Archive for March, 2008

Vlog on the pitch - are Manchester United the new Brazil?

March 31st, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Soccer

Arsenal’s comeback to win 3-2 at Bolton was special, but Manchester United’s 4-0 demolition of Aston Villa on Saturday was simply sublime. Cristiano Ronaldo’s amazing flick for the first goal summed it all up.
But how good are this United side? Is the Premier League already in the bag and should AS Roma be expecting another 7-1 […]

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Another fan death in Italy, should away travel be banned?

March 31st, 2008 at 04:03pm Under Soccer

Italy is hoping the death of a Parma fan on Sunday was not the result of more fan violence.
Matteo Bagnaresi was accidentally knocked down and killed by a bus, forcing Parma’s match at Juventus to be postponed.
Police said Parma and Juve fans were trading insults at a service station on the way to Turin where […]

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Check Out Line: Big gains for Big Lots and Wal-Mart

March 31st, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Shop Talk

Low price retailers appear to be in. The top performing stock in the first quarter among components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, through Friday, was Wal-Mart, with a 9.66 percent gain — one of only five stocks up in the index.
And in a much wider group, Big Lots is the big winner in the S&P […]

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Macs To Become Mainstrem?

March 31st, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Hardware

Less than a decade ago Apple was in serious trouble, and even after Steve Jobs retuning to the helm, the company still wasn’t out of the woods until the iPod phenomenon hit.  They were losing ground to windows on all fronts, and one of the most important might have turned out to be schools.  While this is all old news to most of us, not everyone has taken a close look at the ramifications of the success of the iPod.“…students who are used to Apple products grow up, get jobs, and make money. They

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McAfee: Super Spam Us!

March 31st, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Hardware

This experiment resembles nothing so much as the Super Size Me experiment, where a man attempted to live on McDonald’s food for an entire month.  McAfee has started a 30-day study to see just how much junk people can get via spam.The Santa Clara company solicited participants through an ad on Craigslist and chose five people from each of the 10 countries in which it does business. The spam-hunters will be given new Dell laptops with minimal anti-virus protection - which they’ll be allowed to keep - disposable

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AMD Delivers DisplayPort to Workstation Graphics

March 31st, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Hardware

AMD Delivers Industry’s First Commercially Available 3D Workstation Graphics Card with DisplayPort Support—       ATI FireGL™ V7700 provides superb performance and image quality for professional 3D and imaging markets —SUNNYVALE, Calif. — March 31, 2008 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced it is advancing application performance with stunning imagery through the introduction of the first commercially available 3D workstation graphics card with DisplayPort support. The ATI FireGL™

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iTunes and the Social Contract of Fair Use

March 31st, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce

I was busy working on a present for a few close friends recently when an alarming message popped up on my computer screen. The iTunes message informed me that “my” license permitted me to make only seven copies of the playlist I was burning. Unfortunately, the gift I was putting together was for eight of my friends.

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Application Acceleration: The Digital Drag Race

March 31st, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce

Computer technology in the workplace is all about hardware speed and connection bandwidth. To help IT managers augment their systems in both regards, vendors have been developing tweaking strategies to boost application speed beyond design limits. This process is called “application acceleration.” However, this race has changed quite a bit over the past few months.

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Diller Beats Liberty in IAC Spin-Off Battle

March 31st, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce

A Delaware judge ruled Friday in favor of IAC chief executive Barry Diller in a dispute with Liberty Media that could help to determine the fate of the company. A judge decided Liberty had failed to prove Diller violated an agreement between them by pursuing a plan to break the IAC/InterActiveCorp Internet conglomerate into five parts.

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Coconut can stop chronic diarrhea

March 31st, 2008 at 04:02pm Under Health

My brother-in-law has had diarrhea since radiation treatment on his prostate burned his colon. He has suffered daily diarrhea.

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