Mobile Ads Becoming A Business Reality
21 June 2008, 07:07 No comments
Falling access rates, increased data speeds and multimedia-rich handsets are laying the path for mobile advertising to be deployed as a way to build business brands, say industry players.
The delivery of mobile ads also encompasses the use of WAP sites, mobile Web banners and posters, streaming or downloads of movie trailers and video clips, and [...]
Hu Holds Web Chat With Citizens
21 June 2008, 07:07 No comments
China’s President Hu Jintao talked to Internet-users on Friday via a news portal, the first time that he has gone online to chat. Mr. Hu was speaking through a forum of people.com.cn, the news portal of the People’s Daily.
Since the time the forum told its members of Mr. Hu’s visit, about 300 questions have been [...]
Gambling At A New Job
9 June 2008, 18:06 No comments
When a chance encounter leads to a good job, it sounds a lot like a Hollywood script.
But that is exactly what happened when 31-year-old Dan Sullivan started a conversation with the creative director of Cashman & Katz Integrated Communications while shopping at a Sears department store.
A short time after the improbable meeting, Sullivan sent in [...]
Scrapbookers Love Of Hobby Leads Her To Provide Pampering And Workspace To Other Crafters
15 May 2008, 17:05 No comments
Beth Preo loves to scrapbook. For more than 10 years, the Indianapolis native and Brownsburg resident has pursued the process of preserving memories.
For more than a dozen years, she also has channeled her creative energies into running a successful wedding cake business, Icing on the Cake. So when she began searching for a new location [...]
From School To Cool
15 May 2008, 17:05 No comments
Traditional Sunday School programs for children in the Barossa look to become a practice of the past.
Many church leaders have had to restructure their services to encourage children to stay and more families to join.
Andrew Morris, Barossa Uniting Minister, said social avenues such as sport events and shops open on Sundays have contributed to the [...]
Former CNN anchor does the Possible
22 April 2008, 21:09 No comments
NEW YORK %26mdash; In a competitive and youth-obsessed business, most everyone gets The Call sometime. For ex-CNN daytime anchor Daryn Kagan, it came in January 2006.She was brought into an office and told that CNN would not renew her contract when it expired at the end of the year. Kagan was lucky in one sense [...]
Microsoft rattles cages with plans to kill Windows XP
18 April 2008, 19:07 No comments
There, I said it. Do your worst gentle readers, but you wont change my mind. Its an incredibly stable, user-friendly operating system that plays nicely with all my other software and ticks away in the background, quietly doing everything it should. What more could I ask for? Theres just one little problem with XP: Microsoft [...]
Why isnt there a vegetarian restaurant in Boise
16 April 2008, 17:05 No comments
In 2007, Idaho was No. 1 on PETA’s list of the top vegetarian-friendly state prison systems in the country.Meanwhile, meatless diners in the Treasure Valley have been sentenced to life without a vegetarian restaurant with no sign of parole.Several markets of similar size (Tulsa, Okla.) or smaller (Green Bay, Wis.) have one, but a restaurant [...]
ENTERTAINMENT BRIEFS
16 April 2008, 17:05 No comments
The celebration marks the first time the two organizations
have worked together.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 599-0847 or send an e-mail to
aoc_min@yahoo.com.
MySpace in venture
with 3 record labels
LOS ANGELES — News Corp.’s MySpace said Thursday that
it will launch an online music venture designed to turn the
social networking site’s trove of [...]
Rowling seeks to halt Harry Potter encyclopedia
14 April 2008, 05:05 No comments
NEW YORK%26ndash;Author J.K. Rowling is eager to tell a judge this week that one of her biggest fans is in fantasyland if he believes a Harry Potter encyclopedia he plans with a Michigan publisher does not violate her copyrights. The showdown between [...]
