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- Soyuz Rocket Launch Beefs Up Globalstar Satellite Fleet Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:09AMA Soyuz rocket added six new Globalstar satellites to the constellation in space.
- East Deer commissioners OK phone system bid Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 8:03AMEast Deer commissioners awarded a contract to Chestnut Ridge of Blairsville for a telephone system for the municipal building.
- Verizon, Bright House to sell home automation service Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:18PMVerizon and Bright House are suddenly in a mad rush to take control of your coffee maker.
- Medvedev’s Impossible Airplane Ban Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 1:33PMTwo fatal plane crashes within weeks have prompted President Dmitry Medvedev to put on his tough face and call for the grounding of the Soviet-made aircraft involved in the accidents.
- City to get $1.7 million in Verizon settlement Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:10PMVerizon Wireless will pay Lincoln $1.7 million for back occupation taxes, and the city will reduce the reach of its occupation tax on telecommunications under terms of a recent lawsuit settlement.
- Longview 911 system has been restored Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 2:46PMAt approximately 9:50 a.m., Wednesday, July 13, there was an equipment problem with the Longview 9-1-1 center telephone system creating a disruption in normal operations. read more
- Update: Longview 911 system operational Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 12:09PMUpdate: The Longview 911 system is now operational again. The system was restored at about 2:15 pm Wednesday.
- UPDATE: Longview's 911 system restored Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 11:42AMAt approximately 9:50 a.m., Wednesday, July 13, there was an equipment problem with the Longview 9-1-1 center telephone system creating a disruption in normal operations.
- Starwatch Consumer | Netflix to raise fees; Facebook , Time Warner fight bullying; new rules on phone charges Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 10:28PMNetflix has announced it is changing its subscription plan in a way that sharply increases the monthly rate for those wanting both DVD rentals by mail and streaming content over the Internet.
- Report: More Than 1/3 Of Adults Own Smartphones Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 11:48AMAccording to a new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 35% of U.S. adults own a smartphone. ...
- U.S. Delays $800 Million for Pakistan as Ties at ‘Low Point’ Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 12:35PMThe U.S. is withholding about $800 million in military aid to Pakistan over actions by the nuclear- armed country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, said White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley.
- Forward Township threatening to disband its police Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 7:39AMAt a regular meeting Thursday, supervisors said they sent a letter last month to Teamsters Local 205, the police department's union, stating the township intended to disband the force of four full-time and three part-time officers at the end of this calendar year, rather than enter into a new contract with the department as the current one expires.
- Noyac Golf Course Debacle Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 8:54AMBy Courtney M. Holbrook When Maureen Kirrane Devlin works in her house on Wildwood Road, she says she hears an almost constant buzz of construction. When she looks out her backyard, she adds that she sees a flat space filled with bulldozers that is bereft of trees. It is not Devlin’s property, but that of the adjacent [...]
- Tele-Health Monitoring: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2011 to 2017 Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 3:22AMNEW YORK , July 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Tele-Health Monitoring: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2011 to 2017 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0569001/Tele-Health-Monitoring-Market-Shares-Strategies-and-Forecasts-Worldwide-2011-to-2017.html#utm_source=prnewswire ...
- Call of Crisis 911 emergency service faces funding issues Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 11:30AMIn the past months, there has been growing concern over the crisis that is facing the state's 911 system. The 911 system has always been set up to receive its funding from the surcharge that is...
- Scotland Aims to Be the Arabia of Green Energy Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 3:14PMResearchers in Scotland's Orkney Islands are seeking to transform the archipelago into a global hub of the renewable energy age, just as Saudi Arabia has been for global oil production
- Muskegon radio station 103.7 The Beat recovering from lightning bolt Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 1:07PMThe general manager of Muskegon's 103.7 The Beat is grateful the radio station didn't suffer worse damage from a lightning strike and fire Friday. The station is back on the air broadcasting an automated music playlist on reduced power, with full operations hoped for by the end of the week.
- Home Work - Tue, 05 Jul 2011 PST Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 2:28AMPHILADELPHIA – Remember when the “experts” said that most Americans would telecommute from home offices to work every day? Hasn’t happened, although ever-evolving technology has made the notion more viable. Think laptops, netbooks, printers, smartphones and tablets, networked through a wireless router to a high-speed Internet connection.
