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Da Vinci Code trio to adapt Stephen King’s novels for film and TV. Director Ron Howard, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and producer Brian Grazer — the Oscar-winning trio behind A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, and Angels & Demons — are in talks to adapt The Dark Tower, the acclaimed bestselling lit series by Stephen King, into a film trilogy. Universal is said to be angling to seal a deal for the rights to the fantasy western saga. King, Imagine Entertainment and Weed Road are also said to be developing Dark Tower as a television series. |
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| Both Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter are claiming the exclusive on this news, but we’ll let them slog it out over who should get credit for that. Lord knows, neither outlet credited IGN Movies for breaking the news back in 2007 that J.J. Abrams had come aboard to try to adapt King’s magnum opus for the screen.
Read more here –> IGN.com |
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Archive for April, 2010
J. TECH - Apr - 30th
J. TECH - Apr - 29th
| by Jason Kincaid on Apr 28, 2010
Over the last two weeks countless blog posts and articles have been written about the Gizmodo/iPhone leak and the subsequent police investigation. Few have been as scathing toward Apple as a segment that aired on tonight’s Daily Show. And while Apple has long made a habit of mostly ignoring what the press and media says about it, you can be sure this will get their attention.
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| In the segment, host Jon Stewart lambasts Apple for the police raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house, and the fact that Apple employees showed up on the doorstep of the guy who originally found the phone. Stewart’s report glosses over some important points in the case and gets a few details wrong. But ultimately that doesn’t really matter — Stewart’s audience probably doesn’t care if there’s a chance a crime was committed here. To them, a guy found a phone in the bar, photos of it were posted on the Internet, and Apple responded by siccing the authorities on them.
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J. TECH - Apr - 28th
By Raju Shanbhag April 27, 2010
Offering advanced performance and features to the professionals in the digital content creation (DCC) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) industries, AMD has unveiled new additions to its next-generation ATI FirePro family – ATI FirePro V7800, ATI FirePro V5800, ATI FirePro V4800, and ATI FirePro V3800. The ATI FirePro 3D family of workstation graphics cards combines a new ATI OpenGL optimized driver with the award-winning ATI FireGL graphics technology. This provides a new level of graphics performance and reliability for professional 3D graphics users, states the company. Designed to meet the specific needs of each market segment, this next generation of the ATI FirePro family of professional graphics cards have been tested in real-world scenarios to help ensure compatibility and stability for certification with various software applications. Providing professionals with the ability to expand their display resolution for increased productivity, each card supports Microsoft DirectX11, OpenGL 4.0 and OpenCL along with ATI Eyefinity technology. “AMD’s new ATI FirePro workstation graphics cards are the world’s first workstation class graphics cards to support up to four monitors on a single card.
Read more here –>Link
J. TECH - Apr - 28th
By JESSICA MINTZ April 28, 2010
Microsoft Corp.’s next update to Windows Live Messenger will bring people more ways to keep an eye on their social network accounts. After various fizzled attempts to build Windows Live into a social network in its own right, Microsoft has moved farther away from competing directly with Facebook, Twitter, News Corp.’s MySpace and other popular sites. Instead, the company has sought ways to meld its own widely used Web e-mail and instant messaging programs and its online news site with feeds from Facebook, Twitter and others. Live Messenger, Microsoft’s IM program, already displays friends’ Twitter messages, Flickr photo uploads, Yelp reviews and other tidbits from around the Web. The update, coming by the end of the year, will let Live Messenger users not only monitor but send updates to such sites as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn.
Read more here –>link
J. TECH - Apr - 28th
By Rick Whiting, Apr. 28, 2010
Apple may have forsaken Adobe’s Flash technology, but Google is fully embracing the multimedia development tools in an upcoming release of its Android operating system. Android 2.2, expected to be available in May, will include full native Flash support, according to a New York Times interview with Andy Rubin, Google vice president for engineering. Google’s support for Flash is in contrast to Apple’s efforts to keep Flash-based applications off its iPhone and iPad devices. Last week Adobe said it was abandoning its efforts to develop Flash development tools for Apple’s iPhone operating system, ending a long-running dispute between the two companies.
