BioWare Announces Two Expansion Packs for Neverwinter Nights

Atari, BioWare Corp. and FloodGate Entertainment are joining forces to expand the universe of the smash hit Neverwinter Nights™ , the award-winning fantasy role-playing game based in the Dungeons & Dragons™ Forgotten Realms™ world created by Wizards of the Coast. Neverwinter Nights™: Shadows of Undrentide is the first official expansion pack and is scheduled for release in Spring 2003.

AOL patents instant messaging

America Online has quietly secured a patent that could potentially shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software. The patent, filed in September this year, grants AOL instant messaging subsidiary ICQ rights as the inventor of the popular IM Internet application. The patent covers anything resembling a network that allows multiple users to see when other users are present and then to communicate with them.

Ghost Of Christmas Future Taunts Children With Visions Of PlayStation 5

SOUTHFIELD, MI.Bored with scaring elderly misers, the Ghost of Christmas Future is spending the holiday season taunting modern children with visions of Christmas 2016's hottest toy: the Sony PlayStation 5, a 2,048-bit console featuring a 45-Ghz trinary processor, CineReal graphics booster with 2-gig biotexturing, and an RSP connector for 360-degree online-immersion play.

Suffering Support, Batman!

Customer: "hello my computer was making a strange hissing noise last night and this morning when I turned it on there was a crackling noise and some smoke then nothing, if I bring it in can you fix it?"

Cities Zero In on Sex Shops

The past decade has been a boon for Utah's sex industry. Shops in Midvale and Roy offer tantalizing lingerie and sex aids. Topless maids tidy up in Davis County. Male and female escort services find a niche market.
But recent years have also been sprinkled with restrictive city ordinances and retaliatory lawsuits. South Salt Lake bans nude dancing. Provo moves exotic dancers to the outskirts. Midvale fights its sex-gadget shop.
At least three Utah cities -- South Salt Lake, Midvale and Ogden -- are entrenched in First Amendment litigation headed for appellate courts.

Man survives on Taco Bell sauce

CHARLESTON, W.Va.--A man trapped for almost a week in his car after it plunged into a ravine survived in the freezing cold by melting snow for water and eating packets of fast-food sauce.

BEA rethinks its WebLogic software

BEA Systems will seek to reposition its WebLogic line as a Swiss Army knife for business software development when it launches a major upgrade to its flagship products in the first half of next year.
Code-named Gibraltar, the upcoming version of WebLogic is intended to strengthen the application integration and portal features of the company's Java application server and integrate closely with BEA's development tool, WebLogic Workshop. BEA and IBM are battling for the top spot in the market for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers, which let companies build Web-based business software.

DVD-hacking teen pleads innocent

OSLO.Norwegian teenager Jon Lech Johansen pleaded innocent yesterday to breaking data security laws in the first day of a widely watched trial over a program that unlocks the security codes of DVDs.
Johansen was 15 when he wrote and distributed for free on the Internet a program that unlocks copy-protected DVDs, giving Hollywood nightmares and making him a folk hero among hackers.

Americans take pot-shots against Canada

What Canadians think does matter to Americans. In certain circumstances at certain times.
My evidence for saying this is that I've culled those quotes from the some 1,400 e-mails sent to me as a result of my column of last Sunday titled, "It's not our fault that we're morally superior to Americans."

Evil Stickers

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