Week of May 8, 2008

A magnitude 7.9 earthquake rocks China and at least 10,000 are dead - most

from south-central China’s Sichuan province.

Hillary Rodham Clinton wins in a landslide in West Virginia.

Spain formally laid claim to a shipwreck that yielded a $500-million booty, saying

it has proof the vessel was Spanish. Odyssey Marine exploration, based in

Tampa, Fla - announced in May 2007 that it had discovered the wreck in the

Atlantic and its cargo of 300,000 silver coins, gold doubloons and other artifacts.

Spain says the 19 th Century wreck is the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes - a

Spanish warship sunk by the British navy in 1804 southwest of Portugal with

more than 200 people on board.

Jenna Bush marries Henry Hager in a

private ceremony at the Bush ranch in

Crawford, Texas.

Technology -

Desktop telescope - Microsoft unmasks

a visual guide to the universe - an

application free of charge. The engine

provides panning and zooming that

allows viewers to focus on a particular

planet or cluster of stars without

abandoning the scale of the area

surrounding it.

MySpace says it would soon enable

users to quickly share profile data with

websites operated by Yahoo , EBay and

others. MySpace aims to save its users

keystrokes and enable them to export their photos, videos and lists of friends.

Last June, five companies including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo formed the

OpenID coalition to create a single user name and password for people to use

across the Internet.

Wow - “Grand Theft Auto IV” - gets a video game record in sales - getting $500

million in first week sales. That topped the previous high set last year by

Microsoft’s “Halo 3,” which took in $300 million in its first week.

Media - Clear Channel Communications says it has resolved a legal dispute over

its buyout, clearing the way for prospective buyers to take the radio and outdoor

Week of May 8, 2008

advertising company private. Shareholders would get $36 a share, down from the

earlier price of $39.29 a share.

Long Island Newsday will be sold by Tribune Co to Cablevision systems Corp for

$650 million.

Cablevision must be on a spree - as it buys the Sundance cable channel for

$496 million.

Wow - Liz Claman interviews

Warren Buffet & Bill Gates. On

Fox Business this weekend!

Don’t miss it.

Oil reaches $125 a barrel - a

new high.

Music news -

Rapper Remy Ma is sentenced

to eight years in prison for

shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub.

Britney Spears appears on the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” for the

second time. Spears turned up as the girlfriend of Barney. She guest starred on

the show also - last March.

A judge in London grants a preliminary divorce to former Beatle Paul McCartney

and Heather Mills. She’ll get $47.5 million and custody of the couple’s daughter -

Beatrice (4).

Passing - Country and ballad singer -

Eddy Arnold. Just shy of his 90 th birthday.

KIIS-FM Wango Tango on the west coast

with Miley Cyrus, Snoop Dogg, Pitbull the

Jonas Brothers and others.

Madonna’s “Hard Candy” is the top album

this week.

Week of May 8, 2008

Television news -

Hannah Storm - most recently with the

CBS Early Show, is added to ESPN’s

“SportsCenter lineup beginning in August.

Quiksilver Inc - maker of the namesake

surfing and snowboarding gear, is sued by

sports network ESPN on claims it violated a

trademark on the cable channel’s X-Games

competition franchise. Quicksilver uses a

stylized “X” emblem on clothing that is similar

to ESPN’s logo for the series of surfing and

biking contests.

Friday night television -

CBS - Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Numbers, David Letterman

NBC - Most outrageous Moments, Dateline NBC, Jay Leno

ABC - TV’s All Time Funniest, 20/20, Nightline

CW - WWE Friday Night

SmackDown!

Fox - Movie-Man of the House

Disney - Hannah Montana,

Zack & Cody, Movie, that’s So

Raven, Life With Derek,

David Letterman - Barbara

Walters, Penn & Teller

Jay Leno - Harrison Ford, Carly

Simon