Ingram exec rides books' digital wave (The Tennessean)
In an otherwise gloomy holiday sales season, electronic book readers from Amazon.com and Sony defied the tough economic odds to emerge as one of this year's rare must-haves. Neither company disclosed sales figures, but e-book readers have been hard to find this Christmas, and analysts peg sales of Amazon's $359 Kindle at anywhere from 260,000 units up to a million. One of the season's most ...

Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 Exhibitor Profiles (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO----Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 takes place January 5 - 9, 2009 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.

The Tea House Times' Publisher Launches Tea Course; An Education and Social Networking Site for Tea Enthusiasts and ... (PRWeb)
The Tea House Times, a bi-monthly publication for those who enjoy tea and the tradition of afternoon tea, recently launched Tea Course ( www.teacourse.com ); a valuable resource to connect consumers and tea industry professionals. Tea Course is a members only site to present and share tea related educational materials from industry pros, facilitate networking among members, and promote ...

The Tea House Times' Publisher Launches Tea Course; An Education and Social Networking Site for Tea Enthusiasts and ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The Tea House Times, a bi-monthly publication for those who enjoy tea and the tradition of afternoon tea, recently launched Tea Course (www.teacourse.com); a valuable resource to connect consumers and tea industry professionals. Tea Course is a members only site to present and share tea related educational materials from industry pros, facilitate networking among members, and promote members ...

Best Practices for Protecting against Viruses, Spyware, and Hacking (Dr. Dobb's Journal)
As the value of information goes up, it is attracting more sophisticated kinds of thievery

2008: a delicious year for cookbook lovers (The Bulletin)
In 2008, we ate these up.Some of the best chefs in the world produced art-book-quality volumes, and there were must-haves in the fields of baking and ethnic cuisine.In December, food publications tend to come up with a Top 10 list; as you’ll see from our choices, we were not so exclusive.

Saddleback Church's Warren tries to clarify gay marriage stance (Orange County Register)
Megachurch leader says he was misrepresented as equating homosexuality to pedophilia and incest.

Weather makes employers make payroll decisions (South Sound Business Examiner)
It's what some are calling the storm of the decade and it seems out of place in the Puget Sound. Unfortunately, the storm is here and businesses are having to make unfamiliar payroll decisions.For example, should employees who can't leave their houses due to the snow be docked a day's pay? Must the employer treat salaried and hourly employees differently? Are employees allowed to make up work ...

Method and system for predicting personal preferences (FreshPatents.com)
The invention provides techniques for building multiple predictive models of individuals' affinities for attributes of objects and/or services. The accuracies of multiple predictive models are measured and the models are combined based on the

Cassette Playa interview (The Vine)
Nike collabs and fash talk with London's brightest designer.