Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Adobe, Chad Michael Murray, Games, Hilarie Burton, One Tree Hill, Peyton Sawyer, Sims 3, Tree Hill
Fans submitted more than five million entries to ESPN.com‘s 14th annual Men’s Tournament Challenge presented by State Farm and Sprint, surpassing last year’s record of 3.65 million entries by 37%. At the peak period, fans registered nearly 3,900 entries per minute or nearly 65 entries per second. ESPN is partnering with Adobe this year to offer an interactive PDF that automatically updates your brackets. (Cynopsis 3/20)
The CW has come up with a cool gaming-themed integration for the next episode of One Tree Hill. Next Monday EA‘s The Sims 3 will be seamlessly threaded throughout the storyline; the episode opens in an idealized Sims-style version of One Tree Hill then transitions into the real Tree Hill. As the episode plays out, “Simulated” versions of popular One Tree Hill characters are introduced and then morph into the real-life characters, including Dan (Paul Johannson), Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Peyton (Hilarie Burton). Following the episode, viewers can go to CW.com to download images of The Sims 3 versions of the characters. (Cynopsis 3/20)
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Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Adobe, Apple, AT&T, Cablevision, Flash, iPhone, Klausner Technologies, Linksys iPhone
Adobe already has a version of Flash for the iPhone running on emulation software, and would, fingers crossed, be able to bring that over to the phone itself if Apple allowed it. That’s what Adobe said yesterday at its Q2 conference call.
Apple, AT&T and eBay have settled with Klausner Technologies over a patent lawsuit filed against the companies related to the iPhone’s visual voice mail system. The parties have agreed to license the technology from Klausner, which is also reportedly in talks with Comcast and Cablevision Systems on similar litigation. (CNET 6/16, The Washington Post/Reuters 6/16)
JVC rolled out three new consumer-grade Everio HD camcorders, featuring 1080p, 60 frames/second signal output and improved shot-response time. The GZ-HD40 and GZ-HD30 are the first dual-format AVCHD/mpeg2 recorders, offering a plug-in allowing users to edit using Apple’s iMovie HD 6 or Final Cut Pro 5 or 6 for the Mac. (Cynopsis 6/17)
One of these cameras can record up to 50 hours in HD? In essence, this camera is the anti-Flip Video.
Disney is opening its new Innoventions Dream Home at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. The “house of the future” showcases new technologies like partner Microsoft’s “Surface” table computer. Each partner company paid Disney at least $1 million to participate in the home for five years.
(Iwantmedia 6/17, http://www.ajc.com/business/content/living/stories/2008/06/16/disneyland_home_future.html 6/16)
One feature of the Innoventions Dream Home is the ‘magic mirror’ in daughter Chelsea’s room that lets her ‘virtually’ try on different clothes and accessories without ever lifting a finger.
Amino Communications has introduced what it is calling the world’s smallest HD-only, MPEG-4 set-top box, a device that’s just 4.48 inches wide and 1.37 inches tall. The AmiNET130M has one HDMI connector, no DVR features and, thanks to its simplicity, is about 20% less expensive than Amino’s current HD set-top, the AmiNET130 HD. (Multichannel News 6/17)
