Four new iPod games, the final Vista iPod fix and the scandal finale in IDG

Reporting the results of the next fiscal quarter, the Electronic Arts leadership, among other things, announced plans to release four new games for the Apple iPod before the end of the year - it did without an accurate list of future release names, but one game managed to learn a little more than nothing: it turns out In the near future we should expect the release of Sims Bowling.


Currently, EA has five iPod games (Mini Golf, Mahjong, Royal Solitaire, Tetris plus Sudoku), to which several Apple iPhone gaming releases may be added in the foreseeable future - at least in a webcast posted on the company’s web site has flashed the mention about the relevant negotiations with Cupertino. As expected, no specifics were attached to this statement.

Meanwhile, Redmond reported on another progress in trying to make friends with iPods with Windows Vista - the company’s website showed the “final” iPod patch for the latest Microsoft operating system, and on a developer blog, project manager Vista Nick White said The latest update “works with the latest version of Apple iTunes to date and provides for the correct iPod extraction using Windows Explorer or the“ Safely Remove Hardware ”function. The March update of KB933824 turned out to be the previous move in this area, and the new update patch with the designation KB936824 is added to the load (look at it - in the second index one of the triples was replaced by a six, and the difference in the size of these msu files is only four kilobytes - 174 instead of 170 Kb). The new patch will be available in automatic update mode only on May 22, but anyone can download it now. Warning: standard authentication of your copy of Windows Vista is indispensable.
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One of the main sensations of the last week - the scandal at the IDG publishing house - ended exactly one week after it began with an unexpected happy ending. After the demonstrative withdrawal of McCracken’s editor-in-chief from PC World, an article on Apple’s ten flaws and numerous online discussions, things somehow quickly reversed: 10 scandalous things appeared on the PC World official site that we hate in Apple “(the background was a publication about the ten merits of the same company), and on Wednesday, the ninth, another sensation surfaced on the same resource: Harry McCracken returns to the editorial chair of PC World, his opponent Colin Crawford moves to the post of vice-president and IDG on the company's online strategy, and IDG management is starting to search for a new project manager for PC World and Macworld. Curtain and quoting relevant to such a denouement of entries from the personal blogs of the former CEO IDG and the failed freelancer:

Colin Krofuord: “It is pleasant to hear that Harry nevertheless decided to stay in the editorial chair of PC World. At the same time, I am very pleased to assume the position of EVP Online, on which I can concentrate on new opportunities for the development of IDG online both in the States and beyond. ”

Harry McCracken: “I am happy to be back in the PC World team. I have a lot connected with IDG after sixteen years of work in this company, which has already managed to raise a whole galaxy of talented editors, for whom the main thing is millions of our readers and their trust in our print and online publications. ”

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