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WoW Database Site Sells For $1 Million 132

Posted by Zonk on Sunday June 24, 2007 @05:29AM from the almost-enough-for-an-epic-flying-mount dept.

MattHock writes "Wowhead (a WoW information database) has been sold to ZAM (Affinity Media) for the price of $1 million. ZAM is the owner of several other WoW databases, including Thottbot and Allakhazam. Until recently Affinity was also the owner of IGE, a highly controversial company that sold in-game wealth for real life money. Affinity recently sold IGE, which Wowhead claims as the reason they allowed the sale to go through. But did ZAM really sell IGE? The blogger who put this story online doubts that IGE and ZAM have actually distanced themselves. He believes that the supposed sale was just actually a means of restructuring to hide the relationship, similar to how IGE's relationship to Thottbot was hidden for a number of months through a convoluted set of parent companies."

Microsoft Segments Linux "Personas" 558

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 19, 2007 @11:02PM from the facts-based-dialog dept.

RJ2770 writes "Microsoft has started a project for their partners to help identify the personas of different Linux users in an attempt to sway them toward Microsoft products. In addition to the web site there is a podcast on the market research behind the project, again directed at Microsoft's selling partners."

Comment Movie Playback (Score 1) 980

by UNFDAardvark on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @01:02AM (#15111387) Attached to: Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users?

If you're planning to watch any sort of movies on Windows, there are a few useful programs (some of which are cross-platform):

VLC media player - a nice all-purpose media player that works with DVDs in addition to many other formats.
QuickTime Alternative and Real Alternative - free versions of the QT & Real codecs that allow you to play those formats without the need for a separate movie player for each. Also includes browser plugins and Media Player Classic, another free media player similar in appearance to old versions of Windows Media Player.
ffdshow - a codec that allows Windows Media Player to play videos encoded with divx, xvid, and a bunch of other stuff.
MPlayer, of course, also exists; I haven't tried it on Windows myself, though, so I can't say how well it works compared to its incarnations on other OSes.

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