| Julian Lennon Invests in MyStore.com
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. About MyStore: 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.
Do your mobile web site yourself in five minutes at www.wirenode.com
Wirenode, the Prague based mobile technology start-up, has launched a mobile platform. It contains a mobile web site builder, a mobile web hosting and a social networking promotion tool, all for free. --/24-7PressRelease/ - PRAHA, CZECH REPUBLIC, January 29, 2008 - - The mobile web site builder features easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor. The user is not required to be familiar with any programming language nor HTML. Besides text and images, it is also possible to embed text boxes for leaving feedback, then readers surfing the mobile web site can send a message from their mobile phones to the site owner. - The editor also offers a widget option. Users can place on the mobile page a widget that imports any RSS feed. This way bloggers have an instant tool for mobilizing their blogs for people on the go.
Inside Mac OS X 10.5.2
Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.2 nearly two weeks ago, and it's not your typical point-upgrade to the Mac OS. There are plenty of new features and refinements in this update, so in this Macworld Video, I'll highlight some of the more interesting ones. Specifically, I'll look at changes to the interface of Leopard's Time Machine back-up feature, OS X 10.5.2's ability to remove the translucent menu bar and its reduced menu translucency, and the changes made to the Stacks feature. Download Macworld Video #39 • Format: MPEG-4/H.264 • Resolution: 320 x 240 (iPhone & iPod compatible) • Size: 12.3 MB • Length: 6 minutes, 36 seconds .
Hulkmania Hits the Water
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Hulk Hogan, one of the most charismatic icons of popular culture and co-host of the new wildly popular NBC-TV show, "American Gladiators," has teamed up with FLW Outdoors to become the celebrity spokesperson of its world renown professional angler fishing tournaments and its new FLW Fantasy Fishing game in 2008, the largest and richest fantasy sports game in the world. Fans the world over have followed Hogan from his beginnings as the world's biggest pro wrestling star to his induction into the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Hall of Fame, to his many movie and television roles, including his most recent success as the co-host in the over-the-top reality TV show hit, "American Gladiators." The show ranked No. 2 in prime time in the January 14 Nielsen ratings with 10.7 million viewers, according to a report in the New York Times.
Iran on the Horizon:
Sami al-Faraj is President of the Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies and an advisor to the Kuwaiti government on preparing for potential nuclear accidents in Iran.
The focus of this panel was a discussion regarding Iran and the issues facing GCC states with respect to Iran's attempts to become a regional hegemon, focusing on how Iran's rise to power is affecting the political and economic policies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait. The event was held February 1, 2008 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, DC. The following is a complete transcript of Barbara Slavin's remarks. The other speakers' remarks will be distributed in SUSRIS later this week.
For SUSRIS readers, this panel has been divided into four sections with each speakers' remarks. To view the entire presentation, as well as the Questions & Answers section, click here.
The ‘First Woman,’ Once Again
It is noteworthy that in January 2007, when Mrs. Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama declared their intention to seek the Oval Office, the top six circulating newspapers in the U.S. ran 59 articles with Mr. Obama in the headline and just 36 with Mrs. Clinton. Now that we have had a female presidential candidate who entered the race as a front-runner, I have to wonder if the next one will also be regarded as a "first." Even if, after 130 years of women running for president, we are finally ready to shed this label, my guess is that the novelty frame will persist. If one of the next presidential candidates should happen to be a woman and she is not framed as "the first" woman to run, she will surely be touted as the "only" woman in the race. However, either would be a shame, because women in politics should by now be regarded as normal, not strange.
A geek’s trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management
Melvin Ammori, General Counsel, Free Press David Burstein, Editor, DSLPrime George Ou, Editor at Large, ZDNet Haruka Saito, Counselor for Telecom, Embassy of Japan Christopher S. Yoo, Professor of Law and Communications, University of Pennsylvania Christopher Yoo - After a brief introduction by Scott Wallsten who explained that the order of the presentations will be reverse alphabetical order, Christopher S. Yoo kicked off his presentation. Professor Yoo explained that networks, like roads, aren't built for everyone to use them at the same time. Yoo gave the example that if a person wants to know how fast he can travel on a freeway, he wouldn't know until he got there because we can't predict exactly how many other people will be on the road at the same time. Yoo explained the difficulty in projecting network capacity and that we can't always be right when determining whether more capacity or network management was the answer.
EU reportedly close to blessing Google-DoubleClick union
Official approval is expected to come sometime next week, according to the Financial Times (subscription), beating the European Commission's self-imposed mid-April deadline by over a month. The Federal Trade Commission signed off on the deal in a 4-1 vote back in December, convinced that there was sufficient competition in the online advertising market to warrant approval. The EC announced its intentions to examine the merger in November, citing a preliminary investigation that suggested that the deal would negatively impact the EU's online ad market. The EC's probe also had a "what-if" element, as it attempted to discern whether DoubleClick would have grown into a viable competitor to Google had the deal not occurred. The ruling is both bane and blessing to Microsoft.
ARI 1Q profit, revenue rises
ARI Network Services Inc. reported Monday that it recorded increases in both profit and revenue for the fiscal first quarter. ARI (OTCBB: ARIS) posted net income for the quarter ended Oct. 31 of $243,000, or 4 cents per share, compared with $225,000, or 3 cents per share, for the same period a year ago. Revenue for the Milwaukee provider of electronic parts catalogs and marketing services increased 21 percent to $4.2 million from $3.5 million. ARI chairman and CEO Brian Dearing said the marketing services business continued to drive revenue growth. About 45 percent of the revenue growth was because of the acquisition of OC-Net Inc., a Cypress, Calif. company that provides Web hosting and e-commerce services, in January 2007. .
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