February 27, 2008

‘Quarterlife’ reviewed

By Jay - In at 1:00 pm

‘Quarterlife’ reviewed
Los Angeles Times - were a novelty but that quickly gave way to irritation, if only because full credits roll at the end of each mini-sode, and how many times can a thinking person be expected to read the names Zwick and Herskovitz without wanting to throw her laptop

Examine 2007 Eastern Europe Broadband and Convergence Markets
PR Inside - We believe wireless broadband will become increasingly prominent in 2008 due to greater availability and affordability of mobile wireless broadband services, as well as the growing popularity of laptop computers.

Switch it off for E-day
Peterborough Evening Telegraph - As part of “E-day”, residents are being encouraged to only charge electronic gadgets, such as mobile phones, MP3 players and laptop computers, when necessary.

Q&A | Microsoft’s Bill Hilf on Windows Server 2008
Seattle Times - At Microsoft, when I come in to the campus and I attach to the wireless network, there’s a scan of my laptop and it checks my laptop to make sure that I have right the right patches, security upgrades, antivirus software, the right signatures


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February 26, 2008

Mutual Assistance

By Jay - In at 7:00 pm

Mutual Assistance
Business Travel Executive - Although USBC is officially only three years old, it has more than 2.6 million members, consolidated with the 2005 merger of the American Bowling Congress, Women s International Bowling Congress, Young American Bowling Alliance and USA Bowling.

Retired CEO to join USBC Hall of Fame
Lexington Herald-Leader - Dalkin was a star college bowler at Georgia Tech who went on to join the American Bowling Congress in 1977. He became the group’s CEO in 1997 and orchestrated the merger of three membership groups into USBC. Dalkin retired from his post this summer.

City hopes to be spared
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - If the USBC leaves Wisconsin - where its links stretch more than a century to the old American Bowling Congress - the Milwaukee area would lose a $50 million-a-year nonprofit that employs around 200 people. “Having the Bowling Congress here has always


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February 23, 2008

Kiwis swamp England in rain to win one-day series

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Kiwis swamp England in rain to win one-day series
Times Online - If Cook and Collingwood fell to clever bowling from Vettori, Bell and Kevin Pietersen had less excuse for holing out in the deep, Pietersen having taken no time to play himself in against Jeetan Patel.

Sampson’s departure just the start of tough times
FOXSports.com - While Dakich is a former Indiana assistant coach and player under Bob Knight and was the head coach at Bowling Green for a decade, it’s going to be difficult for him to quickly gain the respect of the current team.

Sampson still remains coach as expected decision approaches
USA Today - Assistants Ray McCallum or Dan Dakich could fill in on an interim basis. Both have been head coaches, McCallum at Houston and Ball State and Dakich at Bowling Green.

Win must to enter finals
Central Chronicle - Gautam Gambhir, after a stupendous start, is falling off a bit and Rohit Sharma has a propensity to throw away his wicket when the bowling is at his mercy.


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Matsushita to offer thinner, greener plasma TVs

By Jay - In at 1:00 pm

Matsushita to offer thinner, greener plasma TVs
Reuters UK - Sharp Corp, the world’s third-largest liquid crystal display TV maker after Samsung and Sony Corp, is building a 380 billion yen LCD panel plant that will be the world’s first to use 10th-generation glass measuring 2,850mm by 3,050mm. Shares in

Ricoh Announces Enhanced Print Security Software Solution
PR Newswire - Only those documents related to a specific user ID and password are displayed on the LCD panel. Compressed, encrypted files also remain securely held even if the hard drive reaches maximum capacity, the power is turned off, or the hard drive is

Audiovox Posts Q3 Sales, Income Gain
Twice - This decrease was due to a decline in consumer electronics sales as a result of lower holiday sales than anticipated and LCD panel shortages. Offsetting these declines was an increase in sales of mobile electronics products; particularly Jensen

News Blog: Posts tagged XPS
CNET News - First traditional desktop with an integrated SideShow LCD panel, for all those Vista Gadgets Digital home-oriented options include 802.11n networking (available shortly after launch), ATI Digital Cable Tuners , a Blu-ray burner, and hardware MPEG-2

LCDs get brighter with nano polarization recycler
PhysOrg - On the left side of this drawing, P1 light is transmitted through the LCD panel, while a conventional bottom polarizer absorbs P2 light. On the right, the scientists new nano-wire grid polarizer recycles some of the otherwise-absorbed P2 light

News Blog: Posts tagged Sharp
CNET News - A typical thin LCD panel on the market today is a couple of inches thick, according to Hitachi. JVC’s was the thickest of the three at 22 millimeters, but the company also likes to point out that it will be selling its thin LCD TVs this spring. The

JVC and Funai Enter LCD TV Agreement
PC World - Panasonic maker Matsushita plans to take a majority stake in an LCD making joint venture with Hitachi Ltd, and Toshiba and will shoulder the bulk of the cost of a 300 billion yen LCD panel plant planned by the venture. JVC shares ended the morning


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February 21, 2008

Woman Sues Best Buy For $54 Million Over Lost Laptop

By Jay - In at 1:00 pm

Woman Sues Best Buy For $54 Million Over Lost Laptop
Tech Dirt - BestBuy’s laptop repair center in Solon, OH (by proxy of the Mentor, OH store) stole/lost/whatever-their-excuse-is my laptop in 2005. I took the problem to the BBB and eventually got a ~$2800 check for my laptop

