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Amazing Photo-Journal Becomes iPad App

Photographer Serdar Sunny Unal is promoting his new iOS app filled with incredible photos spanning 40.000 miles through 15 countries, “providing a vast supply of exceptional photographic opportunities and a rare chance to meet the contrasting cultures of an entire continent.” LOS ANGELES to BUENOS AIRES ...

27 February 2012
09:40 GMT

Mario and Luigi Karts Brought Life in Full Size at the LA Auto Show

Video game publisher Nintendo of America has managed to bring two vehicles from the Mario Kart series to life, in cooperation with the team at West Coast Customs, and all fans of the game can see them at the Los Angeles Auto Show, which takes place until November 27 in the West Hall of the LA Convention Center.One ve...

21 November 2011
10:11 GMT

Rumor Mill: GTA V Main Character Named Albert de Silva, Played by Ned Luke

The fans of the Gran Theft Auto series might have just revealed the name of the main character of the upcoming fifth main game in the long running series while also discovering the actor who is set to play him.The name of the actor is Ned Luke and it seems that so far his most important role has been on an episode of...

14 November 2011
22:31 GMT

'Build Your Dreams' Brings Its Green Technology to Los Angeles

The Chinese enterprise broadens its horizons by opening a new headquarter in Los Angeles. The company operates on the market of electric vehicles, providing innovative, green technologies, such as solar-powered systems, eco-friendly rechargeable batteries and improved parking light systems. BYD has more than 200,0...

26 October 2011
10:46 GMT

Microsoft Backed 'Consumer Watchdog' Reveals LAPD Believes Google Apps Is Insecure

Google has been working hard to make its Google Apps suite a viable alternative for businesses wanting to ditch their legacy software and platforms. Google's cloud service promises to be cheaper and more stable than traditional on-site products. One of Google's biggest success stories with Apps has been t...

21 October 2011
08:51 GMT

Hydro Towers: A Sustainable Vertical Urbanism Project for Los Angeles

A project that envisions a state-of-the-art food production testing and learning facility has recently taken top honors in a design competition. Daniel Toole won the 5th Annual Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship award for his design, “Whittier Organic Food Center Towers”.The jury praised Toole’s proj...

26 September 2011
07:54 GMT

Farmers Field - America’s First Carbon-Neutral NFL Stadium Gets the Green Light

The bill to make the Farmers Field stadium the most environmentally friendly in the United States has recently passed out of the California State Senate and the State Assembly, it has now went to the governor for his signature.Set to be located in the city of Los Angeles, Farmers Field is the first LEED-certified sta...

23 September 2011
08:23 GMT

iPhone 5 Commercials Shooting in LA, Set to Air in October - Report

People who are allegedly privy to Apple’s ongoing activities surrounding the iPhone 5 launch have indicated that the Cupertino mammoth has begun filming the commercials set to promote the new handset, but noted that the spots will not air until October, lending credence to rumors that the smartphone will not be...

24 August 2011
04:44 GMT

Activision Announces Call of Duty XP 2011 Fan Event

Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that it will launch a new fan event centered around its most important first-person shooter franchise, called Call of Duty XP 2011, set to take part in Los Angeles on September 2 and 3 of this year. Activision says that the new convention is designed to allow th...

1 July 2011
05:50 GMT

LA Will Be Top US Market for Electrical Vehicles

According to the results of a recent analysis conducted by experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), the city will become the top market for electric cars in the United States by 2015.Researchers determined that such vehicles will account for as much as 10 percent of all new car purchases carried...

13 May 2011
05:39 GMT

L.A. Noire Brings Real Life Crime Map for 1947's Los Angeles

L.A. Noire is nearing its release date next week, and, in order to really get the hype going, Rockstar Games, its publisher, and the LA Times newspaper have partnered up to bring a virtual map of the most important and outlandish crimes committed in the city of Angels during 1947. L.A. Noire is set to depict the s...

9 May 2011
03:20 GMT

Battle: Los Angeles Is Official, Comes Through Digital Distribution

The video game publisher Konami Digital Entertainment and the movie studio Sony Pictures have announced that they are entering into a partnership to create a video game also named Battle: Los Angeles, designed to allow gamers to experience the cataclysmic events of the movie in a more interactive way. Konami says th...

4 March 2011
15:01 GMT

MetroPCS Brings LTE to Los Angeles and Philadelphia

Today, MetroPCS Communications, Inc., the fifth largest wireless carrier in the United States, announced officially that its 4G LTE services are commercially available in Los Angeles and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. Moreover, the carrier brought the first 4G LTE-enabled multimedia handset to these markets, the S...

