Verizon once again has bragging rights in the wireless industry.
The carrier took top honors in a new ranking of nationwide network performance by market research firm RootMetrics.
Verizon (VZ, Tech30) ranked number one for reliability, speed, call and data performance, with AT&T; (T, Tech30) a close second in all those categories. Those two firms held a significant advantage over third-ranked T-Mobile (TMUS) and fourth-ranked Sprint (S).
RootMetrics conducted the study by sending researchers to sites across the country to test network performance, collecting 5.6 million samples in total.
T-Mobile performed well at the city level, having focused its recent network upgrades on urban rather than rural areas.
Stand up comedy by Martin Lawrence, filmed in the Majestic Theater in New York City. Martin Lawrence talks about everything from racism, to relationships, to his childhood.
Jeremiah, a troubled young male, tries to deal with the cards he's been dealt with in life. He makes a decision to help his struggling mother, which ultimately leads to his demise.
The shooting of an unarmed black teenager by the police in Ferguson, Missouri strikes a racial nerve in the country, but Fox News manages to remain colorblind.
Couriers are a common sight in the teeming streets of Manhattan, but they don't normally hustle books.
That changes today. Barnes & Noble has teamed up with Google to compete with Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) on same-day delivery.
Now customers can have Barnes & Noble books delivered via Google Shopping Express in three metropolitan areas: Manhattan, west Los Angeles and the San Francisco peninsula.
In a sense, Barnes & Noble (BKS) will turn its book stores, including its sprawling flagship shop in Manhattan's Union Square, into warehouses as well as brick-and-mortar retail spaces.
"The way the program is set up, they're using our local stores as the hub for this," said Jaime Carey, chief merchandising officer for Barnes & Noble.
He said there are Google employees in the Barnes & Noble stores who pull the books from the shelves when the orders come in and pass them off to Google couriers who deliver them to the customers.
Barnes & Noble shares jumped nearly 4% on the news. Google (GOOG) did not immediately respond to CNNMoney's request for comment.
Customers can tap into three different daily delivery windows, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Barnes & Noble already offers its own same-day delivery in Manhattan, but this will be the first time the service is offered in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He said that even where same-delivery service was already available, the partnership with Google allows Barnes & Noble to expand into a new pool of customer online.
"For us, it's fantastic that we can bring new customers to those local stores," he said.
Google Shopping Express already has partnerships with Target (TGT), Walgreens (WAG), Costco (COST), Staples (SPLS), Toys 'R' Us (and Babies 'R' Us,) L'Occitane and Fairway Market.
The book industry has been struggling for a long time. But Barnes & Noble, the last big bookstore chain, has shown signs of a turnaround this year, with growing sales.
A “tortured soul” is the frequent reference aligned with the chosen keepers of laughter.
One can only assume if you spent each moment of your life wanting to deposit happy into the lives of others, you can’t possibly be happy with yourself, right? Wrong. Karlous Miller believes that comics are tortured souls just as much as he believes a person can read horoscopes to identify their mood for the day. “I grew up great and had an awesome childhood. I don’t use comedy to account for my shortcomings or to give me permission to say inappropriate things on stage. I have always enjoyed making people laugh,” confesses Miller.In an unusual transition from neighborhood firefighter to qualified laugh practitioner, Karlous has always known it was his destiny to be onstage with a mic in hand and laughter floating his way. “I want people to come to a show and forget about it all. They should get lost in that moment, nothing else should matter.”
Growing up in a place with a population less than 21,000 people, this naturally funny guy makes his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi smile with pride. His latest appearances on NBC’s Last Comic Standing and MTV’s Wild ‘N Out have catapulted him into households and hearts around the country. As if frequent television appearances aren’t enough, Karlous has taken his mission to provide funny to souls around the world through his comedy performances in Europe and Africa. “I am a world away from small town Oxford and never knew jokes would take me this far. I am able to travel the world and meet people I never thought I would meet through comedy. It’s crazy.” From local lounges to national comedy appearances, the universal color of laughter allows for comics to traverse racial lines where skin color simply doesn’t matter. “I am from Mississippi where things are just black and white. Through comedy I have hung out with people in Germany and they knew me and that matters.”
Standing on the shoulders of comedic phenoms like Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx and Flip Wilson, the desire to succeed far exceeds any echo of doubt. Like any artist, Karlous is a student to his craft and takes preparation very seriously. “I am always ready because there is not always time to prepare before a show. I stay fresh and creative. Any good comedian should be able to read a crowd and deliver based on that. If you have a script and stick to it, the audience knows. That’s not performing, that’s reciting. I am a performer.”
Humbled by the opportunities provided by his passion for comedy, he cannot just recount one memorable moment in his career. “I don’t have just one. Memorable things happen to me all the time. Like the first time you see yourself on television or the first time you get a call from another celebrity asking you about an opportunity. It’s crazy how you go from watching someone, to being introduced to now having a friendship with someone that you looked up to. You actually have friends that you are fans of.”
Karlous Miller’s humility and humorous aura are effortless. When asked to define success in career, he quickly responds, “I can’t tell you what success looks like right now, because I am in pursuit of it. Michael Jordan didn’t look at the NBA and say I am successful - he played the game to win.” The question isn’t how he wants to be remembered, because Miller says he never wants to be forgotten.
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour: the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. The trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area. Suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students, Nic (Brenton Thwaites of "The Giver" and "Maleficent"), regains consciousness, he is in a waking nightmare
When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.
HIDDEN COLORS 3: THE RULES OF RACISM is the third installment of the groundbreaking documentary series that talks about the untold history of people of color. For this installment, leading scholars and historians discuss topics of Race and History in America.
