Blu-ray to Make iPhone Fast & Furious

Universal Studios Home Entertainment will deliver an array of iPhone- and iPod touch-enabled features on its upcoming Blu-ray releases that can be accessed via companion applications from the App Store. Releases will also integrate with Facebook and Twitter. Coming on Apple’s App Store on July 28. The launch will coincide with the 2-Disc Special Edition [...]

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Twitter Welcomes Robojit, the Novel Character

Leveraging the power and reach of microblogging, a tech writer has rolled out his new novel Robojit and the Sand Planet on Twitter network today (July 19). The first episode of the serial novel with 10 tweets is live now, at https://twitter.com/robojit The novel will appear on Twitter in the form of a serial with [...]

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Twitter TV On, Twitter TV Off

The microblogging site Twitter has put an end to all the gossips about it making a TV show. It says it’s not making any such show. As the celebrity world around Hollywood was also abuzz with this hearsay, the No.1 Twitterer, actor Ashton Kutcher, threatened to shun the site while wife Demi Moore expressed her [...]

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First: Night at the Museum

While it was largely expected that Christian Bale-led Terminator Salvation will beat others at the box office, it couldn’t despite some heavy pre-release hoopla to promote the film. Then who won? It’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, a comedy sequel to the 2006 Night at the Museum. According to Rentrak Theatrical’s Box [...]

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Warner Bros. Offers Digital Comic Books on iPhone

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution is offering division’s first digital comic book “Terminator Salvation” for the iPhone and iPod touch. Published by IDW, written by Dara Naraghi (“Lifelike”) and art by Alan Robinson, the multi-part graphic novel details a series of events that have transpired since Judgment Day and culminates with the story found in “Terminator [...]

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Watching Star Trek Movie from the Space

NASA astronaut Michael Barratt will have the opportunity to watch the film aboard the International Space Station, while he and two crewmates fly 220 miles above Earth. “Star Trek” movie premiered on May 8. A few days ago, NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station in [...]

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Sidekick Gets Red Carpet Welcome

T-Mobile USA celebrated the next generation of its Sidekick messaging device with the national launch of the new Sidekick LX. It features 3G for fast Web browsing and enhanced mobile access to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The company transformed the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood into a virtual T-Mobile metropolis. The [...]

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Mosquitoes vs. Actors

This is also a Hollywood-style thriller. Here, the stars are actor Ashton Kutcher, CNN, and Twitter. They’re up against the army of mosquitoes that are fast spreading killer malaria. As a result of the real-life action, UNICEF will be the recipient of a $100,000 gift from CNN Worldwide. The money is going to be utilized for [...]

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The New Focus: Digital Cinema

Sony Pictures Releasing International Corporation (SPRI) has entered into an agreement with Sony Electronics’ Digital Cinema Solutions and Services (DCSS) group for 4K DCI-compliant digital cinema deployments in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. SPRI is an international motion picture distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). SPE and DCSS earlier announced plans to [...]

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Releasing: Terminator Salvation Movie Game on Twitter

It’s going to be Sony Pictures Releasing International’s first-ever game created for the social networking platform, Twitter.  In anticipation of the worldwide release of the motion picture Terminator Salvation, Twitter users will have the chance to join the human resistance against the machines. It was announced Monday by Sal Ladestro, executive vice president of marketing, [...]

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