BitMicro Ultra320 SCSI flash drive crosses terabyte divide
Computerworld - plans for first external SSD drive Wal-Mart dumps HD DVDs for Blu-ray Amazon’s data storage service hit by outage The laptop repair February 5, 2008 (Computerworld) BitMicro Networks Inc. today introduced the 3.5-inch E-Disk Altima E3S320 solid


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February 20, 2008

Bowlers get `PBA experience’ at Airway Lanes

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Bowlers get `PBA experience’ at Airway Lanes
Grand Rapids Press - PORTAGE - For those who would like to test their skill in a PBA-type setting, Airway Lanes has the perfect program called The PBA Bowling Experience. The program, at 9:30 p.m. every Wednesday, offers bowling on lanes that have been dressed in PBA

State house passes gaming machine ban
Chronicle-Telegram - The PGA (golfing) and PBA (bowling) have tournaments all over the state. Are they exempt? What about the NFL and MLB? Their playoff systems are tournaments. The winning teams get more money as they advance to the championship. Will the Cleveland


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February 17, 2008

Dallas Cowboy Ticket - Buss: Selective memory

By Jay - In at 7:02 am

Buss: Selective memory
Wichita Falls Times Record News - Aside from occasional wire stories featuring racing icons Lloyd Ruby and Eddie Hill, our city hasn t been in the national spotlight since the Dallas Cowboys trained here for four years running in the late 1990s. Prior to the Cowboys, I suspect our

Dale Earnhardt Jr. not only one to profit from wins
Orlando Sentinel - His success could do what the New York Yankees do for television ratings in baseball, or what the Dallas Cowboys do for football when they win, or what the Los Angeles Lakers have done in basketball. “What does he have, 70-80 percent of the fans out

5 Dynamic Dividend Stocks
MSNBC - The New York Yankees of the ’50s, and the Chicago Bulls and Dallas Cowboys of the ’90s had one crucial element in common: consistent excellence in their organizations and performance. That’s a rare accomplishment, but if you think it could never


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Woman Sues Best Buy For $54 Million Over Lost Laptop

By Jay - In at 7:01 am

Woman Sues Best Buy For $54 Million Over Lost Laptop
Tech Dirt - BestBuy’s laptop repair center in Solon, OH (by proxy of the Mentor, OH store) stole/lost/whatever-their-excuse-is my laptop in 2005. I took the problem to the BBB and eventually got a ~$2800 check for my laptop

Getting ahead
Missoulian - Sunday, February 3, 2008 Relocation Computer Central has relocated to 136 E. Broadway. Computer Central specializes in information technology support for small- to medium-sized businesses, personal computer/laptop repair and Web site design.

BitMicro Ultra320 SCSI flash drive crosses terabyte divide
Computerworld - plans for first external SSD drive Wal-Mart dumps HD DVDs for Blu-ray Amazon’s data storage service hit by outage The laptop repair February 5, 2008 (Computerworld) BitMicro Networks Inc. today introduced the 3.5-inch E-Disk Altima E3S320 solid


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State house passes gaming machine ban

By Jay - In at 7:00 am

State house passes gaming machine ban
Chronicle-Telegram - The PGA (golfing) and PBA (bowling) have tournaments all over the state. Are they exempt? What about the NFL and MLB? Their playoff systems are tournaments. The winning teams get more money as they advance to the championship. Will the Cleveland

Sports Listings
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 6 a.m. SPEED: Rolex Sports Car Series — 24 Hours of Daytona. 9:30 a.m. GOLF: European PGA Tour Golf — Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. 12:30 p.m. ESPN: PBA Bowling — H&R Block Tournament of Champions. (CC) 1 p.m. KDKA, WTRF, WKBN: College Basketball

Bowlers get `PBA experience’ at Airway Lanes
Grand Rapids Press - PORTAGE - For those who would like to test their skill in a PBA-type setting, Airway Lanes has the perfect program called The PBA Bowling Experience. The program, at 9:30 p.m. every Wednesday, offers bowling on lanes that have been dressed in PBA

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Spartanburg Herald-Journal - Billy Oatman, of Chicago, IL, reacts to a strike in the Spartanburg Classic Professional Bowling Association championship, held at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium in Spartanburg, Sunday afternoon, 12-16-07. The PBA bowling match was televised


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February 16, 2008

Dallas Cowboy Ticket - Kines named Aggies’ defensive coordinator

By Jay - In at 1:00 pm

Kines named Aggies’ defensive coordinator
FOXSports.com - Kines, whose career included stints as interim head coach at Alabama and Arkansas and working with linebackers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, replaces Reggie Herring. Herring had been hired in January but left to coach the Dallas Cowboys linebackers

Sources: Dallas Cowboys interested in talking with ex-Dolphins LB
Dallas Morning News - IRVING Zach Thomas grew up in Pampa, Texas, went to Texas Tech and despite calling Miami home for the last 12 years still considers himself a Texan. According to two sources, the Cowboys have had discussions with Thomas’ agent, Drew Rosenhaus

Make My Day
American Reporter - I’m joined by my colleague and fellow sportscaster, Gwen Ifill of “Washington Week in Review,” and Terrell Owens, wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys. How are you, Terrell? Terrell: Great. Uh, did you say Academic Olympics? Jim: Yes, I did. Gwen


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