Posted by: clickry on: May 10, 2008
Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest iteration of the hit video game franchise, racked up first-week sales of $500 million, Take-Two Interactive, the game’s publisher, plans to announce on Wednesday. The report exceeded the sales expectations of analysts. The company is expected to report it sold six million copies of the graphically violent game, 3.6 [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 10, 2008
Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times Taber Lightfoot sought reimbursement for cellphone spam. Cellphones have become consumers’ most personal technological devices. Some industry executives, along with consumer groups and security experts, are concerned that unwanted text messages on phones will be an even greater headache than unwanted computer messages. Cellphone spam is particularly annoying [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 4, 2008
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs. Many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 4, 2008
Anyone who watched the Kentucky Derby on Saturday had to feel saddened and amazed — saddened, of course, by the death of the filly Eight Belles and amazed by the power of the winner, Big Brown. As a longtime very ambivalent fan of horse racing and a lover of thoroughbreds, I can’t help seeing what [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 4, 2008
Microsoft said Saturday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after the two companies could not agree on a price. The breakdown in the talks followed a meeting on Saturday morning in Seattle between Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, and Yahoo’s chief and co-founder, Jerry Yang, according to a person briefed [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 4, 2008
“This is so normal!” Oprah Winfrey exclaimed as Tom Cruise took her through the vast, pristine, wood-paneled kitchen in his mountaintop estate in Telluride, Colo. Ms. Winfrey sounded relieved, almost as if she were half expecting to find space helmets and a teleporting station wedged next to the stove. Harpo Productions, via Associated Press Oprah [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 3, 2008
Vanity Fair The cover of the June issue of Vanity Fair and the photograph of Miley Cyrus, inset. Fifteen years old and suggestively wrapped in what appears to be a satin bedsheet in the June issue of Vanity Fair. Did Miley Cyrus, with the help of a controversy-courting magazine, just deliver a blow to the [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 3, 2008
Karen Tam for The New York Times Dave Strom of South Boston, Va., bought a Smart ForTwo Passion Coupe, which he says is getting 45 miles a gallon. Soaring gas prices have turned the steady migration by Americans to smaller cars into a stampede. In what industry analysts are calling a first, about one in [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 3, 2008
China Photos/Getty Images The recently opened Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital International Airport was designed and completed in record time for the Summer Olympics. It can handle 50 million passengers a year. More Photos > BEIJING — Beijing airport’s new Terminal 3 — twice the size of the Pentagon — is the largest building in [...]
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