Washoe County sales up 10.2 percent in April, highest rise in five years Sales of clothing/accessories and electronics and appliances leaped in Washoe County in April, the state reported today, helping propel overall taxable sales by 10.2 percent, the highest monthly rise in more than five years. Read more on Reno Gazette-Journal ... Read More

Apple iPad 2 Philippines OFFICIAL Release Date : April 29, 2011 I know news about iPad 2's April 29, 2011 availability in the Philippines has been floating around the web since earlier this week. We were actually tempted to write about it too but we opted to just wait for Apple's official announcement. And now it's OFFICIAL . Apple iPad 2 will be released in the Philippines tomorrow, April 29, 2011 (Friday). And we hope you can get your unit via ... Read More

Four short links: 12 April 2011 - Email Game, Faster B Trees, RFID+Projectors, and Airport Express Broken The Email Game -- game mechanics to get you answering email more efficiently. Can't wait to hear that conversation with corporate IT. "You want us to install what on the Exchange server?" (via Demo Day Wrapup) Stratified B-trees and versioning dictionaries -- A classic versioned data structure in storage and computer science is the copy-on-write (CoW) B-tree -- it... Read more on O'Reilly Media ... Read More

PFT: Jags owner thinks NFL will win April 6 hearing We've sensed over the past week a strong reluctance by the NFL to engage the players in settlement talks, and we think it flows from a sudden and strong sense of confidence that the owners will prevail in the April 6 hearing on the motion to lift the lockout while the Brady antitrust case unfolds. Read more on MSNBC ... Read More

An unusual demonstration of Jake Gyllenhaal's cooking skills. First, he uses an iPad as a chopping board to cut broccoli, then the iPad goes into the frying pan! ... Read More

www.youtube.com Click this to watch Inside Gaming: Black Ops, Stimulus Package & Johnny Cash 4/3/10 Inside Gaming: iPad, April Fools Content, & Halo Reach 4/7/2010 (Machinima Video Game News) S06E22 The iPad is out, Squad Rush for all, Halo Reach News, and our April Fools wrap up. This is Inside Gaming for April 7th, 2010. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ... Read More

Earth Day Computer Recycling Is April 22 - 24 The Earth Day Computer Recycling at Technology Lifecycle will be on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 22 - 24, from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. The three-day Earth Day event will be held at the Technology Lifecycle warehouse at 4818 Hixson Pike, across from Burger King on Hixson Pike. Read more on The Chattanoogan ... Read More

Apple: IPad To Go On Sale April 3 The much-anticipated iPad tablet will go on sale April 3, Apple announced. The more expensive 3G wireless version won't be available until late April, the company said Friday. Read more on OfficialWire ... Read More