Sonic Solutions Buying CinemaNow
Posted on November 20, 2008
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Sonic, the digital media company best known for their Roxio products, not the drive-in food chain, is acquiring CinemaNow. I think that leaves Netflix as the last independent digital movie rental site. Akimbo is gone, Blockbuster bought Movielink. I suppose you could count VUDU, though they’re tied to their own hardware platform - so I don’t. Sonic and CinemaNow have already been working together, with CinemaNow offering download-to-burn content for Qflix DVD drives, via Sonic’s software. Inte
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EHarmony Case Exemplifies True Activist Gay Agenda
Posted on November 20, 2008
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eHarmony ordered by the courts to offer same sex services The Issue: Pasadena, California based eHarmony, an online dating service that doesn’t match members of the same sex has been forced to match gay individuals as part of a settlement from a lawsuit filed in the state of New Jersey. The Prop 8 opposition bases their opinion on support of civil rights, but activists in the gay community have now targeted the decisions of private business in their quest for equality. According to the Los
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Smartphone adoption stimulates mobile search
Posted on November 20, 2008
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Smartphones are rapidly gaining popularity, now that mobile phone producers such as Blackberry, HTC and Google/T-Mobile are introducing interesting alternatives to the Apple iPhone on the market. Research firm The Kelsey Group says that currently one fifth of the US population uses a smartphone and half of all consumers considering switching to a smartphone within the next two years. This increasing smartphone adoption stimulates mobile search activities. Some interesting figures: 17.6 per
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Adoption Awareness (Sewickley Herald)
Posted on November 20, 2008
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Glenis Levine always knew. Long before she married her husband, Glen, and as she pursued a career in the television industry, the idea of adoption had never been a question. read more »
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"Embryo adoption" gives new life to some couples’ hopes for a child (Seattle Times)
Posted on November 20, 2008
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Cedar Park Assembly of God Church in Bothell is starting a new “embryo adoption” service, where couples who have gone through in vitro fertilization donate any leftover embryos to infertile couples. While that practice is, in itself, not particularly controversial, the question of what’s to be done with some 400,000 frozen embryos in storage nationwide touches on some of the most controversial …
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Adoption festivities (Baltimore Sun)
Posted on November 20, 2008
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The Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County will hold a National Adoption Day event at 9 a.m. today as the Honorable Michael E. Loney presides over the adoptions in Courtroom 4C of children from 7 months old to 11 years.
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Australian Film Industry emulates last centuries failed business models - suing ISPs
Posted on November 20, 2008
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Well, at least (for now) it’s not users, but news today via the Sydney Morning Herald that Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), the histrionically named consortium of Australian Film and Television companies such as Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network, has launched a major legal action against one of Australia’s largest internet service providers for allegedly allow
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IIM Ahmedabad’s Confluence 2008 summit begins today
Posted on November 20, 2008
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IIM Ahmedabad’s Confluence 2008 summit begins today Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 20 November, 2008 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad is hosting its annual international business summit, Confluence 2008, from the 20th to the 23rd of November, 2008. Confluence 2008 also marks the 10th anniversary of the summit that was first organized way back in 1999. The central theme for this year’s summit is “Wealth: Legacy, Dimensions, Frontiers”. Confluence 2008 will take a clos
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Your Nieces & Nephews Will Bankrupt You*
Posted on November 20, 2008
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On Monday, after dinner at the Farmers Market, a friend suggested we browse in the shops in the Grove, the shopping plaza immediately adjacent. His suggestion that we visit the How to Bankrupt Your Uncle American Girl store proved a costly one for me. You see, the following day, the TwinPatriotNiecesWest would be celebrating their birthday. And I’m always trying to get gifts for my niblings which reflect their passions. It was easy enough to get a gift for one of the twins, as she specifica
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Yet another dead-born project of Kazakh Strongman
Posted on November 20, 2008
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Yet another dead-born project of Kazakh Strongman