Seeds of attack ads sown in Iowa
Philadelphia Inquirer - who want to end the war in Iraq, fight global warming, win universal health care - or beat the Republicans.” The group, which has specialized in low-cost ads designed to attract media attention, has also placed a video critical of Obama on its Web site
MAXjet leaves travelers stranded
Chicago Tribune - MAXjet did not immediately return calls seeking comment but in a message posted on the Dulles, Va.-based airline’s Web site, President and Chief Executive William Stockbridge apologized. “With today’s fuel prices and the resulting impact on the credit
Tommy Bahama clothing line grows up
Seattle Times - Also, it’s introducing more expensive “price points,” since the upper-end of the market seems to be holding up, and for the first time has begun selling merchandise on its Web site. “There was a time when our woven shirts were right around $100
Quake of 6.4 magnitude hits eastern Indonesia
Reuters - WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - An earthquake of 6.4 magnitude rattled Indonesia’s half of New Guinea island on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a posting on its Web site. USGS had earlier said the quake was 6.6 magnitude. The quake, at a
Microsoft Corp. co-founder joins airwaves auction
Chicago Tribune - next month, competing with Google Inc. and more than 250 other groups in what might be the last sale of its kind for years. Many of the companies want the spectrum so they can sell services that use more bandwidth, such as video downloads and Web
Ethics audit checks official
Baltimore Sun - The nonprofit Maryland Public Purchasing Association held its first reverse trade show Oct. 16, according to its Web site. Its president, Mark A. Pemberton, the assistant secretary of procurement and logistics for the Department of General Services
Myanmar Reports 1st Human Bird Flu Case
FOX News - The U.N. body and the country’s health ministry found that a 7-year-old girl from Keng Tung in northeastern Myanmar had been infected with the deadly H5N1 virus, WHO said on its Web site Friday. She has since recovered. The WHO hailed Myanmar’s
Loan company ends ties to colleges
Oregonian - At the time, Oregon and Oregon State’s athletic Web sites carried ads for Student Financial Services, the public face of University Financial Services, with links to Web pages awash in school colors. Those ads are no longer posted. A spokesman for
Fun family picks for the week
Detroit News - This is also the week Wild Swan Theater performs its perennial favorite, “Charlotte’s Web,” about friendship and sharing. Finally, the Storytellers are back with musical tales about Kwanzaa at the Art Van furniture store in Southfield. Rochester’s
MindMindMind Launches New Web Place to Share Knowledge Captured in a
Forbes - MindMindMind today announced MindMapPedia.com, the online encyclopedia of visually represented knowledge which uses the popular mind mapping technique. MindMapPedia.com is an open community moderated resource for mind mapping ideas and storing
North Carolina: Don’t let Tail of the Dragon’s curves slay you
Miami Herald - the nickname given to U.S. 129 as it bends, curves, twists and wiggles over 14 miles from Cheoah Dam north of Robbinsville in Graham County, N.C., to Tabcat Bridge near Chilhowee Lake in Blount County, Tenn. The Tail of the Dragon has its own Web site
Motorola Investors Say Brown May Not Restore Lost Phone Cachet
Bloomberg - Apple’s iPhone, which blends the iPod media player with a Web-browsing mobile phone, sold more than 1.4 million units in three months after its debut in June. Research In Motion, which introduced the BlackBerry Curve video and music phone in May
Daniel was an advocate for health services
Seattle Times - Granny’s Attic” has since raised $2.1 million, according to the shop Web site. “There were no on-call doctors on the island at the time, and I think that was her interest. What if something happened in the middle of the night?” her daughter said. “She