8.28.2006

CBS is working on using Blue-tooth enabled Billboards all over NYC to promote some of its shows. The billboards will enable Blue-tooth phones and pda's to access clips of the shows, when standing within 36 feet of the billboard.


Over 12,000 runners showed up for the first ever NYC Half-Marathon, on Sunday. Thomas Nyariki and Catherine Ndereba, both from Kenya, were the first male and female to cross the finish line in the 13-mile marathon, respectively.



MSNBC is rumored to be ready to pack up and move their whole operation to NYC.





An interview with Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, which aired on CBS yesterday, proved interesting, after Nagin, apparently tired of carrying most of the public burden of the disaster that post-katrina was, lashed back by saying "That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair."...He later apologized.

The family of a hammer-wielding man who was fatally shot by police in 1999, have decided to drop a lawsuit stemming from the shooting, after the officers were not charged with any crimes.

New York City Officials are enraged over NBC's decision to release a new season of its hit reality series, Survivor...with a twist. In this new season, contestants will be divided by race.

Martin Barreto, 49, aide to former NY Mayor Rudy Guliani, was found strangled in his Greenwich Village apartment.

A Pakistani man is currently under arrest, after allegedly providing customers in NY with satellite broadcasts of Al Manar, which is declared a global terrorist entity, by the US.

Federal government prosecutors have charged Efrain Gonzalez, Jr.,58, a New York state senator with allegedly defrauding a nonprofit organization in order to pay for personal expenses.