Posted by jason@kottke.org on under roman polanski, statutory rape, rape case, intentially, unlawful behavior, california judge, kottke, documentary, lawyers | 
Lawyers representing Roman Polanski have asked a California judge to dismiss the statutory rape case against him because of evidence presented in Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a documentary about the case, that the judge in the original case engaged in unethical and unlawful behavior.
Tuesday's filing said Judge Rittenband, who is now dead, intentionally violated a plea agreement with Mr. Polanski after having engaged in what it called "repeated unethical and unlawful ex parte communications" with a deputy district attorney who was not involved in the prosecution, but was independently advising the judge.
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Posted by on under ctest, participating partners, star awards, iphone, techcrunch, ad campaign, apps, leweb, lt, partnership, europe, games |
Appsfire, the service for sharing iPhone Apps with anyone, has announced that they are doing a contest called
App Star Awards, in partnership with
SFR/AppliStore and
LeWeb. The idea is very simple. Anyone that has a legit iPhone application that doesn't require jailbreaking, can submit a 30 second video to the contest, even if the app is not totally finished. 30 clips will be preselected, 10 in each category — games, entertainment, utility and other. Those clips will be reviewed and rated by a jury (full list below). Three winners, one in each category, will get a check of $1,500 and a free ad campaign with participating partners. The results will be announced on stage at LeWeb in Paris on December 9th. TechCrunch Europe is
organizing the startup competition in partnership with LeWeb.
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Posted by on under satoru iwata, fri, financial times, business model, gaming industry, new business, bets, nintendo, nbsp, ceo, games |
You may simply be able to chalk this one up to some freewheeling speculation and rumination, but Nintendo CEO
Satoru Iwata went pretty far out on a limb in talking about the future of the company during a recent sit-down with the
Financial Times, and indicated that Nintendo
may just be looking outside the gaming industry for a little inspiration. Apparently, Iwata is intriguiged by the Kindle "because it's a new business model in which the user doesn't bear the communications cost," which he says wouldn't "fit Nintendo customers because we make amusement products." He did go on to note though, that "in reality, if we did this it would increase the cost of the hardware, and customers would complain about Nintendo putting prices up," but said that "it is one option for the future." At the same time, however, Iwata also seemingly downplayed the short-term potential for download-only games, saying that he thinks "it will take quite a long time" for the industry to shift to them -- although he did hedge his bets somewhat by pointing out how unpredictable the games business is.
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Electronista]
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Nintendo's Iwata muses about Kindle-like business model for future handheld originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under gizmodo, enemies, xbox, games |
My brothers live across the country. We used to stay in touch by killing enemies or each other on xbox. But the best was to play "looks like you", which anyone with a cameraphone can play with their...
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Posted by on under xbox 360s, happy halloween, eyepatch, xbox live, costume party, forays, piracy, xbox, hook, halloween, microsoft, games |
We hope your recent forays into piracy merely involve you donning a hook and eyepatch for a debaucherous costume party, or else you likely received a message from Microsoft like the headline of this post. The company recently dispatched a wave of bans to owners of modded Xbox 360s who've been playing pirated copies of games.
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