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Vatican blasts ''Golden Compass'' as Godless and hopeless

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By Philip Pullella

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Wednesday condemned the film "The Golden Compass," which some have called anti-Christian, saying it promotes a cold and hopeless world without God. Read more

Posted on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:06:36 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Atonement leads Golden Globe Nominations

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By Bob Tourtellotte

BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - The World War Two saga "Atonement" earned seven Golden Globe nominations on Thursday, including a bid for best film drama, to lead the pack of movies vying for a key Hollywood honor in the widely watched awards season. Read more

Posted on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Golden Compass disappoints at Box Office

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By Dean Goodman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Golden Compass," a costly fantasy starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, got off to a slow start at the North American box office and will likely fall short of opening-weekend expectations. Read more

Posted on Sun, 9 Dec 2007 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hollywood eyes Super-series with Golden Compass

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By Mike Collett-White

LONDON (Reuters) - For one Hollywood studio there is a lot riding on "The Golden Compass," the $180 million adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel "Northern Lights." Read more

Posted on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

24ct Gold iPod Touch from Golden Store

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We already reported about UK based Gold Striker International and their 24ct plated iPod and iPhone offerings. The German Golden Store is also offering custom 24ct gold Apple gadgets.

The Golden Store offers the 8GB and 16GB iPod touch plated in gold for 600 (~$889) and 800 Euro (~$1,186) respectively. These prices are quite a bit higher than what Gold Striker is charging (299.95/399.95 GBP (~$616/~$822)). Read more

Posted on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Special Edition Nintendo DS Gold and Metallic Rose on Sale

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The two special edition Nintendo DS lite console bundles that Nintendo announced on Tuesday are selling for $149.99 each on Amazon.com.

The new Gold edition comes with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, while the Metallic Rose Nintendo DS comes with the "Best Friends" version of Nintendogs. Read more

Posted on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:31:43 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Xbox Live 12+1 Month Gold Card for only $39.47

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Our I4U Shop has a great deal on a Xbox Live 12+1 Month Gold Card. The Xbox Live subscription sells for only $39.47. Amazon.com's price is $43.99.

The list price of the Xbox Live 13 month Gold card is $49.99. I have searched around and $39.47 is the lowest price I found so get in on this deal while it is available. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:25:09 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Nintendo DS Gold Edition and Metallic Pink Rose Edition

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Nintendo will sell two new special edition Nintendo DS bundles starting on Black Friday (November 23rd).

The new Gold edition comes with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, while the Metallic Rose Nintendo DS comes with the "Best Friends" version of Nintendogs. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:39:41 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

24ct Gold Bang & Olufsen BeoCom 4 Phone

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Goldstriker International strikes again and offers a 24ct Gold Bang & Olufsen BeoCom 4 Phone.

As if B&O wouldn't be exclusive enough already, Goldstriker manages to make the cordless phone even more exclusive. I have to say the sculptured design of the BeoCom 4 makes it look great in gold when it is docked. Read more

Posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Gold Medalist Natalie Coughlin Launches Signature Series with H2O Audio

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Olympic Gold Medalist Natalie Coughlin and H20 audio have announced A signature series of swimming products. H20 Audio makes a lot of high performance waterproof and ruggedized sports accessories, today it announced that Natalie Coughlin would be an advisor for a line of swim related products.

The first product is the iSH2 integrated waterproof headset and case for the iPod Shuffle 2. "I am passionate about swimming and thrilled to have the opportunity to help people throughout the swimming community experience the fun of listening to quality music while enjoying a swim or participating in other water sports," said Natalie Coughlin, Olympic athlete and H2O Audio Swimming Products Advisor. "I feel a tremendous synergy with H2O Audio and look forward to helping them create the next generation of audio swim products that will truly help transform swimming for all athletes and enthusiasts." Read more

Posted on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:06:39 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Goldstriker offers Gold plated iPhone, iPod touch, iPod nano and iPod classic

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UK based Goldstriker International offers 24ct gold plated Apple gadgets.

