m not sure if they predicted it to get a lot of attention for IDC or if they are serious. The whole idea stems from the Nokia deal and patterns of buying behavior. There is not enough data—none, in fact—on the pick-up sales created by the Microsoft-Nokia deal, so this prediction is completely off-the-wall and…

On a campus where hundreds have lined up daily to buy Final Four T-shirts at $21.98 each, VCU film students Caroline Miller and Tommy Bell were selling glazed doughnuts at $1 a pop while pausing to reflect on their school's improbable run."I've never seen this much school spirit," said Miller, standing behind boxes of Krispy…

HA LONG BAY, Vietnam – Italian traveler Stefano Corda felt an ominous tilt as dinner was served, but his tour boat crew assured him everything was fine. A few hours later, Corda and his friend jumped for their lives into Vietnam's famed Ha Long Bay as water raced inside the wooden vessel, sucking it down…

WASHINGTON – International tax evaders who come clean will be able to avoid jail and pay reduced fines under a new voluntary disclosure program announced Tuesday by the Internal Revenue Service.Tax cheats will have until Aug. 31 to settle up with the IRS or face an ongoing crackdown against Americans who hide assets overseas, IRS…

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN (AFP) – Defending world super-G champion Didier Cuche plans to ruin World Cup leader Ivica Kostelic's 'holiday' when the men's competition starts Wednesday at the World Ski Championships.The Swiss veteran scooped super-G gold when the world championships were held in Val d'Isere two years ago, but Croatia's Kostelic is now the skier to beat…

J.D. Power and Associates have , which attempts to measure customer satisfaction with mobile operators based on responses from over 9,700 mobile users who contacted their providers customer service departments from July through December 2010. And, for the second year running, number-four mobile operator T-Mobile earned the top ranking, with an overall score of 758…

She may haveon Monday andlast month, but “Jersey Shore” reality star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi hasn’t totally ruled out the discussion of politics.During her Monday appearance at the Washington Auto Show, Snooki was asked to determine who was hotter: President Barack Obama or former President George W. Bush.“I thought George Bush was pretty cute,” the Washington…

ARLINGTON, Texas – Runways too snowy to receive airliners packed with football fans. Sidewalks too icy for cowboy boots. Temperatures too cold to distinguish Dallas from Pittsburgh or Green Bay.Just two days before the Super Bowl, a fresh blast of snow and ice canceled hundreds of flights, transformed highways into ribbons of white and caused…

New York City Ballet dancer Jenifer Ringer said Monday that she doesn't want an apology from a "As a dancer I do put myself out there to be criticized, and my body is part of my art form," she said on NBC's "Today" show. "At the same time, I'm not overweight. I do have, I…

MALABO (AFP) – Equatorial Guinea's football federation hit out on Tuesday at what it called an international defamation campaign after fresh claims that two members of its women's national team were men.After the tiny central African nation qualified for next year's women's World Cup finals in Germany, stories which first aired several years ago that…