Archive for September, 2011 - Page 30
Hulu Boasts More Than One Million Paying Subscribers
A few months ago, we learned that Hulu’s owners are planning to sell the service, and among the interested parties is Yahoo. Now, it seems the owners are vacillating about selling it. “We’re still evaluating the situation,” News Corp (one of Hulu’s owners) CEO Chase Carey says.
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Samsung Stratosphere Press Photo Leaked Ahead of Launch
The Samsung Stratosphere is a device we kept seeing in various reports and leaks in the recent past, a 4G LTE Android handset headed to Verizon. But today we have a few leaked photos of the device as taken from an unusual source, Wirefly.com.
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Sony Announces New Uncharted 3 PS3 Bundle
We’re just over a month away from one of the year’s most anticipated games (and the most anticipated game on the PS3), Uncharted 3. There’s no doubt that a ton of PS3 owners will be picking up Uncharted 3 when it launches on November 1st, but what if you don’t [...]
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Leo Apotheker Gets $25 Million Severance Pay
Revolving doors are nothing new in the corporate world. With news of HP CEO Leo Apotheker being ousted and replaced by Meg Whitman, we might wonder what would become of the erstwhile chief executive. It seems he won’t be going home without a hefty take-home pay.
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Sprint iPhone 5? AT&T Doesn’t Scare That Easily
Last time a U.S. carrier other than AT&T launched the iPhone, we heard from various officials of the Dallas-based company that iPhone availability from the competition will not hurt business even if that priceless exclusivity is lost.
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Ninja Theory: Enslaved Sequel Not Happening
Ninja Theory’s delightful little game about the bond between a slave and his master, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, won’t be getting a sequel. Instead, Ninja Theory is putting all of their focus into their upcoming Devil May Cry reboot, which is bound sell a ton of copies based on [...]
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HP TouchPad or webOS Not Returning to Life Despite Leo Apotheker Ousting
What everyone in the tech-reporting business expected, happened today. After almost a year at the helm of HP, Leo Apotheker was sacked. As rumored Meg Whitman, known for having formerly occupied the CEO position of another popular company you may know, eBay, replaced him.
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Guitar Hero Developer Neversoft Recruiting For FPS
Even though Activision pulled the plug on the Guitar Hero series and cut some jobs at Neversoft earlier in the year, it seems like the developer has come out of the other end more or less okay. In fact, things are looking up for Neversoft, because they posted job ads [...]
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Entire Sega Catalog On Sale At Steam Until September 27
It’s Thursday, so that means it’s time for another Steam weekend deal. We’re used to reporting some pretty awesome weekend deals here at TFTS, but this weekend’s is probably the best we’ve seen in quite a while. That’s because there isn’t just one or two games on sale this weekend, [...]
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Blizzard Experimenting With Diablo 3 Gamepad Controls
We’ve been wondering for quite some time if Blizzard will opt to make a console version of Diablo 3. Ever since job postings seeking PS3 developers for Diablo-related development duties popped up on Blizzard’s website, the Diablo community has been all a-flutter with questions of whether or not Diablo 3 [...]
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