The Backup files; A look back at the week in business.
Byline: Martin Luttrell COLUMN: THE BACKUP FILES The IRS, your source for easy cash The Internal Revenue Service, always a source of warm fuzzies, is trying to let taxpayers in on a well-kept secret: There's an easy refund available to most tax filers...

Time Warner Cable Offers Video, Phone Services in Southern California.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-9 April 2008-Time Warner Cable Offers Video, Phone Services in Southern California(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Time Warner Cable (TWC) Los Angeles Division announced the launch of Paquetazo (translation: package of all packages), its new best-of English and Spanish-language digital video offering designed to appeal to...

Ten steps to reduce flying: addicted to flying? Can't kick that planet-mangling habit? Read on--there are plenty of things you can (not) do. Let's start with the easy ones ...
Rule out commuting by air A NO-BRAINER for most of us but increasing numbers of people are actually commuting by air. Once almost entirely a US phenomenon, cheap air travel has now produced the equivalent in Australasia and Europe. Air commuting tends to be weekly rather than...

Comedy central: in the eclectic art practice of Amy Lam, everything is funny--especially painting.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The world of Amy Lam is a complicated place. Or rather, it is a deceptively simple place. Working either by herself or in collaboration with Jon McCurley as conceptual comedy duo Life of a Craphead, she makes work that tells one story while acting out...

Company Watch - Emirates Airlines.
Mar 24, 2008 Emirates Airlines said that the first authorized mobile phone call made from a commercial flight occurred Mar. 20 aboard one of its Airbus A340-300s flying at 30,000 ft. en route from Dubai to Casablanca, marking the launch of its $27 million program to equip...

The in crowd: the not-so-shocking truth about cliques.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Here a clique, there a clique. Everywhere you look, it seems, friends cluster into groups that exclude other teens. For Lisa Auster-Gussman, 16, a student at Lancaster Country Day School in Lancaster, Pa., hanging out with a clique is old news. While in...

Zone4Play Ramps Up with Gaming Venture in the UK.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-27 November 2007-Zone4Play Ramps Up with Gaming Venture in the UK(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Zone4Play, a developer of Internet, TV and mobile gaming content, and Two Way Media, an interactive television production company, announced the formation of an equally owned joint venture to expand both...

Cisco, Apple settle lawsuit on iPhone.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. said Wednesday they have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit that threatened to derail Apple's use of the "iPhone" name for its much-hyped new iPod-cellular phone gadget. The companies said Apple will be allowed to use the name...

Mobile marketing: the next direct response frontier.
Mobile marketing just might be the next great opportunity for savvy direct marketers to conquer. Mobile phone users between the ages of 15 and 25 send 10 text messages for every phone call they make from their cell phones. This demographic has traditionally been tough for direct marketers to...

Surfing the net.
I have been thinking a lot recently about the value of communication and collaboration to the midwifery profession, both here in New Zealand and worldwide. Nothing beats the good old-fashioned face-to-face get-together (especially when it is with a couple of glasses of wine) and let's not forget the humble...