Ryan Lochte wins Men’s 200m freestyle preliminary race: Day two
At the 14th aquatics world championships in Shanghai a showdown is looming in the Oriental Sports Centre as they have both entered the 200-metre freestyle and the 200-metre individual medley events – making 6 direct encounters possible. SHANGHAI – Day 2 prelims of the 2011 FINA World Championships got-off to a strong start with [...]
Michael Phelps qualifies 5th for 200 freestyle final
SHANGHAI – Michael Phelps continued his countdown to next year’s London Olympics by qualifying fifth fastest on Monday for the 200 meters freestyle final at the world swimming championships. The 26-year-old American was third quickest in his semi-final. He had to overtake two swimmers on the last lap after turning for home in fifth and [...]
US Open Golf 2011 1st Round: Rory McIlroy’s 65
AP Golf Writer Doug Ferguson breaks down Rory McIlroy’s 6-under-par 65 in the first round of the US Open Golf 2011. Rory McIlroy leads Y.E. Yang and Masters champion Charl Schwartzel by 3 shots. Ferguson also says not to count Phil Mickelson out yet. Rory McIlroy picked up Friday right where he left off Thursday [...]
PlayStation Store is Available
The PlayStation Store is back online and thank you everyone for your patience. You will notice a huge lineup of new downloadable games, demos, add-on content, themes, avatars and videos. Also, PlayStation Plus has been updated with new full game trials, free games and DLC, free avatars and even more discounts. You may have noticed [...]
PSN Network Down Today
The PlayStation Network will be down for “several hours” today as Sony works to get the service up to speed and ready for the relaunch of the PlayStation Store, which the company says will happen this week. “The server maintenance performed at this time represents a crucial step in the full restoration for PSN, including [...]
Sony to Restore PSN in Nearly All Regions
Sony said Monday that the company will restore almost all of its services, including the Playstation Store, by the end of the week in the Americas, Europe, and most of Asia. Sony Corp. said Tuesday it plans to fully restore services on its PlayStation Network (PSN) by this weekend in all regions except Japan, Hong [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab Tablet (Wi-Fi only) unboxing and feature tour (Video)
Samsung sent us the Wi-Fi-only version of its Galaxy Tab tablet, so we did a quick unboxing and feature tour here. The Samsung Galaxy Tab has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel screen and a 1GHz Hummingbird processor. It has 16GB of built-in storage and supports microSD cards up to 32GB in size. The [...]
Japan to address China and South Korea’s concern (Video)
Japan hopes to stop pumping radioactive water into the sea which was used to cool the Fukushima N-plant. The neighbouring countries of China and S. Korea had raised concerens over the spread of radiation after northeastern Japan was hit by Tsunami. This was after radiation from Japan spread around the entire northern hemisphere in the [...]