In Today's Business Blogs

Hockey fans in Canada who just can’t get enough of the NHL might want to turn to Bell to get their daily fix of NHL goodness. The National Hockey League is exclusively partnering with Bell for the league’s mobile content. Here’s what Keith Wachtel, NHL Senior Vice President of Corporate Sales and Marketing, had to [...

Capri Sun, the Kraft Foods brand that packages portable juice drinks in those aluminum-polyethylene pouches has teamed with TerraCycle, the innovative recycler, that promises to keep juice pouches out of the waste stream, while paying schools $0.02 cents per pouch. [Oops. My bad.

Damn Hito! You destroyed Blindside Dork in Magical Drop ! RetroforceGO! is giving a giant collection of retro games to Child's Play, Jim has been forced to mod his PSP, Nintendo cereal was awful, Holmes reviewed Tatsunoko Vs Capcom , 1UP was aquired, EGM is no more, and plenty more happened on 01/06/09. Destructoid Originals: Podtoid 82: The Internet: making cannibalism easier MAGFest 09: Mega Man movie Q&A,

Honestly it seems like everyone I know just popped out a baby, just made a baby, just found out their going to have a baby... Is it odd therefore that the first thing that comes to mind is how expensive kids are? I don’t even have any children but if I were to break down and [...

Holy Week in Rome . There are very few examples of Pageantry with a capital 'P' grander than Holy Week in Rome. The Pope himself delivers several masses between Palm Sunday and Easter, and tens of thousands of pilgrims and fellow travelers are on hand to celebrate with him. The following will give you an idea of what's going on and when for Easter Week in 2009.

Music is an integral part of my life, and it has the ability to mentally transport me to the calming caribbean even when I’m more exhausted than Paris Hilton’s credit card in a Versace shop. And when I need that surge of adrenaline, bumping the right beats can energize me more than a Red Bull. So [...

Some of us remember the days when all you had to do to get a decent link was send out an email asking for it. It was about 5 days in 2000 that this tactic worked like gangbusters. What is amazing is that people still send out those lousy link letters from time to time. In [...

Make it easy to find you and your food product online, or citizen-created content about your product or service. Certainly your food product or service website should be search-engine friendly and free of Flash-driven navigation or content, but how often do you link to related content outside of your own? Do you make it easy for people to begin a relationship with you? Are you building relationships months or even years in advance,

Are you doing the right things necessary to reach your goals. “To act without knowing why; to do things as they have always been done, without asking why; to engage in an activity all one’s life without really understanding what it is about and how it relates to other things–this is to be one of the crowd.” — Meng Tzu 379-289 BC In the year ahead, make your mark and take action that will take you to your goal!

After being rejected by DeAnna Pappas on the last season of The Bachelorette, single dad Jason Mesnick has returned to the reality show to find love. Last night, The Bachelor kicked off with Mesnick meeting 25 women. By the end of the night, the 32-year-old was forced to pick only 15 to continue. After the women fought for alone time with Mesnick, host Chris Harrison brought out the First Impression Rose. Mesnick ended up giving the rose to Nikki,

Adolf Merckle, the German billionaire who had been ranked as the world’s 94th richest person in 2008, has committed suicide after his business empire began to fall apart due to the global financial crisis. Merckle was 74-years-old. The slowdown in the global economy led to losses in several of his business interests which included Volkswagen, Heidelberg Cement and Ratiopharm. A statement released by Merckle’s family noted,

Earlier this year Fi was contacted by the renowned Swedish Business School, Berghs School of Communications to arrange a course in Web Project Management. Berghs caters to top students within the advertising, media and public relations disciplines. Fi delivered a class detailing the process of managing a digital project from idea to realization. Fi’s Fredrik Suter lead four lectures including presentations, workshops and exercises.

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 makes several changes to your vCenter environment that you may like to know about, especially since they don't seem to be mentioned in the product documentation. It's also worth pointing out that none of these changes are reverted when you subsequently decide to discontinue managing vCenter with SCVMM....

