(CNN)-We don't adapt to our surroundings; we adapt our surroundings to us. The proof is everywhere. From the homes we live in to the business cards we carry to the computers we type on to the clothes we wear,...
10 Mar, 2000 - 12:13 PM read story |
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(IDG)-The effort to provide voice-activated equivalents to Web hyperlinks this week took a step forward, as the VoiceXML Forum announced it has completed Version 1.0 of its specification.?Last year, Lucent, IBM, Motorola and AT&T created the VoiceXML Forum.?The...
10 Mar, 2000 - 11:26 AM read story |
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Stellar ratings are prompting HBO to make a third installment of its movie series "If These Walls Could Talk," according to Variety. On its premiere Sunday night, "Walls 2" nabbed the highest rating for an original HBO movie in...
10 Mar, 2000 - 11:07 AM read story |
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Director Kevin Smith seems to enjoy taking on the big guys. First it was God, and now he's stepping up to Mickey Mouse. Is anything sacred? The creator of Chasing Amy and the controversial religious flick Dogma continues to...
10 Mar, 2000 - 10:56 AM read story |
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Yes, the people at Microsoft have officially come out with their new plans.?What was once mere speculation, the Xbox, a new gaming console with an 8 gig hard drive, 64 MB RAM, nVidia graphics card,...
10 Mar, 2000 - 6:32 AM read story |
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(Forbes)-Hollywood pays Jim Carrey $20 million a pop to mug in movies.?Baseball pitching ace Kevin Brown gets $15 million a year for his split-fingered fastball.?Colin Powell pulls in $80,000 for a one-hour speech.?Those are the going rates for...
9 Mar, 2000 - 11:02 AM read story |
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There's a really good article over at MSNBC about the "rise and fall of the Internet giant, Netscape." I never really thought too much about the merger back in 1998.?Sure I thought, "Well, Netscape's going to...
8 Mar, 2000 - 8:36 PM read story |
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For the first time in nearly 30 years, the cost of making a movie actually went down last year, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.?The organization released figures at the ShoWest convention in Las Vegas showing...
8 Mar, 2000 - 11:44 AM read story |
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(AP)-For the 10th week in a row, ABC has won top ratings in 7 spots, five of which belong to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".?None drew fewer than 28 million viewers, and Wednesday's had almost 32 million.?Fox's...
8 Mar, 2000 - 11:26 AM read story |
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(ZDNet)-Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.?beat archrival Intel Corp.?to the 1,000MHz mark Monday when it announced it is shipping a 1 GHz Athlon processor for desktops.?The gigahertz race may be over, but don't count on the PC industry stopping just...
8 Mar, 2000 - 10:52 AM read story |
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(IDG) -- After simmering on the back burner for several years, the debate over new Internet domains - such as .web and .arts - will reach full boil this week at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...
8 Mar, 2000 - 10:39 AM read story |
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(Reuters)-Web auctioneer eBay yesterday said that it will join with AutoTrader.com to build a new auction site on the Web and make a cash investment of an undisclosed amount in AutoTrader.?The deal combines the huge inventory of cars...
8 Mar, 2000 - 10:16 AM read story |
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Stephen King is scheduled to release a 66 page ghost story in digital only format in the weeks to come.?He will be the first big-time author to do so.?The e-book arena hasn't taken off like many had...
8 Mar, 2000 - 10:13 AM read story |
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(VH1)-Monday's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony took time to honor those who had passed on, as well as those unsung musicians whose contributions helped make rock and roll what it is today. For the first time,...
7 Mar, 2000 - 6:24 PM read story |
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John Colicos, who won critical acclaim as a Shakespearean actor but was best known as the villain in the TV science fiction series "Battlestar Galactica," has died at the age of 71.?Colicos died Monday in Toronto after...
7 Mar, 2000 - 11:38 AM read story |
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Mike Myers will earn his first $20 million payday to star in "Sprockets" for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. The studio has greenlit the Myers-Michael McCullers script with plans for a summer start. A director has not yet been...
7 Mar, 2000 - 11:21 AM read story |
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