Intel Corp. and actor Morgan Freeman have paired up to launch a Web site whose goal is to release some independent films on the same day they debut in theaters, challenging long-held Hollywood practices.
The ClicStar Website says: ClickStar, Inc. is a new digital entertainment venture between Intel Corporation and Revelations Entertainment, the production company headed by Morgan Freeman and business partner Lori McCreary that addresses the growing consumer desire for premium entertainment through broadband for the PC and the TV.
ClickStar is an amazing new service delivering premium movies and thematic artist-created channels brought to you by and featuring some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
and about Morgan Freeman’s latest flm:
Morgan Freeman’s new film, “10 Items or Less,” is scheduled to arrive in theaters in December. But you’ll be able to download a pristine copy of the movie over the Internet just days after it rolls into the multiplex.”
It also appears from thier web site that a film from Danny DeVito is forthcoming as well.
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Lawyers are preparing to sue the internet giant Yahoo over the imprisonment in China of Shi Tao, a journalist convicted of ‘illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities’ after he sent an email to a pro-democracy website.
In 2004 Shi Tao sent an email to an American pro-democracy site about the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests. It was passed to the government by Yahoo’s Chinese partner company, resulting in Shi Tao being given a 10-year sentence of forced labour. A lawsuit is now set to be filed on his behalf, according to PC Advisor magazine.
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Ok I”m certinley not a huge fan of Microsoft windows by any means. But I’ve administered Macs and PC’s before and one of the only good things I can honestly say about Windows based PC’s is that they beat Macs in every single category except for the cute keyboard category of course.
A certian pet peeve of mine is that it really burns me up when people lie to my face, even if it is an advertisement. So you can imagine that those mac adverts (”Hello, I’m a Mac” . . .) really just burn me up. So I was delighted to see these ad parodies:
Why would someone want to put plain text over an image? For the search engines! They treat any text near the top of the page as far more important and far more telling when it comes to determining what a page is actually about. Therefore in struggle between search engine optimization and web design or the battle between eye appealing sites and sites that get indexed properly by the search engines, every one wants their targeted keyphrases at the top of the page in a heading tag and they want a nice image at the top of the page as well.
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