Disclaimer: I fully understand that this ad is not intended for me and for pretty much the majority of you out there watching this. With that said, this is one of the worst ads for the DS yet. Last year, Nintendo got the likes of Liv Tyler, Nicole Kidman and other female celebrities to promote the Nintendo DS. While those ads did nothing for non-casual gamers, it did at least get the point across that the DS can be accessible to anyone. This year,

Yes, folks, the rumblings were true: 1UP has been sold by Ziff Davis to UGO Entertainment and its parent company, Hearst Corporation, including 1UP's associated Web sites GameVideos, MyCheats, and GameTab. Sadly, the acquisition will undoubtedly result in many layoffs, which is something we never want to see in this or any industry. Further adding to the sad news,

Michael: "I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations.They're more important than sex." Sam: "Ah, come on. Nothing's more important than sex." Michael: "Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?" ( From "The Big Chill" movie) We talk about our choices as very rational ones and we can't go a day without rationalizing. It makes us safe,

Doug Shulman, the commissioner for the federal tax office, stated that the IRS is set to announce a number of steps in order to work with tax payers who maybe unable to pay their taxes for the first time this year due to recent issues in the economy. IRS agents are set to suspend collection actions, reduce monthly tax payments, or allow skipped payments when necessary in order to avoid a default.

I was sitting here having a better than usual day, well ... other than getting accidentally zapped by my dog's invisible fence collar, and I started to ponder the power of "luck." I had a business deal come in that...

UK Hosting Service UK hosting services in general are aimed at UK based businesses and individuals who wish to pay for their hosting packages in pound sterling but also wish to be able to have their website hosted in the same country as they are in to provide them with the fastest connection possible. UK web [...

PCI Compliant Web Hosting The PCI DSS program originally began as five different programs from different card providers that were designed to protect consumers who were using their cards online. The basic idea of the PCI standards is to ensure that all businesses and individuals who are accepting and processing credit/debit card payments through their websites [...

Will Rogers, who died in a plane crash with Wylie Post in 1935, was probably the greatest political sage, philosopher and comedian this country has ever known, Mark Twain aside. For those of you non-history buffs, you can read a bit more about him here. I ran across these quotes today and thought [...

Just like the city surrounding it, JFK Airport never sleeps. It’s one of the busiest airports in the country and also one of the highest-rated for traveler satisfaction. But when you’re flying in and looking for a place to stay for a few days, you’re not thinking about the airport’s efficiency rating. You’re thinking about the [...

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Following the pattern of our good friend Ron Pereira at the Lean Six Sigma Academy , a number of us are going "Best of 2008" posts, in coordination with John Hunter and the Curious Cat blog . Click here for John's compilation of the "Best of" Posts (he's updating as the others get their posts up). Here are some of my favorite blogs that I follow regularly and their best posts of 2008. I'm looking forward to what they have to say in 2009.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 A New Year = The Return Of China… And The “Un-Gold” Trade In This Unsung Commodity by Karim Rahemtulla, Investment Director, Smart Profits Report and Martin Denholm, Managing Editor, Smart Profits Report Following hot on the heels of an amazing surge in both its economy and stock market, 2008 was not a good year for [...

And the see-sawing continues. Today, the euro fell against both the dollar and the pound in the continuing international game of Who Has The Worst Economic Data? Today, it looks like the European Union is taking top spot on the undesirable list, causing investors to lose some confidence in the euro. As CNNMoney.com reports, HFIX senior [...

Our flight was into Dublin International Airport, which is about 20 minutes from Dublin City Center. We were spared the ordeal of scoping out accommodation for this wing of our travel thanks to the hospitality of our friend in Celbridge (30 kilometers from North of Dublin) and for the complementary stay offer at the Park Plaza Tyrrelstown hotel, 20-minutes outside of Dublin.

Social Media Smarts: Interview with Frank Eliason of Comcast aka @ComcastCares Photo by Shel Israel Twitter has become many things to many people and organizations for that matter, including Comcast. It really says something when a company experiences the bite of consumer malcontent via social media and then turns around and becomes known as a best [...

The entire team at TopRank Online Marketing would like to wish our valued readers a very happy holidays and a fantastic new year. We sincerely appreciate all our subscribers and all the amazing insight, comments and connections you’ve helped us make over 2008 and hopefully between each other.

3PAR announced today that recent research conducted by TheInfoPro (TIP) as part of its Wave 11 Storage Study reflects the growing importance of thin provisioning to Fortune-1000 and Midsize Enterprise storage end users. The number of respondents rating thin provisioning as an important virtualization technology has increased over the last three waves of the study, up more than 30% between Wave 9 and Wave 11. In total,