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Activision terminates two Infinity Ward key staffers
Updated: March 4, 2010 – Activision responds as “Dissappointed” by Meritless Lawsuit via Kotaku
Updated: March 4, 2010 – Court papers filed by West/Zampella against Activision via Kotaku
Vince Zampella and Jason West of game developer/studio Infinity Ward have been let go after being cited as insubordinate according to an SEC filing from its publisher Activision earlier this week.
The shake up at the developer is raising concerns for die hard fans of the franchise after additional news surfaced regarding Activision never wanting the creation of the Modern Warfare title and the studio’s fight to convince the publisher to let them create Call of Duty 4.
Latest info on PlayStation Network Status
Folks have been complaining of issues connecting to the Playstation Network via their Playstation3 systems. Thanks to a date code issue with handling February 28/29 which causes the system to reset to the begin date of 1/1/2000. Affecting connectivity in such services like Netflix that use certificate validation for its service which verify the system date and the certificate providers date, if the date is too far off/inconsistent such as in this case, the system fails authentication and quits.
China not accepting allegations of Google Hacking
It’s no surprise that the Chinese schools have denied allegations of hacking Google systems as we could all speculate what would happened to the teachers, students and schools if they ever admitted it. They would likely be sent to prison or shot point-blank in the head if they ever over stepped the governments power.
Excerpt from Daily Tech:
Representatives from Lanxiang Vocational School and Shanghai Jiaotong University denied any involvement in the hacking attempts Google and other targets. Shanghai Jiaotong University is one of the most elite schools in China, with the university sharing ties with the University of Michigan and Duke University. The university routinely has western IT companies there to recruit students — both Intel and Microsoft have built facilities in a new research park by the school. The university, which excels in math and computer science, also has worked with Cisco in the past, media reports indicate.
US Broadband plan for March 17, financial barriers
A plan expected to be unveiled on March 17 by U.S. communications regulators is aimed at bringing affordable broadband internet service to the 93 million Americans without it. However, this plan will have large financial and literacy setbacks as it attempts to bring more families into the 21-century.
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) said Tuesday that the National Broadband Plan is an attempt to connect Americans with jobs, reduce energy costs, allow access to education and healthcare service.
US Grand Jury issues subpoena for Toyota recalls
TOKYO, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Monday it had received a federal grand jury subpoena for documents related to unintended acceleration and braking that led to the recall of millions of cars in the United States.
Toyota and its subsidiaries received a subpoena from the attorney’s office for the southern district of New York on Feb. 8, the world’s biggest automaker said in a statement.
Mountains of electronic trash growing problem
The UN says e-waste from old computers in India will rise by 500% over the next decade.
China and India are being considered “environmental time-bombs” as mountains of discarded computer and cell phones add potential serious health risks as piles grow.
"Sales of electronic products in countries like China and India and across continents such as Africa and Latin America are set to rise sharply in the next 10 years," the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a report.
Windows Phone 7 Series, What is all the fuss?
Originally code named ‘Project Pink’ Microsoft has unveiled its new device and operating system for mobile phones derived from the Zune design. Yes, it is here. Windows 7 has made great leaps in Operating System design but will labeling the new phone OS Windows Phone 7 Series hit the same mark?
Nexus One Over-the-Air Update is here!
Last night Nexus One devices were busy downloading the Nexus One OTA update to 2.1-update 1. This new update is in hopes of fixing the bruised name of Google over the ‘Spotty 3g’ issue and ‘WebConnect’ error that causes the phone to become unprovisioned from the 3G network until a restart.
SpeedTest on Google’s Nexus One and How-To
People have been quick to use their speedtest results for gauging the notorious ‘Spotty 3G’ connectivity issues with T-Mobile. I ran the test a number of times and only after the first 10 tries did I start getting the following really good results which exceeded AT&T’s results from this video:
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