Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
by Chris Holt, Macworld.com
An all-star cast, tons of action, and a nearly global release. Sounds like a summer blockbuster? Of sorts. League of Legends, the spiritual successor to Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients, is coming to the Mac this summer for free. Designed by some of the best in the business using TransGaming’s Cider Engine, this online-only player versus player client-based game will l...... Read more
2K Sports Takes the Field with Major League Baseball 2K10
Major League Baseball 2K10 (PSP) Launch of the game marks the start of $1,000,000 contest to pitch a perfect game.
Read more on IGN PSP
Apple admits some plants using child labour
SHANGHAI – The iPod you have just bought may well have been made using child labour. Apple has admitted that some of its factories, many of them in China, have hired at least eleven 15-year-old children to work in three factories in the last year. The discovery was made following an internal audit. Apple said the sites no longer used child workers or that th...... Read more
iPad book deals leaving room for lower prices?
Titles sold through iBooks may be cheaper than previously expected, say three sources said to be familiar with Apple’s publisher negotiations. Apple currently has deals with five major publishers, under which most adult new-release fiction and non-fiction titles will sell for $13 to $15. From this Apple is set to take a 30 percent cut, as it does at the App Store….
Read more on MacNN
Apple’s Aperture 3 Freezes Some Users’ Computers
After Apple released its pro photo editing app, support forums filled up with reports of memo...... Read more
New BlackBerry Browser More Like Safari Than Mosaic
The mobile browsing experience on Research in Motions BlackBerry is widely considered among the worst around. Inefficient and miserably slow, its easily bested by not just by the browsers of rival smartphones like Apples iPhone, but by third-party alternatives like Opera Mini.
Read more on AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance
W.SCOTT THOMPSON Is Thailand ready to settle down
But this has been different. When international airports are shut down and riots figure regularly, not just tourism is affected. There has been all but a war between Thak...... Read more
NJ judge who opened Little League to girls dies
Sylvia Pressler, a trailblazing judge whose 1973 ruling opened Little League baseball to girls, has died. She was 75.
Read more on WRIC 8 News Richmond
NJ judge who opened Little League to girls dies
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Sylvia Pressler, a trailblazing judge whose 1973 ruling opened Little League baseball to girls, has died. She was 75. Pressler died Monday morning at the family’s home in Sparta, according to her husband, David Pressler.
Read more on FOX 6 News Birmingham
NJ judge who opened Little League to girls dies
Sylvia Pressler,...... Read more
At an Apple press event, Chad Evans, director of mobile development for MLB.com, demonstrates the league’s new ipad baseball software. The app allows users to interact more with the game, including animated play-by-play action, statistics, and live video.
...... Read more