- Turning Scots Into Green Saudis Spurs EON, Iberdrola Sea Snakes Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 2:09AMAbove the entrance to a converted school in the Orkney Islands, off the northern tip of Scotland, a line from John F. Kennedy is inscribed on the wall: “We need people who can dream of things that never were.”
- Sponsored By: Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 9:27AMSTATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE PERMIT The Department of Environmental Protection gives notice of its intent to issue a permit to Rayonier Performance Fibers, LLC, Mr. C.A. McDonald, Post Office Box 2002, Fernandina Beach, Florida 32035 for the Fernandina Beach Dissolving Sulfite Pulp Mill. The mill manufactures high purity dissolving pulp grades ...
- 2010 4th on Broadway barely survived after flood of problems Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 12:17AMOnly the generosity of four anonymous philanthropists stopped the 2010 4th on Broadway from facing financial doom.
- Making the Most Out Of a Home Office Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 11:48PMAbout 2 percent of U.S. workers consider home their workplace. Working from home is still gaining popularity. If you'll be working for long periods in your home office, think ergonomically.
- National Safety Month: Vivint’s Smart Home Technologies Save Real Customers from Armed Intruder, Fire, Medical Emergency Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 12:00PMPROVO, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Home automation or “smart home” technologies include features that add ease and convenience, but they also offer other benefits that can keep homes and families more secure-and even save lives.
- Adding office still increases home value Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 11:25AMRemember when the "experts" said that most Americans would telecommute from home offices to work every day? Hasn't happened, although ever-evolving technology has made the notion more viable. Think laptops, netbooks, printers, smartphones, and tablets, networked through a wireless router to a high-speed Internet connection. Thanks to wireless technology, you don't even need a physical home ...
- Adding home office could increase the home's value Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 9:20AMAbout 2 percent of U.S. workers - the self-employed and unpaid volunteers excluded - consider home their primary workplace, the Telework Research Network says. It estimates that 20 million to 30 million people work from home at least one day a week.
- Cloud-Based Post-Call Survey System Saves Call Centers Time and Money Using Speaker Recognition for Agent Identification Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 7:20AMPost-call survey systems can be slow and expensive to install, especially if they require integration with a call center's call recording system. Now, VirtualLogger is speeding the install process and cutting costs with a new system that eliminates most of the steps required for installation, while still obtaining all of the information a call center needs.
- Vonage (2011) Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 9:01AMVonage can lower your monthly home phone bill pretty significantly, but it can't match the deep savings you'll get from netTALK DUO—unless you make a lot of international calls. Vonage's international plans are superb.
- Latest News: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 8:03AMLily Russell has been offering various complementary therapies locally, for the past 10 years. “I have recently added pregnancy and post partum massage to my repertoire of treatments.
- Call for Will County 911 board to formally scrap command center plan Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 4:12PMMokena Village Trustee Don Labriola is relieved to hear that the plug has been pulled on a new 911 command center.The Will County 911 board should have scuttled the project years ago before spending almost $1 million on architectural plans for the building, Labriola said Tuesday.Will County 911, created by referendum in 1989, is funded through 75-cent monthly phone surcharges paid by county ...
- Co-op phone problems stall outage reports Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 7:45AMApproximately 3,000 Cullman Electric Cooperative customers were without power Sunday due to strong wind and thunderstorms — but problems with the co-op’s phone system prevented most of them from reporting it.
- Severing of major fiber optic artery disrupts communication Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 10:41PMThe Pennington County treasurer’s computer link with the Department of Revenue in Pierre abruptly disappeared when a fiber optic cable was severed Monday morning.
- Janine di Giovanni: 'I was not as unbroken as I thought' Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 6:20AMWar correspondent Janine di Giovanni saw death and trauma on a scale unimaginable to most of us. She thought she was immune to fear. But, as her compelling memoir reveals, when she and her husband finally put war behind them to start a family, the past came back to shatter their lives… Bruno and I arrived in Paris in rainy January, the first week of the new year, shuffling our feet like little ...
- Medical misdiagnoses can have fatal consequences Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 11:39PMA son's struggle to get a correct diagnosis for his mother shows what can happen when a complicated medical case is initial misdiagnosed. Mary Reindl, initially given just 24 hours to live, is still breathing seven months later in part because a doctor vigorously — some say abrasively — fought to counter an established course of treatment .
