Archive for January 3rd, 2007
Entrepreneur Takes Shot At Vodka
Traverse City Business News: Of three fads that hit northern Michigan in the 1950s—the hoola-hoop, Elvis Presley and vodka—one of them will now have a niche business here. Kent Rabish is establishing the Up North Vodka Co. in a new building a half mile from the new Oleson’s Food Store on Three Mile Road. Rabish [...]
In-Car Internet Service Debuts
TMCnet.com: Thought wireless internet availability made it easy to stay connected when in public? Now, Autonet Mobile is taking that to another level and turning your car into an internet-ready driving experience that keeps users connected while on the go, literally. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced their new wireless [...]
Personalized Bobbleheads Find Their Niche
Associated Press: Ralph Trumbo is neither an athlete nor a celebrity. Nevertheless, he has a bobblehead likeness of himself sitting on his mantel. Bobbleheads, those shaky-headed 3-D caricatures, have jiggled free of their mass-produced roots of an earlier generation. Once merely featureless figures decked out in team colors and handed out on game day, they [...]
Inventor Creates Ping Pong For Three
Associated Press: Secil Boyd keeps dreaming up new ideas from remote control flying gadgets to new table games and even space-matter theories. “My mind doesn’t seem to turn off so easily,” the 53-year-old inventor joked at his Holualoa art gallery. Boyd has invented a type of three-player ping pong, TriPong uses an odd-shaped table at [...]
San Francisco Chronicle: Q: I just started an in-home business doing referrals and billing for caregivers. I have only two clients so far and need to keep working outside my home as an independent contractor to help with living expenses. My question is about my tax return. Should I combine my home business and contractor [...]
