TripAdvisor announced its top ten wackiest summer events in the U.S., according to TripAdvisor editors. These offbeat festivals offer flabbergasting family fun and surprising sights – from monstrous mushrooms, to weighty watermelons, to copious quantities of cream cheese. 1. Funky Fungus: Humungus Fungus Festival – August 5 – 7, 2011, Crystal Falls , Michigan Fungus [...]
More than 400 IT professionals responded to the Forrester Research and Virtela survey, ranking infrastructure management, security, data center consolidation, application acceleration and cloud solutions as their top five IT infrastructure priorities. Four out of 5 respondents report that they want more from their MSPs, with more value for the price, proactive management and faster [...]
NAVTEQ issued their experts’ rankings of the Top 10 most congested rush hours in Europe. Topping the list are London, Paris and Dublin. NAVTEQ Traffic is used in leading automotive, personal navigation, mobile, and online solutions worldwide. In Europe, NAVTEQ Traffic spans 13 countries providing consistent and seamless traffic information. That information is based on [...]
The most surprising findings, according to an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) survey of fitness trends published in the November/December issue of ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal, are the trends that have fallen off the list for 2011 – balance training, stability balls and Pilates. Pilates suffered the worst fall, disappearing after a ninth [...]
The Top 10 worst media disasters of 2010 include a politician threatening to kill a reporter, a movie star threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend, a Prime Minister killing his own political career, and a CEO trying to “top kill” an oil spill. The list was published today on the Mr. Media Training blog, one of [...]
We are living very hard times, with high unemployment rates. For college graduates is very hard to find a good job. A new trend study from the University of California San Diego Extension reveals some of the hottest career options for college graduates in this challenging economy. 1. Healthcare information technology. As technology increases, so [...]
Are you surprised to hear that “Iron Man 2” still is at the top of Boxoffice? For weeks people are searching only about “Iron Man 2“, so there’s no surprise in the fact that this movie is still on top of the sales in US and Canada. This weekend it ranked $53 million, with a [...]
Who would have thought that the 1984 remake will get to earn $32.2 million in tickets just in the U.S and Canada? Freddy Krueger, who is now haunting teenagers in their sleep, has hit the box-office! The remake A Nightmare on Elm Street, with Jackie Earle Haley who took Robert Englund’s place and plays the [...]
Ten Tips for Saving Time, Money and Staying Ahead of the Pack on Your Daily Commute INRIX released its 3rd Annual INRIX National Traffic Scorecard, http://inrix.com/scorecard/, revealing that traffic congestion and commute travel times in 2009 are back on the rise as the economy emerges from the recession. In fact, 58 of the Top 100 [...]
Despite a challenging economy, seven out of 10 chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed recently said their companies will invest in information technology (IT) initiatives in the next 12 months. Information security topped the list of projects executives expect their firms to invest in, with 43 percent of the response, followed by virtualization (28 percent) and [...]