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I am sure we have all heard about the U.S. Airways flight that went down and the pilot who stopped the plane from crashing that is now going by the name "hero". As it turns out U.S Airways is sending each passenger a check for $5000.00 because they said it will be months before any of the passengers see personal belongings they had with them. Personally I don't think they will ever see any of it but hey with technology these days maybe than can work something out. They are also reimbursing them… Continue

Downloadable content for Xbox 360 games, such as add-ons for Mass Effect or Guitar Hero III Song Packs, bring in big money for developers, publishers and, naturally by association, Microsoft.

As of today, sales of downloadable content have made an additional $240 million, "with $180 million in the last 12 months alone," according to Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business manager Kevin Salcedo.
Titles with DLC available through the Xbox Live Marketplace typically generate an extra $21 mi… Continue

In what has become the single most ridiculous uprising of parents, educators and even one state's attorney general to date JV Games the makers of Beer Pong have finally caved in to the naysayers and completely revamped and renamed their game to Pong Toss and beer has become cups of water. Beer Pong of course was based off of a well known college drinking game in which players throw a table tennis ball across a table with the intent of landing the ball in one of several cups of beer on the other… Continue

Apparently reps for Verizon have never been schooled on the tragedy of a house burning down or taught that being completely burned down meant the house and all its belongings no longer existed. Ah the intelligence of some people is a concept far beyond my grasp. In a series of unfortunate events columnist James Gaskin's in-laws lost their home and all that they owned in a fire and needed for their calls to be forwarded to a new number and were given a response that I am still trying to wrap my h… Continue

Californians like the rest of the world were fed up with being charged an outrageous fee for ending their cell phone service early so they stood up and did something about it! On Monday they won a major victory in a Bay Area court when in a preliminary ruling Monday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw decided that these fees violate state law. It was also said that Sprint Nextel must pay California mobile-phone consumers $18.2 million as part of a class-action lawsuit challenging… Continue