June 15, 2012

Recognizing the growing concern over brain injuries, the nation’s biggest football organization for kids has new rules that will limit contact between players during practices. Pop Warner Football will ban full-speed, head-on tackling and prohibit all contact during most of practice time. Research has shown that young players can be especially vulnerable to concussions from football hits. Source Link

Some of the titans of commerce are doing battle for the best of nearly 2,000 new top-level Internet domain names that could be assigned soon.  Sought-after suffixes like dot-love, dot-music, dot-movie and dot-wow are in the sights of companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft. The new domain at the top of the wish list with the most requests is dot-app. Source Link

Is Dad finally getting some respect when it comes to gifts on Father’s Day? A National Retail Federation survey shows that spending for Father’s Day 2012 will be the biggest ever, averaging $117 per Pop for everything from patio sets and grills to ties and gardening tools,  That’s up 10% but it still pales in comparison to the average $152 that is spent on gifts for Mother’s Day. Source Link