This is not really IT News, but worth to post, since so it happened in Silicon Valley, so many Chinese working in the IT industry attended the event, and many people are interested in learning the truth. All news media has their own bias when reporting the Olympic torch replay in San Francisco. Hopefully this short video clip that I took personally can show you what was happening out there, at least some of them. I posted this video clip on YouTube last night, it has been clicked a couple hundreds time in 10 hours. Vote it favorite if you like it!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ft-EWDGl8M]

The following is a slide show of the pictures that we took on site:

emcron writes “The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday its Pixar animation studio will commit to 3-D by releasing all of its movies in the format beginning with “Up” in May 2009. Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter made the announcement in New York at a presentation of Disney’s upcoming lineup of animated movies.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Flickr users can now add video clips alongside their photos, a much requested and much anticipated feature that has been promised for over a year.

iPhone Devs should go grab the newest SDK release, which comes with a new tutorial and extends the beta 2.0 firmware. It also has various bug fixes and “support for the latest iPhone OS.” [Apple]

Source: gawker.com

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said it is cutting about 10% of its work force, or about 1,650 jobs, and warned that weaker-than-expected sales hurt results in its recent quarter.

Ant writes “Colin Stewart’s OC Register Inside Innovation blog has up a post discussing Blizzard Entertainment’s success in the games industry. According to the site, Blizzard has learned eleven lessons on innovation that can help almost any business. The industry leader used these innovation methods not only to create the world’s most popular massively multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft, but also to keep the game fresh and challenging for more than 10 million players. Because many of those customers pay $15 a month to continue playing, Blizzard’s ongoing creative achievement is worth more than $1 billion a year in revenues, not counting the multi-millions it tallies from its other games.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The social network, famous for gradual expansion, chose a weekend afternoon to start offering members the ability to chat with one another while surfing on the site.

Posted by Eric March on April 5, 2008 at 12:44 pm

April Fools is over, so stop looking at your calendar. This is the real deal, people. Canadian game developers HermitWorks, creators of the rather cool Space Trader, have just posted a short blog entry showing a ridiculously impressive video of Quake III Arena running on two iPod Touch units. Yes, I said two. Network play, baby! The game appears to run at a very impressive frame rate, and it uses the accelerometer for movement and screen taps for firing.
So we’ve been playing around with Quake 3 and Apple’s iTouch. Scott grabbed the icculus source and with a few modifications had it running pretty quick. Here’s a video of him with two iTouch’s in multiplayer.
No word on whether they plan on releasing the binaries for this once they get it fully functional, nor for that matter whether they plan on taking the experiment that far in the first place, but let’s keep whatever appendages are handy crossed. Check out the vid below.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvci1vTXyUo]

An anonymous reader writes “In a letter sent today, Microsoft writes to Yahoo’s board of directors to tell them that they would like to ‘negotiate a definitive agreement on a combination of our companies.’ Their message is a combination of friend and foe: ‘If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders.’”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

We know you can find an occasional bargain on Craigslist, but this takes the biscuit: documents actually detailing a merger between Apple and Nintendo. We knew Nintendo and Apple were up to something¡ªhas no one else noticed all the plastic white styled similarities? C’mon you guys, it’s just makes sense! Now, we’re off to put in our bid. Expect some seriously breaking news soon. [Kotaku]

Source: gawker.com