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News release: “DISH Network, one of the nation’s largest providers of satellite television service, faces a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging that it illegally called millions of consumers who had previously asked telemarketers from the company or its affiliates not to call them again. The calls allegedly violated provisions of the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule… Continue Reading
“OpenCorporates aims to do a straightforward (though big) thing: have a URL for every company in the world…We’ve grown from 3 territories and a few million companies to over 30 territories and 30 million companies, and are working with the open data community to add more each week.” Continue Reading
Two-Thirds of Americans Can’t Name Any U.S. Supreme Court Justices, Says New FindLaw.com Survey: “Despite all the recent controversy surrounding U.S. Supreme Court decisions on health care, immigration and other issues, nearly two-thirds of Americans can’t name even a single member of the Supreme Court. That’s according to a new national survey by FindLaw.com, the… Continue Reading
News release: “Negative equity declined in the second quarter, with 30.9 percent of U.S. homeowners with mortgages or 15.3 million underwater, according to the second quarter Zillow® Negative Equity Report. That was down from 31.4 percent of homeowners with mortgages, or 15.7 million, underwater in the first quarter. The total amount of negative… Continue Reading
News release, Children’s Hospital of Boston: “Dr. John Kheir and colleagues [Inventors: John Kheir, Mark Borden, Francis McGowan] have developed a platform technology that packages oxygen in microbubbles for direct delivery via injection to blood and tissues. This technology is platform in nature and could revolutionize the practice of critical care medicine. An early and… Continue Reading
Internet2 eTextbook Spring 2012 Pilot, Final Project Report. August 1, 2012 “In October 2011, the Provosts at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) institutions expressed interest in initiating a quick‐turn‐around multi‐institutional eTextbook pilot. The next month, Indiana University approached the Internet2 organization to put together an eText pilot for the spring 2012 semester, based on… Continue Reading
“The 2012 Best of the Web awards, a joint endeavor of Government Technology and the Center for Digital Government, were announced Thursday, Aug. 23. First place winners are the state of Alabama, Orange County, Fla., and Louisville, Ky. A complete list of winners is here.” Continue Reading
News release: “Increasing the nation’s resilience to natural and human-caused disasters will require complementary federal policies and locally driven actions that center on a national vision, says a new report from the National Academies – Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative. Improving resilience should be seen as a long-term process, but it can be coordinated around… Continue Reading
News release: “The OECD area unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.9% in May 2012 compared with the previous month. While the rate has hovered around this level since January 2011, it remains 2.1 percentage points higher than the level recorded four years earlier. In the euro area the unemployment rate rose further in May to… Continue Reading
