| Amazon raises 2007 forecasts
Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, saw its shares jump 10 per cent in after- hours trading on Tuesday, after it raised its full year sales and earnings forecast following a stronger than expected performance in the first quarter. Net income during the quarter more than doubled to $111m, or 26 cents per diluted share, while sales rose 32 per cent to $3.02bn against the same period last year. .
RCN Launches New “Shop Online” Internet Feature to Allow ...
HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RCN Corporation (NASDAQ:RCNI), a leading provider of video, data, and voice services to residential and business customers, announced today that it has launched a new "Shop Online" service on its website, www.rcn.com which enables prospective new customers to order service and even schedule an installation date. "We're very excited about this new service because it provides quick and simple access for new customers to learn more about and order our outstanding products and services," said RCN Vice President Mark Chinn. "While this service works only for new residential customers today, we do plan to expand its reach to include all of our residential and small business customers in the future." When visiting RCN's website, www.rcn.com, prospective customers can look for the "Shop Online" tab or various Shop Now buttons.
Attempts to Trim the Fat Merely Cut at the Meat
Giant Food, the region's largest grocer, said it would eliminate fish counters at 50 stores -- ones with fresh fish arranged neatly on ice, with someone behind the counter. Instead, the fish will be packaged and offered in refrigerated cases, next to the chicken and pork chops. .
Virginia Tech mass murderer buys guns illegally. Why wasn't law ...
Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho was mentally deranged. But he had no problem buying his two weapons of mass destruction from a Roanoke, VA gun dealer and the combination of a Green Bay, WI web site and Blacksburg, VA pawnbroker. This got me thinking that there ought to be a law against selling guns to people in his mental condition. It turns out there is. In this case, the law was simply not enforced. That's Newsweek's revelation. It found that the same 1968 federal gun law that blocks convicted criminals from buying firearms (passed after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy) also prohibits gun purchases by those who have a history of mental illness. On Cho's gun application -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Form 4473 -- he was asked: "Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective or ...
Sprint tackles iPhone, offers 99-cent songs
Sprint today launched a two-pronged assault on Apple's still unreleased iPhone by releasing both a new phone and an aggressive new music strategy. Confirming earlier leaks, the UpStage is intended to be music-friendly without sacrificing calling ability, as one side features a larger screen and controls for music or videos and the other holds a 1.3-megapixel camera, the more traditional cellphone keypad, and a basic display. Up to 2GB of music can be stored on a microSD card. New in the official announcement is news of a unique battery wallet: inserting the UpStage into the case both guards it against damage and boosts talk time to 6.3 hours, Sprint says. The carrier plans to bundle the UpStage with a 64MB microSD card when it ships in early April at a price of $149 with a two-year service plan.
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