Fasle Alarm with the last Ubisoft post… :(

The last Ubisoft post i made was not real.. It was just a photoshopped image.. I could have known that, but i was too happy and posted it.. Sorry guys..

Comment by reader :

CDM

March 16th, 2010 at 4:00 am edit

Sorry to say that, but it is FAKE!
Proven by many site.

1. Firefox adds a “/” after the url when the site loads
2. In the url bar, you can see an arow (->)

Arrow means jump to the entered site. When a site really loads, there is a star(bookmark) there.
So: someone only creates a simple html page, save it on his computer, load it in firefox, and replaced the ulr (like: file:///C:/fakeubi.html) with http://www.ubi.com

Sorry guys!
CDM

Activision sued by COD MW creators

By Tim Culpan and Adam Satariano

March 4 (Bloomberg) — Activision Blizzard Inc. was sued by the executives who created the “Call of Duty” franchise, after the video-game publisher fired them on “false” insubordination charges to avoid paying royalties, according to their complaint.

 

Jason West and Vince Zampella, who co-founded Activision’s Infinity Ward studio, sued the company in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday, claiming breach of contract and wrongful termination. They seek at least $36 million and control over “Modern Warfare,” a subset of the “Call of Duty” combat games, according to a copy of the complaint.

Activision, the world’s largest video-game company, conducted a “pretextual” investigation to fire the Infinity Ward co-heads and avoid making a royalty payment due on March 31, according to the complaint.   “Activision terminated their employment weeks before they were to be paid substantial royalty payments as part of their existing contracts for ‘Modern Warfare 2,’” West and Zampella’s lawyers at O’Melveny & Myers LLP wrote in a statement.

WOW ! New iPods !!!

Today, i got a mail on my inbox :

DID u see that ? And more here :

iPod Shuflle in new colors !

New iPod Nano

iPod Touch

Classic iPod – to 160 GB !

Japan’s Plan For World’s Tallest Building

Inspired by Mount Fuji, Taisei Construction Corporation has completed designs for construction of the world’s tallest building. The X-Seed 4000 (no idea where that came from) would stand at approximately 13,123 feet (4 km), nearly 700 feet (213 m) taller than the real Mount Fuji. The next tallest buildings don’t even break 2,000 feet, how puny! While likely to never be built, the X-Seed would have up to 800 floors, and be capable of housing between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people.

Unlike conventional skyscrapers, the X-Seed 4000 would be required to actively protect its occupants from considerable air pressure gradations and weather fluctuations along its massive elevation. Its design calls for the use of solar power to maintain internal environmental conditions. Some estimate that the cost to construct the X-Seed 4000 structure may be somewhere between $300-900 billion US dollars.

Now I’m no astronomer or anything, but if I learned anything in grade school, it’s that 13,123 feet is pretty much the distance to the sun. Which means that the top floor would be perfect for a natural sauna. You heard it here first, if they end up doing that I want credit.

Man’s Cell Phone Explodes

In cell phone news, a man’s Nokia 2115i apparently exploded an hour and a half after he connected it to it’s AC charger at home. Now I’m no pyrotechnician or anything, I’m just a guy who loves fireworks, but based on the movement of the phone from its original position, the damage it took from the blast, and the smoke and soot on the floor, I’m going to throw out my own little theory here. That theory is that someone was trying to kill this man. Probably a disgruntled ex-girlfriend or wife. If it did in fact explode on its own, then wow. And if so, I just ordered one off of ebay for my (soon to be ex) wife. You didn’t read this. I didn’t just say that. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. Oh, nuts.

Mac Upgrade Kit Includes Sledgehammer and Checkbook

According to this spoof, “upgrading your Mac is now easy as forking over the cash for a new one.” PC and Mac owners alike, what is your take on upgrading?

Skype absolves Microsoft from outage blame

Skype has clarified an earlier statement which appeared to blame Microsoft’s monthly patch for last week’s outage of the VoIP service. Skype had attributed the two-day crash of its service to a large number of Windows users logging on after rebooting their systems to install Microsoft’s monthly updates. The flood of log-on requests effectively launched a denial-of-service attack against Skype’s log-on service.

Owing to a lack of additional information, the justification seemed to blame Microsoft. On Tuesday, however, Skype posted a full admission that sought to clear the software giant.”We do not blame anyone but ourselves,” wrote Skype spokesman Villu Arak in a blog posting. “The Microsoft Update patches were merely a trigger for a series of events that led to the disruption of Skype, not the root cause of it. And Microsoft has been very helpful and supportive throughout.”