John Clay ran for two touchdowns and James White darted in for the clincher in the fourth quarter as No. 18 Wisconsin took down No. 1 Ohio State 31-18 Saturday night. (Oct. 17)
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Cablevision and Fox parent News Corp. left the negotiating table without a deal Saturday, giving 3 million customers in the NYC metro area little hope of watching the first game of baseball’s National League Championship Series on television. (Oct. 16)
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Brazil has adopted emergency measures to deal with one of the Amazon region’s worst droughts in decades. A state of emergency has been declared in 25
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The third annual Quartet Night at Christ Community Church in Laguna Hills will take place on Saturday, November 13th, 6:30 pm.
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Fifa confirmed last night it will investigate allegations that two members of its committee have offered to sell their votes in the bid to stage the 2018 World Cup. The race to host the tournament became clouded in controversy after the Sunday Times reported that Amos Adamu, a Fifa executive committee member from Nigeria, was filmed negotiating a deal with an undercover reporter where he would be paid £500,000 for his vote. Adamu requested the money, which would be used to build four artificial football pitches in Nigeria, would be paid to him personally. The deal was allegedly finalised last month in Cairo when Adamu confirmed he would vote for the USA to host the 2018 World Cup. The USA…
Continue reading …Peek experiences permanent outage for older devices, vows to replace with free Peek 9
October 17, 2010 No Comment
Thinking of upgrading your Peek or Peek Pronto to a shiny new Peek 9 ? You may no longer have a choice — following an epic fail when migrating to a new network provider, loads of older devices were reportedly fried. Normally consumer outrage would run rampant at this news, but Peek CEO Amol Sarva has a plan — he’s offering brand-new Peek 9s to existing customers, free of charge. It’s not clear what will happen to the older units at this point, but a Peek customer service rep says that while fried QWERTY candybars are no more, the unscathed Peeks might possibly be turned back on. “We are currently waiting on T-Mobile to decide our fate,” the rep wrote, “There is still a CHANCE that the sky is not falling and older devices will continue to work.” In the meantime, Sarva has a rather difficult instruction for affected customers looking to get in on the deal: “Just check your email.” [Thanks, standingup] Peek experiences permanent outage for older devices, vows to replace with free Peek 9 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday urged a roaring crowd of Republicans in California to exhaust themselves over the next two weeks to take back the state and the country for the “little guy.” (Oct. 16)
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