- Deaf 7-Eleven manager who was fired awarded $934,000 in discrimination suit Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 3:19PMThe 58-year-old Naples man is deaf, but he worked his way up the worldwide retailer's ranks because his bosses always accommodated him. He was able to speak to his employees and supervisors face-to-face — so he could read their lips — and by faxing or texting.
- Free Technology for Hearing and Speech Impaired Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 3:05PMUSF helps Tampa Bay residents through partnership with the Deaf and Hearing Connection for Tampa Bay.
- Home Economics: How to adapt a home for a home office in today's economy Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 3:12AMRemember when the "experts" said that most Americans would telecommute from home offices to work every day? Hasn't happened, although ever-evolving technology has made the notion more viable. Think laptops, netbooks, printers, smartphones, and tablets, networked through a wireless router to a high-speed Internet connection.
- Nigeria: How Suicide Bombers Evaded Bomb Detector Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 3:09AMLast Thursday's bomb attack at the Police Headquarters in Abuja, LEADERSHIP investigations can authoritatively confirm, happened while the inspector general of Police (IGP), Mr. Hafiz Ringim, was in the lift headed for his office.
- Is a tornado siren a 'bad investment?' Some communities say yes Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 5:26AMTwo townships in Kent County say they cannot afford the cost of the alert system.
- Commission rejects business license fee increase proposal Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 3:47AMWhile rejecting an increase in the business license fees, the Lyon County Board of Commissioners nonetheless approved an annual fee resolution for fiscal year 2011-12.
- Israeli army, telco face off over emergency SMS alert test Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 3:13AMThe Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel's third-largest cellular telephone service provider, Orange, are at odds over the use of the firm's SMS (Short Message Service -- cellphone text messages) system to send emergency alerts to the populace in wartime.
- Child rape victim seeks to keep attacker in prison Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 5:59AMMcBrayer fooled child predator expert in years-long assaults on stepdaughter
- BGE: Most Lights Are Back On Saturday, June 18, 2011 @ 10:53AMBGE says it has made significant progress in restoring service after Friday's severe weather left thousands without power.
- Poloncarz faults Collins’ robocalls in campaign shot Saturday, June 18, 2011 @ 5:32AMDon’t look now, but the 2011 campaign for county executive is under way.
- Telehealth: Nurses strive to be on the cutting edge Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 2:09PMAs a registered nurse with a master of science in nursing degree, Sharon M. Bradley, RN, MSN, the president and chief executive officer of Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County, already had a lot of initials after her name. Now she adds some more — DNP — which stands for a doctorate of nursing practice, recently earned from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. A DNP is an ...
- U.S. Air Force Receives 300 Sectera Edge Smartphones by General Dynamics for Senior Leadership Communications Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 1:58PMSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. | General Dynamics C4 Systems is delivering300 rugged Sectera Edge(TM) Smartphones to the U.S. Air Force. For use by senior leadership at the air staff and major command levels,...
- MARION SELECTMEN’S NOTEBOOK: June 16 Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 1:08PMThe significant thunderstorms that passed through the region Thursday, May 19, caused damage to several key pieces of communication equipment at Marion Fire Department.
- Internet surfers get faster links Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 6:19AMMORE than 17,000 homes and businesses in and around Cowley are set to get super-fast Internet connections by the end of the year.
- Alum spread onto Half Moon Lake to stop algae, weeds (with video) Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 12:07AM1878-1926: Half Moon Lake is used as a log reservoir to serve the sawmills. 1959: Sherman Creek is diverted from the lake to the Chippewa River because the City-County Health Department believes it was the cause of high bacteria in the lake.
- Yuma-area law agencies get communication funds Sunday, June 12, 2011 @ 8:20PM• USCBP — one IP P25 Radio Console, one Data Interop Console, one Mobile Data Computer, one MDC Air Card and one Microwave link. Cost: $320,050. • U.S. Marshals — one Data Interop Console. Cost: $40,000.
- NASA Solicitation: Two Modular Softside 14644-4 Class 7 Cleanrooms Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 9:29PMNASA Solicitation: Two Modular Softside 14644-4 Class 7 Cleanrooms