NCAA Basketball Scores and Brackets Updates

NCAA Basketball Scores and Brackets Updates The NCAA Basketball Tournament 2011 bracket scores have been updated for Friday with several key victories amid shocking top seed losses.  Louisville has been ousted from the tourney but several other squads like Pittsburgh and Kentucky made it on. Clemson used the momentum from winning a play-in game over UAB on Tuesday to take a double-digit first half lead over West Virginia, but in the end the Mountaineers had fresher legs down the stretch and pulled away for an 84-76 victory in the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament.  Clemson was playing their second game in just over 36 hours,...

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iPhone 5 Will Have NFC

iPhone 5 Will Have NFC Countering a British news report published Monday, Forbes magazine on Friday said Apple's next-generation iPhone will indeed support near-field communication (NFC) technology, a mobile standard that lets users pay with their smartphones. "From what I hear, it is possible the iPhone 5 will include NFC. An entrepreneur who is working on a top-secret NFC product told me today that he believes the iPhone 5 will have NFC and cited a friend who works at Apple as a reliable source for the information," writes Elizabeth Woyke. "To further bolster his statement, the entrepreneur said that manufacturers of NFC readers – whom he...

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Japanese Yen Drops as Sell-Off Continues

Japanese Yen Drops as Sell-Off Continues A wave of coordinated intervention by the world's financial powers sent the Japanese yen plunging Friday after the G-7 agreed to take steps to curb the Japanese currency's post-earthquake surge. The US dollar traded at 81.41 yen at 7:00am Eastern Time, compared to 79.14 yen shortly before the G-7 announcement in early Asian trading hours. Most of the dollar's jump came in the wake of the announcement in Asia, with the Bank of Japan stepping in aggressively to sell the yen versus the dollar. European central banks also joined in. In a statement, the UK's Treasury said that the Bank of England intervened...

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Japan Raises Nuclear Severity Level

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