BlackBerry Outage Over – Caused By BlackBerry Messenger

Seeded on Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:47 AM EST (BerryReview.com)

Blackberry Messenger version 5.0.0.56 caused database problems leading to the entire North and South America Blackberry Network(BIS and BES) to go down

technology, outage, blackberry, december-22

Pandemic-preparedness money stripped from stimulus

Seeded on Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:53 AM EDT (USA Today)

Congress stripped nearly $900 million to combat an influenza pandemic from the economic-stimulus package earlier this year as part of last-minute negotiations to gain GOP support for the plan. Now, with the spread of a potentially deadly strain of the swine flu, public-health ad …

congress, pandemic, politics, usatoday, stimulus

Fifth Third to Seek Bidders for Payment Arm

Seeded on Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:25 AM EDT (FT.com)

Fifth Third, the struggling US regional bank, is looking to sell at least part of its lucrative payment-processing business, as a range of commercial banks press ahead with attempted asset sales to avoid diluting shareholders by raising more equity capital.

business, fifth-third, fifth-third-bank, payment-processing, us-regional-bank, regional-bank

Popemobile route offers public peek at Benedict

Seeded on Wed Apr 9, 2008 9:27 AM EDT (USA Today)

Pope Benedict XVI will make public appearances in a bulletproof "Popemobile" on two days during his first U.S. visit next week, the Roman Catholic archdioceses of New York and Washington, D.C., announced Tuesday.

new-york, roman-catholic, pope-benedict-xvi, us-news, washington-dc, popemobile

HP Enters Mini-Notebook Market - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

Seeded on Wed Apr 9, 2008 9:24 AM EDT (PC Magazine)

It didn't take long for PC makers to realize the gold mine Asus struck with its Eee PC 4G. Now, manufacturers like HP are mobilizing to create their own products to knock off the Eee PC.

technology, hp, asus, asus-eee

Flickr Adds Video

Seeded on Wed Apr 9, 2008 9:22 AM EDT (PC Magazine)

Flickr announced this afternoon the long awaited addition of video capabilities to the video sharing site.

yahoo, technology, flickr, video-sharing

Web show Tekzilla to get new co-host, $5 says it's Veronica Belmont

Seeded on Wed Apr 9, 2008 9:20 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

When former CNET TV anchor Veronica Belmont announced last week that she was leaving her gig as host and producer of the Mahalo Daily video podcast for "new projects," her loyal fan base immediately started wondering where she'd head next.

technology, cnet, patrick-norton, revision3, veronica-belmont, mahalo, tekzilla, cnet-tv, mahalo-daily

Hulu sells out ad inventory, more on the way

Seeded on Wed Apr 9, 2008 9:19 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

The good news for Hulu, the video portal jointly created by NBC Universal and News Corp., is that it sold out of advertising inventory. The bad news for Hulu viewers is that more ads are on the way.

technology, advertising, fox, news-corp, nbc, nbc-universal, video-ads, hulu

EMC Reaches Agreement To Buy Iomega

Seeded on Wed Apr 9, 2008 9:15 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

EMC Corp. reached a deal to buy data-storage firm Iomega Corp. for $213 million in cash, scuttling a deal Iomega had made previously with a group of Chinese companies.

business, emc, emc-corp, buy-out, iomega

Ala. wind leaves 1 dead, 40,000 without power

Seeded on Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:17 AM EST (USA Today)

Officials say one person has been killed after a tree downed by strong wind crushed a mobile home in central Alabama. About 40,000 homes and businesses are without power after the storm.

wind, power-outage, us-news, usatoday, storm-damage

Shortage of surgeons pinches U.S. hospitals

Seeded on Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:03 AM EST (USA Today)

In the modest building that houses Shore Memorial Hospital in this town of about 600 people between the Chesapeake and Hog Island bays, a health care crisis is brewing.

medical, surgeons, us-news, usatoday, medical-schools

Skyline ownership back in Cincinnati

Seeded on Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:57 AM EST (Business Courier of Cincinnati)

After a decade of out-of-town ownership, Skyline Chili has returned home. The management of the storied chili parlor chain has acquired 90 percent of the company's stock from Chicago-based Prudential Capital Group, making it once again a Fairfield-based company.

business, skyline-chili, cincy-chili, prudential-capital-group, cincinnati-chili, fairfield-oh

Bills bus back from Cleveland

Seeded on Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:53 AM EST (Business First of Buffalo)

