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The Apple Core Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Wintel Vista conspiracy screws customers: Another win for Apple Posted in: Intel Windows Vista Leopard The latest PC market scandal — that Microsoft, Intel and some PC makers knew that the "Vista Capable" logo certification program was a lie and that some chipsets for popular machines couldn't support the new Aero interface stuff, must be music in the executive suites down in Cupertino. The story provides more evidence to PC users that there's a good reason to join the switcher movement to the Mac. This amazing story continues to unfold. Microsoft officials gave the green light to Vista certification for an older Intel chipset with integrated graphics that wouldn't support Aero.
Hallett Projects Continued Acquisition Strategy
Hallett said that Warren Byrd, executive vice president of corporate development, has been extremely busy of late in negotiating these deals throughout the U.S. and Canada. Byrd is on the road and working the phones to iron out additional acquisitions in strategic markets. "I would say we will have more announcements within the next 60 to 90 days," Hallett noted. "If we have five acquisitions now, I would hope that we will have 10 by the end of the year," he added. "We are growing our business and if an acquisition makes sense, we are going to get it done," Hallett continued. But ADESA is not focusing just on acquisition expansion. Hallett said it also is relocating operations in Kansas City, Dallas and Phoenix to brand-new, modern, technologically advanced facilities in those same metropolitan markets. Kansas City is first up.
Janet joins the hunt
If ya gotta point out you can be elegant, you ain't. Still, if getting competent leadership in the White House weren't so deadly serious, it might be fun to see what Miz Janet would do as first lady. Hmmm. Scratch that. It would reflect badly on the rest of us Arkansas wimmen. .
New Mexico News Brief, Monday, Feb. 18
Chandler also was the Clovis police chief for nine years. TIJERAS, N.M. - The U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on a proposal to designate a motorized road and trail system in the Sandia Ranger District. The agency said comments on the environmental assessment will be taken for 30 days. .
Sheridan, Wyo.: Touching indian ways
As the animals crashed below, tribal women would finish them off as quickly as possible to alleviate their suffering. "Their perceptional reality was that the buffalo was a relative," Chapman says. Buffalo were killed for meat, hides and bones that were fashioned into tools. Chapman also shared the Native version of the story of the Battle of Little Bighorn, a k a Custer's Last Stand. It's true that the famed U.S. Army Cavalry Commander was outnumbered, outmaneuvered and outsmarted by a large coalition of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. You'll read that in any history book. But oral histories among the Native peoples suggest that two women, one Lakota, one Cheyenne fought among those who finished off the flamboyant Custer. The day continued with a walk through Custer State Park in search of wild buffalo and elk, and a visit to Wind Cave, revered as the Lakota Nation's place of genesis.
Rring…rrrring. Gotcha!
You search for "free ringtones" through Google or similar search engines.
The search results include sites that advertise ringtones that are "100 percent free," "complimentary," etc. with no disclaimers.
You click on the site and maybe are prompted to click onto other sites. Eventually, you are asked for your cell phone number so you can be sent the "free" ringtones.
Typing in the number unwittingly "subscribes" you to a monthly service that's next to impossible to stop. You don't know it unless you study your next phone bill and, even then, it's hard to identify because it's not labeled as to what it is.
Peeling back the layers of who's involved and how much money they make reveals a complex Web of participants. Here's a simplified version:
There's an advertiser who puts the ads on the Internet and convinces you, using deceptive practices, to type in your cell phone number.
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