Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Internet advertising - come up smelling like Daisies New York Daily News - 22


'Dukes' come up smelling like Daisies
New York Daily News - 22 hours ago By DAVID HINCKLEY. Yee-haw! "The Dukes of Hazzard" - the big-screen reincarnation of the 1980s TV series about two good ol' boys, one good ol' car and two shapely legs - left everything else eating dust at the box office this weekend.

UN officials accused of kickbacks
NEWS.com.au - 5 hours ago By Evelyn Leopold in New York. THE former head of the UN oil-for-food program, Benon Sevan, has been accused of receiving nearly $150,000 in kickbacks, and another UN official was arrested on charges of pocketing

Kerr-McGee bonds up on debt paydown, analysts cautious
MarketWatch - 8 hours ago NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Kerr-McGee Corp.'s (KMG) bonds got a shot in the arm Monday after the company said it would use the proceeds from an asset sale to pay down debt. The move earns brownie points with

Israel to build Israeli-Palestinian-Egyptian terminal in south
Ha'aretz (registration) - 4 hours ago Israel will cancel the customs union with the Gaza Strip if the Palestinian Authority and Egypt refuse to build a new border terminal near Kerem Shalom to replace the existing one in Rafah, the security cabinet decided Monday.

E-Trade agrees to purchase rival firm
DetNews.com - 1 hour ago The $700 million buy gives the brokerage assets of $32 billion and the top-rated customer service arm. NEW YORK -- Online brokerage E-Trade Financial Corp. said Monday that it agreed to acquire rival HarrisDirect

Born to anchor
London Free Press - 1 hour ago Peter Jennings, the Toronto-born news anchor who became an icon in US television news, died Sunday. NEW YORK -- Peter Jennings was the face of ABC News. The urbane Toronto-born ABC broadcaster who delivered

Malibu Denizens Divided on Shooting of Paparazzo
Los Angeles Times - 56 minutes ago By Jessica Gresko and Tonya Alanez, Times Staff Writers. Two days after a tabloid photographer was shot in the thigh with a pellet gun while staking out singer Britney Spears' baby shower, longtime residents

FCC to Scrutinize 'Pay to Play' in Radio
New York Times - 3 hours ago By BLOOMBERG NEWS. By Bloomberg News. The Federal Communications Commission said yesterday that it would investigate the music industry "pay to play" practices brought to light by Sony BMG Music Entertainment's

Microsoft Rejects Report on Vista Virus
TechNewsWorld - 16 hours ago "I stand by my blog entry," said Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at F-Secure. "Everything I wrote was accurate at the time of writing.". Proof-of-concept code described by security company F-Secure

AOL plucks up wireless firm Wildseed
ZDNet - 17 hours ago America Online has purchased a privately held wireless technology company as part of its initiative to more quickly get AOL service onto phones and other wireless devices, the company said Monday. AOL purchased

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