Angry Birds: Angry Tweets

The company behind Angry Birds has reacted with, if not anger, at least mild irritation to Microsoft allegedly using the game’s logo without permission.

The dispute was prompted by the official launch site for Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 series, which gets its official unveiling today. In the section detailing the various features available on the system and the applications that would be on the phone, Microsoft included an icon of the Angry Bird game.

Rovio Mobile, the game developers, responded by posting on Twitter: “We have NOT committed to doing a Windows Phone 7 version. Microsoft put the Angry Birds icon on their site without our permission.” It later clarified that while it was still possible that it might release the game on Microsoft’s phones, the real issue was that “we don’t like others using our IP without asking.”

Microsoft later removed the icon and said “It appears information was mistakenly posted to Microsoft’s website, and has been removed.”

That does leave the question of exactly how such a mistake was made. There are at least two possibilities that don’t look great for Microsoft: it deliberately tried to mislead potential buyers, or it was simple incompetence. If the latter is the case, it’s hard to imagine how somebody could have simply picked Angry Birds as a possible game and gone to the trouble of acquiring an icon without thinking twice.

(Legal note: Image copyright Rovio Mobile, used for illustrative purposes only. GeeksAreSexy.net has no connection with the game Angry Birds or its developers. And we didn’t steal any eggs, either.)


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Today (10/10/10) Is the Most Important Day In the History of Humanity – #42day

You might not be aware of this yet, but the moment this blog entry was posted (10/10/10 – EST time), the most important day in the history of humanity began. Why? Because today, Planet Earth will finally (I hope!) reveal the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.

For those of you not in the know, Planet Earth was originally created by a computer named Deep Thought, who after being unable to respond to the ultimate question itself, built our planet as a super-computer to calculate the answer. Now Deep Thought worked on that answer for seven and a half million years, but all he could come up with was one number: 42.

42? What could that number mean? Well geeks, we’ll probably get the response we’ve all been waiting for today!

October 10, 2010 = 10/10/10

101010 (in Binary) = 42

If you think about it, today is the only day for the next century that when transformed into binary can be interpreted as number 42. That must mean something right?

Now folks, let’s all pray REALLY HARD that a bunch of Vogons don’t warp out of Hyperspeed in front of our beloved home to create a hyperspace bypass.

So say we all.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be in my bunk with these charming ladies.