Posts tagged napster 
EA purchases Napster creator's social networking site
Shawn Fanning has been doing more than simply riding high on the Napster phenomenon and appearing in Volkswagon commercials. In 2006, he created a new social networking site called Rupture, which shares game achievements from Halo 3, WoW, Madden 08 and other games with your friends. Now, EA is pur...
Rumor: Napster creator to join EA
Eons ago, when many of you were in diapers, Shawn Fanning developed a program called Napster. The program was widely praised for its ability to allow users to trade media with each other freely. Eventually the music industry caught up to Fanning and Napster and the whole thing, as they say, is histo...
Wii unique like 'Google,' says Nintendo
IGN did its best to make sense of yesterday's Nintendo Wii announcement by going right to the source, Nintendo. According to Nintendo of America's VP of corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan, Wii is the next in a line of unique product/service names that includes, Google, Virgin Airlines, Amazon, and Nap...
