Postal Workers in 24-hour Strike

Its not surprising that Royal Mail are struggling. An inside source reveals that they receive only (11.5p) 13p for each letter that they deliver for the private postal companies. From a 34p retail charge. Royal...

Arab - American communications... not too late? but at least something...

"*Draft, final appeared in Public Relations Review, 21 (1995), 241-255. Bridging Cultural Differences: American Public Relations Practices & Arab Communication Patterns* R.S. Zaharna, Ed.D. School of Communication American University Washington, DC 20016 phone: (202)...

Delay turns drill into a disaster

Imagine how bad this would be if all US Space Ops were driven from here? Oh... wait... they are...

Social Media Helps Hotel Operators Increase Profitability

"Atlanta - Hotel operators gets aid in increasing their profitability through the Social Media primer that Julie Keyser-Squires, vice president of Softscribe Inc., is offering."

Postal Strike Support Growing

With Europe opening up alternative postal services to Royal Mail a strike will be good news for their competitors. The decapitation of Britons postal services and closure of thousands of post offices rest blame...

The Air Car

"The fiberglass MiniC.A.T. runs on compressed air, and offers zero pollution and very low running costsMany respected engineers have been trying for years to bring a compressed air car to market, believing...

Live and Die by Hype: Apple Stock in Kernel Panic from iPhone Hoax

Apple's stock took a beating yesterday as a fraudulent email made the rounds, claiming that both the iPhone and Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) would be heavily delayed. Apple has made its fortune not only with its products...

Typology of Information Communication Technology Users

"...85 percent of American adults use the Internet, a cell phone, or both. Those who "exploit the connectivity, the capacity for self expression, and the interactivity of modern information technology" comprise 8...

Doing better by being less accessible

Getting on a time diet is the same as for food, it is all about portion control...Less can be better...In this 'Age of Interruption' limiting people's constant access to you can make for better days.

Annoying but successful. Whither the beavers?

"Canada's most loved ad campaign is also one of the most hated. Month after month, Bell Canada's ubiquitous Frank and Gordon ads — starring two comedic, animated beavers — rank near the top of Leger...

"Bad Job Review" Motivated NASA Gunman, Say Police

"The gunman who killed a hostage and himself in a stand-off at a Nasa centre in Texas blamed his victim for a poor work performance review, police said. William Phillips, 60, took a revolver to work at the Johnson Space Center on Friday and shot dead fellow employee David...

Gunman Opens Fire at NASA

"A man with a gun entered a building on the sprawling campus of Johnson Space Center Friday, forcing the evacuation of the building and putting the entire center on alert. A witness reported two shots fired, said Houston Police spokesman Capt. Dwayne Ready, who described the...

How good is campus security at University of Central Florida?

We'd like to hear from you about campus security at UCF. From the website, this is what we've got so far:"UCF notifies its students, staff and faculty of emergency situations through campus-wide e-mails and...

Tsunami Hits South Pacific's Solomons

I dearly hope this is not as bad as it looks. Should we be organizing to help if this is a very bad disaster?  This is what the other news is saying (Bloomberg, who ever they are: April 2 (Bloomberg) -- An earthquake of magnitude 8 struck near the Solomon Islands,...

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