Read more here –>Link
J. TECH - Apr - 28th
By Eliot Van Buskirk April 28, 2010
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have been outed as not caring one whit about your privacy — a jarring admission, considering how much of our personal data Facebook owns, not to mention its plans to become the web’s central repository for our preferences and predilections. Also interesting is how this came about: Not in a proper article, but in a tweet by Nick Bilton, lead technology blogger for the The New York Times‘ Bits Blog, based on a conversation he says was “off the record” and which he may have confused with “not for attribution.” “Off record chat w/ Facebook employee,” begins Bilton’s fateful tweet. “Me: How does Zuck feel about privacy? Response: [laughter] He doesn’t believe in it.” Ouch. Zuckerberg’s apparent disregard for your privacy is probably not reason enough to delete your Facebook account. But we wouldn’t recommend posting anything there that you wouldn’t want marketers, legal authorities, governments (or your mother) to see, especially as Facebook continues to push more and more of users’ information public and even into the hands of other companies, leaving the onus on users to figure out its Rubik’s Cube-esque privacy controls.
Read more here –>Link
J. TECH - Apr - 27th
By TechCentral April 27, 2010
Chipmaker AMD’s Phenom II X6 processors and 890FX chipset are now available. The products usher in a new era of immersive 3D entertainment and visualisation for desktop PCs, the company said. Also available is its flagship Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition processor — AMD’s fastest and most tunable desktop processor ever. “With these processors, customers can build an incredible entertainment system and content creation powerhouse,” said Bob Grim, director of client platform marketing at AMD, in a press release. The processors feature new Turbo Core technology that transfers performance to three dedicated cores operating at higher frequency. AMD announced that the Phenom II X6 can shift to Turbo mode for demanding games and productivity software which may employ two or three cores, or shift back to six real cores for the demands of core-hungry content creation and 3D applications. The processors work with existing AM3 and AM2+ socket motherboards with proper Bios support, making for easy upgrades. According to AMD, the 890FX chipset is the premier complement to its Phenom II X6 processors.
Read more here –>Link
Also read this –> AMD Pushes Affordability With Six-Core Desktop Chip
And This –> AMD sparks six-core desktop price war
This too –> Today is the AMD Phenom II X6 day
J. TECH - Apr - 27th
By: Chloe Albanesius 04.26.2010
A New York senator is the latest lawmaker to criticize Facebook’s privacy updates. Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat, on Monday penned a letter to the Federal Trade Commission asking the agency to develop guidelines for social networking sites regarding the use of members’ personal information. “Hundreds of millions of people use social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter every day,” Schumer said in a statement. “These sites have helped reconnect old friends, allow families from far away to stay in touch, and created new friendships; overall they provide a great new way to communicate. As these sites become more and more popular, however, it’s vitally important that safeguards are in place that provide users with control over their personal information to ensure they don’t receive unwanted solicitations. At the same time, social networking sites need to provide easy to understand disclosures to users on how information they submit is being shared.”
Read more here –>Link
Also read this –>Engineer says he has discovered Facebook privacy loophole
J. TECH - Apr - 27th
By MarketWatch April 27, 2010
Most Japanese consumer electronics discount stores have halted online sales of iPods, iMacs and other Apple Inc. products, with some indicating they have done so at the U.S. firm’s behest, according to a report Tuesday. Industry watchers believe that the Japanese unit of Apple has cut out some sales channels because it was unhappy about online stores selling its products at a discount, the Nikkei business daily reported. Apple Japan Inc. itself declined to comment to the Japanese newspaper, saying the personnel in charge of the matter weren’t available. Yodobashi Camera Co. posted a notice at its online store, saying it has stopped selling Apple products over the Internet out of respect for the U.S. company’s wishes. It said it can’t sell such products unless customers visit its stores in person.
Read more here –>Link
J. TECH - Apr - 27th
By Aislinn Laing Apr. 27, 2010
Jason Chen, who edits the New York-based gadget internet site, was not at home when members of California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team broke down the door of his house on Friday evening. They subsequently seized four computers and two servers along with cameras and an iPhone using a warrant issued by a Superior Court judge (which Gizmodo published on its website), on suspicion the property was “used as the means of committing a felony”. But Gawker Media, which owns Gizmodo, claims the search was illegal since it was conducted at night and broke the US “shield law” which protects journalists and their sources. The police warrant exercised on Friday specified that property to be seized include any information about the prototype phone, its sale to Gizmodo and any subsequent research conducted about Gray Powell, who lost the phone.
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