Archive for April 5th, 2007
Media Temple’s Grid Server and the GPU
I’ve had a little problem with my GPUs on Media Temple‘s grid server. I had a bit of an emergency on my dedicated server late last week, and so in a moment of panic (at about 1AM) I moved my entire network of WordPress blogs from their regular server to the grid. I was amazed [...]
WizzTones Will Be Highligted In Skype 3.0
Wizzard Software is pleased to announce that WizzTones will be highlighted in the latest version of the Skype software. The WizzTones application can be found today under “Personalised” in the Get Extras section in every download of Skype 3.0 for Windows or later. WizzTones gives Skype users an easy, entertaining and practical way to manage [...]
Skype & Mouse All in One Phone
For those times when you absolutely need to make a Skype phone call and use your computer and still save a USB port, there’s the USB Skype Mouse. The Skype Mouse doubles as a USB Mouse and a USB Skype Phone connected to your computer, and claims to switch seamlessly between the two when [...]
Magazine Publisher Gets Organized
Worchester Telegram & Gazette News: Dressed in jeans, a smart fuchsia blazer and a pink button-down shirt, Joyce Dorny looks like a creative type from Madison Avenue. Even though she is rubbing elbows with quite a few of them these days as she gets ready to publish her nationally distributed magazine, nothing could be further [...]
eBay Stock Jumps Up 2.4 Percent
Shares of online auctioneer eBay jumped in Tuesday’s session after a Bear Stearns analyst raised his first-quarter revenue estimate for the company due to increasing conversion rates and rising average selling prices. On a day of gains for the broader market, eBay shares rose 80 cents, or 2.4 percent, to close at $33.80 on the [...]
Round The Rancho: Out Of The Bleu
ocregister: Although Out of the Bleu has been open only a few weeks, it already has generated both buzz and business for owners Janean Linder and Tina MacFarlane. Location, of course, is helpful, especially when you’re adjacent the popular Inka Mama restaurant and the always busy JoAnn’s. And, as mentioned, enthusiasm and spirit are a [...]
Do You Have to Buy Links on the Sly?
SEO Roundtable: Does Google really know who buys links? A discussion has evolved around an occurance where someone found evidence of a site that wasn’t in the top 50 but after “spending around £10,000 per month (a rough guess) and amassing 200,000 back-links in a couple of weeks” shot up to the number one spot.
Work At Home Mothers Can Have It All
Central Valley Business Times: Starting a small business and working it from home can let women have both career satisfaction while raising a family, says Lesley Spencer Pyle, a Spring, Texas, mother who took that path 12 years ago. The founder and president of HBWM.com Inc. (Home Based Working Moms), Ms. Pyle says working at [...]
AN Edwinstowe couple are urging bargain-hunters to take care when buying items online after losing more than £4,000 on eBay. Devastated Dawn and James White thought they had bagged themselves a bargain when they bought a BMW 320 M-Sport for £4,400 on the popular auction website — but despite handing over the cash, the motor [...]
Women Jailed for Selling Fraudulent Memorabilia on eBay
Rachel Reyes, age 29, of Williamsburg, was sentenced Tuesday to 55 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $415,754.84 in restitution, in connection with her role in distributing fraudulent celebrity memorabilia items on eBay. According to court documents, Rachel Reyes, her husband Jeffrey Reyes, and her mother, Nancy Selisker, operated [...]
Medal Of History Found On eBay
A US Medal of Freedom, which went missing from the White House 37 years ago has been recovered from a private collector in Pennsylvania State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. No arrest has been and no charges filed so far though investigation is continuing, Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of [...]
5 Things you should NEVER Tell a Customer
Fast Company: Your customers are getting tired of wasting their time trying to contact you. When a call or an inquiry come in, you have an opportunity to solve a problem, and address a perception issue. The way your customer service team handles inquiries can either make or break a relationship with your customers. Here [...]
The Future of Travel is Online
Entrepreneur Daily: Online travel is booming. In fact, it’s expected to grow to $86 billion this year. Along with the growth will come the pressure to innovate travel sites, like TripAdvisor.com and Travelocity, to offer more interactive features that help potential vacationers in their searches. For example, TripAdvisor.com now allows users to post videos and [...]
Webkinz Unleash Next Big Craze
St. Petersburg Times: So, who’s busting the popularity charts in the Easter Bunny’s basket? Not the decorated eggs, the spring sweets or stuffed rabbits, according to area retailers. You win if you guessed Webkinz, those fuzzy, plush pets with a virtual presence. Since January, the Dalmatians, the koalas, the gray and white cats and their [...]
Feds Plan To Dig Deeper Into Small-Biz Financial Records
Fortune Small Business: Carson Stanwood has no problem with the Internal Revenue Service going after tax cheats. The founder of Stanwood & Partners Public Relations, based in Jackson Hole, Wyo., understands that paying their taxes in full puts small-business owners like him at a competitive disadvantage against the corner cutters. But when contemplating some of [...]
Service Industries Expand At Slower Rate
Associated Press: The U.S. service sector expanded at a slower rate in March than in the previous month, a trade group said Thursday, coming in below economists’ expectations and adding to concerns that U.S. economic growth is slowing. The Tempe, Arizona-based Institute for Supply Management, an organization of corporate purchasing executives, said that its index [...]
