The cold days of winter are over and the fresh breezes of spring have begun to blow. As the flowers bloom and the birds chirp, many of us take a look at our homes and want to rid ourselves of
Vertical search is the new breed of Search Engines that more intelligently mine data, from searching for keywords in audio files to focusing on specific industry sectors.The landscape of Search is changing and I recently noticed three vertical search applications,
If you took a cruise aboard a Carnival ship last fall, you may be getting some money back. Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines announced Monday it would refund $40 million to thousands of customers who were issued a fuel surcharge after
Automakers reported double-digit U.S. sales declines in March as demandfor trucks and sport utility vehicles plummeted and consumers held backbecause of concerns about gas prices, the housing slump and tighteningcredit.
The commissioning of a spur line from Kipevu Oil Storage Facility (KOSF) to the Shimanzi Oil Terminal (SOT) has come with many benefits for local oil importers and exporters.
A high level delegation of 240 under the Minister of Trade and Industry, Girma Birru, decided to postpone a crucial meeting scheduled for this week in Geneva, Switzerland, owing to the unavailability of a chairman of the working party at
Figures from the Retail Traffic Index (RTI) by analysts SPSL show a significant 9.2% drop in footfall for the entire holiday fortnight against the Easter break last year, worse even than the fall of 5.2% forecast by SPSL
The British Shops and Stores Association (bssa) is asking for independent non food retailers to take part in its quarterly sales monitor, which provides an alternative snapshot of the health of the high street from the unique perspective of the
Virgin Wines participated in some April Fools Day fun earlier today, when they sent an email to their customers reporting that Alistair Darling was being held hostage over hikes in wine duty.
David Crawshaw and Richard Hill of KPMG Restructuring have been appointed joint administrators of toy retailer Toyzone Ltd and administrative receivers of its parent company Youngsters Ltd.
If you sell digital downloads and have just been booted from eBay auctions, don't fret. We review three alternative marketplaces for new media merchants.
A federal lawsuit filed recently in Alabama alleges that the nation's fourth-largest bank failed to pay call center employees for the time required each shift to log on to their computers and related software before taking calls. Carrie Williams, an
A New Zealand man accused of leading an international cybercrime network was convicted Tuesday of computer hacking after pleading guilty to six charges. Owen Thor Walker, 18, known by his online name "AKILL," was involved in a network accused of
Brian Harrison needs to succeed where his counterparts at Intel and STMicroelectronics failed. As CEO of new chip company Numonyx, Harrison inherits two of those companies' worst-performing units -- and must make them pay off in a way they did
The business use of e-mail worldwide has become so critical that the ever-increasing number of spam attacks containing malware are placing corporate and customer information at the highest levels of risk yet, according to an industry-wide survey Internet security firm