Texting while driving is foolhardy behaviour, with studies showing it’s more dangerous than getting behind the wheel when you’re drunk. A US company is proposing a solution. TXTBlocker is a combination of phone software and online services that stops drivers from calling or texting while in motion reports The Brisbane Times. Parents supply their child […]
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Reuters: Great American Cookies®, innovators of the original Cookie Cake, announced today that the company has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to promote the November 2009 Blu-ray and DVD release of “Aliens in the Attic.” The multifaceted promotion will include a limited-edition Cookie Cake, an exclusive coupon offer, and more. The promotion is
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Oak Brook Business Ledger: Many people looking to buy a business consider buying a franchise. After all, they think the franchisor has a cookie-cutter approach that can’t miss and they can just walk into the new business, which will be flush with cash. In the numbers I have read, four out of five new franchise
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Ubergizmo is reporting that the Air Board is a $14,000 personal hovercraft that will float 8″ above the ground at all times, reaching a maximum speed of 15 mph while running around and about for an hour or so on just 1.3 gallons of gas. A couple of levers on the steering bar ensures you
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With Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday season weeks away, many small business owners are planning holiday parties for employees and clients despite the still wobbly economy. But the celebrations are expected to be low-key, frugal and, some say, much more fun reports The Associated Press. Even owners whose businesses are doing better say
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Triantafyllos Tafas is best known for his complex inventions. But now he’s won an important legal and regulatory victory that, he and his lawyers believe, will assist small companies and individual entrepreneurs across the country writes The Connecticut Law Tribune. A lawsuit Tafas filed in 2007 halted new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules from
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Washington Business Journal: Philly Dawgz, which serves up a mix of Chicago-style, Latino and BBQ dishes, is opening in the D.C. area. Montgomery County is about to get two stores at 12211 Veirs Mill Road in Wheaton and 10141 New Hampshire Ave. in Silver Spring. “We are hoping to have Wheaton open by the holidays
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Information on where you can find, and how you can apply for, grants is publicly available and free. If your small business meets all of the necessary qualifications, you may just be able to receiving federal funding, writes CNN Money. Federal grant funding programs, such as the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business
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PR Web: Due to prolonged delays in posted mail reaching its destination, courier franchisees are witnessing an unprecedented spike in new business. With UK consumers looking for an alternative to the currently maligned Royal Mail, the nation’s network of courier franchisees are filling the void left behind by striking postal workers. Yasmine Siddiqi, Commercial Director
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Lansing State Journal: Lansing’s first Sonic drive-in restaurant is expected to open next spring. Flint-based franchisee Miller-Apple LP plans to build the 1,800-square-foot burger joint at the site of the Governor’s Inn, 6133 S. Pennsylvania Ave. in south Lansing. The hotel has been vacant for several months. The $2 million project is expected to create
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