| The Chris Webber Karma Could Hit Pacers’ Coach Jim O’Brien
He clearly was toward the end of his career. It became very apparent he wasn't going to give the 76ers everything we had hoped for. Webber didn't practice at all that year prior to coming to us. He didn't practice at all the previous six weeks. I think he was just at the point where he didn't necessarily feel where he was in need of practice, or could practice, or couldn't practice and play at the same time. "He said, 'Coach, I don't do the low-post thing anymore,''' O’ Brien recalled. "We just made a major trade to bring in this (6-foot-10) guy and he said, 'No.' I said, 'Yes, you do.'' My Quick Take: Not exactly a glowing reference for C-Webb, huh? O’Brien, his former coach in Philly, is right. After surgery, Webber’s game changed. Shifting from the post to a jump-shooting big man limited his effectiveness.
Apple and Google ruled a year to note in your Facebook
The Apple phone is what corporate strategists call a 'game-changer'. It's really a powerful Unix computer in a tiny, sleek package. It happens to make voice calls, but in a way that's the boring bit. More interesting is its wi-fi capabilities and the way it makes web browsing feasible on a small screen. Its only serious drawback on launch was the fact that it is shackled to slow mobile phone networks. Its significance is that, at a stroke, it made everyone else's mobile technology look lame. Even more intriguing was Apple's success in steam-age bricks-and-mortar retailing. It now has 203 stores worldwide and derives 20 per cent of its revenue from them. In the quarter ending September 2007, Apple reported that its retail stores accounted for $1.25bn of its $6.2bn total revenues, up 42 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2006.
Outspark Announces $11 Million in Series B Funding from Internet Powerhouse, Top VC Firms
Outspark, a new unique publisher and operator of free online community games, today announced it has raised $11 million in Series B financing. Leading the round is Tencent Holdings, the operator of China's top Internet portal and instant messaging service. Existing investors DCM and Altos Ventures also participated in the round, which will help Outspark expand and enhance a virtual playground that has attracted more than 1 million registered users in less than five months. "Online gaming has become one of the most important new cultural phenomena in Asia, and we believe that PC-based online games will find a huge market here in North America as well. Outspark is off to a great start in building a strong user community with its titles," said David Wallerstein, Tencent Senior Executive Vice President of International.
Wild Card/Vacation Day 11 of 12
Only two more shopping days until I return to the final days of the City Council campaigns. Then, we'll have fun taking apart the campaigns. Any dirt yet? Any mudslinging. You know, the good stuff. Or is everyone behaving? My wife is now looking over my shoulder -- literally -- so I have to pretend that I'm just checking ball scores. See ya in two days. Here's Wild Card ... .
Wild Card/Vacation Day 11 of 12
Only two more shopping days until I return to the final days of the City Council campaigns. Then, we'll have fun taking apart the campaigns. Any dirt yet? Any mudslinging. You know, the good stuff. Or is everyone behaving? My wife is now looking over my shoulder -- literally -- so I have to pretend that I'm just checking ball scores. See ya in two days. Here's Wild Card ... .
Big Day Out DJs talk about their Big Day Out
His wife, meant to accompany him on the tour Down Under, is instead stuck at home in New York looking after their sick dog. ‘‘I need to play the gigs, then just get to my hotel and turn the computer on and put the camera on and try to co-ordinate -- I'm the one on the phone with the dog hospital -- just to take some of the pressure off my wife, 'cos we're a team,'' Murphy says. But the show must go on -- ‘‘It was like a personal thing for me'' Murphy says, explaining that for the past few years the timing was just not right to get the LCD band on the BDO. It was now or never. And Murphy -- who went from sleeping on the floor of his DFA label office to fronting one of the most adored outfits in dance music (‘‘pop'', he'll argue) -- for one is glad that LCD's time is now, when he's 37.
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