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USA Advance to Round of 16 with Landon Donovan late goal against Algeria

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Team USA's Landon Donovan celebrates his late goal against Algeria with teammate Edson Buddle. The Americans finish first in Group C after their 1-0 win and will play Ghana in the Round of 16 on Saturday. �After so many shots sailed over the goal, after a few ricocheted off the post, after so many missed chances, the team that seemingly can't play 90 minutes without drama did it again. In the 91st minute. Afterward, it was called the biggest win in team history. It certainly was the most exciting. Landon Donovan's goal gave the USA a 1-0 win against Algeria on Wednesday and sent the Americans to the second round of the World Cup. The team took first place in its group for the first time in 80 years and will face Ghana on Saturday in Rustenburg.

Cristiano Ronaldo Finally Gets is Mojo Back in getting six goal as Portugal wins 7 : 0 against North

Portugal turned on the style to thrash Korea DPR 7-0 at Green Point Stadium and take a huge step towards a place in the Round of 16.

Only a Raul Meireles goal divided the teams after a closely contested first half but it was a different story after the restart when Portugal devastated the North Korean defence with three goals inside eight minutes before the hour from Simao, Hugo Almeida and Tiago. With the clock ticking down, Liedson, Cristiano Ronaldo and Tiago again compounded their opponents' woes to produce Portugal's biggest FIFA World Cup™ victory and the widest winning margin so far in South Africa.

Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed his delight at Portugal’s 7-0 trouncing of North Korea this afternoon, admitting he was happy with his goal and that the whole team deserved credit for a first rate performance.

"My goal was fun to score,” the Real Madrid forward told the club's official website.

“I am very happy. Scoring seven goals in a World Cup game isn't an easy thing to do. I think my team-mates deserve congratulations.”

• RAUL MEIRELES (29')
• SIMAO (53')
• HUGO ALMEIDA (56')
• TIAGO (60', 89')
• LIEDSON (81')
• CRISTIANO RONALDO (87')

USA draw Slovenia 2-2, still hope to advance from Group C

USA draw Slovenia 2-2, still hope to advance from Group C

The USA earned a controversial 2-2 draw with Group C adversary Slovenia at Ellis Park in Johannesburg today. Hours after the U.S. result, England reached a listless nil-nil draw with Algeria, raising the stakes on the third and final round of group play. Next Wednesday, June 23, the USA face Algeria and England face Slovenia to determine which two teams will advance into the next knockout phase of the tournament.

Slovenia got a two-goal lead in the first half with Valter Birsa scoring first in the 13th minute and Zlatan Ljubijankic assisted by Milivoge Novakovic talling again just before the half. In the 48th minute, Landon Donovan assisted by Steve Cherundolo brought the U.S. back into the game by taking the ball to the near post and chipping it into the upper netting. As the match grew heated, Slovenia was issued three cautions, but Michael Bradley scored the equalizer, assisted by Jozy Altidore, when he half-volleyed the ball past keeper Samir Handanovic. In the 85th minute, referee Koman Coulibaly called a controversial no-goal after Maurice Edu blasted the ball into the net off a Donovan free kick. Edu was onside and there were no perceivable fouls against the U.S. in replay.
Referee Koman Coulibaly Could Face Expulsion From World Cup
 In the wake of one of the bigger officiating controversies ever to involve U.S. Soccer, we could see a quick move made by FIFA.

While the call by referee Koman Coulibaly that took a potential game-winning goal from the United States Friday can't be overturned, he could be facing a punishment from the sport's governing body.

Yahoo! Sports is reporting, citing a FIFA source, that Coulibaly is facing an expedited review from FIFA, and it's "likely" he will be excluded from the remainder of the FIFA World Cup. (ESPN is also reporting that Coulibaly could face a FIFA probe.)

Since the outcome of the 2-2 draw between the U.S. and Slovenia isn't changing, this is probably the closest we'll ever come to FIFA admitting the major error made by Coulibaly.

