Daily News Brief: Hillary Clinton Opens Rebuttal Website

Posted 11/09/2007 at 4:30pm | by

Clinton Counters on Web

It's that time again, when the next presidential election starts looming and the mud slinging starts, well, slinging. Stepping into the digital age, Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday introduced a web site whose sole purpose is responding to claims and reports making waves in the news. Dubbed The Fact Hub, you'll find everything from Obama rebuttals, to scandals involving snubbing a waitress her tip.

TiVo Offers Lifetime Subscription

One of the major advantages to building your own HTPC with DVR capabilities over TiVo is not having to pay a monthly subscription fee, but that's soon to change. Starting today, Series3 and HD owners can purchase a lifetime TiVo subscription for $399, which is just $100 more than their current 3- year prepay plan. But unlike recording live TV, there will be no rewinding this offer once it expries January 2, 2008.

NVidia Breaches $1 Billion Mark

For the first time in their history, nVidia broke the $1 billion revenue mark, reporting a record breaking $1.12 billion for the 2008 fiscal third quarter, which ended on October 28. NVidia credits the success to a 33 percent increase in desktop GPU products, and a whopping 120 percent increase in the mobile market. Like Intel, nVidia should also give a shout out to AMD, whose lack of competition at the high end sector undoubtedly played a part.

Wahlberg to Play Payne

'Marky' Mark Wahlberg and Max Payne fans get a double whammy of good news, as the former Calvin Klein model is in negotiations to play Max Payne in the upcoming movie adaptation. It's always hit or miss when popular video games hit the big screen, but here's hoping this one turns out better than Wahlberg's last movie, We Own the Night.

MySpace Hacks Rising

As MySpace's popularity continues to grow, so does the amount of hacked pages. Music artist Alicia Keys can claim to be the latest celebrity target, whose page was hacked with an image background link. Clicking the background installs a fake codec infecting the victim's computer. Because MySpace contains so many media based links, the Fake Codec hack has proven to be a tremendously popular exploit.

Ruiz vs AMD

No, not Hector Ruiz, the high level exec rumored to be leaving on Monday, but Maria Ruiz on behalf of her 16-year-old son Ryan. Maria's blaming AMD for Ryan's birth defects, which include a missing lower right arm and lifelong cognitive deficits. Maria's suit claims she was wrongfully exposed to hazardous chemicals such as ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate and 2- ethoxyethyl acetate during her time with AMD. Charges being brought against AMD include negligence, breach of warranty, fraud, and fraudulent concealment and misrepresentation.

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