The big winner was, without a doubt, 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, star of the […]

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Tags: Entertainment

Movie “21″ safe bet at the box office

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

The new gambling-oriented film, “21″ managed to take the top spot at the weekend, proving that it was a smart move to double down on this release.
21 Took in $23.7 million in its debut weekend.
The film starred Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, and Jim Sturgess.
They played the roles of the math students based off of the […]

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Tags: Entertainment

All four number one seeds to play in the NCAA Men’s Final Four

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

For the first time in history, all four number one seeds will be playing in the NCAA Men’s Final Four. This comes after Kansas, North Carolina, UCLA, and Memphis all won their games.
The most recent time that three number one seeds made it to the Final Four was in 1999, it has never happened […]

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Tags: Sports