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Apple® today announced that iPad™ sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and additional countries later this [...]
June 1 marks not only the unofficial start of summer, but also the official start of National Iced Tea Month. Connoisseurs of the chilled brew will be thrilled to know there is a list of the best brands to choose from: winners of the 2010 North American Tea Championship Iced Tea Class competition.
According to a [...]
After much anticipation, International soccer star, Oguchi “Guch” Onyewu will be representing the U.S. National Team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup taking place in South Africa, June 11th – July 11th, 2010. This announcement came after speculation on whether Onyewu would return to the playing field in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Onyewu [...]
As many as 25,000 registered nurses from California and Minnesota have issued one-day strike notices Friday morning over patient care issues in contract negotiations at their facilities, the California Nurses Association and Minnesota Nurses Association announced today. All the nurses are members of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest professional association and union for RNs.
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Robert Cimino, 60, of Syracuse, N.Y., was sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga in the Eastern District of Virginia for his sales of more than $250,000 worth of pirated software, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride of [...]
Today, Sears, as the 2010 ENERGY STAR® Retail Partner of the Year, is launching a new initiative called The Big Switch, to help families make the switch to five million ENERGY STAR qualified appliances. The Big Switch is aimed at helping families remove and recycle millions of inefficient appliances from the energy grid for good, [...]
A national study conducted among 3,901 American Idol viewers revealed that the contestant who was selected as the winner of the season 9 competition did not accurately reflect the viewers’ choice.
The Idol Democracy study was conducted during May 25-26, by HCD Research using its mediacurves.com website, to obtain American Idol viewers’ perceptions of which contestant [...]
Vivid Sydney, the largest light and music festival in the Southern Hemisphere, starts tonight with new events and large scale urban lighting never seen before in Sydney.
New South Wales Minister for Tourism Jodi McKay said Vivid Sydney is a major celebration of Australia’s only global city between 27 May and 21 June.
“The sails of the [...]
Entrepreneurs in every town, city and state are seizing opportunities all around us to create incredibly impactful, relevant and innovative businesses. Nowhere is there a more clear demonstration of this than in Entrepreneur’s June issue profiling 100 Companies to Watch in 10 vibrant areas of opportunity.
The 100 Companies to Watch are making their marks in [...]
Google, the self-proclaimed “don’t-be-evil” company, is following the classic corporate evil-doer’s playbook as it attempts to quell worldwide outrage over the WiSpy scandal, Consumer Watchdog said today.
The Internet giant’s new report claiming that it generated $54 billion in economic activity last year in the United States, is an example of classic corporate PR [...]