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“The Price is Right” Launches Home Viewer Showcase Competition

Do you watch The Price is Right and wish you could win the prizes you see contestants win each day on CBS? You’re in luck. The long running daytime game show hosted by Drew Carey is launching a new “Home Viewer Showcase” competition. This contest starts next week, March 7th, and runs through March 11th. People who register on the show’s website and play along can win some nice prizes…even a new car.

First, you need to register on Price‘s contest website. Each day, Drew will reveal two Showcase prizes. The first will be announced sometime during the show’s gameplay and the second will be during the Showcase Showdown portion. The price of one item will be revealed. You have to guess what the price of the second item is. You can go to PriceIsRight.com and enter the combined value of the prizes on an online Showcase worksheet to keep track of everything. ( Read Price is Right more... )

Eight Things to Like About the Motorola Xoom

I've now had the chance to spend some time with the Motorola Xoom, which is the first tablet to run Goolge's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Having used previous Android tablets, such as the original Samsung Galaxy Tab, ... ( Read Price is Right more... )

Apple's iPad 2: The Price Is Right

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Apple has invited the press to an event on Wednesday that will include the introduction of the iPad 2. What will be the most talked-about feature of this new device?

First, let's stipulate that most of the hardware specifications of the iPad 2 are known, more or less, thanks to endless blogger speculation: one or two cameras, a faster processor, twice the RAM, some tinkering with battery, screen, thickness and bezel. In other words, in the big scheme of things, nothing too exciting. Do you know many people who have held off buying the iPad because it lacks a camera, dual-core CPU or 512 megs of RAM? No, me neither. ( Read Price is Right more... )

Price is right, Canucks weren't

After giving the Canadiens an early lead, Vancouver pressed to comeback but fell just short.

Tom Cruise was in the house Tuesday night and suddenly beating the Montreal Canadiens became as difficult as it was back in the 1970s for the Vancouver Canucks.

In other words, Mission Impossible.

The Canadiens scored two goals 69 seconds apart early in the first period, got stellar goaltending from B.C. native Carey Price and snapped an eightgame losing skid in Vancouver as they hung on for a 3-2 win over the Canucks. ( Read Price is Right more... )

Will the price be right?

With the date for a carbon price mechanism now set, Fergus Green goes in search of the missing philosophy behind Australian climate policy.

AFTER only four meetings of the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee, and well before most industry groups could finishing dusting off their talking points from the 2009 fear campaign against the ill-fated Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Labor, the Greens and key independents yesterday announced their agreement on the “broad architecture” for an Australian carbon pricing mechanism.

Australia looks set, finally, to establish that most elusive of prizes in Australian climate politics: a carbon price. ( Read Price is Right more... )

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