Xbox spokesman Major Nelson has just posted a new Xbox Live Marketplace item on his blog, with over 60 new clothing items available to outfit your Avatar. Sold as Madden NFL 10-based items, every NFL team now has their official jersey available in both male and female fits.
The Dallas Cowboys expect to sell more than $100 million worth of jerseys and other Cowboys-branded gear, and they are using business intelligence software to do it.
The NFL is fielding three teams for Sunday's Super Bowl. The first two are well known: the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. The third, more anonymous one is the 17-member IT staff that the NFL has assigned to work in Tampa, Fla., the site of this year's game.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.
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