Life After Work: Nicholas Aretakis, canine designer (Fortune via Yahoo! Finance)
With an electrical engineering degree from Columbia University, Nicholas Aretakis always felt at home in the semiconductor business, where he spent 22 years. In the '90s, as head of sales for ESS Technology, one of the first companies to introduce an audio chip for PC motherboards, he helped boost revenues from $30 million to more than $300 million in three years....more...Technology Briefing (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Microsoft will acquire mobile music business ... Software startup ZenZui changes name to Zumobi ... Medio Systems, mInfo of Shanghai to work together ... Angel investments may outperform VCs, study says ... EProject says it is changing its name to Daptiv ... Google prizes aim to foster mobile-phone applications ... Gore joins Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley VC firm...more... Nightclub, Dance Classes Business Plan (MoreBusiness)
The concept of E3 Playhouse (E3) is to provide an entertainment, education, and restaurant venue in downtown Santa Cruz. The establishment will provide a live entertainment venue; a restaurant; community-based courses in music and the arts; a retail component offering arts-based retail merchandise; and venue rental services for the Santa Cruz area....more... MAHONEY-WISTUBA (Home News Tribune)
Cristin A. Wistuba, daughter of Linda and Ed Wistuba of East Brunswick, married Edward J. Mahoney Jr., son of Jean E. Mahoney of Penfield, N.Y., and the late Edward J. Mahoney Sr., April 14 at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Old Bridge....more... Tech Whiz Linder Never Hung Up (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
When Donald Linder, a research engineer for Motorola, heard in December 1972 that company executives wanted him to deliver the world's first mobile phone the next month, he barely flinched....more... Tech Whiz Linder Never Hung Up (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance)
When Donald Linder, a research engineer for Motorola, heard in December 1972 that company executives wanted him to deliver the world's first......more... Rural Bulletin Survey Results: Snapshot? (Scoop.co.nz)
We received 362 responses from Rural Bulletin readers within the timeframe (more came in afterwards). Of these 185 were from people living in rural areas, 66 from people in small towns and 94 from people in cities. Our thanks go to you all....more... HP Appoints David Murphy to Lead New Print Web Services and Software Business (ThomasNet)
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 4, 2007 HP today announced that David J. Murphy has been appointed to lead a new Web Services and Software unit within the company's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG). Murphy, 45, will serve as senior vice president of the unit, which was formed to drive web services and software applications based on HP's Print 2.0 strategy for ensuring that printing is relevant as ......more... Humanity is the greatest problem (BBC News)
It is time to take radical action to curb rising population and consumption levels, or face "unspeakable consequences"....more... |