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The foreclosure crisis is hitting yet another American locale: the self-storage center. As they lose their homes, people are turning to these humble cinderblock and sheet-metal boxes to store their stuff. But some people cannot keep up with their storage bills any better than they could handle...
An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including “In God We Trust,” and made it past inspectors and into circulation, the U.S. Mint said Wednesday. ... U.S. Mint admits to the goof with the new...
Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications to other Web sites. ... Facebook, which has about 70 million users worldwide, unveiled its plans the...
Mother's Day, one of the most successful commercial holidays of the calendar year has an interesting history and variety of tokens. ... For the idealistic, Mother’s Day is a tribute to love in its purest form, for the slightly more cynical, it’s a collecting opportunity....
E-cards, e-mail and text messaging are displacing handwritten correspondence. Businesses have a new advertising venue in the Internet. And many Americans prefer to pay their bills online. Which raises the question: Is the U.S. Postal Service doomed to go the way of the Pony Express?
Yesterday while walking through a local furniture store we came across a very large wooden chair. Large as in a giant would fit nicely, but my 6’4” self would look like a gnat sitting on your hand. It was obviously a novelty item, because who really needs a chair that big?
The owners of the former Apollo Middle School in Burlington are selling it on eBay at a fraction of the cost paid just two years ago. ... It sits on 3.5 acres on a hill overlooking downtown Burlington and the Mississippi River. Tammy and Patrick Cutts of Grove Beach,...
Filed under: Fan stuffFeeling charitable yet you still want to receive something tangible for your tax write-off'able donation? Then how about bidding on a Ken Levine autographed copy of BioShock (the Xbox 360 version, of course) which is currently on the auction block over at eBay by the folks...
Apple is finally doing something about iPhone clones starting with a small time retailer of HiPhones in Europe. The notice, in Italian, sent to an individual selling HiPhones on eBay and on a land-based store indicates an amount of 25,000 euros (apparently per phone) as penalty and, in addition,...
Kritische Betrachtung von Web 2.0 hinsichtlich des Wissensmanagements ... Can it work for the large enterprise? by Alexander Wilms on 2008/02/14 | [20 Comments] Today, there is a lot of buzz around a number of topics labeled as "Web 2.0“. According to the conclusions of...
