By BRIAN STELTER Last month at a meeting in Hollywood, it was time to plot out the sequel to “Star Trek,” last year’s blockbuster reboot of the sci-fi franchise. The attendees all brought smartphones — gadgets…
By Barbara Hodapp TVs GL1 Series Regza line of the Japanese manufacturer, whose screens are high definition LCD, will be available in versions 12 and 20 inches diagonally in Japan. They are compatible with Blu-Ray 3D….
The Daytona Beach area is known around the world for its award-winning springtime festival season, but did you know that the latter part of the year is also loaded with festival fun? We’re calling it…
Daytona Florida Bad Beat Jackpot Review Daytona has two separate jackpots, one for Texas Hold ‘em and one for Stud. Since Hold ‘em is the more popular game, its jackpot is larger on average than…
by Steve Ruddock In a strange court filing a Florida man, Scott Crespo, is attempting to recover poker losses he has suffered over some 700 tournaments, by suing 6 top online poker players. The lawsuit stems…
The Game Texas Hold ‘Em is Seven Card Stud where each player gets two down cards; Hole cards with the remaining five up cards; Community cards being placed in the center of the table which…
Owing to its frequently large pots, Omaha Hi/Lo (also called “Omaha High Low”, “Omaha H/L”, “Omaha/8” or “Omaha 8-or-better “) has become a hugely popular game around the world. Each player in an Omaha Hi/Lo…
Driven by the popularity of televised poker, particularly major events such as the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the European Poker Tour,Texas Hold’em (more commonly, ‘Hold’em’) has become the world’s most popular poker game, both in live casinos…
by Steve Badger Hollywood now often uses gambling, and less often card playing, to add a flavor to a movie. This occurred in the 20th Century too, but less often. Unfortunately most of these movies…
The history of Poker is thought to have evolved over more than ten centuries from various games, all involving the basic principals of ranked card or domino combinations and the use of ‘bluffing’ to deceive…
As a growing number of states turn to gambling as a source of additional revenue, compulsive gambling is on the rise. “For most people who gamble, it is a social and recreational activity that does…
The Tourist – Release Date: Dec 10, 2010 Set in the early 1990s during the Bosnian War, follows a young banker named Mike who escapes the mundane by travelling to Bosnia at weekends in order…
As the video store dies off, it’s worth pausing to take stock of what we’ll miss about it By Christopher Borrelli What’s lost when we lose our video stores? We’ve wrung hands over the closing…
All the big name Consumer Electronics giants like Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Philips, Vizio, etc. have announced a slew of Plasma and LCD 3D TVs that will be released over the course of 2010. These manufacturers…
By: Wendy Sheehan Donnell Here’s what you need to consider before you take the plunge into the third dimension with a new 3D HDTV. If finding the right HDTV wasn’t hard enough, now you need to decide if…
By BRUCE LAMBERT GARDEN CITY, N.Y., — The eight women visited Long Island this summer along with vacationing families and other business travelers, staying in hotels and motels in commercial strips in middle-class suburbs like…
Use these tips to make the most of your Facebook marketing efforts. By Scott Gerber Facebook may have 500 million users, but having an outpost on the social-media site won’t necessarily increase sales or referrals…
By Sue Zeidler (Reuters) – Netflix Inc on Wednesday said it reached a deal to rent Sony movies 28 days after they go on sale, while NCR, which rents DVDs at nearly 7,000 Blockbuster kiosks,…
By Rob Pegoraro A tiny $99 box can connect your TV to a wealth of Internet-delivered TV shows, movies, pictures, podcasts and music. But which $99 box should you get? In one corner, there’s Apple’s…
No crowds. No turnstiles. Imagine a place where you and your family can touch and swim with dolphins, wade with mysterious rays, snorkel among thousands of exotic fish, hand-feed tropical birds in a free-flight aviary…
Animals in need and endangered species around the world will benefit from more than $1 million in grants awarded by the non-profit SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund. Since its creation seven years ago, the…
By Stephanie Goldberg (CNN) — Upon his release from prison in the new “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” corporate raider Gordon Gekko reclaims his belongings: A gold watch and a mobile phone the size of…
