Making money on the internet - Dr. Google is in

Dr. Google is in
Globe and Mail - Heather Copeland had a bad rash. It hurt even before you could see it. It was just on one side, blistery, and very red. Heather's mother had a similar affliction 10 years ago. Heather and her mom both had shingles. The only difference between Heather

Tour's players share common goal of making it to LPGA
El Paso Times - Dreams come in all shapes and sizes and there can never, never be a time frame on dreams. There are 144 talented, dream-filled golfers at the Underwood Golf Complex today, competing in the $75,000 IOS Futures Classic. The winner of the 54-hole

Democrats Acting Badly
CNS News - * You know? I'm beginning to feel bad for the Congressional Democrats. Every time it looks like they might be making some headway in their push to take back control of the US House, something bad happens to set them back. * Or two somethings

Veteran Firefighter Killed During Domestic Violence Call
El Paso News - Saturday, May 6, 2006 The incident stated as a domestic violence call from a veteran police officer who is married to veteran fire fighter. At 3:20 a.m. Saturday, police received a call that 38-year old Martha De Anda was being assaulted by her

An apology
GrandPrix.com - We would like to apologise the our readers today for a lack of news from the Nurburgring. This is because of difficulties encountered with communications as the circuit feels the need to charge each member of the international media $380 to get

Analysis: Soros pumps millions into global change
Connellsville Daily Courier - Billionaire financier George Soros, who has helped trigger financial turmoil and political upheaval overseas, is coming to Pittsburgh this weekend to discuss the impact of his Open Society Institute. Soros will address the 57th annual Council on

Gaming s Future: The Network
Red Herring - Not long ago, people who wanted to play games online had to settle for hearts, bridge, and solitaire. What a difference a few years make. Game developers are now pouring millions of dollars into making highly sophisticated games like World of

Meet the eBay Millionaires!
MSNBC - Turning Talk Into Sales: David Wirtenberg loves to talk. "I could talk your ear off," he says. "I love what I do. I'm a very passionate person." His ability to make sales, and his prior experience in sales for Bear Stearns and Auto Data Processing

Making money - Singh urges less money for financing U.S. debt

Singh urges less money for financing U.S. debt
International Herald Tribune - May 05 6:45 AM
India's prime minister urged Asian nations to divert their vast savings and trade surpluses from foreign currency holdings.Save to My Web

Initiative could make millionaires of everyone in Nevada city
KBCI Boise - May 05 3:05 PM
BOULDER CITY, Nev. A petition making the rounds in the town outside Las Vegas could make all Boulder City's residents millionaires. It would sell off 167 square miles of undeveloped open land in a primo location near Sin City. Ninety percent of the money would go to residents.Save to My Web

Hundreds attend gala fund-raiser
Rocky Mount Telegram - 14 minutes ago
A former U.S. representative helped a local adult day health care center raise money Friday night.Save to My Web

Buffett hints at more non-U.S. deals after Iscar purchase
FinanzNachrichten - May 06 10:59 AM
OMAHA, Neb (AFX) - Warren Buffett hinted Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ( Nachrichten ) will be making more acquisitions outside the U.S., a day after the company agreed to buy 80% of Israeli metal-cutting-tool maker Iscar Metalworking Cos. for $4 billion.Save to My Web

Free Money Transfers to India
Glamsham.com - May 06 7:18 AM
In Naushad's career spanning 60 years, film "Saathi" came roughly halfway, but it was a landmark that the legendary musician did not relish recalling.Save to My Web

A man who finds out why we buy what we buy
INQ7money.net - May 06 3:46 PM
PACO Underhill's name may not ring a bell to most Filipinos but to many retailers, Underhill holds the key to making their cash registers ring.Save to My Web

Corzine pulls plug on block grants
NorthJersey.com - May 06 12:43 PM
TRENTON -- Governor Corzine will permanently freeze millions of dollars remaining in a state grant program over concerns that money from the fund was doled out unfairly.Save to My Web

'Save' your future, put away money regularly
The Arizona Republic - 19 minutes ago
It's official: Saving money is tough. Consumers are dipping deeper into savings than at any time since 1933, the bottom of the Great Depression, the Department of Commerce calculates.Save to My Web

Making money on the internet - Ottawa won't reveal imbalance solution until 2007

Ottawa won't reveal imbalance solution until 2007
Windsor Star - TORONTO -- The provinces will have to wait until 2007 to find out how Ottawa plans to make good on a budget promise to close the so-called fiscal gap, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday. While a pledge was made in this week's federal budget

Bestwick: Childress Racing making strides
MSNBC - In every sport when an organization with a history of success falls on hard times and then starts to recapture its winning ways, it's a good story. In NASCAR, such a story is being written this season by Richard Childress Racing. When a heritage

