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- CQMS Razer Announces New Jobs And Products At Mansfield Facility24 August 2010, 12:00 am
CQMS will create more than 200 new jobs.... - SNF Flopam Inc. Officials Break Ground On Major New Specialty Chemicals Facility In Plaquemine23 August 2010, 12:00 am
Project will result in more than 500 new, direct jobs averaging more than $57,000, plus benefits.... - Louisiana FastStart Trainer Recognized As One Of The Top Young Trainers In The U.S.18 August 2010, 12:00 am
Training magazine selects Louisiana FastStart's Barry May as one of 40 Top Young Trainers.... - Gov. Jindal and Blade Dynamics LTD. Announce Major New Advanced Manufacturing Project at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility17 August 2010, 12:00 am
With investment funding from Dow Venture Capital and American Superconductor Corp., Blade Dynamics will create 600 new jobs averaging about $48,000 per year, plus benefits.... - NEW Customer Service Companies Inc. Announces Plans To Create 200 Jobs In Central Louisiana12 August 2010, 12:00 am
Today, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Louisiana Economic Development Assistant Secretary Donald Pierson joined NEW Customer Service Companies Inc. to announce NEW will create up to 200 new, home-based customer care representative positions in Central Louisiana within the next two years, dependent on applicant flow....
- Prepaid Smartphone Plans Announced By Verizon - RedOrbit3 September 2010, 4:45 pm
WLFI.comPrepaid Smartphone Plans Announced By VerizonRedOrbitVerizon Wireless customers who don't want to commit to long-term service contracts will now be able to prepay for smartphone service, the company announced on Thursday. In a September 1 press release, the company announced that the new 3G Prepaid data ...Verizon Wireless Beefs Up Network for Penn State Football FansTMCnetVerizon Announces Prepaid Data Plans For SmartphonesInformationWeekVerizon's New Prepid Data Plans: How Bene...
- Toshiba Recalls Laptops Due To Overheating Risk - InformationWeek3 September 2010, 4:19 pm
CBC.caToshiba Recalls Laptops Due To Overheating RiskInformationWeekSome 41000 Toshiba laptops have been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission due to reports of overheating and melting. The commission said Thursday that the computers "can overheat at the notebook's plug-in to the AC adapter ...Toshiba Satellite Laptops Recalled for Burn HazardPC WorldToshiba Recalls 41K Satellite Laptops Due to OverheatingPC MagazineProblem affects AC-in on some T-Series notebooksDailyTechS... - iHome throws up teaser page for AirPlay wireless speaker system - ZDNet (blog)3 September 2010, 4:16 pm
Pocket-lint.comiHome throws up teaser page for AirPlay wireless speaker systemZDNet (blog)Apple recently teased about AirPlay support on third-party products, and it looks like iHome might be answering the call first. Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor for ZDNet and SmartPlanet. ...iHome ready for some Apple AirPlayPocket-lint.comiHome teases AirPlay-ready portable speakeripodnniHome Shows Off the First Speaker With Apple's AirPlay Built InGizmodo.com (blog)CNET (blog) -Reg Hardware... - The Best Weather Apps for Hurricane Earl - PC Magazine3 September 2010, 4:02 pm
New Zealand HeraldThe Best Weather Apps for Hurricane EarlPC MagazineAs Hurricane Earl threatens to swiftly take over the eastern seaboard, you may think about changing your plans this Labor Day Weekend. But don't drop the beach bags just yet. Since the iPhone's pre-installed Weather app may as well be made up of smiley ...Twitter Mobile Users up Over 60 Percent Since AprilPC WorldTwitter tops 145 million registered users: CEOAFPApps provide shelter from the stormBoston GlobeCNET (blog)&... - Google Celebrates Chrome's Birthday with Stable Release - PC Magazine3 September 2010, 3:50 pm
Pocket-lint.comGoogle Celebrates Chrome's Birthday with Stable ReleasePC MagazineGoogle released an updated version of its Chrome browser, which promises faster speeds and a simplified interface. Can the Samsung Galaxy Tab topple the Apple iPad? We compare the key specs for each tablet side by side to see if the iPad's days as top ...Google Chrome Celebrates Second Birthday With Release of Stable v6.0DailyTechGoogle releases Chrome 6 on second anniversary of browserFierceCIOHappy Birthda...
