New directory and calendar developed with leader in open publishing boost conservancy’s fundraising revenue Raleigh, N.C., June, 2010 —The nonprofit Bald Head Island Conservancy on one of North Carolina’s fragile barrier islands faced a gaping budget deficit last year that threatened its mission of protecting and preserving an ecosystem of maritime forest, sand dunes and [...]
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Kruse Auction Web Site for Complaints Growing Rapidly
DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX, March 03, 2010 / — Anyone who has ever been scammed, ripped off or betrayed by someone they trusted can understand how angry Rodney Ross feels. So Ross, a vintage car collector from Texas, decided to channel his anger in a constructive manner. He set up a web site to help classic [...]
Apple announces iPad and iBooks and new version of iWorks
New tablet splits difference between smartphones, laptops by Dan Miller, Macworld.com Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad today. Positioned between a smartphone and a laptop, the tablet does many of the same things as the iPhone, but on a bigger, more easily viewed screen. Steve Jobs shows off Apple’s iPad on Wednesday. Demonstrating the [...]
National Broadband Plan Key to Future Changes – Fitch: U.S. Telecom Regulatory Review
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Fitch Ratings believes the national broadband plan that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to deliver to Congress in March will likely lead to new proceedings that could ultimately resolve key issues related to Universal Service Funding (USF) reform and wireless spectrum inventory. According to its recently released ‘Biannual Telecommunications Regulatory Register’, [...]
New Online Shopping Data Shows 23 Percent of Consumers Will Shop Online for Valentine’s Day
According to the eBillme Online Spending Index, 9 Percent of Consumers Will Spend More Online Than Last Year and 57 Percent Plan to Purchase Something Other Than Flowers or Chocolates RYE BROOK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Twenty-three percent of consumers plan to shop online for Valentine’s Day gifts, with 9 percent indicating they will spend more money [...]
More UK Ministry of Defence Blunders
If this report is to be believed, and it is very credible, our UK armed forces are steadily working their way towards being a Civil Defence Force armed with third rate weapons. If this has resulted from the bonus culture within the MOD, the sooner the architects of this financial disaster are removed the better. [...]
General Motors statement – Saab brand to be wound down
Saab Sale Cannot Be Concluded Brand to be Wound Down Detroit. General Motors announced today that the intended sale of Saab Automobile AB would not be concluded. After the withdrawal of Koenigsegg Group AB last month, GM had been in discussions with Spyker Cars about its interest in acquiring Saab. During the due diligence, certain [...]
President Barack Obama sends 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Excerpts of the President’s Address to the Nation “The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and [...]