Jun 22

East Texas Baptist University has signed an agreement with Chitwood Sports Media to continue providing Internet-only broadcasts of Tiger football games for the 2008 season.
“Chitwood Sports Media has been broadcasting Tiger football since its return in 2000,” said Mike Midkiff, ETBU Director of Public Relations. “We are pleased that our relationship is continuing. The decision [...]

Jun 22

Chinese censorship of the Internet and restrictions on reporting have worsened despite Beijing’s pledge to improve media freedom ahead of the Olympic Games, an activist said Thursday.
China has actually tightened control of the Internet as the Olympics approach, said Zhang Yu, a member of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre, a branch of International PEN, a [...]

Jun 16

Inside an anonymous warehouse on a Northampton industrial estate stands a mocked-up high street. The street, complete with pedestrian crossing and yellow lines, separates two full-sized branches of Barclays bank. One is slightly dilapidated, as experienced by many customers across the country; the other is a glitzy experiment. The result is a transformation in the [...]

Jun 9

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs delivered the first major makeover of the iPhone, unveiling a faster, cheaper handset that may help him convince business users to switch over from the BlackBerry.
Apple sank 2.2 percent in Nasdaq trading after saying carriers won’t have to give the company a cut of the lucrative monthly service [...]

Jun 5

The result was Wikipedia, launched in 2001 as a non-profit project. It soon became a global hit and is now one of the most visited sites on the internet. Its 10m-odd articles in 253 languages are often among the top results for Google searches.
“Wikipedia resolves the postmodern dilemma of truth by ultimately relying on process,” [...]

May 31

Nanaimo Senior A Timbermen fans can follow their team with live play-by-play on the Internet.
The team announced on Wednesday that all eight remaining road games will be audio webcast on the Internet, including tonight’s Western Lacrosse Association game in New Westminster against the Salmonbellies. Game time is 7 p.m.
Dan Marshall, of Nanaimo radio The Wolf [...]

May 31

Prepararions for the 2008 edition of the Zimbabwe National Youth Games to be hosted by the Midlands Province gathered momentum on Wednesday with the province’s Sport and Recreation Commission office and the Local Organising Committee taking Governor and Resident Minister Cephas Msipa on a tour of the various facilities.
The Games, the fifth edition since their [...]

May 31

Clusters of TV and computer screens beam chatty videos about cooking, travel and wellness books. A music kiosk lets visitors download MP3s or burn CDs, while another offers tips on how to publish your own novel.
Welcome to the newly opened Borders bookstore in Southbury, Conn., which looks less like a traditional branch of the nation’s [...]

May 27

A dash by consumers to buy a computer game that simulates stealing cars helped to shore up high street trading last month, limiting the scale of the first back-to-back monthly drop in sales for more than two years.
Booming sales of Grand Theft Auto IV and a fitness-based game, Wii Fit, buoyed trading at nonfood stores [...]

May 20

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has won a Gold “MUSE” Award from the American Association of Museums for the design of a computer role-playing game included in new DVD/CD ROM set called “A Day in the Life.”
Titled “Betwixt Folly and Fate,” the game offers players an immersive 3-D role-playing experience that takes them through 1774 Williamsburg [...]