Archive for August 6th, 2007
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Nissan Gets Serious With Drunk Drivers
Yahoo News: Beer-breaths beware. A new concept car with breathalyzer-like detection systems may provide even greater traction for Japanese efforts to keep impaired drivers off the road. Nissan’s alcohol-detection sensors check odor, sweat and driver awareness, issuing a voice alert from the navigation system and locking up the ignition if necessary. Odor sensors on the [...]
Lottery Winner Accidently Wins Again
Yahoo News: A lottery winner doubled his share of the jackpot to nearly 1 million pounds after he mistakenly bought two lucky tickets for the same draw, organizers Camelot said Wednesday. Derek Ladner, 57, from Cornwall, and his wife Dawn, 60, won with their usual numbers in the mid-week draw, sharing the 2.4 million pounds [...]
The Detroit News: Jennifer Raybaud is what some might call a natural salesperson — warm, outgoing and determined to close the deal. “I came out of the womb trying to sell the doctor something,” Raybaud said. “When I was 6 or 7 years old, other girls were playing dolls. I was going door-to-door playing the [...]
How Do You Name A Store? Gingerly.
The Washington Post: Gretchen Hitchner spent months thinking about the name for her soon-to-open women’s boutique. She had opened a similar spot in Alexandria, Va., with a partner, and prior to opening they brainstormed to come up with a name they were proud of — Periwinkle. Upon leaving the partnership to open her new store, [...]
Firebox: Make James Bond, MacGyver and Inspector Gadget look like ill-equipped buffoons with the jaw-dropping Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife. As awesome as it is ridiculous, this incredible triumph of engineering is packed with 85 fully functional implements and is said to have over 100 functions. Why? Well, why not? Meticulously crafted in Switzerland (well [...]
Holly Mann Grants First Audio Interview
eMediaWire: Holly Mann became a single mom at age 22 in January of 2005. She wanted to be a work at home mom more than anything because the thought of a daycare center raising her son sent chills through her body. To cut expenses, she sold everything she had and moved to Chaing Mai, Thailand, [...]
Business Puts Moms Creativity To Use
Appleton Post-Crescent: Lisa Spanbauer has found what many women seek: near perfect balance in her life. By turning something she loves to do into a business that allows her role as mother to come first, Spanbauer has found a way to fill the chasm between working mom and at-home mom. Her business, Pottery Creations, is [...]
The Norman Transcript: Shelves are stuffed with brightly colored balls of yarn at the store tucked next to Harold’s on Campus Corner. More balls and skeins litter the remaining surfaces. While still in the process of moving to its new location, Happy Cat Yarn Shop is already bursting with enthusiasm for knitting, just like its [...]
Flash-Key Fruit-A-Roma USB Drives
GearLog: Wow, this USB flash drive smells like orange! No wait, strawberry! Or is that grape? No, definitely green apple. Hong Kong-based Microdia–maker of flash memory, multimedia, and wireless products–announced its Flash-Key Fruit-A-Roma USB drives that come in all four of the above scents. That’s right, you can actually smell these drives. Each one measures [...]
Armless Man Gets 5 Years In Jail
Orlando Sentinel: Michael Wiley demonstrates how he drives June 9, 2006, in the driveway of his Port Richey, Fla. home. Wiley lost both arms and a leg in an electrical accident and taught himself to drive using his stumps, toes and teeth. Wiley is scheduled to face a judge Friday, Aug. 3, 2007, for sentencing [...]
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Totally-Funky: The clever ring-binder format sits on your desk like a traditional desk sign. With 30 different signs to choose from, you can quickly flick through to find the one to suit the moment. Signs include”I love deadlines – I especially love the sound they make as they go whooshing by”, “Tell me what you [...]
GearLog: The idea of this product is to filter and purify airplane air, which anyone who flies often knows can get very stale and very uncomfortable very quickly, depending on how large the plane is and how many people are on the flight. Just attach the Plane Clean Air Filter to that little air vent [...]
Reuters: Indian police forced a thief to gobble down 40 bananas in a few hours, hoping they would force him to excrete a gold necklace he had snatched and swallowed. Sheikh Mohsin, 35, grabbed the 45,000-rupee (546 pounds) necklace from a woman in the eastern city of Kolkata on Friday and popped it into his [...]
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Sound Financial Advice for your Home Business
The following is a guest post by Nicole Taylor of Home Business Online Opportunities. The best home businesses will fail without proper financial practices. If you do not manage your home business finances appropriately, you may find yourself sinking before you ever have a chance to fly. If you want to give your home business [...]
Second Place Not Bad Deal For Inventor
Playthings: Spin Master is partnering with Ricky DeRennaux, runner up in ABC’s American Inventor design contest, to develop and mass produce his HT Racers customizable radio-controlled vehicles concept. “We think that HT Racers has the potential to be that must-have toy. We really love the way that it inspires kids to learn, and it’s still [...]
Club Penguin Founders Strike It Rich
The Globe And Mail: They may be flightless in the real world but penguins are soaring in the virtual one, as borne out by Walt Disney Co.’s agreement to pay $350-million for Kelowna, B.C.-based Club Penguin. The online club lets subscribers take on the identities of penguins that waddle and chat in spots such as [...]
Entrepreneur: Digital media–digital video in particular–is a hot topic these days. Digital media products and services company DivX Inc. was well ahead of the curve when it launched in San Diego in 2000. But getting off the ground took the combined talents of five co-founders–Jordan Greenhall, 35; Joe Bezdek, 34; Jerome Vashisht-Rota, 33; Darrius Thompson, [...]
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New Option For Paypal Users: Pay Later
Reuters: PayPal said it will offer credit financing with General Electric Co.’s GE Money Bank in a bid to win new users and improve business for merchants that use its service. Online payment service PayPal, which is owned by eBay Inc., is facing increased competition from Google Inc’s Checkout, which has made a concerted effort [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Linked Intelligence.
TVGuide.com Buys Stake In BuddyTV
Seattle PI: BuddyTV has raised $2.8 million in funding in a deal led by Gemstar-TV Guide International, the operator of TVGuide.com, JumptheShark.com and other TV-oriented Web sites. BuddyTV co-founder Andy Liu said the startup — with just under 20 employees and more than 3 million unique visitors a month — received a lot of interest [...]
