AT&T will no longer offer per-minute billing plans to most of its new customers, reports the Wall Street Journal. Following the industry trend towards unlimited talk time and texts, the company will only offer one per-minute plan, a meager 450 minutes per month for about $40, plus extra for texts and data. It will focus […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Cardinals rushed to the plate to congratulate Allen Craig. The Red Sox stormed home to argue with the umpires.
The fans, well, they seemed too startled to know what to do. Who’d ever seen an obstruction call to end a World Series game?
No one.
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Qualcomm‘s outspoken Chief Marketing Officer Anand “Things That Are Dumb” Chandrasekher has been demoted, in a way, after stating that Apple’s 64-bit system-on-a-chip, the A7, is a “gimmick.” He wasn’t fired, just reassigned, but he is no longer listed as being on the leadership team on the Qualcomm website, and the company has publicly censured […]
The Justice Department for the first time has notified a criminal defendant that evidence being used against him came from a warrantless wiretap, a move that is expected to set up a Supreme Court test of whether such eavesdropping is constitutional.
By Tim Ghianni
NASHVILLE, Oct 25 (Reuters) – A Tennessee judge who ordered a baby’s name changed from Messiah to Martin, saying the former was reserved for Jesus Christ, has been cited by a court panel for an inappropriate religious bias in violation of the state judicial code of conduct.
Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew of Cocke County in eastern Tennessee ordered the boy’s first name changed over the objections of both parents when they appeared before the judge seeking to settle a number of issues, including a dispute over the child’s last name.
Both the mother, Jaleesa Martin, and the father, Jawaan McCullough, were insisting on their respective surnames for baby Messiah. The magistrate instead threw out the child’s birth name and ordered the boy renamed Martin DeShawn McCullough.
“The word ‘messiah’ is a title, and it’s a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ,” the magistrate told Tennessee television station WBIR at the time.
The parents appealed, and in September another judge, Chancellor Telford Forgety Jr., held that Ballew’s ruling was unconstitutional.
The parents, who have since dropped their dispute over the last name, have continued to call the boy Messiah DeShawn McCullough.
A three-member investigative panel of the Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct concluded this week there was “reasonable cause to believe (Ballew) has committed judicial offenses,” and directed the state board’s disciplinary counsel to file the charges, according to a document obtained from a court clerk.
The judicial code the panel cited centers on a clause that says religion and other personal biases must not play roles when judges are performing their duties.
Ballew could not be reached for comment.
Ballew has 30 days to file an answer with the court, at which time a hearing will be scheduled “to impose just and proper sanctions as provided by law,” according to the document outlining the charges against the judge.
Messiah was the 387th most popular name for boys born in the United States in 2012, based on applications for Social Security cards filed with the U.S. Social Security Administration.
In all, there were 762 applications for boys named Messiah in 2012, more than double the 368 applications made in 2011, the Social Security Administration said. (Reporting by Tim Ghianni; Editing by Steve Gorman, Alex Dobuzinskis and Philip Barbara)
The iterative, annualized OUYA video game console has fixed the longstanding latency problem with its native controller and made a few subtle but important physical changes to it, reports Polygon. The controller, which was released with OUYA 1.0 in April, had been slow to respond and didn’t feel quite right, as reported by the new […]
The uniforms aren’t the only bold thing in Eugene. Trailing No. 12 UCLA 7-0 early on Saturday night, the No. 3 Oregon Ducks dialed up a fake punt on a 4th down at their own 26-yard line. Perhaps because the Bruins couldn’t have imagined anyone would make such a call so early in a game while so deep in their own territory, the Ducks executed the fake perfectly. Linebacker Rodney Hardrick took the snap directly and then took off right up the vacated middle of the field as punter Alejandro Maldonado pantomimed a botched, high snap. Hardrick veered toward the UCLA sideline and was eventually forced out after a 66-yard gain.
This article was written on September 19, 2007 by CyberNet.
So there is a use for billboards after all! The fact of the matter is, billboard advertising is kind of "old-school" these days compared to the latest fad of web advertising. It’s considered to be a more traditional method for advertising, but this hasn’t stopped Google – King of advertising on the web, from using a billboard to promote their GOOG-411 service. The image below was taken in upstate New York in a rural area.
This is probably one of the few instances where using a billboard is actually your best option for marketing a service. Because most people will be using GOOG-411 while they’re driving in the car, it makes sense that Google would want to advertise on the road where people will see it as they drive by. What doesn’t make sense though, is why they chose a billboard in a rural area to place their ad. I’d think that Google’s marketing budget for GOOG-411 would be large enough that they could put a billboard up in a major city or metropolitan area where thousands more people would see it.
I can’t imagine Google would just put up one billboard, so keep your eyes open. If you happen to spot a GOOG-411 billboard somewhere, let us know!
Source: Search Engine Land
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You can play your PlayStation 4 games on any PS4 console, anyone can play games and use your PlayStation Plus features on your primary PS4, and your PlayStation Network account can be used on two systems at the same time, according to Sony. Those and other FAQs were answered this weekend and announced via a […]
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