Bill would keep more oil and gas revenue home
Baton Rouge Advocate - U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, shown after addressing the City Club of Baton Rouge last month, spoke to the state Legislature today on a bill before Congress allowing Louisiana to retain a larger part of the revenues of its offshore oil and gas operations

Fan turns blog about NY Mets into full time job
WTNH.com - (Milford-WTNH, May 5, 2006 4:45 PM ) _ It's one thing to love you're team but it's another to quit you're job to blog about them, but that's exactly what a local fanatic of the New York Mets has done. by News Channel 8's Chris Velardi Matthew Cerrone

Rachel, should I
Media Life Magazine - After college I accepted an assistant media planner position with an agency, and I have been with the same agency for the past three years. I have received a promotion to media planner along with a raise, but I still feel like I am not making the

Making money - CHINA: Journalist not given fair deal for trial, wife says

CHINA: Journalist not given fair deal for trial, wife says
Asia Media - Beijing --- A journalist who reported on alleged local government corruption in central China's Hunan province will go on trial next week without having been able to prepare his defence, his wife said yesterday. The trial of Yang Xiaoqing, who was

In low-key race, Susan Castillo looks to keep schools job
Katu.com - PORTLAND, Ore. - When the rumors started swirling that she might, just might, have an eye on fellow Democrat Ted Kulongoski's gubernatorial job, Schools Superintendent Susan Castillo moved swiftly to squelch them, announcing last summer that she

In The Spotlight
CBS News - CBS News on YOUR schedule. WATCH the top stories of the day in full broadband quality. CBS News Video is ALWAYS FREE. For years, Steve traveled across the country proving that Everybody Has A Story . Get reacquainted with the people Steve met along

By Annie Linskey
Baltimore Sun - Former WMAR sportscaster Keith Ross Mills was sentenced Friday to nine months of house arrest for stealing prescription painkillers from his next-door neighbor in Linthicum, a woman with cancer. Mills, 48, pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary

Recess for Life
Madison Courier - Students at Southwestern Elementary School participated in Recess for Life this week. The event helped the children learn more about cancer and also to raise money for cancer research. Second-grader Cody Holman, right, writes the name of his

Making money on the internet - Mental study ordered in immigration case

Mental study ordered in immigration case
Indianapolis Star - FARGO, N.D. -- A judge has ordered a mental evaluation for an Indiana businessman accused of money laundering and conspiracy in a scheme to hire illegal immigrants to work in seven states. Federal prosecutors said Robert Porcisanu, 28, did not

Will there be Summer Rec.?
Pope County Tribune - Will there or won t there be Summer Rec. this summer? As of right now; no one really knows. Monetary shortfalls has left little option but to cancel the program unless something changes by May 17. The camps would be OK, said Activities

Making money - Corzine kills program that funded Democratic lawmakers' pet projects

Corzine kills program that funded Democratic lawmakers' pet projects
Asbury Park Press - TRENTON -- Gov. Jon S. Corzine snatched away at least $25 million intended for Democratic lawmakers' pet projects, eliminating a program today that Republican critics had labeled a "slush fund.'' Corzine killed the program about one month after a

Farmer Jack, now making money, introduces new price-cutting plan
WZZM 13 - Detroit- Farmer Jack plans to launch a new price-chopping campaign on Saturday aimed at winning back market share lost to Kroger Co. and Meijer Inc. in recent years. After finding no takers for the 67-store chain last year, the Detroit-based grocer's

San Diego Losing Police Officers To Better Paying Jobs
KFMB - (AP) - About 16 officers are leaving the San Diego Police Department each month to seek better-paying work and through attrition, city officials said Thursday. Andrea Tevlin, the city's new independent budget analyst, told the committee the

Making Crime Pay
CBS News - Do a crime, do the time and pay the bill. (National Review Online) This column was written by Daniel Freedman . While the relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks may be upset that al Qaeda s Zacarias Moussaoui will serve

Sustainable Energy Conference May 6th, Northampton Making a Difference
Social Funds - Energy has become big news. Trying to Cope with High Gas Costs. Oil Firms Profit Big. Gas Costs Fuel Change. Taking the Bus is the Way to Go. Global Warming: Be worried; be very worried! ( CSRwire ) Co-op Power, a Northeast-region citizen-owned

Making money - You can't spell new Microsoft without A and D

You can't spell new Microsoft without A and D
Seattle Times - Yusuf Mehdi's new job at Microsoft is to develop the advertising strategy across the entire company even in products like Windows or Office, where ads were once considered taboo. Internally, he has to persuade executives and developers to start

How to teach your kids the value of a dollar
MSNBC - As the mother of two children, neither of whom (thank goodness) have hit their teenage years quite yet, I am keeping a list of those things my kids will have to know more about or at least understand in a different way than I did at their age

