Deals of the Hour

Trying to find out what's the deal with the world, tracking what's on sale and who's talking about it on Twitter. Update hourly.

Deals of the Hour / June 10, 2011, 8:45 am

Unforgivable Behavior, Except When It's Not

Weiner. Congressional Democrats are in high huff about Anthony D. Weiner , as they offer a parade of I am shocked/I am outraged/I have never heard of such misbehavior. (To which you're tempted to add: Since a Democratic governor of New York was found ... (Source: New York Times Blogs 2011-06-10T14:52:20Z)

Split Verdicts for Man Accused of Terrorism

Fitzgerald said in a statement. "We will bring to justice all those who seek to facilitate violence." The mixed verdict deals a blow both to Mr. Rana, who faces a possible sentence of 30 years in prison, and the government, which expressed ... (Source: New York Times 2011-06-10T06:59:53Z)

Assisted Living or a Nursing Home?

I consulted Ms. Gwyther and Dr. Hawes for guidance on which older people are likely to do well there and which will need the greater supervision and higher staff ratios a good nursing home can offer. "Good nursing home" is not a contradiction ... (Source: New York Times Blogs 2011-06-10T15:28:08Z)

Tour a nuclear reactor that's a national landmark

Nuclear plants clamped down on visits after the Sept. 11th attacks, but they've since established new security protocols and a few now offer tours, said Steve Kerekes, a spokesman for the NEI. But visits to parts of the INL outside the museum are strictly ... (Source: AP - msnbc.com 2011-06-10T15:20:58Z)

Apple's iCloud music service delayed in UK until 2012

One of the reasons to the delays in securing deals with UK record labels and publishers is that the UK market would want to wait to see if it is a viable and secure system for the music industry to work with. Mark Mulligan from Forrester Research had this ... (Source: Musicrooms.net 2011-06-10T15:28:08Z)

Briefly: iTunes in the Cloud held up in UK; iPhone in space; Android messaging

"The licensing team at the PRS have started talks with Apple, but are a long way off from any deals being signed…It is very much the early stages of the negotiations and is similar to the launch of iTunes – which began in the US and took a while to ... (Source: Apple Insider 2011-06-10T06:09:47Z)

Greece Said to Need 45 Billion Euros in New Loans

It would be filled by the loans, plus around 57 billion euros in unspent aid from last year's bailout, roughly 30 billion euros in asset-sale proceeds and about 30 ... to persuade the German parliament to offer new loans in another three-year package ... (Source: Bloomberg 2011-06-10T07:35:41Z)

Delaware Schools Teams with Microsoft for Live@edu

The Department of Technology and Information (DTI) will initially migrate approximately 20,000 faculty and staff to this no-cost platform in June 2011, with the goal being to move everyone to Microsoft Live@edu, as well as offer it to the more-than-129,000 ... (Source: TMCnet 2011-06-10T07:21:22Z)

Microsoft Loses U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Fined $290M USD

It deals specifically with No. 5,787,449 , which was filed in 1998. In 2007 -- nine years after i4i filed their patent -- Microsoft included an implementation of an XML parsing software, which followed the implementation detailed in the patent. The parser ... (Source: DailyTech 2011-06-10T15:20:58Z)

"Dollar boys" keep Sierra Leone in business

"The reason why the economy has not collapsed and things have not come to a halt is that informal arrangements fill the gap," said Financial Secretary Edmund Koroma, referring to both the dollar boys as well as to the bilateral deals formed between ... (Source: msnbc.com 2011-06-10T15:28:08Z)

Apple Moves to Intervene in Lodsys Patent Dispute

According to PCMag.com , the filing states: The license expressly permits Apple to offer and otherwise make available to its developers' products and services that embody the inventions contained in the patents in suit. In a May 31 blog post , Lodsys says ... (Source: IT Business Edge 2011-06-10T15:20:58Z)

Fountain Is Reopening, but Not to Splash In

Passero , another councilman running for the Democratic nomination for mayor, said the contretemps was "much ado about nothing" and added that "the city should not be getting a black eye over this fountain," because "it's a beautiful addition." (Source: New York Times Blogs 2011-06-10T15:13:49Z)

Nidec Corporation recorded revenues of JPY587,459 million ($6,344.6 million) during the financial year ended March 2010

Nidec (or the company) is a Japan-based company engaged in the manufacture and sale of drive technology products. The company offers precision small-sized motors, middle-sized motors, machinery equipment, as well as electronic components, optical ... (Source: Transworld News 2011-06-10T15:13:49Z)

Blog Archive