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Your client's ad in and on taxi cabs (Media Life Magazine)
With a better-than-expected Black Friday, one driven by steep discounts, this holiday shopping season could do better than many have predicted, and one to way reach city shoppers out hunting for bargains is by advertising in and on the taxi cabs that cart them from store to store. Will Microsoft Get Search Branding Right With 'Kumo'? (E-Commerce Times)
Is Microsoft about to rebrand Live Search as "Kumo"? News reports on Monday had the software giant buying up domain names such as "Kumo.com," "Kumo.net," "Kumo.jp" and the like from CSC Corporate Domains, a domain registrar with which Microsoft often does business. There are two prevailing schools of thought regarding "Kumo" -- Japanese for "cloud" and "spider" -- at the moment. Government to curb Parliamentary perks (CTV.ca)
As the economic storm clouds gather, Ottawa plans to curb the pay, bonuses and perks of politicians and top bureaucrats in Thursday's fiscal update, CTV News has learned. My iPhone, Myself (TechNewsWorld.com)
Breathless, my body trilling with excitement, I hold the small, sleek box in my hand. The sun breaks through the clouds and a choir of angels seems to sing as I open it. Behold! In the hands of this mere mortal -- an iPhone! No mere telephone this. It is an MP3 player, digital camera, text messager, calendar, GPS, voice recorder, tiny TV, and cell phone. Brian Taylor on what the pre-Budget report holds (BBC News)
Brian Taylor blogs To better understand, they walk in their shoes (Boston Globe)
This is a month in the life. First week: Felicia Fuentes, 30-year-old mom to two teenagers, slogs through welfare paperwork. At school, her kids are forced to sit on the floor and watch as classmates are hauled out for drug possession. 'Technical' recession possible: Flaherty (CTV Winnipeg)
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty predicts Canada may be headed for a "technical recession" on projections the economy will shrink both this quarter and next. Did Microsoft Lie? Depends on the Meaning of 'Vista' (TechNewsWorld.com)
Microsoft sought to bring a quick end Thursday to the lawsuit that has produced a steady flow of sometimes embarrassing internal e-mails about Windows Vista, a product whose reputation in the marketplace was already tarnished before it launched nearly two years ago. The company asked a federal judge in Seattle to dismiss the remaining claims in the class-action suit brought by PC buyers. Fire chief makes ALS suggestion (The Shamokin News-Item)
ATLAS - The Atlas fire chief has made a second plea to supervisors to have AREA Services join American Hose Community Ambulance Association as an advanced life support (ALS) provider in Mount Carmel Township. Downtown Watsonville landmark for sale (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
There's the Taylor Building. There's Taylor Alley. But soon there could be no more Taylors in Watsonville's downtown.
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