- Google To Update, Shorten And De-Jargon Privacy Policies – Here’s What’s Changing3 September 2010, 4:33 pm
Mike Yang, Google's Associate General Counsel, just published a post on the Google blog, informing users that the company is making its privacy policies shorter and easier to understand for non-lawyers. They are also making some other changes, but to be clear, the Mountain View company isn't altering its privacy practices as such. The updates will go into effect October 3, which is 30 days from now. ... - Shazam Launches Major Updates To iPhone app, Now On 20m Users3 September 2010, 3:37 pm
Music identification app Shazam has announced big feature updates to its iPhone and iPod touch music discovery apps. There are now customised settings for ‘tagging on start-up’ make the process of identifying a music track faster, a new UI, the ability to search for ringtones and videos on iTunes and better video. You can also share tunes you find via Facebook and Twitter. Shame it doesn't own its name on Twitter then. ... - comScore: Time Spent Watching Live Web Video Up 650 Percent3 September 2010, 3:34 pm
comScore has just released some telling stats about the massive growth of live streaming video over the web. According to the analytics company, over the past year, the amount of time American audiences spent watching video on the major live video publishers (Justin.tv, Ustream, Livestream, LiveVideo, and Stickam) has grown 648% to more than 1.4 billion minutes. Of course, video consumption on the web has grown generally—U.S. audiences watching YouTube and Hulu increased 68% and 75%, respectiv... - Former UK PM Joins Web Foundation – But He Really Should Join Twitter3 September 2010, 3:24 pm
Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ousted in this year's election, is forming the Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation, and has accepted three pro-bono appointments all with some connection to the Web. He's joining Queen Rania of Jordan’s Global Campaign for Education. Queen Rania has 1,337,872 followers on Twitter and last year spoke at Le Web. Brown is also working on a new programme to bring the internet to Africa and joining the board of Tim Berners Lee's World Wide Web Foundation. If ... - Android’s Mobile Web Consumption Share In The US Is Surging, iOS Share Dropping3 September 2010, 3:21 pm
Media measurement and Web analytics company Quantcast has some interesting numbers on mobile browsing in the United States, and it's preparing to release some of those statistics, across vendors. Earlier today, the company put up a teaser blog post, showing two graphs, one of them representing the share of mobile Web consumption in the US per mobile OS. As you can tell, Quantcast concludes Android is storming ahead, now taking up a 25 percent share of total mobile Web consumption in the US. A...
- Apple Trailers Site Now Offering Movie Showtimes3 September 2010, 3:40 pm
As a certified—and possibly certifiable—movie trailer aficionado, I’ve been a devoted visitor of Apple’s trailers page for years. But if you want to go a step... Apple - Film trailer - Trailers - Business - Movies... - Samsung Launches Galaxy Tab3 September 2010, 3:33 pm
UPDATE: Samsung has finally revealed the Galaxy Tab, which will start shipping in October. Samsung Group - Android - Galaxy Tab - Verizon - Samsung Galaxy Tab... - Accenture, Cisco and Sun Still Face Kickbacks Charges3 September 2010, 3:20 pm
Accenture, Cisco and Sun continue to fight against charges that they engaged in a widespread kickback scheme involving government contracts. Cisco Systems - Cisco - Accenture - Government - Data Communications... - Toshiba Satellite Laptops Recalled for Burn Hazard3 September 2010, 3:20 pm
Toshiba Satellite laptops were voluntarily recalled for posing a burn hazard to customers. Laptop - Toshiba - Toshiba Satellite - U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Satellite... - Bugs & Fixes: Revisiting a Magic Mouse Problem3 September 2010, 3:20 pm
Last November, I wrote about how my Magic Mouse would repeatedly lose its connection to my Mac Pro. After some effort, I gave up trying to resolve it—and went... magicmouse - Magic - Performing Arts - Arts - Apple...
- More Twitter users tweeting via mobile apps3 September 2010, 4:28 pm
Number of people accessing the microblogging tool through mobile apps jumps 62 percent since the middle of April.... - Skype updates latest beta with 10-way video calling3 September 2010, 3:29 pm
The newest beta of Skype 5.0 lets you video chat with up to 10 people, send an IM to someone who's offline, and better recover from dropped calls.... - Paris' Twitpic troubles3 September 2010, 3:21 pm
Facebook gets a new remote log-out security feature, India demands that RIM, Google, and Skype add local servers so it can monitor communications, and a recent Twitpic may spoil Paris Hilton's alibi.... - Week in review: Apple harvests iPods, Apple TV3 September 2010, 3:00 pm
Social-networked iTunes accompanies new iPods, while other companies look for a piece of digital distribution pie. Also: Net neutrality... - Facebook reacts to Greenpeace anticoal campaign3 September 2010, 2:17 pm
Social network gets flak from Greenpeace over its planned giant data center in Oregon, but Facebook says its efficiency will be industry-leading....
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