I just bought Modern Warfare 2, the game. It is probably the best military simulator out there and it’s one of the hottest games this year. … I see MW2 more as a part of my training-simulation than anything else. … You can more or less completely simulate actual operations.
Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect in the recent terror attack in Oslo, wrote in a 1500-page manifesto that he used Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game and Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft to get ready for his attack.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 25 at 7:30 pm PT
Zynga has partnered with Tencent, a massively large Chinese Internet company, to roll out its first game in China, where Facebook is currently blocked.
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on July 25 at 4:21 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at
Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
Tom Loftus, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 25 at 4:02 pm PT
Want to write the next Digits post on Google+? Here’s the template. Step 1: Note the controversy du jour. Step 2: Note that, once again, Google has managed to offend the wrong people.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 25 at 2:26 pm PT
Here’s a fairly compelling argument as to why a developer should continue to give away games for free: if given the option, some consumers are willing to pay much, much more.
John Paczkowski in News on July 25 at 1:46 pm PT
Apple shares hit a new high during regular trading.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 25 at 1:24 pm PT
Blame the government — and in a roundabout way, blame one-time Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. Meanwhile, if you’re in Canada or Latin America, you’ll get it in the next three months.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 25 at 1:15 pm PT
Robert Muglia, the former head of Microsoft’s Servers and Tools business, whose departure was announced in January, will run Juniper’s new software unit.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 25 at 1:04 pm PT
Just a blip, says Reed Hastings. But it’s enough to freak out shareholders (for now).
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on July 25 at 12:56 pm PT
A new company called Translattice aims to change the enterprise tendency toward redundant hardware and a lot of other traditional notions of distributed computing.
Liz Gannes in Media on July 25 at 12:29 pm PT
You have to love that tech leaders like Reed Hastings and Mark Zuckerberg are partaking in Spotify’s public playlist feature and revealing some of their mutual favorite tunes.
Vampires have often found it advantageous to maintain a hidden presence in humanity’s most powerful institutions. In the 1600s, it was the Catholic church, and today, as you all know, it’s Google and Fox News.
–True Blood vampire king Bill Compton
Ina Fried in Mobile on July 25 at 11:30 am PT
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC confirmed Monday that its chief innovation officer, Horace Luke, has left the company “for personal reasons.”
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Kara Swisher in Mobile on July 25 at 10:01 am PT
Longtime Yahoo search veteran Chi-Chao Chang, who
left the Internet giant recently, has landed at xAD, a San Francisco-based mobile local search advertising network. He’ll be its president of product and technology and said, in an interview, he made the move to focus on an emerging digital arena. Chang, a key exec in Yahoo’s troubled search alliance with Microsoft, was VP and GM of the global search business at Yahoo and had been at the company since 1999.
