As we reached our NFL Power Rankings Week 6, it’s looking more and more clear that the AFC – also in this year’s wild parody awesome – has a good dose of the elite teams. The Ravens and the Jets are rolling right now, battling for first place in our Power Rankings is now a [...]

On Tuesday, PokerStars, the biggest poker site online, released its schedule of 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, which will play out at the Atlantis Resort and Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. More than 50 tournaments will take place, with $ 25 million expected to be on the line. The 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will [...]

Federal health officials say a new version of OxyContin that is designed to be harder to abuse offers some improvements over the original pill. Purdue Pharma LP, has promoted the new pill, plastic-like coating, which is designed to make the drug more difficult to crush and snort or inject. Food and Drug Administration scientists said [...]

Facebook, in a move aimed at boosting its appeal to advertisers with measurement company Nielsen on Tuesday to allow sellers to better gauge the performance of ads on social networking. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, announced the launch of the “multi-year strategic alliance” in an advertising conference in New York. “Nielsen is the leader in measurement [...]

Orders for sturdy products rose last month by the largest amount in 2 years, as the producing sector reflected back from the depths of the recession. The Commerce Dep. asserted Wed. that orders for products predicted to last at least 3 years increased 4.9% in July, the 3rd rise during the past 4 months. Orders [...]

Real estate agent Dave Gervase latterly witnessed a startling vision : a bidding war for a home in South Florida. What Gervase saw was an intense example of a national phenomenon : appearances of life in the battered home market and the overall economy. Housing costs rose 2.9% from the 1st quarter to the second [...]

Nintendo and Microsoft sales led a fifth straight month of US retail computer game sales declines, while Wii sales plunged in spite of a powerful debut for Motion Control And headliner Wii Sports Resort. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continued to exhibit trend-bucking YTD expansion staying power, up 17 % for the 1st 7 months of 2009, [...]

It’s been 15 years since Marc Andreessen developed the Netscape Net browser that introduced millions of men and women to the Net. After its early success, Netscape was generally defeated by Microsoft in the supposed browser wars of the 1990s that ruled the Web’s first chapter. Now an outstanding Silicon Valley financier, Mr Andreessen is [...]

Don’t reject it, you have derided the band name Hootie the Blowfish. Plenty of assume the name is mad so that the lead singer–the guy everyone thinks is named Hootie–must be silly too. Darius Rucker is in reality the crooner’s name and he did not seem silly when we spoke on the telephone last month. [...]

A Rio Caraeff failed to come up in the music business scouring clubs and honkey tonks for gifted new acts. Caraeff, executive vice chairman of Universal Music Group’s eLabs, has a background in mobile technology and software. Nevertheless , he just could be the prototype for the label exec of the future. Unlike more standard [...]

Three years back, I tried to condense Computer security into ten steps you might finish in about an hour. After a false-positive on a pathogen scan, I returned to that recommendation and noticed that those tips are sorely superseded. I could re-examine the 1st 3 tips here and will cover the remainder in posts later [...]