Post Office Wants to Boost Stamp Prices
WTVD - (05/03/06 - WASHINGTON, DC) - The Postal Service said Wednesday it wants to raise the price of a first-class stamp by 3 cents -- to 42 cents -- and suggested a "forever" stamp that people could use as hedge against future rate inflation. The changes

Post Office Proposes 3-Cent Rate Increase
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - WASHINGTON -- The Postal Service said Wednesday it wants to raise the price of a first-class stamp by 3 cents -- to 42 cents -- and suggested a "forever" stamp that people could use as hedge against future rate inflation. The changes would take

Bethlehem s salad luncheon set Saturday
Frazee Forum - Fia Apriliyana might never come to Frazee. Nevertheless, she ll be the guest of honor at a salad luncheon this Saturday, May 6, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church. The menu will include a wide array of pasta, vegetable, meat, taco and

Media Business
News Busters - In the face of continuously poor ratings, liberal fans of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann are teaming up to support their hero . The liberal group MoveOn.org got in on the act earlier this year as it urged its membership to watch Olbermann's "Countdown

Distance Ed Pioneer Reassesses Itself
Inside Higher Ed - That s because long before for-profit colleges like the University of Phoenix, Strayer University and Capella University made Internet-based education a widespread phenomenon the institution has been churning out a variety of long distance

Making money - Men In Black

Men In Black
Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News - May 01 4:00 PM
Energy: The same people who vilify profitable oil companies ignore the top line of financial statements and don't know the first thing about what it takes to make the fuel that drives our economy.Save to My Web

Making money - Once near death, tech stocks breathe new life

Once near death, tech stocks breathe new life
Globe and Mail, Canada - Apr 28, 2006 Making money in energy, gold and metals stocks today is connect phones, computers and the Internet without wires question about tech persists: Can money be made

Unused Google sites rake in cash
The Standard, Hong Kong - May 1, 2006 intellectual property lawyer said the practice amounts to someone making money off someone this lookalike crap online, then the value for Internet consumers is

The new scramble for Africa
MyADSL, South Africa - 22 hours ago However its Internet expansion strategy through its subsidiary Wanadoo appears to have purchases made show they are seriously interested in making money on the

Making money - MySpace-linked cell phones go on sale

MySpace-linked cell phones go on sale
MSNBC - NEW YORK - U.S. mobile phones are pretty staid affairs compared to what's available in Asia and Europe, but a phone service launching Tuesday aims to bring cutting-edge features from South Korea to a U.S. audience. Helio Inc. is a joint venture of

The Great Microsoft Blunder
PC Magazine - I think it can now be safely said, in hindsight, that Microsoft's entry into the browser business and its subsequent linking of the browser into the Windows operating system looks to be the worst decision and perhaps the biggest, most costly gaffe

Firefox backers aim to 'destroy' IE with campaign
Network World Fusion - "You already want people to switch to Firefox. Now's the time to get serious about it," according to the site. "Google is paying $1 for each new Firefox user you refer. Now you can advance your ideals, save people from popups and spyware hell

The Best Kept Secret
Motley Fool - "You can find vast amounts of information and help here all written in plain English instead of Wall Street jargon." Fortune Magazine " Inside Value is the best the Fool has to offer. It is for actual investors, not tenderfoot gamblers in the

Gary Thompson | 'United 93' director let the story speak for itself
Philadelphia Inquirer - WHEN Hollywood looked for a director to helm the movie to recreate the 9/11 attacks, they didn't just pull a name out of a hat. "United 93" director Paul Greengrass came to the project with a formidable resume as a filmmaker and a lifelong grounding

May 1, 2006
Medford Mail Tribune - Google Inc., which runs the largest ad network on the Internet, is making millions of dollars a year by filling otherwise unused Web sites with ads. In many instances, these ad-filled pages appear when users mistype an Internet address, such as

Vonage More Than Doubles IPO Expectations
ABC News - NEW YORK Apr 28, 2006 (AP) Vonage Holdings Corp., the country's largest Internet telephone service, on Friday more than doubled the amount it expects to raise in its initial public offering and reported record subscriber growth. Vonage, which in

BorderWare Security Network Provides Next Generation Reputation
CanadaIT.com - Innovative Behavioral Analysis of All Communications Protocols Including HTTP, SMTP, IM, FTP & VoIP; Protects Customers From More Than Email Attacks Interop -- BorderWare Technologies Inc., the leading provider of content and application security

RealMoney Radio: Not So Great Expectations
Street.Com - All across the country, protests are taking place that spotlight the immigration issue, Jim Cramer said on his "RealMoney" radio show . Some want amnesty and eventual citizenship for illegal immigrants, while others want to build a wall around the

Making money - Vonage More Than Doubles IPO Expectations

Vonage More Than Doubles IPO Expectations
ABC News - NEW YORK May 1, 2006 (AP) Vonage Holdings Corp., the country's largest Internet telephone service, on Friday more than doubled the amount it expects to raise in its initial public offering and reported record subscriber growth. Vonage, which in