Founded in 1998, Google runs the world’s most popular Internet search engine. It’s a position that has earned Google huge profits and given it outsize influence over the online world. But Google’s ambition far exceeds…
By MANOHLA DARGIS Millions of Friends, but Not Very Popular What makes Mark Zuckerberg run? In “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s fleet, weirdly funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized look at the man behind the social-media…
By JAMES GLANZ and ALAN SCHWARZ In the endless quest for athletic advantage, a handful of major league baseball teams are engaged in an elaborate, largely clandestine race to master an advanced imaging technology that…
By ADAM NAGOURNEY LAS VEGAS — There are many cities across the country that are beginning to see the first glimpses of the end of the recession. This is not one of them. The nation’s…
By MALCOLM GAY NASHVILLE — Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, a cavernous bar just off this city’s strip of honky-tonk restaurants and tourist shops when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a…
By BRAD STONE SAN FRANCISCO — Owners of the Nintendo Wii can finally stop waving their video game controllers in the air and sink back onto the couch. Nintendo is bringing Netflix’s online streaming video…
ORLANDO, Fla. — Bright House Networks customers are getting increasingly angry over Internet connection problems that apparently have been plaguing all of Central Florida. Most of the customers reporting the problems to Eyewitness News first…
By Richard Mullins Tampa Tribune, Fla. May 1–TAMPA — In case you hadn’t noticed, Verizon and Bright House Networks really don’t like each other. The rivals in cable, telephone and Internet service are in a…
by DAVID POGUE There’s some big news about Line2, the iPhone app I reviewed in March. As I’m sure you remember, I wrote: For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to…
By RIVA RICHMOND Twitter was overrun with posts on Tuesday morning that used a programming flaw to play pranks, distribute porn and spread worms to unsuspecting users. The problem appeared to be confined to Twitter’s…
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS In an experiment published last month, researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a treadmill….
By ANNA JANE GROSSMAN Published: September 17, 2010 UP until recently, the wedding industry would have you believe that you had only one chance at the perfect day. So spare no expense, be a princess…
By MARK BITTMAN Published: September 14, 2010 IT’S sitting there, over on your counter or maybe, sadly, under it. Perhaps ignored, even forgotten. Yet the food processor — the darling of the mid- to late…
By MICHAEL TORTORELLO Published: August 25, 2010 DID Bertie Wooster mean to harm Barbara Geltosky in September 2008? The evidence against him is damning. For instance, the hole that Bertie, Ms. Geltosky’s 5-year-old Norwegian elkhound,…
By CATHY HORYN Published: September 17, 2010 Fashion writers and professionals have been complaining about the motley nature of the shows since the mid-1970s, when designers moved their presentations to hotel ballrooms and, through the…
By CHARLES McGRATH Published: August 21, 2010 What on earth is wrong with Tiger Woods? It’s true he played a little better at the P.G.A. Championship, where he at least made the cut and finished…
By JUDY BATTISTA Published: September 18, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS — Peyton Manning used to tell his father that he would almost rather the Indianapolis Colts not make the playoffs if they were going to lose, preferring…
By JENNA WORTHAM Published: September 12, 2010 Now, even on the Internet, it is not what you know but who you know. After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web…
By MATT GROSS Published: September 15, 2010 SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They…
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: September 11, 2010 It used to be that designers showed clothes at Fashion Week to court the influential few, mainly the buyers and fashion editors who determined what styles would be…
By DIANA CERCONE Published: August 13, 2010 CHEFS and private cooking-class instructors say they are seeing a spike in requests for bachelorette cooking parties. Why are brides trading in their shot glasses for aprons and…
Official information and services from the U.S. government Americans celebrate a variety of federal holidays and other national observances throughout the year. American holidays can be secular, religious, international, or uniquely American. With the wide…
By SETH SCHIESEL Published: September 12, 2010 The highest compliment I can pay Halo: Reach, set for release Tuesday for the Xbox 360, is to say that as soon as I finished it, I wanted…
