1. CBS Sports Bracket Manager – If  you’ve organized a few friendly wagers among your family, friends, or coworkers this season, then you should definitely check out the CBS Sports Bracket Manager. This site allows you to register your entire group, and even gives you your own private URL to access your brackets and other information. The Bracket Manager is also outstanding in the sense that it allows your group to set its own rules. Once you register with the site, and load your information and participants, you can sit back and relax and enjoy the games while the site does all the hard work for you. CBSSports.com also allows you to interact with all users through communal message boards where you can trash talk all you want.
2. NCAA.com – NCAA.com is a great source for up to date information regarding March Madness stats. Not only will the site be constantly updated with the newest scores and other information throughout the tournament; it will also stream nearly every March Madness game for free. The extra features on NCAA.com will surely satisfy any March Madness fan. The site features extras such as player and coach interviews, the Westwood One radio broadcast of every game, and featured videos such as the 10 Greatest NCAA March Madness Games of the Decade.
3. ESPN tournament Challenge – If your friendly ventures won’t prove to be rewarding enough for your tastes this season, then the ESPN Tournament Challenge may be worth checking out. Not only does this site let you load your brackets to compete with friends and other fans, ESPN.com gives you an extra incentive – $10,000 in cash. The Tournament Challenge will crown one first prize winner (the individual who acquires the most points over the course of the tournament), who will walk away with the grand prize, and another second prize winner who will take home $5,000. The site also contains a number of fun interactive features, as well as live updates, which will keep you in the know throughout the series.
4. March Mania App – If you’re planning on leaving your couch or computer at any time during March Madness, then the March Mania App is definitely worth downloading. Compatible with the IPhone and the IPod Touch, this app is a simple and concise way to keep track of your brackets on the go, and it is constantly updated with the latest tournament news and scores. Last year’s most popular March Madness app, March Mania promises to be even better than it was last year. As long as you download the app and make your picks no later than 5 minutes before the opening game, you will be able to track your scores whenever you may be.
5. Joost.com – Joost is an Internet TV service that allows you to watch television, movies, music, and more anytime on your computer. This year, the site has teamed up with CBS Sports to bring March Madness fans a quality live stream of the games, absolutely free of charge. Joost has successfully streamed March Madness games for the last few years, and promises to continue to deliver quality live feed to its users.

This month, Orbis Solutions is proud to celebrate its tenth year in business. It’s a big milestone for us, and it would not have been possible without the help of many people. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to work with great customers who trust us and treat us like valued partners, not simply vendors. We are equally fortunate to have an exceptional team of employees who are always willing to put in the extra time and effort to provide our customers with the high level of service they truly deserve.

A lot has changed since 2000 and many more changes are in store for the future, but our focus on helping our customers to operate more efficiently and effectively through the use of technology remains the same. We are extremely grateful for everyone who has helped us over the past decade and look forward to an exciting future together.

Thank you for your continued support,

Another exciting element for this year’s medals is that, for the first time in history, each medal awarded  will be different, engaging an independent section of a much larger master image created by Canadian designer and artist, Corinne Hunt. For the Olympic medal design, Hunt drew inspiration from the orca whale for its beauty, individual strength, and loyalty to its community. To create each medal, the matte orca is lasered onto the front face of the medal, and within this design is a delicate wood grain pattern that can be viewed up close. Canadian industrial designer and architect Omer Arbel used his extensive knowledge of materials and fabrication processes to create an innovative undulating design to the medals, which is meant to illustrate the rolling hills of the Canadian landscape.

The 2010 Olympic medals prove to be a refreshing new example of how necessary it is to constantly reexamine the way we recycle. Instead of allowing discarded old ipods, desktops, cell phones, and televisions to pile up in a landfill like some bizarre island of misfit gadgets, we can instead melt them down, spruce them up, and again put them to good use.

Click here to take a closer look at the 2010 Olympic Medals!