Monday, March 27, 2006

Making money on the internet - Last Explorer leaves Hazelwood plant


Last Explorer leaves Hazelwood plant
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Ford Motor Co. assembly plant in Hazelwood built its last Ford Explorer sports utility vehicle today, marking the end of 58 years of production at that facility. Ford originally scheduled to end production Friday at the plant, where about 1,400

Scrap yards hope to stop theft
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Trying to curb what's been called a "miserable epidemic" of scrap metal theft, Wisconsin recyclers have proposed what could be one of the nation's first statewide theft alert systems. Midwest Iron & Metal Inc., on the citys northwest side, and other

By Kevin Ryden
Olney Daily Mail - Before the 911 system became operational in Richland County nearly a decade ago, there were limited ways to get any information on a call's origin unless the person on the other end gave it to a dispatcher. But challenges arose when callers did not

SUBJECT: FYI: Digital TV switch extended to 2009 Posted By: lukewarm
Stockhouse Canada - It's almost official: Starting Feb. 18, 2009, millions of televisions in American households will go black unless they're outfitted to receive all-digital broadcasts. The deadline became final on Wednesday as part of a broader spending bill that the

A siege on the child-porn market
ABC News - NEW YORK Some of America's most powerful financial institutions have a new target - and it doesn't involve making money. For the first time, titans such as American Express, Bank of America, and Citigroup will join forces to try to thwart the use of

Proposed FEC Rules Would Exempt Most Political Activity on Internet
Washington Post - The Federal Election Commission last night released proposed new rules that leave almost all Internet political activity unregulated except for the purchase of campaign ads on Web sites. "My key goal in this rule-making has been to make sure that the

Bowlen happy T.O. saga over
Denver Post - Orlando, Fla. - There are few people more pleased to see Terrell Owens signed and sealed in Dallas than Pat Bowlen. "I'm very happy it's over," the Broncos' owner said Sunday during a break in the owners' meetings. "I'm extremely happy it's over

Fake "Dirty Bomb" Smuggled into U.S
El Paso News - "dirty bombs" - across U.S. borders in Texas and Washington state in a test last year of security at American points of entry. Radiation alarms at the unidentified sites detected the small amounts of cesium-137, a nuclear material used in industrial

Local Ad Inventory: Beyond Cable
Multichannel Online - Local commercial availabilities, conceived in the early 1980s by cable networks to help their affiliates make money from a new business, are migrating beyond traditional franchised cable providers and allowing a new cadre of video distributors to