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Trump Delivers Lecture to Online Students

This guy is unbelievable … he makes money in everything he does. I just signed up to his site (it’s free to join). Maybe I’ll learn something about biz from The Donald!
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Excite.com - Sep 14, 11:17 AM (ET)
NEW YORK (AP) - For Donald Trump, making money seems to come easily. More than 2,000 people paid […]

Iogrear offers new USB speaker phone

Iogear introduced their newest periheral device for PC and Mac users who conduct conversations through either Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or instant messaging (IM)software. The USB Speaker Phone is now available to purchase on their web site and costs US$59.95.

Description from their website:
“The IOGEAR GPH1000U is a high quality and portable USB speakerphone with DSP voice processing […]

Bush urges U.N. to tackle symptoms of terrorism

President Bush told the United Nations today that the world must tackle the problems that lead the oppressed to pursue terrorism because “there can be no safety in looking away.”
Read the full story here. (Reuters)
I must say that I agree whole-heatedly with George W. Bush. I do feel that the US lacked a bit in […]

Katrina - costly oversight and the real culprit to the levees breaking.

I’m not going to go into long spurt about the Katrina disaster and the blame game, but I do have to put my two cents in:
One - It has been reported that in the 70’s New Orleans had the option to build flood dams to prevent such disasters from happening and choose not to do […]

Yahoo set to start testing its new e-mail upgrades

Stick it to ‘em Yahoo!! I’ve had a Yahoo! email acount since 1998 and have used it everyday since then for personal things. To me, Yahoo “just feels better”. I setup a gmail account last year, but don’t use it much, I just don’t like the fact that they will “use certian information for their […]

Microsoft offers free photo sharing software

Microsoft officially released it version of a photo-sharing tool today (9.13.05) apparently aimed at showing off the grahic abilities being built into the next version of Windows.
“Max” is Microsoft’s next-generation presentation and communications engine which allows users to create and display their digital photos online and email them to friends and family (of course the […]

FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns

Excite.com Sep 12, 3:05 PM (ET) - By RON FOURNIER
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown said Monday he has resigned “in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president,” three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
“The focus has got to be […]

Bill Cosby Wins Fight Over Domain Name

It seems that the WIPO is able to help the average person and/or business owner regain their domain names that have been snatched-up by squatters (notice that last paragraph below). Although it does mention that having the trademarks rights helps!!
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GENEVA - A U.N. panel awarded to comedian Bill Cosby on Monday an Internet domain […]

EBay buying Skype for at Least $2.6B

By MATTIAS KAREN, Associated Press Writer
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Online auctioneer eBay Inc. agreed Monday to pay at least $2.6 billion for Internet-telephony company Skype Technologies SA, a deal that confounds many analysts not just for the lofty price tag but also for what some consider the companies’ dubious compatibility.

The total value of the deal may […]

Samsung Unveils New High Capacity Flash Memory Chip

Excite.com - Sep 12, 9:31 AM (ET)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday unveiled a new flash memory chip it says will double storage capacity on portable music players and other mobile devices.

Memory cards containing multiple 16-gigabit NAND chips mean “you will be able to take your entire music and personal video […]