Category: Industry

  • Mitchell Bests Road Partner in Flamingo Finals

    Mitchell Bests Road Partner in Flamingo Finals Flamingo Billiards Tour / Fort Pierce, FL by InsidePOOL Staff Gas money was no problem on the ride home for Stephanie Mitchell and Sabra MacArthur-Beahn as the two took home the top prizes in the $250-added Flamingo Billiards Tour stop held October 24.…

  • Four Men Standing at U.S. Open

    Four Men Standing at U.S. Open U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships / Chesapeake, VA by Lea Andrews It’s official: Either Donnie Mills or 2002 U.S. Open Champion Ralf Souquet—or both—will be racing to 13 in the finals of the 34th Annual U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships Saturday. The two men, who were…

  • Third-quarter loss tops last year’s for InsWeb

    InsWeb Corp., the Gold River-based online provider of insurance quotes, reported a net loss of $870,000, or 18 cents a share, in the third quarter ended Sept. 30. The company lost $552,000, or 12 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2008. Quarterly revenue was $8.9 million, down slightly…

  • Moore Makes Back-to-Back Comebacks to Stay Alive

    Moore Makes Back-to-Back Comebacks to Stay Alive U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships / Chesapeake, VA by Lea Andrews On the penultimate day of the 34th Annual U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships, the final four on the winners’ side have come through, and on the one-loss side, Steve Moore came from behind two…

  • Hall of Famer Archer Gets 13th Mosconi Call Up

    Hall of Famer Archer Gets 13th Mosconi Call Up First Man Named for Team USA Johnny Archer, the 40 year-old veteran of 12 Mosconi Cups, gets his chance to help overturn a four year winless spell for America as he becomes the first player named for Team USA ahead of…

  • Past Champions Fall, Others Look for Repeats

    Past Champions Fall, Others Look for Repeats U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships / Chesapeake, VA by Lea Andrews As day five of the 34th Annual U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships draws to a close, some former champions are saving their dreams of repeats for next year, while others continue their march towards…

  • Windows 7 gives lift to area computer sales

    It wasn’t exactly Black Friday, but a number of local PC users scooped up Microsoft Windows 7 computers and software after the new operating system’s Thursday launch. Francisco Austria, a graduate student at California State University, Sacramento, eyed a Windows 7-loaded Lenovo laptop computer Thursday morning at Best Buy on…

  • Sacramento area retirees cross Internet frontier in growing numbers

    Kathy Newman, 60, right, vents frustration Thursday during a computer lesson at Sacramento’s Ethel M. Hart Senior Center. Instructor David Hatter, 31, standing, offers advice as Carol Scott, 71, left, and Newman’s husband, John, 63, follow along. “I’m over my head already, just signing up for this,” says Scott. As…

  • Players Advance and Fall at US Open 9-Ball

    Players Advance and Fall at US Open 9-Ball U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships / Chesapeake, VA by Lea Andrews Charlie “The Korean Dragon” Williams, who found himself on the left side of the bracket of the 34th Annual U.S. Open Championships following an 11-9 loss to one of North Carolina’s finest,…

  • Windows 7 launch creates a buzz in capital area

    A computer loaded with Windows 7 software gets a tryout at a Best Buy store in Miami. Microsoft hopes to win back computer users who disliked the Vista system.The big day was hours away, and Joshua Griffith was taking no chances. The supervisor of Best Buy’s Geek Squad in Natomas…