The Best Kept Secret
Motley Fool - "You can find vast amounts of information and help here all written in plain English instead of Wall Street jargon." Fortune Magazine " Inside Value is the best the Fool has to offer. It is for actual investors, not tenderfoot gamblers in the

Study: Consumers would trade some privacy for convenience
Computerworld - FREE 30-Day Trial of Spy Sweeper Enterprise Stop spyware from accessing your confidential data and customer records. Download a FREE trial of Webroot s Spy Sweeper EnterpriseTM for 30 days with no obligation . In this webcast from the April, 2006

Some Web sites invest in domain names alone
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - The Web site www.flashgames.com has no staff, spends no money on marketing and despite its name, offers no games. All it offers is a list of links to other game sites. Yet it earns revenue of more than $150,000 a year selling online ads. Flashgames

Inventor fills the need for speed
Edwardsville Intelligencer - Steve Norbury's air-powered, drag strip ride may be the fastest amusement ride in the world. Or maybe not. Maybe it's Space Mountain, at nearby Disney World or Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster, in Sandusky, Ohio. Fastest or not

Kids' issues worry Bay Area residents
San Jose Mercury News - Bay Area residents are more concerned about the well-being of children and education than health care, the war in Iraq, or the region's cost of living, according to a survey released Friday. And when respondents were read a wide-ranging list of 23

Making money - The Great Microsoft Blunder

The Great Microsoft Blunder
PC Magazine - I think it can now be safely said, in hindsight, that Microsoft's entry into the browser business and its subsequent linking of the browser into the Windows operating system looks to be the worst decision and perhaps the biggest, most costly gaffe

A caveat emptor to every inventor
Bergen Record - Not all inventions come from the Thomas Edisons and Steve Jobses of the world. As the folks at ABC-TV have shown, everyday people like Janusz Liberkowski and Joe Safuto can also come up with products to make our life safer or easier -- and have a

Nets, Stations Weigh Web Pacts at NAB
Mediaweek - Talk of new Internet-driven business models and who would profit from them dominated the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas last week. Anne Sweeney, president, ABC/Disney Television Group, took the podium to address TV

Software Notebook: Microsoft gambles on big spending
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Turns out it's not cheap to take on Google, Yahoo! and the rest of the known Internet. Microsoft's latest financial filings show that it boosted spending by more than $100 million, or more than 22 percent, in its MSN division last quarter -- even as

In 'Darfur Is Dying,' The Game That's Anything But
Washington Post - In the online game "Darfur Is Dying," launched at yesterday's Save Darfur rally on the Mall, atrocity is a click of a mouse away. A player can be a 14-year-old girl in a blue dress with white polka dots named Elham, in search of water for her camp

Internet voting campaign underway for Pam Dickson to win Diet Rite
North Channel Sun - Have you voted for Pam Dickson today? Dickson's friend and Atascocita neighbor Clota "Tina" DeNoville hopes that you did. She nominated Dickson for Diet Rite's Zero Boundaries Woman of 2006 contest and now Dickson is one of seven finalists who have a

Internet merchants fight the cost of credit fraud
Medford Mail Tribune - BETHLEHEM, Pa. Talk about buyer's remorse: A man who had purchased a $4,500 custom-made engagement ring over the Internet abruptly called off the wedding just days before the big day then called his credit card company to get his money back

Blogger who criticized Maine tourism office faces lawsuit
Boston Globe - A coastal Maine blogger who criticized the state's tourism office has been hit with a lawsuit seeking potentially more than $1 million in damages for allegedly making false statements and posting on his website, Maine Web Report, images from proposed

Making money on the internet - Gary Thompson | 'United 93' director let the story speak for itself

Gary Thompson | 'United 93' director let the story speak for itself
Philly.com - 24 minutes ago
WHEN Hollywood looked for a director to helm the movie to recreate the 9/11 attacks, they didn't just pull a name out of a hat. "United 93" director Paul Greengrass came to the project with a formidable resume as a filmmaker and a lifelong grounding in the cultural and political issues that accompany terror and counterterror: He hails from Ireland.Save to My Web

Small carb repair a big business in Spencer
Sioux City Journal - Apr 29 11:20 PM
SPENCER, Iowa -- The scariest thing Robert Beaver ever did was leave his job to go into his own business full time. "There was no planning. It just happened," Beaver admits 11 years later.Save to My Web

Millionaire's 14,000 mile bike ride
NewsWales - Apr 30 7:32 AM
New Zealand investment adviser, adventurer and writer Gareth Morgan, who achieved global publicity last month by giving $40 million to charity, has quietly set out by motorcycle on a 117-day, 13,903 mile (22,374 km.) journey through North America.Save to My Web