Europe Unleashes Online Gambling to Fill Coffers The New York Times | PARIS — Across Europe, cash-strapped governments looking for ways to reduce yawning budget gaps are embracing online gambling, a source of revenue they once viewed with wary skepticism. | While U.S. opposition to Internet betting has centered on concerns about gambling addiction, European po...
Demons From World Cup Follow Capello The New York Times | PARIS — The World Cup has gone, but the embarrassment lingers for England and its Italian coach, Fabio Capello. | The Times's soccer blog has the 2010 World Cup covered from all angles, with news, features and live analysis of every match. Go to the Goal Blog More Coverage | Bracket Team Ran...
Internet Betting Gets Bigger as Online Gambling Companies Merge The New York Times | PARIS — Two of the biggest European operators of Internet betting sites, PartyGaming and Bwin Interactive Entertainment, said Thursday that they planned to merge, forming the world’s largest publicly traded online gambling company. | Th...
Pinnacle: 'Significant discount' on A.C. land sale Philadelphia Daily News | WAYNE PARRY | Associated Press | ATLANTIC CITY - Not long ago, Pinnacle Entertainment had grand plans for a sparkling new casino resort on the Atlantic City Boardwalk that would cost upward of $2 billion. | On Thursday, the company acknowledged wha...
Kindle vs. iPad: You're Both Winners The New York Times | Amazon has announced a new Kindle that most bloggers are calling Kindle 3. The new device seems pretty awesome, both in features and price. It’s important that we declare both devices as winners in their own right and set some things straight...
App Store Not Named iTunes Heads To a Billion Downloads The New York Times | Today, GetJar, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company, announced it is delivering over 3 million downloads a day to more than 2,000 different phone models. Adding support for Google Android devices last year has helped boost the daily downloads, as...
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NHK cancels live broadcasts of sumo tournament Asahi News | Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) announced Tuesday that it would not provide live TV or radio coverage of the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament from Sunday, following revelations of ram...
Seeing the World Around You Through Your Phone The New York Times | I have faith that once the novelty of the coolest new smartphone feature wears off, I will again walk the streets with my eyes open to the world around me, not the screen of a smartphone. | Goggles Android app, snapping a photo of the Arc de Triomp...
Nuance Tweaks Its Dictation Software, Wringing Out Errors The New York Times | Nuance, the company that makes Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows, is in a pretty sweet position: It’s essentially a monopoly. One by one, its competitors in the speech-recognition business have either left the market (Philips), gone out of...
Big group jumps to juryo Daily Yomiuri | NAGOYA--The gambling scandal rocking sumo has produced another unique situation, as an unusually large number of wrestlers will earn promotion to the second-tier juryo division, the Japan Sumo Association announced Wednesday. | Seven wrestlers will...
Sprint Nextel Reports Gain in Subscribers The New York Times | The Sprint Nextel Corporation, the wireless phone provider, said Wednesday that it gained subscribers in its latest quarter, the first such increase in three years, as it continued to improve customer service and retention. | However, it is still l...
Europe Unleashes Online Gambling to Fill Coffers The New York Times | PARIS — Across Europe, cash-strapped governments looking for ways to reduce yawning budget gaps are embracing online gambling, a source of revenue they once viewed with wary skepticism. | While U.S. opposition to Internet betting has centered on concerns about gambling addiction, European politicians previously objected for a different reas...
Tseng and Hull share lead Sky Sports | Taiwan's Yani Tseng and Australia's Katherine Hull both made eagles at the last hole to share the lead after day one of the Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale. | Tseng enjoyed a consistent round through the first 16 holes, the 21-year-old moving to one-under-par without dropping a shot. | She then birdied the first of the closing par fi...
