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...McBride), owner of a desert fireworks store. Marshall and Stanton are a bumbling pair; they provoke dinosaurs, overindulge in exotic beverages, and generally make a mess of place. They're the sloppy stars of a profoundly silly movie - and Silberling couldn't be prouder. TIME spoke with him by phone the day before the film's release. (Richard Corliss reviews Land of the Lost...
...basic standards to which all officially branded games must adhere. These rules stipulate everything from the colors of the blocks to a mandatory inclusion of the game's now famous theme song, the Russian folk tune "Korobeiniki." Tetris is now ubiquitous: it's the best selling cell-phone game and one of the top 10 iPhone apps of all time, and has even inspired wacky Japanese game shows. In 2007, video-game website IGN named it the second best game of all time, behind only Super Mario Bros. saying, "It's the puzzle game. Not a puzzle game, THE puzzle...
...more interesting than it sounds. The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having...
...Netbooks are refining their role as an on-the-go Internet device. "The mobile phone is always on," says Kan, "so ideally netbooks should be like this." At Computex, Acer became the first manufacturer to unveil a computer that will use Google's Android operating system, created for smartphones, that will boot up in less than 20 seconds. It will be on the market in the third quarter of this year. Taiwanese consumer electronics maker BenQ plans to launch a netbook running Google's Android operating system next year. (Watch a video about dropping your laptop from 3 feet...
...Netbooks are inspiring a flurry of technological cross-pollination between mobile phones and computers. At Computex, wireless telecommunications company Qualcomm rolled out a new subcategory of portable devices it calls "smartbooks" - small computers based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor that, because they don't require heat sinks or cooling fans, will be even thinner and lighter than many netbooks, yet can run for 10 hours without recharging and will be capable of fast wireless Internet connections via Wi-Fi and mobile phone networks...