Friday, April 28, 2006

Making money - USG looks at tasks for upcoming semester


USG looks at tasks for upcoming semester
BG News - As Undergraduate Student Government settled into their new meeting room the Union, senators shared their personal goals for the semester. With three and a half months left to work out their official goals, the Undergraduate Student Government

TriStone Bank close to making a profit
Winston-Salem Journal - TriStone Community Bank moved closer to turning its first quarterly profit in the first quarter, with the Winston-Salem bank reporting a loss of $122,000 today. The bank, which opened for business in December 2004, reduced its loss by $57,000 in the

EA settles overtime suit
Silicon Valley - Software engineers working at Electronic Arts, the world's largest video-game publisher, Tuesday won $14.9 million in a settlement of a California class-action lawsuit against the Redwood City-based company for unpaid overtime. Some of the engineers

Making money on the moon seen key to exploration
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Making money on the moon is an essential part of the U.S. plan for space exploration, NASA officials said on Friday after a four-day strategy workshop with international space officials and scientists. Billed as the first

Web 2.0 Explorer
ZDNet Blogs - In a post entitled Live.com I don't get it , Rick Strahl noted the poor performance of live.com - Microsoft's beta Ajax homepage. I too have been having performance issues with live.com, so much so that I've stopped using it for now. For one

Sweet Victory: The Resolutions Roll In
Nation - Co-written by Sam Graham-Felsen. No matter how many polls show that the majority of American citizens (and even troops ) want a speedy withdrawal from Iraq, the stay-the-course consensus continues to suffocate DC. Yet, while politicians may be able

Making miracles: Frisco youth league provides opportunities for all
McKinney Courier-Gazette - There are few things as priceless as seeing the smile on a young child's face. But for some families, those smiles don't come as often as they might like. That is why DFW Miracle Baseball and a group of like-minded Frisco residents decided to raise

Light, Clear, Not Odorless
ABC News - With Exxon Mobil reporting a 7 percent increase in first-quarter profits with a net income of $8.4 billion, and the party's pollsters telling them that this issue sticks (and could stick them), Republicans will act (again) today. LINK Look for a noon

Vonage Doubles Expected Value of IPO
NewsFactor Network - "It's such a huge increase in subscriber growth, it's kind of shocking," said Stephan Beckert, an analyst at the research firm TeleGeography. "Now the challenge is going to be making money off those subscribers." Vonage Holdings Corp., the country's

A News.com report on advances in science.
CNET News - The company won't say but they all aren't working on the vacuums, said Andy Samways, an engineer at the British company in an impromptu meeting at The Cool Products Expo at Stanford University. All Samways would say is that the company is looking at