Chris Mannix’s 10 NBA predictions for 2011
1. There will be a work stoppage on July 1 … and it won’t be over by Dec. 31. The fundamental difference between the two sides — owners complaining the league is hemorrhaging cash, players thinking it is raking it in — has made a lockout inevitable. The owners aren’t looking for subtle changes, either. They are going for the jugular, targeting max salaries and guaranteed contracts and …
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Five Geeky Ways to Spend Your New Year’s Eve
If you’re like me, chances are you have things you would rather be doing than watching second-rate pop acts perform between Cathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper bantering back and forth with each other, and listening to people from someplace you don’t care about talk about how excited they are to be celebrating he arrival of 2011. In case you know you don’t want to be doing that, but also have no …
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Two new businesses move into downtown Wilkes-Barre
WILKES-BARRE – Mulligan’s Irish Pub will open on New Year’s Eve at the site of the former Luna Bar in Midtown Village. It joins Pronto Via Pizzeria as the two newest businesses in downtown Wilkes-Barre. The new Irish pub at 41 S. Main St. is the fourth downtown Wilkes-Barre venue for Ron Kamionka, president of Downtown After Dark and owner of the Hardware Bar, Bourbon Street and the Reflex Night …
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Review: IronKey Personal S200 flash drive
The IronKey Personal S200 secure flash drive uses hardware encryption, eliminating the need to run software on a PC and put your data at potential risk.
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Changes in video games prompt optimism for 2011
* Smartphones, iPads, other devices spur demand for games
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Nido, Kairiki plunge on Tindalo failure
Shares in Nido Petroleum and Kairiki Energy were sharply lower after Nido revealed continued production from the Tindalo oil field off the Philippines would be uneconomic.
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Console Showdown 2010: Part 1
PS3 vs. Wii vs. Xbox 360: Which system had the best exclusives this year?
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Connecticut Grant Program For Small-Business Innovation Hits Halfway Mark
Get Business Mobile Text Alerts : Text BIZ To 37798 Almost half of a 0,000 state grant program for small business innovation has been distributed, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Monday.
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Console Showdown 2010: Part 1
PS3 vs. Wii vs. Xbox 360: Which system had the best exclusives this year?
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2011: The year Android explodes
Ever-improving networks and a big hardware announcement that will send handset prices plummeting both point to smartphone growth in 2011 that could totally eclipse anything we’ve seen before.
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Toledo area stores say shoppers got jump-start on snow-removal items
By SHEENA HARRISON BLADE STAFF WRITER It’s been a good winter so far for area hardware and home-improvement retailers, who say more people are buying snow throwers and other cold-weather gear this month compared with a year ago. Jon Hetrick, manager of the Lowe’s store at 1136 West Alexis Road in Toledo, said he’s talked to more shoppers who are interested this year in buying winter-related …
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Microfluidic device rapidly orients hundreds of embryos for high-throughput experiments
Researchers have developed a microfluidic device that automatically orients hundreds of fruit fly embryos to prepare them for research. The device could facilitate the study of such issues as how organisms develop their complex structures from single cells.
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Nice Home Theater! We’ll Help You Set it Up [Howto]
# howto Christmas victory! You’ve just obtained the final component for your ideal home theater set-up. Now it’s time to hook everything up and turn your living room into that badass entertainment zone you’ve always envisioned. We’ll guide you through the basics. More »
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Cash registers ring as shoppers hit the Boxing Day sales
RETAILERS are gearing up for a busy start to Boxing Day sales in Warrnambool with items in some stores reduced by as much as 80 per cent.
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Steelers close in on division by romping Panthers
Panthers vs. Steelers recap from game played on December 23, 2010
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Holiday tree sale aids local causes
The North Platte Telegraph Voting with their dollars, the people have named the Lincoln County Historical Museum their favorite at the Holiday Giving Tree auction on Wednesday. The event, sponsored by Ace Hardware and Husker Radio, will help local organizations this holiday season. Each group that decorated a tree received the money donated for their tree.
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Architect reigns over ‘The Avenue’
Rudy Ridberg has left his mark on ” The Avenue .” Greenwich Avenue, that is. The founder of Ridberg & Associates Architects in Greenwich, along with his team of four, have designed many of the buildings on the famous thoroughfare including Restoration Hardware.
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High Altitude goes big time
Just call them successful traveling kids. The High Altitude Baseball Club 14-and-under baseball team is going on the road and bringing home the hardware.
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Yes, Skype Was Down for Millions of Users
A major Skype outage affected up to 10 million users on Wednesday afternoon, and things are just now returning to normal.
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Should Nokia and Microsoft join forces? (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson – Buffeted by hardware delays, management shakeups and defecting executives, mobile giant Nokia is looking more and more like a company in serious need of a game-changer. Could Microsoft and its new Windows Phone 7 OS be Nokia’s knight in shining …
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Flying Tigers capture Red Brown Classic hoops championship
The Analy Flying Tigers earned what promises to be the first of many basketball trophies this season, capturing first-place hardware at the annual Red Brown Classic Tournament hosted by Drake High School in San Anselmo.
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Microsoft Plans to talk Windows on ARM at CES, but Products a Ways Off
After many months of working in secret, Microsoft is nearly ready to start talking about its plans to bring Windows to ARM-based processors. However, while the company is set to discuss the effort at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show, there is still a lot that must be done before such products can hit the market.
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