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...hard cash is converted into digital currency for online purchases. There are already several companies providing micropayment services to gaming websites; Santa Clara, Calif. - based PlaySpan offers its service in 80 countries. Micropayments are also migrating to mobile phones. In Japan, cell phones are regularly used to pay parking-meter and vending-machine charges, while Apple's iPhone 3.0 operating system includes a purchasing platform that will allow developers of mobile-phone games to sell virtual goods via handsets, with billing through iTunes. That's an industry-changing development, says Juniper Research, which predicts mobile-game revenues will jump fivefold...
Rick Marshall (Ferrell), who calls himself a quantum paleontologist, has been working on a tachyon meter - it looks like a boom box - that will puncture the space-time continuum. The world laughs at Rick, perhaps because he loves show tunes. But someone believes in him: sexy British scientist Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel), who has found the imprint of his lighter in a rock that's millions of years old. She takes him to the desert area where she found it, and after bumping into the obligatory rude dude, a souvenir salesman named Will (Danny McBride), they all go sliding down...
...ripe for a change. For the first time ever in its long and storied history, the 2009 Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships was moved from its usual east coast location to Sacramento, Calif., where the nation’s top crews duked it out from Thursday through Saturday. The 2000-meter Lake Natoma course played host to five men’s heavyweight events (a reduction from previous years) as well as a men’s and women’s lightweight competition. Also making its first appearance in this year’s iteration of the regatta...
...your career.” While the Crimson performed well in numerous events this season, the Battle of Beantown and the HYP meet proved to be the highlights of the indoor season. The Harvard men, just half a point behind Northeastern with only the 4x400-meter relay remaining, relied on the speed of freshman John Dingus, junior Justin Grinstead, junior Jonathan Meminger, and captain Derek Jones to pull off the stunning upset and capture the Beanpot trophy. “To go from fourth to all the way to the top this year is really exciting,” Saretsky...
...think that’s a huge accomplishment, having 40 guys come together and really strive for excellence.”Harvard also was able to send three of its athletes to their respective NCAA swimming and diving tournaments. Sophomore standout Zac Ranta finished 11th in the three-meter dive with 596.5 points at NCAA Zone A’s, while also competing in the preliminaries of the one-meter event.Senior Bill Jones and Meyer also donned their crimson and white on the national scene, representing their school at NCAAs at Texas A&M. Jones placed 28th...