Spore Release Date This fall!!

This is the games of all games. Prepare for life sucking game play the likes of which have not been seen since the launch of World of WarCraft.  Basically you control everything in the universe that you build, think SimCity on steroids. You control everything from how your creatures evolve to what type of spaceships they will design when they reach warp speed.  Not to mention the ability to visit other worlds that people from all over the world have built via the information superhighway (Internet).  Which means that after you spend 1500 hours+ building your perfect Utopia, you get to spend the rest of your life looking at other peoples Utopias.  It Cometh September 7th of 2008 so don’t start any meaningful relationships for at least 6 months.   Here is a full review of the game in graphic detail from Bit-Tech.net

                                              ~Ej

News Corp in deal talk with Yahoo

And the fight goes on.  Now there are strong reports that News Corp could combine it’s MySpace property with Yahoo!  They would have a 20% stake in the new combined company.  All this to fend off what has to be the first hostel take over of a tech company of this size.  Even when AOL and TimeWarner combined a few years ago it was amlicable.  I love Soap Operas.  Here is the rest of the story by Reuters…

Explanations and Introductions

Well you are probably wondering were the hell has the techbros been?  Well I’m in South Carolina tending to my sick mother who suffered a stroke 2 weeks ago today.  So needless to say I have not posted new material since then. 

Now a little business, my good friend and fellow geek Justin has just agree to be a contributor to the blog which makes me very happy because he shares in the principle of this blog, geek first and often.  So welcome Justin to the wonderful world of TechBrothers!!!!!

                                                     ~Ej

Report: Sprint, Clearwire in new talks on WiMAX partnership

Talks are back on between Sprint and Clearwire over the future of WiMAX and a possible national network. The two companies are reportedly considering ambitious plans for a joint venture backed with outside funding from deep-pocketed companies like Google and Intel.

Here’s the rest of the story as Reported by Ars Technica…

One site to Rule them all

It seems that Mahalo wants to be the first and last stop for everything Social. Through the expansion of MultiProfile they plan to hook all of those social networks such Facebook, MySpace, and twitter. It sounds like a good Idea to me. Let’s hope for Mahalo’s sake that the public catches on. Here’s the Story…

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YouBama

This is an article from TechCrunch who officially indorsed Obama as the next Tech President…

Diggnation 134

I’m a fan.

~E

We’re in the home stretch as Kevin and Alex are in San Francisco and on the last sober Diggnation of the month of January. It seems as if they’ve made it…

Toshiba and Panasonic double OLED lifespan — exceeds LCDs

Out of the mouths of Engadget

Xbox is Profitable! Finally…

In the Lexicon of tech has there never been something like this.  A few years ago Microsoft declared that is would do anything to stay in the console business.  And they did.  Everything from being willing to lose a billion dollars a year to rushing the next gen console the Xbox 360 to market well before Sony could even think about being ready to unleash the PlayStation 3.  The Mac Daddy (Microsoft) basically put a smack-down on the old man super console (Sony).  There Achilles heel of Sony has evident for several years now.   Sony way, while maybe more expensive, is the only way.  From the  memory stick to the Mini-Disc, Sony will never learn.  It also helps that the Mac-Daddy could run there entire company on there reserves alone for years.  Sony not so much.  I mean come on let face it, the only way that Redmond could screw up there lead is to allow Apple to get into the market. Ha!

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Maybe Bigger is Better

My biggest complaint About HDTV has always been,” When you get to Wall sized displays will the resolution be enough so that you don’t have to stand in the back yard to get a true idea of the big picture. Well, as reported by Gizmodo, we have our Answer.

~E