Sprint Announced its 4G Plans

Sprint announced today that it is extending its lead with 4G service deployments by announcing additional cities that will receive 4G service in 2009.

If all goes as planned, the cities to be added during 2009 include:

Atlanta, Georgia
Charlotte, North Carolina
Chicago, Illinois
Dallas, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas
Honolulu, Hawaii
Las Vegas, Nevada
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Portland, Oregon
Seattle, Washington

Despite its poor fourth quarter earnings, Sprint [...]

Lindsay Lohan’s ‘Labor Pains’ Not for Theaters

Nu Image/Millennium Films, has confirmed that the comedy will premiere on ABC Family in July 2009. It will be released on DVD about a month later. Lohan plays a young woman who fakes being pregnant to save herself from being fired.
The 22-year-old star hasn’t had much luck at the box office since her breakout [...]

Israel carried out Sudan ‘air strike’

The US channel CBS News reported that Israeli aircraft carried out the strike in January after Israeli intelligence discovered the trucks were intending to deliver arms through Sudan and across Egypt to be smuggled into Gaza. CBS said this account was the “semi-official American version” and said 39 people travelling in 17 trucks were reportedly [...]

New York Times laid off 100 employees and Reduces Salaries

New York Times Co. cut 100 positions at its flagship newspaper and will reduce non-union salaries by as much as 5 percent for the rest of the year in response to the drop in advertising sales.
The news, which the Times released in two memos from company executives, comes on the same day rival newspaper [...]

Tejada sentenced for lying to Congress

Miguel Tejada received probation and community service for lying to Congress about performancing-enhancing drugs.
In January 2008, Congress asked the Justice Department to investigate Tejada, who told congressional staff members in 2005 that he had never taken steroids, had never seen players take steroids and had never heard other players talk about steroids. However, Tejada’s name [...]

Circumcision Decreases Risk of Contracting STDs by 60 percent, Study Says

Circumcised heterosexual men are 35% less likely to contract human papillomavirus (HPV) and 25% less likely to catch herpes than their uncircumcised counterparts, according to the study, published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine.
The study, led by scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Makerere University in Uganda, relied on data from the same [...]

North Korea Interrogating US Journalists

Two American journalists arrested last week on the Chinese border have been transferred to the North Korean capital Pyongyang for interrogation, according to reports, as tension mounts over the North’s plans to test-fire a long-range rocket next week.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, of the San Franciso-based Current TV, have been held for almost a week [...]

Obama’s Warning to Afghan President

Mr Obama used a 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night to set out more limited objectives in Afghanistan, where he said the “central mission” was to prevent terrorists plotting violence against America. “There’s got to be an exit strategy,” he said. “There’s got to be a sense that this is not perpetual drift.” Mr Obama [...]

Home prices rose according to FHFA

On Tuesday the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that home prices tumbled by 6.3% in January, down from the prior year, while prices unexpectedly rose on a seasonally adjusted basis 1.7% from December to January. Analysts had forecasted home prices to fall 0.9%.
The “unexpected rise” in January was partially due to stronger sales in some [...]

Airline Industry Expected To Lose $4.7 Billion in 2009

For 2009, the IATA said it now expects an aggregate industry loss of $4.7 billion, compared to a loss of $2.5 billion that it forecast in December.
Reflecting the rapid deterioration in global economic conditions, IATA said it expected industry revenue to fall by more than in the aftermath of 9/11, by some 12%, or $62 [...]