I’ve been a long time Yahoo! Messenger (YM) user. Yahoo was my first e-mail account and most of my contacts are Yahoo!. I won’t make the intro long. So here’s what’s I want to post. There are times before where I receive an instant message from an unknown Yahoo! ID. Well, simply, that was spamming. I suspect the spammers were able to get my email address from forums or at the Yahoo! Chatrooms. But then lately (I believe it started last year), I am receiving “wierd” IMs from my yahoo buddies (those are my friends). The first one, as I recalled,...
MoreMajor League Baseball announced Thursday that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games for violating its drug policy. The commissioner's office didn't announce the specific violation by Ramirez, but in a statement Thursday provided by Major League Baseball, Ramirez attributed the violation to medication he had been prescribed by a doctor. "Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was OK to give me," Ramirez said. "Unfortunately, the medication was banned under our drug policy. Under the policy that mistake is now my responsibility....
MoreChalk it up to the fact that the Curve is available on the four biggest U.S. carriers, not to mention a two-for-one sale on Verizon Wireless. Also in the top five for the first quarter of 2009: The Storm and the T-Mobile G1.The NPD Group just released its U.S. smartphone sales numbers for Q1, and according to their numbers, RIM had BlackBerrys in three of the top five positions, and managed to topple the iPhone 3G from the top of the list. Despite its early launch woes, the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm appears to be selling strongly, coming in a No. 3...
MoreSince the economic turmoil, encompassing China, a foremost influence on the international automobile market. China’s auto sales in 2008 expanded by only 6.7 per hundred, boost over the preceding year fallen 15 per hundred, a quarter of the aim of the unfinished vehicle charges 50% of annual plan. However, in 2009, the Chinese automobile market abruptly large-scale market tendency is anticipated to choose up a quarter of vehicle sales 2,567,600 and 2,678,800, an boost of 1.91% and 3.88%, putting an end to the fourth quarter of last year’s sales decline. It is miserable that after the first hi the context of...
MoreIf they were not Apple rumors, we’d all be dead by now listening to all those near baseless blabbing about the Apple Netbook, iPhone nano, iTablet, 32 GB iPhone, etc. As you are not tired to read Apple rumors, we have something that would let you raise your eyebrows. The time for iPocalypse is near and Apple would be launching two new products, Verizon as the exclusive distributor. The two products are: 1. iPhone lite: This phone would be a cheaper and thinner version of the existing iPhone to target customers who doesn’t require all the features on the iPhone. This up...
MoreLots of stuff going on leaving little time to blog, so this will need to be brief... Google Labs released a couple neat new tools yesterday. (Another report here.) One is "Similar Images" which uses the colors and shapes of one image to become the basis for a subsequent search on similar images. For example, I searched for "Jerusalem" and two clicks later on pictures that are closest to the view I want, and I have about 600 pics simply of the Temple Mount viewed from the Mount of Olives. The other new release is Google News Timeline. It is mainly intended...
MoreChances are that whether you’re aware of it or not, you probably belong to at least one Ning social network. Since the platform launched in October 2005, it’s seen explosive growth in the quantity and quality of networks created using their hosted social networking platform. Less than four years later, the do-it-yourself social network site with a $500 million valuation has reached another major milestone — 1,000,000 Ning networks. On their way to 1,000,000 social networks, Ning’s come along way from their early days, when they experimented with three distinct sites that let you build your own YouTube, Flickr, or MySpace. We’ve...
MoreSparks, Nev. – A woman who had planned to spend a quiet Easter at home is $33 million richer after hitting the second largest Megabucks jackpot in history at a Nevada casino. Slot machine maker International Game Technology says 38-year-old Rachael Renee Romanick hit the jackpot Sunday night at Terrible's Rail City in Sparks. Romanick says a friend persuaded her to join him at the casino that night. She says she had been playing the machine for about 10 minutes when she landed the big prize. The largest jackpot ever won was $39.7 million at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas...
MoreWho let the dog out? That's the Washington mystery du jour. The identity of the first puppy — the one that the Washington press corps has been yelping about for months, the one President Obama has seemed to delight in dropping hints about -- leaked out yesterday. This despite White House efforts to delay the news until the big debut planned for Tuesday afternoon. The little guy is a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog given to the Obama girls as a gift by that Portuguese water dog-lovin' senator himself, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The girls named it Bo — and let it be...
MoreEast Rutherford, N.J. -- The New York Giants released Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress on Friday, a little more than four months after the talented but troubled wide receiver accidentally shot himself in the thigh in a New York City nightclub. Burress' four-year tenure with the Giants was highlighted by a game-winning touchdown catch in the Super Bowl against the previously undefeated New England Patriots in February 2008, but it was also dogged by fines and suspensions. Burress' status has been uncertain since he shot himself in the thigh on Nov. 29 with an unlicensed gun he'd stuffed into his waistband. He...
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