Powerful earthquake rocks New Zealand Christchurch

September 3rd, 2010 admin

Powerful earthquake rocks New Zealand Christchurch

New Zealand Christchurch

New Zealand Christchurch

Christchurch in New Zealand has been hit by an earthquake. US Geological Survey has said an earthquake measuring 7.4. at 04:32 Sat 4 September. Christchurch is New Zealand’s second largest city, declared a state of emergency.

The quake, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) west-northwest of the city and at a depth of 12 kilometers. Christchurch bringing down power lines, ripping up roads and wrecking building facades, but authorities reported no deaths. New Zealand experiences more than 14,000 earthquakes a year.

The last deadly earthquake was in 1968, when a 7.1-magnitude tremor killed three people. Several regions have reported Water and sewage issues. the council said: “the hospital is operating on generator power.”

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Deutsche Bank Championship Second round Leaderboard

September 3rd, 2010 admin

Deutsche Bank Championship Second round Leaderboard

Deutsche Bank Championship

Deutsche Bank Championship

The second round of the PGA Tour playoffs gets under way Friday at the TPC Boston. Play will begin at 7 am and will continue as long as weather permits. Watch Deutsche Bank Championship 2010 live coverage on Golf Channel and NBC.

Deutsche Bank Championship is facing off against Hurricane Earl. World’s No. 1 player Tiger Woods is among the late starters. World’s No. 1 is at No. 65, needing another solid week to make sure he stays in the top 70. If he does not play well enough this weekend and miss the cut for the BMW Championship. Tee off time for Tiger Woods is 11:42 am at TPC Boston.

Deutsche Bank Championship 2010 Leaderboard
Matt Jones -4
Alex Prugh -3
Ryan Moore -3
Jason Day -3
Paul Casey -3

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3G Capital to buy Burger King

September 3rd, 2010 admin

3G Capital to buy Burger King

Burger King

Burger King

Fast food chain Burger King is being sold to 3G Capital in a deal said to be valued at $3.26bn (£2.1bn). Burger King Holdings Inc , the No. 2 US fast-food chain, agreed to be bought by investment firm 3G Capital.

New-York based 3G will assume, the deal is worth about $4 billion. Burger King is the second-largest US hamburger chain following its far-larger rival McDonald’s Corp. Burger King often abbreviated as BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

Burger King has struggled because its key customer base has taken a deeper hit from tirelessly high unemployment rates. Burger King’s chairman John Chidsey will become co-chairman of the board.

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Deutsche Bank Championship 2010 Leaderboard, Tee Times

September 2nd, 2010 admin

Deutsche Bank Championship 2010 Leaderboard, Tee Times

Deutsche Bank Championship 2010

Deutsche Bank Championship 2010

Deutsche Bank Championship is PGA TOUR event, held over Labor Day weekend at the TPC Boston in Norton, Mass. Hurricane Earl likely to bring heavy rain and strong winds to TPC Boston. TPC Boston have moved up the golfers’ opening-round tee times some 40 minutes.

Deutsche Bank Championship will feature the top 100 PGA TOUR golfers. Deutsche Bank Championship will be held from # September 3 – 6, 2010. Tiger Woods has a good opportunity to qualify for the rest of the FedExCup playoff series at the Deutsche Bank Championship starting on Friday. Tiger Woods has once won on this course and twice he finished second which is yet another card that goes in his favour.

Deutsche Bank Championship 2010 Tee Times

11:30 am Matteson, Troy - Elkington, Steve
11:42 am Senden, John - Woods, Tiger - Sim, Michael
11:54 am Gay, Brian - Barnes, Ricky - Cink, Stewart
12:06 pm Haas, Bill - Watney, Nick - Sabbatini, Rory
12:18 pm Van Pelt, Bo - Villegas, Camilo - Kim, Anthony
12:30 pm Scott, Adam - Goosen, Retief - Taylor, Vaughn
12:42 pm Cabrera, Angel - Yang, Y.E. - Harrington, Padraig
12:54 pm Rollins, John - Simpson, Webb - Dufner, Jason

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Apple Product Announcement at Apple Event California

September 1st, 2010 admin

Apple product announcement at Apple Event California

Apple product announcement

Apple product announcement

Apple is going to make another product announcement at a special music-themed event this evening. Apple announcement which will be held live at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco California.

