Local tech news in a compact, digital format. City Duped By New Court Technology City officials are threatening a lawsuit against Maximus Inc, the company that was hired to supposedly make things easier for the municipal court system. Officials are giving the company until Thursday to come up with a plan to work out the bugs. The city has already dropped a cool $10 million into this flawed system. Continental Allows Cellphone Check In......

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. StartUp Weekend Houston "Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance to gather the tech community and create a company over one jam packed weekend." If that interests you, head over to houston.startupweekend.com and get your reservation. StartupWeekend Houston is limited to the first 100 participants and space is limited. Andrew Hyde, Startup Weekend founder will be on hand along with Gwen Bell of Blogger,......

Milla Jovovich returns to the big screen this Friday as Alice, the asskicking hottie, in Resident Evil: Extinction. Extinction is the third installment in the Resident Evil film series which is based on the video game of the same title, but then you already knew that. Betcha didn't know we'd have the hook up. The first two readers who drop us a line will get hooked up with: + A pair of screen passes to......

Good morning, Houston. Are we the only ones who've had a really long week? Even though Thursday just reminds us that it's not yet Friday, we can still find some Thursday goodness. For example, did you know Thursday is named for Thor, the god of thunder? OK, then, how about what it meant if you wore green to high school on Thursday in the '60s? And did you know the universe was actually created......

Sweet Jesus, we can't believe that this video game actually exists. Granted, this entry from Electronic Arts and Def Jam is only the latest in the successful franchise, games in which famous hip hop artists duke it out in boxing and wrestling rings. It used to be a sort of wacky twist on the usual bout genre. But in Icon, these sorts of pretenses have been removed, and we are left with a straight-up......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,......

Oh, the Chronicle, our arbiter of pop culture. How do we know something's cool? Why, we see it in the Arts section. (Which is now actually like a section with a big star on it? Hm.) What new and exciting phenomenon will they educate you on today? Breaking news: Young men play a newfangled video game called World of Warcraft. No offense, of course, is meant to the guest writer responsible for the well-written account......

Movies opening this weekend: Inside Man: Directed by Spike Lee; starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster. Washintgon plays an aggressive detective bent on destroying a bank robber's (Owen) plans to make away with millions, but his efforts are are hindered by a successful broker (Foster). Thrills ensue. Inside Man got great reviews, according to Rotten Tomatoes, and Amy Biancolli called it, "an enjoyable jumble of heist film." Stay Alive: Directed by William Bell;......