LAS VEGAS, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Today MyStore.com confirmed Julian Lennon, son of Beatles icon John Lennon, is among the group of private investors behind yourStore, LLC. The company owns and operates http://www.mystore.com/, an online marketplace. "In addition to his monetary investment, Julian has contributed some great ideas to the options MyStore.com offers to musicians and artists who want to resell or self distribute their music and art online. As an independent artist himself, Mr. Lennon was an early user of MyStore.com, setting up his own MyStore and linking it to several places he has a presence online including his MySpace page. We are glad to have him involved. He's been a friend for a long time," stated Todd Meagher, the company's CEO.

MyStore.com is owned by yourStore, LLC (http://www.yourstore.com/) which is a virtual real estate company and application service provider offering individuals and businesses with FREE online "retail" space and software usage in the form of personalized web stores located within the company's marketplace http://www.mystore.com/ and an e-commerce service provider offering seller support and software services; including web hosting, site design, marketing, fulfillment and inventory and customer management tools.

Digital River Expands E-Commerce Agreement with Skype

Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that it expanded its e-commerce agreement with Skype. As part of the agreement, Digital River is now hosting all of Skypes e-commerce operations and globally supporting the newly designed online Skype Shop. The online Skype Shop, located at www.skype.com/shop, now features multiple languages and currencies.

We continue to expand our presence in the consumer electronics market, deploying large-scale, global e-commerce operations and driving online efficiencies on behalf of leading high-tech companies, said Joel Ronning, Digital Rivers CEO. We are excited to further extend our relationship with Skype, implementing our e-commerce best practices, smart sourcing solution and central management across a very complex shop configuration.

IU sports chat with H-T's Doug Wilson & Chris Korman

First things first: do I have your permission to tell Doug his work as sports editor is "papapapathethic" next time I'm angry? Seems like a good word, one that could be delivered with force. Papapapathethic! I haven't yet watched the film of last night's game and don't know that I'll have time to give it a good review. But maybe during the Penn State game I'll do a true statistical analysis (and by that, I mean I'll try to keep track on a yellow legal pad) of how many times Gordon drives to the basket and loses the ball. And I'd bet your home in lovely Oregon that it's not anywhere near half the time. Or even 30 percent of the time. Still, I see I what you're saying. And all I can say is that great players -- and Gordon is one -- need the ball in their hands. Wayne Gretzky said you miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.

Justice Federal Credit Union Goes Live with Fortent's Hosted Anti ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Justice Federal Credit Union (www.justicefcu.org) has gone "live" with Fortent's hosted anti-money laundering (AML) solution throughout its operations, Fortent announced today. Justice FCU provides financial services to more than 45,000 employees of the U.S. Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and law enforcement associations nationwide.

Designed as a lower-cost alternative for financial institutions with up to $70 billion in assets, Fortent Hosted AML employs the same Fortent technology that is endorsed by the American Bankers Association and is used by larger multinational institutions around the world. The hosted offering provides rapid implementation of Fortent's transaction monitoring application to financial services companies looking to accelerate their compliance cost savings and reduce IT overheads.

Interview with FARC Commander Raul Reyes

But they persist and join the guerrillas, they flee from their houses and appear at our guard posts. It so happens that they join the FARC voluntarily. But many times when they leave they lie to their fathers and mothers and say that they were forced to join and the fathers and mothers believe them. And later, if the authorities conduct an investigation, the parents say that their son or daughter was forced to join and then that information is collected by Amnesty International or others. But I reiterate, it is not the policy of the FARC to recruit children or to enlist anybody by force.

Reyes: The FARC uses mines against the public forces. The mine fields are used against the public forces, never against the civilian population, never.

Art, love, and one giant war

Paul Tarrant is living his dream. Thanks to a legacy from his slumlord grandmom, the 20-something from northern England is enrolled at the prestigious Slade School in London, learning to be a "real" artist. Too bad he isn't.