The company just sent us photos of the gold plated iPhone (front and backside). The backside of the gold plated iPhone has an organic shape that makes the gold iPhone even more unique.
Goldstriker sells the full gold plated iPhone for £699.95 (~$1,430). Read more

Posted on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:17:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Goldmund Media Room for Wealthy Home Theater Lovers Only

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If you have a big enough home and enough cash to afford the $300,000 starting price, Goldmund will build you what they call the “Goldmund Media Room.” The room can be designed with up to 128 channels of sound.

One of the big features of the media room is PROTEUS, which is a software product that allows high-end home theater fans to build the room to their tastes in dimensions and décor. The software then tailors the sound exactly to the room so you can have form follow function. Read more

Posted on Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:37:41 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

24k Gold Apple Macbook Pro

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Oregon based Computer Choppers introduces a 24k gold plated Macbook Pro notebook.

The professional modders already announced their precious undertaking a couple days ago. Yesterday the published photos of the finish gold Macbook Pro. Read more

Posted on Sat, 6 Oct 2007 08:06:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG Shine now in Gold

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LG introduces new colors for their elegant and compact Shine mobile phone. The new colors include shiny Gold, Black and Pink.

The LG Shine sliders in the new colors are not just for the Korean market, but will also be available in Europe. Read more

Posted on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Homer's Odyssey leads to Box Office Gold

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By Gregg Kilday

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - By weekend's end, "The Simpsons Movie" should be rolling in plenty of d'oh. Read more

Posted on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Memorette MLC Gold USB Drive

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Korean FMSEMICON introduces the Memorette MLC Gold USB drive with 8GB capacity.

The shiny compact USB drive features a sleek swivel case design.
Newly available is the 8GB capacity. A 16GB version is supposed to become available in August. Read more

Posted on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Monsoon HAVA Gold HD Low Cost Time- and Place-Shifting Gadget

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Monsoon Multimedia challenges Sling Media with new low-cost HAVA Gold HD Time- and Place-Shifting device with high definition support.

The standard price of the HAVA Gold HD is $129. Right now until end of January you can get this device for $99 with CES30 discount code.

The Monsoon HAVA Gold HD is the company's new low-end place-shifting device. Similar to Sling media Monsoon offers several different devices with PVR and place-shifting capabilities.

Features of the HAVA Gold HD include 1080i, 720p, 480p/576p video resolution support, streams MPEG-2 format over the home network, MPEG-4 format over the Internet, PVR functionality on PC and Windows XP Media Center Edition integration. Read more

Posted on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:31:06 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Chinese Kids Forced to farm for Gold in WOW

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Chinese kids are forced to play World of Warcraft 12 hours per day to earn virtual money for Gold Farming companies and gangs.

It is known for a while that there companies in China and other countries that pay workers to play WOW to generate virtual money which in turn is then sold to gamers around the world who want to jump-start their game character.

A Chinese TV station followed kids with a hidden camera who fell for the cool proposition to get paid for playing video games.
It is borderline slavery what these kids have to endure. 12 hour WOW every day, almost no pay and shitty food. This is a new form of child labor and nobody should actually buy from gold farmers. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Oct 2006 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Gadget Flyer: Tiny USB Shredder : Goldvish : Mikimoto Glasses

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The new !

Last week in review:
Because of the 4th of July Holiday in the United States, this was a short week for technology news. Still the !
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Posted on Sun, 9 Jul 2006 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Goldvish - Mobile Phone for the Ultra Rich

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Swiss Goldvish mobile phones go beyond Nokia's Vertu phones when it comes to price.

Depending on the model, the Goldvish luxury phones cost anywhere 18,900 Euro (~$24,000) to 1 Mio. Euro (~$1,278,000). The weight of the platinum, gold and diamonds used are the specifications that are relevant for these phones for the really rich. Read more

Posted on Mon, 3 Jul 2006 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Gold, Platinum, & Multiplatinum Ringtone Designations

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Your trivia fact for the day is that ringtones now account for 10% of all music sales. That's really amazing. That means a lot of people are actually paying the ridiculous $2.99 price for a ringtone that expires after 90 days. Anyway, the Recording Industry Association of America announced Wednesday that the official designations of gold, platinum, and multiplatinum were assigned to the ringtone industry.

In total, 84 gold honors were announced, in addition to 40 platinums and 4 multiplatinums. Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, 50 Cent, and Kanye West were just some of the artists whose songs were honored. Read more