Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

Posted by zikkir | 20 November 2009, 8:00 pm Full story

There will be no BCS bowl game nor an ACC Championship for the Miami Hurricanes this year. In fact they won’t even get a shot at ACC title with Georgia Tech’s 49-10 win over Duke last week (and Miami’s subsequent loss 33-24 loss to North Carolina.)  Meanwhile, sophomore QB Jacory Harris leads the FBS with 16 interceptions.  Plus the injury report just got longer with CB ... Full story

Two of the major selling points for The Legend of Zelda: Spirits Tracks have been the train and the addition of Zelda to Link as a companion character. But what can you expect from the rest of the game? I sat down at Nintendo’s Redwood City office to get a good look at the single-player mode for myself (since all I ... Full story

It might not be fancy or scream “look at me”, but Verizon’s now-available BlackBerry Curve 8530 is a smartphone that gets the job done. Kitted out with a 2.5″ display, 2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS and 256MB of flash memory, the Curve 8530 is also the first full-QWERTY BlackBerry from Verizon to feature RIM’s new optical ... Full story

Remember when Xtrakt was ripped from the Xperia? Well this time Experiment 13 has been ripped from the Xperia 2 thanks to Ganondolf of XDA and this game is from the same developer and more than delivers in all respects. The game itself really has that fully developed feel that you can only ... Full story

Take a seat and don’t stand forward of the yellow line – Desert Bus for Hope kicked off its third marathon o’ masochism, and looks to top the $70,000 it raised last year for the Child’s Play charity. Online sketch comedy team LoadingReadyRun is back behind the wheel, promising to play the ... Full story

The latest in self-important mobile app developer drama comes from Gameloft, but it’s not the usual iPhone bashing we’ve come to expect. Instead, Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort declared (via Reuters) that the company’s got beef with Android. “We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like … many others,” he ... Full story

There has been one big question on everyone’s mind over the last four years in NASCAR: when will Jimmie Johnson’s dominance end? The answer has yet to be seen, and the fact that he’s not getting ready to retire anytime soon doesn’t bode well for haters of the No. 48 team. It’s both well documented and continually repeated just how much Johnson has accomplished in his eight ... Full story

Two wins in five days have brought the Miami Dolphins back to the .500 mark. The team has shown promise as they look to make another miracle run at the playoffs.  What makes the last win so impressive is the big story with Ronnie Brown. Brown is out for the season now with a lisfranc fracture in his foot. Many were wondering what would happen with the ... Full story

A month ago, the Chargers were buried and all but finished for the season. A 34-23 loss at home to Denver was their third in five games to open the year and created a 3½ game hole in the division. Making matters worse the loss came off a bye week for San Diego and gave their only legitimate challengers in the AFC West a leg up in ... Full story