Tag archive: Mike

In space, perhaps, no one can hear you Twitter. But on earth, a Tweet from space can have plenty of followers. NASA astronaut Mike Massimino certainly does – 273,676 of them, in fact – and they follow all his Tweets from space under the name Astro Mike. He’s been sending them since April, transmitted through a radio link from his current home in the space shuttle Atlantis to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, according… Read More

The Pats versus Big Blue, plus Tom Petty at the half: The Super Bowl just doesn't get any better. Of course, what's the point of watching the game on mediocre gear when you could be showing off a hot new home theater rig (and a few geektastic extras) to your buddies as they guzzle all your beer? Full Moon Fever  This trust-fund-busting setup will make you feel like you and your friends are sitting on the 50-yard line… Read More

Michael Snyder has resigned as CEO of troubled VoIP operator Vonage, effective immediately. The company also announced a series of cost-cutting measures designed to improve the company's bottom line: the company will cut advertising by about $110 million, and will make an unspecified number of job cuts to lower general and administrative expenses. Snyder will be replaced on an interim basis by Jeffrey Citron, who was Vonage's… Read More

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The Walt Disney Company yesterday announced that they'd made available the first 2006 episode of the "Official Disneyland Resort Podcast" series available for download from either the Apple iTunes Podcast Directory or an official Disneyland site. The monthly Disneyland podcast, said Disney, focuses this time around on the opening of the all-new attraction “Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!” at… Read More

It was announced yesterday that the U.S. took home the gold from the 2005 World Cyber Games' Grand Final in Singapore as they won two gold medals and one silver in Counter-Strike, Halo 2 and WarCraft III: Frozen Throne against a field of 700 competitors representing 67 countries. Kyle Miller (Washington DC), Ronald Kim (Dallas, TX), Sal Garozzo (New York, NY), Josh Sievers (Des Moines, IA), and Mike So (Los Angeles, CA) comprise Team… Read More

ABC News, Disney Online and ESPN.com, all part of The Walt Disney Company, today announced their extensive line-up of free audio podcast content is available via the iTunes Podcast Directory, one of the largest directories of podcast content in the world. Starting today, users can subscribe to this content among other podcasts, and iTunes will automatically check to see when there are new episodes, download them into fans' computers and… Read More

Earlier this month, for the first time ever, consumers rented more DVDs than VHS cassettes, according to the Video Software Dealers Association, a nonprofit entertainment trade association. According to the association, consumers rented 28.2 million DVDs compared to 27.3 million VHS cassettes during the week ended June 15. It is the latest milestone for the digital video disk (DVD) video format, which was first introduced six years ago.… Read More