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Ponderings from PapaBear
The NFL regular season has come to a close and the Cleveland Browns just missed making the playoffs. A few weeks ago it sure looked like they were in good shape as far as the post season was concerned, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Still, the Browns did register a victory over the San Francisco 49ers in their final game and there will be high hopes for this team entering the 2008 season. The Brownies finished with a 10-6 record, far exceeding expectations for this team entering 2007. This is the first time this franchise has reached a double digit win total since they re-entered the league in 1999. They provided many thrills for their die hard fans this season and belive me it was long overdue. I grew up in Cleveland and have been a life long Browns fan, so the following opinion might be a bit bias. More>>
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Inside A Republican Debate
Why was it taboo to tell the truth about what was going on? Finally the debate opened with an almost seemingly staged battle about illegal immigrants between Giuliani and Romney. At long last, after 40 minutes, they finally let him, the candidate, speak. The candidate that had hundreds, if not thousands of fans cheering outside, got a “Youtube" question asking whether he believed in “conspiracy theories." “This is an ideological battle; some people believe in globalism, others of us believe in national sovereignty," he responded, after mentioning that the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission are real. He also discussed a unanimous vote by the Texas legislature to halt progress on the “NAFTA super highway," a corridor between Mexico and Canada that would cut through the United States, an aspect of the North American Union that had been the subject of CNN reports. More>>
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BSkyB off Virgin
MTV to lose 250 posts
Blockbuster to buy Movielink?
Lambdastream International Internet channels
Jonesco to Sky
Irdeto and Huawei enable Pakistan IPTV
Extrada, ESP merge
BBC Worldwide S-DMB Asia deal
MobiTV reaches 2 million users
Med1a IPTV channels to 3G phones
Ascent Asian chief
ON Telecom and BitBand IPTV in Greece
BSkyB off Virgin "Bullying", "arrogance" and "childish" were just some of the insults slung in the UK media this morning after Sky basic channels came off Virgin Media cable networks.
"We're disappointed but not surprised by this outcome," said Virgin Media chief executive Steve Burch. "Nothing Sky have said or done in the course of the negotiation indicates they had the slightest interest in doing a commercially viable deal. More>>