4 November 2010
14:41 GMT

Los Angeles and San Francisco Get 4G WiMAX in December

The number of metropolitan areas in the United States that would receive 4G coverage this year from, Clearwire should include Los Angeles and San Francisco too, the company has just announced. Following the launch of its 4G WiMAX network in New York in November, the company plans on expanding the services to the sai...

18 October 2010
12:41 GMT

While in LA Watch Out for Tsunamis

A team of geologists from the US and Haiti, that have been studying the January 12 Haiti earthquake, say that other cities like Los Angeles, Istanbul or Kingston also risk being struck by a tsunamis, and the actual catastrophe risk is much higher than expected.The explanation for this statement is pretty logical: all...

11 October 2010
08:47 GMT

Bill Kaulitz and Brother Move to Los Angeles

Half of Germany’s biggest pop rock band, the Kaulitz twins, Bill and Tom are moving to the US, Los Angeles, later this year to work on new music, it has emerged.Already a paparazzi magnet when they’re in LA (or anywhere in the world, for that matter), the brothers will change residence this fall, in mid N...

24 September 2010
05:45 GMT

Waze Arrives in Los Angeles

Waze, the world's social GPS application, is now available for mobile phone users in Los Angeles. According to the company, which launched the solution in the area on Wednesday, drivers can now avoid congestions by receiving GPS data with real time, user-generated traffic updates for accurate and up-to-date map...

27 May 2010
04:28 GMT

Electronic Arts Considering an Atlanta Studio

It seems that Electronic Arts is in the process of looking for a place for a new development studio and a location in Atlanta, Georgia is one of the front runners, with initial estimates saying that up to 300 people could be working in the city in 2010. California is no longer attractive as a location for core develo...

4 January 2010
03:24 GMT

Los Angeles Going Google Starting Today

Google is making some progress in promoting its Apps suite and has recently scored a major win, at least in mind share, by convincing the city of Los Angeles to “go Google.” Now the company is announcing that the switch to Google Apps has already begun and, by the time its done, 34,000 city employees wil...

14 December 2009
09:49 GMT

Los Angeles Is Going Google in a $7.2 Million Deal

Google scored a major victory for Google Apps by getting the city of Los Angeles to switch to using the company's email and other services. This is now the biggest city in the US to move to the Google service and the biggest win isn't the financial reward but the image boost that comes from having one of th...

28 October 2009
04:56 GMT

A Resurrection for L.A. Noire

Ever since the game was announced in 2006, Rockstar hasn't worked very much on Team Bondi's L.A. Noire. In three years no real information has emerged regarding the game and most of the people for whom the game stood out when it was announced have forgotten this title. And even if they haven't, they�...

30 September 2009
03:13 GMT

LA to Renounce Coal Power by 2020

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced recently that the city would move towards gradually reducing, and eventually eliminating, the use of coal in its power plants by 2020, in a bid to combat air pollution, global warming, and climate change. This move is only the latest in a row coming from California, th...

4 July 2009
05:26 GMT

Michael Jackson Dies at 50

All major news outlets are reporting the confirmed death of pop superstar Michael Jackson, in the UCLA Medical Center, in Los Angeles. The singer, dubbed the “King of Pop,” was brought in by paramedics from his estate near LA, in a state of deep coma, and in full cardiac arrest, Los Angeles coroner Fred C...

26 June 2009
02:13 GMT

Cuss-Free Week Starts Today in Los Angeles County

Two years ago, upset by the way his mates at South Pasadena Middle School used cussing and dirty jokes, McKay Hatch set up the No Cussing Club, which came accompanied by a website as well. Now, with more than 30,000 members from all over the world, the example of this 14-year-old boy has inspired County Supervisor Mi...

3 March 2009
06:44 GMT

Los Angeles Will Soon Rationalize Water

The state of California has been, over the last three years, under what's possibly the most severe dry spell the region has registered in a long time. Because of the drought that has affected most of its territory, the area now has to ration water, according to the LA Department of Water and Power (DWP), the lar...

18 February 2009
05:00 GMT

Las Vegas Lights Make Death Valley Skies Black

Light pollution, a phenomenon endemic to all large cities of the world, may also be the root cause for increasingly difficult amateur astronomical observations in previous pristine areas, such as Death Valley, in California. Famous for its tar-black skies, the region has been a magnet for telescope wielders for many ...

28 December 2008
11:59 GMT

The Yucca Nuclear Disposal Site Needs to Be Upgraded

The US Energy Department announced on Tuesday that the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site, scheduled to be fully operational by 2020, might not be large enough to hold residues that would be created until 2010, if Congress did not approve a plan to expand the facility. The report also stated that an a...

