The National Basketball Association's Portland Trail Blazers and Cable & Wireless are set to announce today a five year contract under which the London-based telephone company will provide Portland, Ore.'s basketball team with technical and marketing support to...
17 Dec, 1999 - 11:49 AM read story |
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Despite threats of a lawsuit and numerous written complaints, no legal action has yet been filed against ICraveTV.com, the Canadian Web site that is streaming some 15 channels of network and local TV programming.?Bill Craig, who operates...
17 Dec, 1999 - 11:16 AM read story |
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Justcreated.com, a rather cool news site that has a link to us, pointed out that The Tick will return to television as a live action show. All I can say is, SPOON! Read more......
16 Dec, 1999 - 5:20 PM read story |
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The Most Wanted Paintings on the Web, the Dia Center for the Arts second artists' project for the Web, begun in 1995, was created by the Russian emigrant artist team Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid.?As quoted by Michael...
16 Dec, 1999 - 1:25 PM read story |
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Tektronix, Inc., the innovative force within the color printer industry, today announced the addition of a new multimedia gallery on CreativeSight.com featuring noted Web designer Todd Purgason of Juxt Interactive.?CreativeSight.com is an interactive Web site, sponsored by...
16 Dec, 1999 - 1:14 PM read story |
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After reading Steven Zaillian's screenplay for Hannibal, the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins has confirmed that he has agreed to star in the title role, according to a report appearing on Carlton Communication's "Popcorn"...
16 Dec, 1999 - 12:32 PM read story |
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Although the sound and video quality may have sounded and looked pre-'60s, Paul McCartney's Internet-televised concert in Liverpool Tuesday night attracted at least three million viewers, a record for such an event, published reports said Wednesday.?The concert, which...
16 Dec, 1999 - 12:27 PM read story |
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Doom, Postal, Mortal Kombat, Requiem, Blood, and Duke Nukem have been made illegal for further sale in Brazil, by order of Judge Claudia Maria Resende Neves Guimaraes.?The decision was brought about by a recent shooting in a Sao...
15 Dec, 1999 - 5:14 PM read story |
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Scorched sent us word that MetaCreations is going through a major restructuring, and will now focus solely on e-commerce visualization solutions for the web.?You can read more in the MetaCreations press release here.
15 Dec, 1999 - 2:22 PM read story |
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After only two weeks on the market, Disney Interactive's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire has become the top-selling electronic video game, according to PC Data.?Mattel Interactive placed two Pok?mon games in the top-ten list, Pok?mon Studio...
15 Dec, 1999 - 11:40 AM read story |
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MTV is being investigated by the Justice Department for alleged antitrust activities, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Wednesday).?The newspaper quoted Jennifer Rose, a spokeswoman for the department's antitrust division as saying, "We are looking at the possibility...
15 Dec, 1999 - 11:31 AM read story |
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Saying that he wanted to focus on his health following recent cancer surgery without the pressure of a daily deadline, Charles Schulz announced Tuesday that he is retiring his cast of "Peanuts" characters.?His last daily strip will appear...
15 Dec, 1999 - 11:29 AM read story |
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Although television news magazines traditionally do not pay the movie stars they interview, ancillary costs can be substantial, USA Today indicated today (Wednesday), noting that CBS's 60 Minutes II is considering contesting a bill for $12,000...
15 Dec, 1999 - 11:21 AM read story |
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Egor and I were hard at work.?When we found out that a train derailed within 2 blocks of our office, running into a gas main,?we, being the hard working journalists we are, rushed to the...
14 Dec, 1999 - 11:36 PM read story |
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The following excerpt was taken from PC World's coverage of the new processors of 2000: ? ? "From Intel, analysts expect 800-MHz PIII chips during the second
? ? quarter, and the Pentium IV chip, code-named...
14 Dec, 1999 - 2:20 PM read story |
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President Clinton's top aide on Y2K matters has urged computer hackers to exercise self-restraint until after year 2000 technology fears largely have passed.?In an unusual plea for mercy, John Koskinen, chairman of the President's Council on...
14 Dec, 1999 - 12:10 PM read story |
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