| PREP NOTEBOOK: Knights pull ‘black out' with new uniforms
Here come the Knights in black.The Missoula Hellgate boys' basketball team has changed the color of its away jerseys from the traditional red to black, which is believed to be a first for the school."It's something different alright," said Hellgate coach Jim Sampson, "But it was just time to get new uniforms." .
Tips for Booking Your Hotel Room for New Year's Eve in Philly from ...
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Last-minute hotel booking is a New Year's Eve norm, and gophila.com, Philadelphia's official visitor Web site, is offering some tips on how to get the December deed done for the festive, four- day weekend, which features the New Year's Eve fireworks show at Penn's Landing and the beloved Mummers Parade along Broad Street on January 1. Here are a few more reasons why Philly's More Fun this New Year's Eve and Day: The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) makes Philadelphia and The Countryside® a premier destination through marketing and image building that increases business and promotes the region's vitality. For more information about travel to Philadelphia, visit www.gophila.com or call the Independence Visitor Center, located in Independence National Historical Park, at (800) 537-7676.
RIM may become much more of a social smart phone with consumers
So when you want music, do you want to buy hits or do you want to be part of a community? That's the big question." Competition is one of the main reasons RIM would want to extend the appeal of its products to non-business users. Apple Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL), which dominates the digital music player space with its immensely popular iPod, said Thursday it will tweak the iPhone - its big offering in the mobile Internet market - to work better with business e-mail. The next software update for iPhones will enable them to work with Microsoft Corp.'s Exchange e-mail software, widely used by businesses to handle e-mail. That will likely pose only a small immediate threat to RIM - already firmly entrenched as the North American leader in business mobile devices and quickly growing its presence globally - but it's aware that more than 2.3 million iPhones were sold during the latest quarter.
Prizes given for plans to ‘tag’ an asteroid
In the student category, the $5,000 first-place prize went to the Georgia Institute of Technology. Engineering student Jonathan Sharma was the principal investigator for a mission design entitled Pharos. NASA and the European Space Agency co-sponsored the competition and will review the mission designs, the Planetary Society said. "We are very happy that this competition inspired innovative designs to solve an important problem that could affect life on Earth — as the dinosaurs learned the hard way," Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society's director of projects, said in an announcement listing the winners. “We hope the winning entries will catalyze the world's space agencies to move ahead with designs and missions to protect Earth from potentially dangerous asteroids and comets." To tag an asteroid
Although Apophis was used as the test case for the contest, the Planetary Society said the mission designs could be adapted to tag any potentially hazardous asteroid.
New York Philharmonic's 'sing song diplomacy' in North Korea
The 130-member orchestra is scheduled to arrive Monday and perform Tuesday night before an audience of high-ranking North Korean officials. Eighty journalists will accompany the musicians to a country that is almost always closed to the outside world. The performance is scheduled to be broadcast live on North Korean state television. For North Koreans, watching an American orchestra perform in their own country will be unprecedented – and politically dissonant. State-controlled media have demonized the United States since the Korean War. Reports from Pyongyang suggest that anti-American propaganda is being pulled from the streets in anticipation of the orchestra's rendition of George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" and Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony, as well as both the North Korean and American national anthems.
Apple iPhone Event
This is Jason Snell reporting live from the Town Hall theater on the Apple campus in Cupertino. The room is filling up with members of the media and analyst communities, music is playing (Mike Doughty's “27 Jennifers," if you must know), and we've been told to silence our cell phones under penalty of death, or at least very stern looks from Apple PR representatives. 10:01 PT: Steve Jobs walks onstage. “We're really excited to share some great news with you about the iPhone software roadmap… We've got some really cool stuff to announce, so let's get on with it." Now here come the iPhone statistics, based on the first eight months: In just eight months, the iPhone has garnered a 28 percent market share, second only to RIM (Blackberry), based on Q4 data. US mobile browser usage: iPhone 71 percent of market share.
'Fowl' Language Upsets Some in Pa.
ALTOONA, Pa. - A convenience store chain's billboard advertising its fried chicken sandwich is ruffling the feathers of some residents. Sheetz unveiled the "Crispy Frickin' Chicken" billboards at the beginning of February. The campaign consists of 100 billboards placed locations that carry the sandwich, spokeswoman Monica Jones said Thursday. The campaign is aimed at young adults, and the company did not intend to offend anyone, Jones said. "We're kind of known for edgy, kind of brash advertising tactics, and we knew this would spark a certain amount of controversy," Jones said. "That said, we're proud of the campaign." .
GPX Global Systems Inc. launches Neutral Middle East Internet eXchange ...
MEIX will be one of the key telecommunication transit service providers operating in a free telecommunications zone. The state-of-the-art Internet exchange is located in the prestigious Heliopolis section of Cairo and is the first of its kind in Egypt. GPX's MEIX offers customers collocation, onsite interconnectivity, a secure and reliable environment to house servers and network equipment, and local access to ISPs and telecommunications providers residing within the exchange. This new exchange is fully licensed and supported by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Unlike other telecommunications and ISP-owned interconnect businesses within the region, GPX does not resell network transport or hosting services, so customers are free to choose, in an open, neutral environment, partners that best meet their needs based on their criteria such as pricing, performance, and service levels.
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