10 December 2008
17:01 GMT

LA Is Home to the Largest Solar Panel Initiative in the World

Approximately 90 days from now, LA inhabitants will have a chance to look over the plan that will make their city one of the most environmental-friendly on the face of the Earth. The project, called Solar LA, was announced on Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who says that countless solar panels will be installed...

5 December 2008
04:36 GMT

Make Way for the Would-Be Spears Trainwreck Number Two...

I have very, very bad news for the people living in California. It would seem that L.A. has turned into a magnet for some of the world's most controversial trainwrecks. Does the name "Britney Jean Spears" ring a bell to you? I'm sure it must. Kidding. Well, I know we all thought the world was a safer place ...

5 February 2008
10:44 GMT

Paris Only Has Sex 4 Months Into Her Relationships

Poor little Paris! Life in Los Angeles has become such a boring, empty activity. Before you think I've gone completely crazy (actually, I was just being ironic), just take a moment and think about it. The Hilton heiress has pretty much done everything she could do in order to keep herself in the news: she starre...

20 November 2007
04:28 GMT

David Beckham and Gwen Stefani Are Charitable Souls

David Beckham has agreed to play in a charity soccer match to raise funds for the victims of the recent devastating California wildfires. The British star and the team he is currently playing with, the Los Angeles Galaxy, will take on Hollywood United FC (which includes famous players such as Anthony LaPaglia and Jim...

30 October 2007
11:31 GMT

E for All Expo - Games and Hardware Designed for People with Disabilities

Earlier today, we talked about the Guitar Hero II contest soon to be held at the E for All Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center and now we've come across another announcement, regarding another event to take place at the LA Convention Center: Games for People with Disabilities. Apparently, this is a move on...

16 October 2007
09:19 GMT

Lohan Talks!!!

LiLo speaks - you know, after checking out of rehab and it's just as pathetic and as insincere as I was expecting it to be. You see, she's already out, not even in Los Angeles and news about her mischievous exploits is already piling up. I mean, she may have reunited with her father and played her "I'l...

9 October 2007
09:27 GMT

Chrissy Crocker Will Share a House with Rock of Love Loser

Remember Rock of Love? No? Well, it was pretty much the hottest thing ever. Kidding. It was in fact (because thank goodness, it's over) a VH1 reality show which basically consisted of gathering an assortment of 20 (desperate) women and bringing them into the rock and roll palace in the Hollywood Hills belonging ...

8 October 2007
08:44 GMT

LiLo is OUT!

Everyone, it's finally happened! But please, remain calm, breathe in a couple of times and THEN rush to lock up all your valuables, secure the car in the garage, make sure you've got food and water supplies for a week, shut the blinds and stay indoors. Lindsay Lohan has just checked herself out of the Cirqu...

8 October 2007
02:22 GMT

Google's Big Brother Updated

Google rolled out some time ago the Street View function of Google Maps, a special feature that created quite a buzz around the Mountain View company and its privacy guidelines concerning the users. Although Google didn't improve its technology only a few times to meet the privacy demands, Street View was update...

9 August 2007
04:05 GMT

The Beckhams Discover America

So everyone talks about David and Victoria Beckham coming to America. When they finally arrived, late Thursday, they crossed streams of enthusiastic reporters and photographers, plus a number of fans, admirers or just curious by-standers. The couple arrived alone, without the three children that - Victoria says - she...

16 July 2007
09:22 GMT

Posh Spice Claims She's NOT Evil

In an interview for Today Magazine, "spicy" girl Victoria, better known as David Beckham's wife, states that moving to Los Angeles means a revamping of her image, a new life for the couple and some interesting new neighbors and friends.This change is due to her husband accepting a contract with an American socce...

13 July 2007
08:51 GMT

Final Song List for 'Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the '80s' Disclosed!

Well, just as I've finished writing the news on Buy PS3 - get 5 Blu-ray movies, which I've found via Gamespot, I stumbled upon the final song list for Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, courtesy of the same site. So without further ado, here it is:Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (Gone Gold as of now) Fina...

29 June 2007
06:27 GMT

Nintendo's Killing the E3 with their Wii

This year's E3 was supposed to be well under way by now, hosting hundreds, if not thousands of gamers at Los Angeles. However, this year it's different: other than Nintendo's booth, everyone's missing out on the whole event. There could be many reasons for this year's E3 being gamerless and G...

17 May 2007
03:54 GMT

Rockstar's Midnight Club: Los Angeles in the Works for PS3 and 360 - Dated

It's official boys and girls, Rockstar Games has just announced the fourth installment of the genre-defining Midnight Club action-racing series: Midnight Club: Los Angeles. The game is currently in development by series creator Rockstar San Diego, slated for an early 2008 release on Microsoft's and Sony...

16 May 2007
17:21 GMT


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