It will live stream its product announcement starting at 10:00 AM. This is the first time in years that Apple has live streamed an announcement. Apple will be using in its announcement later requires either a Mac running Safari on OS X 10.6 or an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or higher.

Professionals expected Steve Jobs to unveil a new version of Apple’s set-top box, Apple TV, that allows people to download music, movies and television shows directly to their TV.

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Orange launches High Definition Voice service in UK

September 1st, 2010 admin

Orange launches High Definition Voice service in UK

Orange launches High Definition Voice

Orange launches High Definition Voice

Orange the first UK network to use a technology that offers higher quality voice calls. Orange has officially launched its new mobile HD Voice service for business customers.

HD Voice service is available to all Orange mobile customers from today. HD Voice as “the biggest advance in voice calls in 20 years” said Orange. The service is based on a technology called Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband.

HD Voice is available for free to all Orange customers who take a HD Voice enabled handset with the Nokia 5230, Nokia X6, Nokia E5 and Samsung Omnia Pro but most handsets should be updated over time to run the service. Nokia E5 and Samsung Omnia Pro 5230 already support HD Voice.

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Japan Airlines to Cut 16000 global Jobs

August 31st, 2010 admin

Japan Airlines to Cut 16000 global Jobs

Japan Airlines

Japan Airlines

Japan Airlines are working on a plan to reform the airline’s global workforce . Japan Airlines has announced that its aims to eliminate more than 16,000 positions. The plan is to reduce staff from 2009 levels of around 49,000 to around 32,000 by the end of the tax year.

The airline faild under a mountain of debt. The plans have been submitted to Tokyo District Court. Chairman Kazuo Inamori told: “This revitalization plan is the start of the rebirth of JAL.” Japan Airlines is part of the One World alliance which includes other major airlines like British Airways and American Airlines. The company filed for bankruptcy protection on 19 January.

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US Open 2010 Opening Night Ceremony New York

August 30th, 2010 admin

US Open 2010 Opening Night Ceremony New York

US Open 2010 Opening Night Ceremony

US Open 2010 Opening Night Ceremony

The Opening Night Ceremony for the 2010 US Open live from New York on August 30 on ABC and ESPN. Opening Night of the 2010 US Open attributes a special ceremony on the evening of Monday, August 30.

Tennis Channel’s typical US Open schedule features live matches daily from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. U.S. Open Tonight. The primetime ceremony will be hosted by Christiane Amanpour, host of ABC News’ and will feature a special musical performance by award-winning performer Gloria Estefan.

The night will feature tributes to tennis greats Martina Navratilova and James Blake, wheelchair tennis star Esther Vergeer and USTA member Dori Samadzai-Bonner. Gloria Estefan will perform the inspirational song “Reach” as a fitting capstone to this special night.

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Emmy awards 2010 nominations and winners

August 29th, 2010 admin

Emmy Awards 2010 Live Streaming On NBC from Los Angeles Nominees, Winners

Emmy Awards 2010

Emmy Awards 2010 Live

Sunday night will disclose the winners of Emmy Awards. Emmy Awards event will starts at 8 PM on NBC. 62nd annual prime-time Emmy ceremony will take place tonight live from Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

The Awards ceremony will be hosted by Jimmy Fallon. This was the first telecast to be televised live coast-to-coast since the 34th ceremony held in 1976. “Glee” and “Modern Family” challenge three-time Emmy champion “30 Rock” this year at Emmy Awards. Jim Parsons plays in the CBS show “The Big Bang Theory,” is tipped to steal Baldwin’s best comedy actor crown.

Emmy Awards 2010 Nominations in Key Category

  • OUTSTANDING DRAMA : Lost,Breaking Bad,Dexter,Mad Men,True Blood and The Good Wife
  • OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA : Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife),Mariska Hargitay (Special Victims Unit),Glenn Close (Damages),Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer),January Jones (Mad Men),Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)
  • OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA:Jon Hamm (Mad Men),Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights),Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad),Hugh Laurie (House M.D.),Michael C. Hall (Dexter),Matthew Fox (Lost)
  • OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA :John Slattery (Mad Men),Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad),Martin Short (Damages),Terry O’ Quinn (Lost),Michael Emerson (Lost),Andre Braugher (Men of a Certain Age)
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