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JosÃ© GonzÃ¡lez Song Wins At Spike Video Game Awards

December 15th, 2010 | No Comments

JOSÃ‰ GONÃZALEZ’S SONG Â“FAR AWAYÂ” WINS Â‘BEST SONG IN A GAME’ AT THE
2010 SPIKE VIDEO
GAME
AWARDS; PERFORMS LIVE AT THE AWARDS CEREMONY

Jose GonzÃ¡lez‘s song Â“Far
AwayÂ”, appearing in Red Dead Redemption, won Â‘Best Song In A Game’ at the 2010 Spike Video Game
Awards, which aired on Spike TV on Saturday, December 10. Red Dead Redemption also took home
the evening’s top honor by getting named Â“Game of the YearÂ”. GonzÃ¡lez, Junip‘s singer and guitarist, was
there and performed Â“Far AwayÂ” live at the awards ceremony which was held at the LA Convention Center. Â“Far
AwayÂ” can be found on the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack. Junip’s version of the song is on the Rope &
Summit EP, which was released digitally May 25, 2010 and is included in the deluxe version of Fields,
out now.

Check out Jose Gonzalez play Â“Far AwayÂ” live at the 2010 Video Game Awards below.

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Neil Patrick Harris Spike TV Video Game Awards Host

December 6th, 2010 | No Comments

New dad Neil Patrick Harris, a veteran MC for some of Tinseltown’s most-lauded events, will next host Spike TVâ€™s 8th Annual Video Game Awards, set for Dec. 11. Spike’s annual celebration of the year’s best in gaming will feature 13 world premieres of games scheduled for release in 2011 and beyond — including Batman: Arkham [...]

Spike TV Mining Reality Show, â€œCoal,â€ Series Premiere April 2011

October 14th, 2010 | No Comments

In what some industry observers are calling a stroke of television casting magic, the producers of TLC’s Deadliest Catch are working on a 10-episode Spike TV docu-series on mining in West Virginia, The Hollywood Reporter dished on Thursday. News of the upcoming series premiere of Coal comes as TV viewers around the world remain captivated [...]

United Envirotech says unaware of trading activity spike today

September 14th, 2010 | No Comments

United Envirotech says it is not aware of any other possible explanation why there was a substantial increase in the price and volume of its shares today. The reply came in response to a query from the Singapore Exchange.

United Envirotech, which hit an intra-day high of 49.5 cents today, closed 18.1% higher at 49 cents on total volume of 124 million shares.

This week’s issue of The Edge Singapore (Issue 438, Sept 13-19) reported that China’s demand for more efficient water treatment techniques and rapid urbanisation could catapult the company which uses Membrane Bioreactor Filtration technology to recycle waste water into a faster growth trajectory.

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Parkway Holdings set to spike on Khazanah buy

May 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Khazanah Nasional’s partial offer for Parkway Holdings (P27.SG) at $3.78/share, or $1.18 billion, highlights healthcare group’s intrinsic value, should augment company’s growth prospects in Asia, says Dow Jones.

May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Links Nation by Rail

May 10th, 2010 | No Comments

1869: Four years after the Civil War, the United States is joined from coast to coast by a transcontinental railroad, as a ceremonial final spike is driven at Promontory Summit, Utah. Travel time from Atlantic to Pacific will soon fall from as much as six months, down to one week.
In an early example of [...]

Singapore car permit price spike to highest level since 2004

March 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Singapore’s permit fees to buy compact cars and cab surged to the highest since 2004 in a sign that demand for vehicles has jumped as the Asian city-state’s economy has expanded, reported Bloomberg.

The permit, known as a certificate of entitlement, or COE, climbed to $28,389 in the latest government auction for vehicles with engine sizes below 1,600 cubic centimeters held today. That’s the most since June 2004. The number of bidders fell by 2 to 1,146, according to data from the Land Transport Authority.

The COE’s for cars with engines above 1,601 cubic centimeters increased to $36,089, the most since May 2002.

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Apple iPad May Be Causing Spike in App Development

February 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Apple’s iPad tablet PC may be causing a spike in third-party developers building apps for the iPhone OS, according to mobile analytics company Flurry, although the iPhone and Android appear evenly matched in terms of user retention, session frequency and session lengths for their respective applications. Apple has predicted that some 140,000 applications will be available for the iPad upon the device’s release in two months, and is pushing the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta into the developer ecosystem to encourage further building of new programs.
– The upcoming release of Apples iPad tablet PC may be linked to a spike in
third-party developers building apps for the iPhone OS, according to
mobile analytics company Flurry, even as Apple and Google continue to
mirror each other with regard to user retention, session frequency and session
len…

Director used to Spike interest in hosting World Cup

January 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Film director Spike Lee has joined the board of the USA Bid Committee for the 2018/2022 Fifa World Cups. The Oscar-nominated director will help the US in its a battle to host the 2018 tournament against the likes of England, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia and a joint bid from Portugal-Spain.

Megan Fox named best sci-fi actress at Spike TV Scream 2009 festival

October 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Megan Fox has been confirmed as the queen of science fiction after being voted as the best sci-fi actress at the Spike TV Scream 2009 festival.
The event that took place at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles recognized performances in the genre of sci-fi, horror, fantasy and comic-inspired films and TV shows.
Fox landed with the [...]

SCREAM awards 2009!!

October 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Spike TV’s annual Scream Awards were held and we had a few big name winners in the bunch!
The awards show honors all thoseÂ in the sci-fi, comic-book, horror genre that made this year memorable. In attendance were celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Quentin Tarantino and Hugh Jackman, as well as True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard (who [...]

Mass suicide attack in Afghanistan

July 26th, 2009 | No Comments

Up to seven suicide bombers attacked government buildings in the East Afghanistan city of Khost, but appear to have inflicted few, if any, casualties. The attacks came during a spike in violence ahead of the August the twentieth Presidential election.

Connecting The Dots Of The Web Revolution

June 18th, 2008 | No Comments

For several days my brain has been connecting the blogstorm over AP trying to dictate how much of their content can be quoted on the web with the “quote” that Nick Carr lifted from one of my blog posts in his Atlantic article — I finally figured out why. The problem with the AP isn’t [...]