To make matters worse, Paul meets Kit Neville, a slightly older artist who has made a name painting the gritty, urban scenes Paul was surrounded by growing up, and which he escaped by painting pretty landscapes. To complicate things further, both men are preoccupied with the same woman, Elinor Brooke, another Slade student.

Pact with ICE allows U.S. phone firm to skin callers

When a tourist uses a credit card to make an international call at one of those funny looking telephones at about 400 hotels here, everybody wins. Except the tourist.

The hotel gets $7.

The Costa Rican phone company gets paid, too.

And the owner of the phone, BBG Communications of San Diego, California, gets a payday that may run into the hundreds of dollars.

Another big winner is the Galicot family, said to be one of the richest in Tijuana, México. Family members appear to own and manage the company as well as a more conventional phone service in México, G-Tel. Most company officials would not respond to questions.

BBG Communications has managed to accrue at least 800 complaints since 1996 at the San Diego Better Business Bureau.

As Windows Server 2008 RTMs, Customers and Partners Adopting with Help ...

REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 4, 2008 –Approaching the company's largest enterprise launch in its history, Microsoft reached another important milestone today with the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Server 2008. The response from IT professionals and developers has been strong as the company moves toward the worldwide launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 on February 27.

IT professionals face increasing pressure from rapidly changing technology, increasing costs and security concerns, and expanding business needs. Windows Server 2008 helps alleviate these pressures by automating daily management tasks, tightening security, improving efficiency and increasing availability.

Candidates offer final messages before Iowa caucus

She fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds back in 1993. To prevent this disastrous health care crisis that is now devastating the American people, and America. She fought so hard for the American people that she risk almost completely destroying her husbands presidency. I haven't forgotten her heroic effort. If any Presidential hopeful for universal health care deserves my support, it's her.

Also, if we the American people fail to bring enough pressure on our government to give us HR 676 which we all so desperately need NOW! Then we will need the most skilled politician we can get on our side to broker the best health care plan for the American people that we can get. Though it will be less than we need, and less than we deserve. The politician I think to best do this is Hillary Clinton.

Alzheimer's hits family hard: 'Something's not right with Mom ...

They also have four kids, not two, and none of us makes it through a day without multiple kisses, hugs and "I love you's," just in case one of us decides to ship off to the Peace Corps upon leaving the house.

My mother has shrugged off severe physical discomfort for most of her life. It has been her habit to walk like a fiend, sew, cook, bake, garden, needlepoint, knit, decoupage pictures from art books, refinish furniture, read two newspapers a day, half a dozen magazines a week and, when the pain from a long ago injury keeps her up at night as it so often does, polish off another novel.

She also has been one to get her hair wet swimming, shoot baskets in the backyard and follow the Bears as if they were her own sons.

My father is in the scrap-iron business, a 9-to-5, suit-and-tie man, despite the fact that he often spends his days in filthy scrap yards and occasionally takes the wheel of one of his trucks.

Easy WebContent Web Page Editing Service

It is a rare but unalloyed pleasure to try a product or service for which you have only modest expectations, and find yourself blown out of the water. Easy WebContent, an online service designed to take the fuss out of editing Web pages, is that good. In fact, this $9.95-per-month service is better than most stand-alone Web design applications I've used during my 13 years of building sites.

Easy WebContent isn't designed to compete with an Adobe Dreamweaver-scale product; it's meant to help average mortals create and update Web pages. And in that market, it has no rival. Online services such as Homestead.com use template approaches that restrict what you can do with your site; Easy WebContent comes much closer than its template-oriented competitors to being a Web design application.

Hillary Clinton to visit Casper

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be speaking at Casper College on Friday, said Lisa Icenogle, information coordinator for Casper College.Clinton will be speaking at 6:30 p.m. in the Administration Gymnasium, Icenogle said. The state basketball tournament previously reserved the larger Swede Erickson Thunderbird Gymnasium.The democratic caucuses are on Saturday morning at the Holiday Inn on the River. .