Mario v. Pac-Man animated short film

Mario v. Pac-Man animated short film

Roz Savage finishes historic solo row across Pacific

After a month and a half at sea, British ocean rower and environmental campaigner Roz Savage made landfall Friday in Papua New Guinea, completing her three-stage trip and becoming the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean.

"It's still sinking in that I've actually done it," Savage, 42, said in an e-mail Friday.

She set off in her 23-foot boat from Tarawa in mid-April on the final leg of her Pacific voyage. In total, she spent about 250 days alone at sea, rowing more than 8,000 miles and taking an estimated 2.5 million oar strokes along the way. Savage traveled from San Francisco to Hawaii in 2008, then on to Tarawa in Kiribati last year, before finally arriving in Madang, Papua New Guinea.

From Cnet

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20006852-93.html

Congratulation Roz for your Journey of rowing solo across the Pacific Ocean. You are Just Amazing and listen to all of Roz Rows the Pacific netcasts with leo and Dr. Kiki. You are Inspiration to us all and I wish you luck in all of your future endeavors. And I am looking forward in following you when you row the Indian Ocean. But for now you deserve some quality rest time since all the rowing last 46 days

Did you know IBM Mainframe Computer back in the late 60's were Edible??

Did you know IBM Mainframe Computer back in the late 60's were Edible?? And Cookie Monster back then had really sharp teeth as well!!

Cookie Monster Was Born in An Ad for IBM:

In the late 1960s, few people knew what a computer was – much less a Muppet. But in 1967, two years after the introduction of its Selectric typewriter, IBM hired filmmaker and commercial director Jim Henson (Esskay Meats, Marathon Gasoline) to make a series of short films designed to help its sales people.

When he launched into Sesame Street two years later, Henson would mine some of his IBM material. He even borrowed the Cookie Monster – voiced by Frank Oz (Miss Piggy, Yoda, director of various films) – from one IBM film for the cast of Sesame Street.

Writes Technologizer

ATT IS Now THE Worst Cell/Data/Sms Provider in USA.

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After years of hinting at looming wireless data pricing changes, AT&T has finally buckled to recommendations by stock jocks like Sanford Bernstein's Craig Moffett -- and killed their unlimited 3G iPhone pricing plan. In an announcement that insists they're introducing "new lower-priced wireless data plans," the company says the unlimited data plan will be replaced by two new data plans for new users: "DataPlus" and "DataPro."

•DataPlus: Provides 200 megabytes (MB) of data for $15 per month. If customers exceed 200 MB in a monthly billing cycle, they will receive an additional 200 MB of data usage for $15 for use in the cycle. AT&T insists that 65 percent of AT&T smartphone customers use less than 200 MB of data per month on average.

•DataPro: Provides 2 gigabytes (GB) of data for $25 per month. If a customer exceed 2 GB during a billing cycle, they will receive an additional 1 GB of data for $10 for use in the cycle. AT&T insists that 98 percent of their smartphone customers use less than 2 GB of data a month on average.

AT&T says they'll send text messages to users as they reach 65 percent, 90 percent and 100 percent of their monthly cap.

ATT has added new channels for World Cup Coverage.

AT&T and ESPN Bring Fans Interactive Coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup(TM) Across Multiple Screens

Fans Can Watch All 64 Live Matches from ESPN on AT&T Mobile TV and MobiTV; U-verse TV Launches ESPN World Cup Multi-Language Multiview App

ATT has added new channels for World Cup Coverage.

619 - ESPN

620 - ESPN2

621 - ESPN Deportes

622 - ESPN World Cup Portuguese

623 - ESPN World Cup Japanese

624 - ESPN World Cup Korean

625 - ESPN World Cup Arabic

626 - ESPN World Cup German

Now If ATT was really seriously about Capitalizing on the increased interest in Soccer from this years World Cup. They should be adding   FSC HD, FSC+ SD/HD and when it launches Goltv HD  to their national Line Up. At Least ATT has Announced that FSC SD will be moving from U-300 to the lower U-200 tier.