Arsenal’s dreams of holding the Carling Cup trophy was shattered as the underdog Birmingham City clinched their first ever trophy in the last 48 years after defeating Arsenal 2-1.  Alex McLeish, the Birmingham City manager, who had an envious managerial record of winning 7 trophies for Rangers, the Scottish giants, described this victory as the triumphant on them all. Alex McLeish clearly mentioned that when he was with Rangers, he was expected to win titles, but the feeling of winning for Birmingham is something entirely of another world.
Carson Yeung, the …

Many predicted “The Social Network,” many said it would be “Inception,” many were rooting for “Black Swan,” however; the award for best film in Oscars went to “The King’s Speech.” The monarchy drama which portrayed the stammering problem of George VI, the renowned British ruler was winner of a total of 4 Oscars. Colin Firth, the leading man of the film earned the best actor award, whereas, Tom Hooper and David Seidler won awards in best director and best original screenplay categories respectively.
Among the others, Christian Bale won the best …

Libya is still under fire! Despite the number of protestors growing each day, Moammar Gadhafi, the ruler of the country for around 40 years is yet to quit. Leave quitting, he is still claiming that most of the countrymen are with him and it is only a small group of rebels who are demanding end of his dictatorship. Pro-Gadhafi supporters are also labeling the rebels as supporters of Osama Bin Laden and hence trying to create a wrong image for them in front of the world.
No matter, whatever Gadhafi claim, …

Google has changed its ranking equation again. The motivation was to provide users with more quality results because there have been too many complaints recently about spam. Well, let’s take a closer look.
My monitoring software showed a significant decline in rankings of many Web 2 (e.g. social media) sites which a lot of people, who do not have a website, use for marketing and publication purposes. Ezinearticles.com, for example, has experienced a severe blow. Many of its articles with little or no “backlink juice” have dropped or totally disappeared from …

Togetherville – the very much popular social network game for children has been bought by the Walt Disney Co. This move of Disney is thought to be its strategy to invest more in the social games than what it has invested in the console based games. Social gaming is finding acceptance among users and is surely the future of online gaming – hence this move of Disney is considered to be wise by analysts.
Togetherville is a game that can be played in Facebook by children aged 6-10 and via the …

Injury of the top stars can’t affect Arsenal’s performance, claimed manager Arsene Wenger in a recent interview. Arsenal is set to meet another EPL side Birmingham City this Sunday in the League Cup Final; but Cesc Fabregas and Theo Walcott are expected to stay outside the ground after their injury. Wenger, however, believes Arsenal can still do it without these two players.
This will be Wenger’s first shot to a major title this season.  But the fans’ championship dream was rocked after Fabregas’ hamstring injury. He picked it up during their …

For the very first time, “American Idol” allowed the 15-years-olds to participate in their program this year; but none of them could make it into the semi-finals. As a result, the dream-run of Jacee Badeaux, a 15 year old talent from Lafayette, came to an end after the announcement of the 24 semifinalists. Most of these are in their early 20s; with only a few 16 and 17-year-olds.
The semifinalists are evenly split between male and female contestants. The male semifinalists include Jacob Lusk, Casey Abrams, Scotty McCreery, Jovany Barreto, Brett …

Google just loves to discipline webmasters… big and small, new and experienced “gurus” – all are dancing to the Google’s tune and the search engine masters are loving every minute of it.
They have a great excuse: improving the user’s experience. Using this argument as a cover, they can basically do whatever to suite their goals. And what are the goals? Profits. Many of us are forgetting that Google is not a non-profit. It is a public corp with stakeholders. To make them happy, Google has to maximize its share …

Lincoln Tunnel accident that took place on the early morning in Manhattan was result of collision between a motorcycle and two buses. The information was confirmed by the Fire Department of New York. The person who was riding on the motorcycle was injured severely and was immediately rushed to the Bellevue Hospital. The shoulder and femur bone of the motorcyclist has damaged most.
Including the motorcyclist, a total of 52 people were injured. Some of them however had minor injuries and were treated right at the spot. The fate was not …

The Academy Awards is on Sunday and it seems Hollywood has declared a battle of the ages where familiar faces are trying themselves against the fresh ones and the old against the young. For example; there are 10 movies in the best picture category, but the two most favorite movies are “The King’s Speech” and “The Social Network”. The first is a costume drama with British accents that oozes the typical Oscar tradition where as the later one is a Facebook chronicle that narrates the crude, rude world of today.
This …