Fisher Price Recall Involves Several Products, Including Tricycles And High Chairs
Posted on 30. Sep, 2010 by Tony Valencia in Business
The Fisher Price recall was announced today, and it appears that multiple products will be involved. Approximately 10 million tricycles, toys, and high chairs are involved in the Fisher Price recall, a clear financial burden to the company. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has stated that the Fisher Price recall deals with safety issues, as [...]
Aside From Facebook DNS Failure Issues, Does Mark Zuckerberg Have A Girlfriend?
Posted on 24. Sep, 2010 by Tony Valencia in Business
Facebook has clearly had some login issues today, but there may be additional news worth noting regarding the founder of the social networking program. It is being rumored that Mark Zuckerberg now has a girlfriend named Priscilla Chan. Given the Mark Zuckerberg girlfriend news and the Facebook dns error, it has been a hectic couple [...]
Facebook DNS Failure Causes Login Problems
Posted on 23. Sep, 2010 by Tony Valencia in Business
In case you were wondering why Facebook wasn’t working earlier, there was a DNS failure that caused an error in the system. The Facebook DNS error was a result a technical problem with the server that prevented users from logging in. Though the Facebook dns error is now fixed, the problem lasted throughout most of the [...]
Holiday fun purveyor Oriental Trading Co. files for Chapter 11.
Posted on 18. Sep, 2010 by Bulls Eye! in Business
Carlyle Group-controlled Oriental Trading Co. filed for bankruptcy protection and has put forward a strategy that is accepted by most creditors that would slash the debt-load of the pyrveyor of all things party – READ halloween goodies and decorations. The plan is to cut the debt burden by more than 70%, according to analysts. Private [...]
Harry & David Catalog is scrumptious and award winning.
Posted on 18. Sep, 2010 by Bulls Eye! in Business
When thinking about the Harry & David catalogs (we know you think about it every holiday season), people instantly conjure up thoughts about the unbelievable photography. But it takes more than than beautiful, or even mouth-wateringly-delectable photos to earn these go ods an MCM Award. Harry & David’s Holiday Gift Collection 2009 earned its Gold [...]
Google introduces “Google Instant”
Posted on 08. Sep, 2010 by Leon Kennedy in Business
Google has just introduced a new feature to their search engine called “Google Instant” which allows search results to be displayed instantly as the searcher types. For example, if you were searching for the day’s weather, instead of wasting an entire 6 keystrokes on e-a-t-h-e-r, the Google searcher can now probably get by by typing [...]
Sony updates firmware to fight psgroove
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Leon Kennedy in Business
In order to prevent users from “Jailbraking” their PS3′s (a way of “breaking” the consoles open in order to let them play homebrew games, or run open-source software. One of the more popular ways of doing this is by using something called “psgroove”), Sony has just released new firmware updates that aim to block jailbreaking [...]
H-P sues Mark Hurd
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Leon Kennedy in Business
On Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard sued its former CEO and president Mark Hurd in response to his taking a position with H-P competitor, Oracle. Hurd became the co-president and director of Oracle Corporation on September 6, 2010; Oracle is a company which H-P competes with in markets such as data-center technology. Hurd resigned from his position with [...]
Spokeo and your privacy
Posted on 06. Sep, 2010 by Leon Kennedy in Business
Something called Spokeo has recently become a popular search query, some people asking what Spokeo is, and others concerned how it could affect one’s online privacy. For those who haven’t found the answer yet for what Spokeo is, it’s being described as a social network aggregator; in other words, in grabs information about people from [...]
Crew members of UPS crash confirmed dead
Posted on 04. Sep, 2010 by Leon Kennedy in Business
The two crew members aboard the UPS plane that crashed near Dubai International Airport yesterday, have been confirmed dead. The state media of the United Arab Emirates confirmed late last night that the bodies of the two pilots had been recovered from the wreck of the plane; this is UPS’s first case of a fatal [...]