Archive for October, 2008

Verizon must sell assets with Alltel merger

07:31 AM PDT on Friday, October 31, 2008 Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Justice Department on Thursday effectively gave Verizon Wireless the go-ahead to buy Alltel Corp. in a $28 billion deal that would create the…

Boeing ordered to pay ICO $236 million in damages

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A jury ordered the Boeing Co. to pay $236 million in punitive damages Friday for breaching a contract to build and launch satellites for a company headed by cellular phone pioneer Craig McCaw. Boeing now owes…

Rush Limbaugh: Don’t believe these public polls for a second! (FReep this Digg!!!)

FReep this Digg! Post as many links exposing ObamaNation on Digg as possible between now and election! FLOOD THE PLACE WITH ARTICLES AND VIDEOS EXPOSING OBAMANATION! To find Digg links on FR, simply typing “Digg” into FR’s…

Three Effective Treatments For Childhood Anxiety Disorders Identified

Treatment that combines a certain type of psychotherapy with an antidepressant medication is most likely to help children with anxiety disorders, but each of the treatments alone are also effective, according to a new study…

Hubble back in service but repair mission delayed

The Hubble Space Telescope has resumed scientific observations, project officials said Thursday, although a repair mission to the orbiting telescope has been further delayed. Hubble officials released the first image taken by…

Verizon mulls heavily-discounted BlackBerry Storm (Scott Moritz/CNNMoney.com)

Scott Moritz / CNNMoney.com:
Verizon mulls heavily-discounted BlackBerry Storm  —  Free.  That’s Vodafone’s (VOD) recently-unveiled price for the hotly-anticipated touchscreen BlackBerry Storm from Research in Motion (RIM) in the United Kingdom.  —  In a sign of just how desperate phone companies are to lock customers …

The DSi Countdown: The Final Day

In less than 24 hours, the third revision of Nintendo’s DS will be on sale in Japan. But the same is not the case overseas, where, in Japan, the all-new Nintendo DSi is set to go on sale tomorrow, less than a month after its…

MacBook Airs Arrive, Unboxing Photos

The new version of the MacBook Air has arrived and one reader has posted unboxing photos to Flickr. Another forum member has also received the latest MacBook Air.

Do you sit at a desk all day? You may need a toe tingling circulation boost

According to the British Chiropractic Association, this is “The must have product for all office workers and professionals who spend several hours a day sitting at their desk”. Why?

Stephen Colbert Deals With Apple, Prop 8 With Extreme Prejudice [Stephen Colbert]

California’s Prop 8, which would strip gay couples of the right to marry in the state, is polling about even right now.