NEWS: Old Atari games play on Sony Ericsson phones

From: Michael Nadeau <menadeau_at_attbi.com>
Date: Thu Mar 14 15:47:38 2002

> > This is from: http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1105-859957.html
> zdnet.com.com is not infact ZDnet, but a very clever site pretending to be
> ZDnet. The purpose of the site is seems to be to propagate memes the
> authors agree with.
>
> Click on Page One, you go to http://zdnet.com.com/2001-11-0.html
> (http://zdnet.net.net redirects to http://www.zdnet.com/) which has
> "Open-source flaw threatens MS code" and other items that wouldn't normaly
> show up on an corporate-ass-licking site like ZDnet.
>
> -Philip

What makes you say that? Sure looks like the real thing to me. You can get
to the Atari story from the genuine ZDNet site.

--Mike



Michael Nadeau
Editor/Publisher
Classic Tech, the Vintage Computing Resource
www.classictechpub.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <philip_at_awale.qc.ca>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 4:07 PM
Subject: RE: NEWS: Old Atari games play on Sony Ericsson phones


>
> On 14-Mar-2002 Bryan Pope wrote:
> > Jus' a little news blurb:
> >
> > Mar 14, 2002 8:30 AM PT
> > Old Atari games play on Sony Ericsson phones
> > Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Thursday announced partnerships
> > with two companies making games for mobile phones in its drive to
> > challenge handset market leader Nokia through mobile entertainment.
> >
> > The newly formed handset maker, Sony Ericsson, said partnerships with
> > iFone and Synergenix would enable consumers to download some games for
> > free from the Sony Ericsson Web site, or access others for a fee from
> > an operator's Web site. IFone will be providing games from its Atari
> > catalogue, including classics such as Asteroids and Pong. --Reuters
> >
Received on Thu Mar 14 2002 - 15:47:38 GMT

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