Jon and Brenda Gallagher got a head start on this weekend’s Georgia sales tax holiday for energy and water-efficient products. Last year, they consulted Smyrna neighbor Matt Hoots, president of the Hoots Group, about remodeling their kitchen.
But for Hoots, a contractor specializing in Earth-Craft homes, a remodel isn’t just about an attractive floor plan. He [...]
The board of directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston declared a quarterly dividend rate with an equivalent annual yield of 2.50 percent. The dividend, based on average stock outstanding for the third quarter, will be paid on December 2, 2008.
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston is a cooperatively owned wholesale bank [...]
A Woodlawn home caught fire early this morning and county firefighters rescued a person from the home who is being treated at a Baltimore hospital along with a second person who was also in the house, authorities said.
Both victims an 85-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man suffered from smoke inhalation and were taken to the [...]
Seesmic, a video version of Twitter — whose investors include – will cut seven jobs in anticipation of a potentially rotten year for ad-supported web businesses.
"The market conditions and recession have been getting worse for awhile," said Seesmic founder Loic LeMeur in a video announcement. "And as an entrepreneur we had to react and adapt [...]
Noel Gallagher, co-front man of Oasis, says his band has finally made a that only "makes sense" in its entirety.
"I think ["Dig Out Your Soul" is] the first album we’ve ever made where we’re
consciously not hanging a collection of songs around three songs, which
is what seems to happen these days," Gallagher said in [...]
Every week on AMC TV’s Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing.
Looking for a little fact in the fiction of Mad Men,
Wired.com is asking some real-world ad men and women to talk about the
show’s realism and relevance to [...]
Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek’s latest prediction is that Microsoft is likely to buy Research in Motion for a share.
Misek had back in 2006: Apple was going to pick up RIM to create some sort of mobile device that incorporated its iPod technology.
We all know how that one played out — and [...]
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It seems like yesterday — or maybe last month — that venture capital firms were mostly concerned with aggressive growth rates and pie-in-the-sky valuations. Now some firms — such as Sequoia and — are warning portfolio companies to pinch their pennies and scale back on plans. It's a departure [...]
AC/DC guitarist Angus Young says one reason why the band won't sell its new album on iTunes is because Apple doesn't force consumers to buy whole albums, as opposed to just the singles that they like.
"We don't make singles, we make albums," said Young, . "Way back in the Seventies, we drew these
figures on [...]
The Pirate Bay has won a court case in Italy appealing a judge’s decision to have ISPs block access to the torrent tracker, reports TorrentFreak.
Days after the initial order it , and the Pirate Bay’s Italian web traffic actually increased 5 percent as new and old users found ways of circumventing the block.
Pirate Bay’s lawyers [...]