The Buffalo Bills' return from Cleveland took on another weather-related twist, literally. The charter plane that was supposed to bring the Bills back from Cleveland slid off the runway at Hopkins International Airport.

football, sports, plane, snow, buffalo-bills, cleveland-browns

Microwave popcorn chemical out of the bag

Seeded on Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:32 AM EST (USA Today)

ConAgra has removed a controversial chemical from its microwave popcorn that gives the snack a buttery, creamy taste, citing concern for its workers' health. ConAgra manufactures more than half of the nation's microwave popcorn.

popcorn, health, microwave, usatoday, diacetyl

Google to Announce Bid For Wireless Spectrum

Seeded on Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:04 AM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Google Inc. plans to announce Friday that it will apply to bid for wireless spectrum in a January Federal Communications Commission auction, according to people familiar with the matter.

google, technology, fcc, wireless, spectrum

The Great Firewall: China's Misguided — and Futile — Attempt to Control What Happens Online

Seeded on Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:56 AM EDT (Wired News)

I didn't know I was a surveillance target until the day I walked into a hotel in China's Fujian province. I was pushing past half a dozen workmen changing lightbulbs in the glum but busy lobby when a uniformed man stepped in front of me.

china, politics, internet, great-firewall, lai-changxing, internet-filtering, golden-shield

Pentagon misstates sniper data in $1.4B request

Seeded on Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:28 AM EDT (USA Today)

The Pentagon has asked Congress for $1.4 billion in emergency spending to combat a growing threat of sniper attacks in Iraq based on an overstated assessment of the extent of the attacks, its records show.

iraq, pentagon, sniper, us-news, usatoday, war-spending, congressional-approval

Start-up crafts waterproof concrete

Seeded on Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:36 PM EDT (CNET News.com)

It's a water-based molecule that repels water.

technology, concrete, waterproof, green-tech, environmentally-friendly, david-rosenberg, hycrete

Carnegie Mellon's car navigation system

Seeded on Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:40 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

The MOVE car navigation system being developed at Carnegie Mellon University is based on the concept that was applied to the the complicated London Underground map in 1933. On the left is the 1926 subway map by Fred Stingemore.

technology, map, gps, carnegie-mellon-university, maping, navigation-system

Cincinnati Public Schools reports several MRSA cases

Seeded on Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:58 AM EDT (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Cincinnati Public Schools has joined other area school districts such as Middletown and Mason reporting recent cases of staph infection. School district spokeswoman Janet Walsh said this morning five or six cases of students infected with the MRSA "superbug" were confirmed e …

health, staph, mrsa, superbug, cincinnati-public-schools

New Phoenix BIOS Can Snap Thieves in the Act

Seeded on Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:29 AM EDT (PC Magazine)

In mid-October, Phoenix Technologies is expected to announce FailSafe, a new BIOS solution with lockdown, tracking, data retrieval and other capabilities – even remote Webcam operation to snap a picture of a laptop thief.

technology, bios, data-theft, data-security, pheonix-technologies

Baby Einsteins: Not So Smart After All

Seeded on Thu Aug 9, 2007 11:03 AM EDT (TIME)

The claim always seemed too good to be true: park your infant in front of a video and, in no time, he or she will be talking and getting smarter than the neighbor's kid.

education, baby-einstein, language-development, frederick-zimmerman, dimitri-christakis, infant-development

Novel approach to taxes

Seeded on Fri Jun 8, 2007 10:50 AM EDT (News Press)

Above all else, taxes must be perceived by taxpayers as fair. Nothing irks a taxpayer as much as finding out that someone with twice the income (or in the case of property taxes, twice the house) is paying half the taxes he is.

politics, internal-revenue-service, property-tax, fair-tax, income-tax, florida-state-tax

'Fair Tax' watches out for everyday taxpayers

Seeded on Fri Jun 8, 2007 10:48 AM EDT (Hilton Head Island Packet)

In 2006, there were six federal tax brackets ranging from the 10 percent to 35 percent. Listing the tax brackets and corresponding income levels takes one paragraph. Yet there are 60,000 pages of tax code laws and regulations currently in effect.

politics, internal-revenue-service, fair-tax, income-tax

National sales tax is fairer revenue system

Seeded on Fri Jun 8, 2007 10:46 AM EDT (The News Journal)

The fair tax is a proposed federal sales tax to replace personal and corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, gift and inheritance taxes, self-employment taxes and the alternative minimum tax. It has many advantages, including replacement of the wasteful, confusing and costly inco …

politics, internal-revenue-service, fair-tax, income-tax

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