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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Old Media Discovers the Value (Job sites) of Internet: Can Gannett Pull It Off?

Sramana Mitra submits: Gannett publishes 90 daily newspapers, nearly 1,000 non-daily publications and owns 23 television stations in the US. In the UK, Gannett publishes 17 daily newspapers and around 300 non-daily publications.
BLUFFTON -- The head of Bluffton's planning department has resigned to take a job in the private sector.
Rumors abound that Google plans to launch a mobile phone with the look and feel of a BlackBerry but with better Internet capabilities.
Today we endorse Keith Faulder for District Attorney in Mendocino County. We think this race is primarily about experience and of the three candidates in the race, we believe Mr. Faulder has the best experience to do the job. Mr. Faulder has been working some of the toughest cases in the DA's office over the past eight years and getting solid convictions. He has shown over and over that he is ...
The list of those seeking to replace longtime Person County Schools Superintendent Ronnie Bugnar has been narrowed to a half-dozen candidates to be interviewed privately at conference sites in Greensboro and Durham.
As the job market heats up, interest in online business networking is starting to soar -- turning a one-time novelty into a necessity for millions of business professionals in search of jobs or business contacts.
Fayetteville - The state of the Razorback basketball program is still unknown. Stan Heath still has a job and athletic director Frank Broyles has not made any comment on whether or not anything will change.
Steven Hodson has written a roundup of the top tech blogs within the Technorati Top 100 and whether or not the blogs run advertising. Stevens title, The A-List dirty little secret, is a bit misleading but his overview brings up a simple point. Advertising on blogs works! Blogs, especially those with niche business readers, enjoy loyal audience [...]
Rumors abound that Google plans to launch a mobile phone, reportedly code-named "Switch," with the look and feel of a BlackBerry but with better Internet capabilities.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Taking the Bait On a Phish Scam (Job sites)

Washington Post - Privacy experts say the job sites could do more to weed out fraudulent ads. "People, when looking for work, are at their most vulnerable. Job sites owe it to consumers to take that extra step to make sure these scams don't slip through the net," said
Computerworld - So far Cote isn't aware of similar situations arising from use of other job-related sites, such as Monster.com. He says the importance of recruiting via online job sites means that his engineering firm is unlikely to change the way it locates job
CNN Money - The Otis executive team also met with customers, local business leaders of multinational corporations and Otis employees, and toured Otis installations and job sites. Otis installed its first elevator in Vietnam in 1929 at the Presidential Palace in
Fort Dodge Messenger - Like other businesses, the railroad was concerned about its employees getting to work. Davis said that in a worse case scenario, railroad workers will be taken to their job sites aboard locomotives. Dodger Area Rapid Transit stopped bus service at 1 p