WSI opens a new national office located in Orange County, CA. The office, lead by Tracey Johnson MA, MBA, will partner with businesses to grow their revenue and reduce operating costs by implementing Internet marketing solutions customized to their business needs. Johnson will customize campaigns for ROI, which include dynamic websites, identity design, email marketing, sponsored advertisements, blogs, video, chat, communities, search engine registration and optimization, e-commerce and hosting. .

Julian Lennon Invests in MyStore.com

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Today MyStore.com confirmed Julian Lennon, son of Beatles icon John Lennon, is among the group of private investors behind yourStore, LLC. The company owns and operates http://www.mystore.com/, an online marketplace. "In addition to his monetary investment, Julian has contributed some great ideas to the options MyStore.com offers to musicians and artists who want to resell or self distribute their music and art online. As an independent artist himself, Mr. Lennon was an early user of MyStore.com, setting up his own MyStore and linking it to several places he has a presence online including his MySpace page. We are glad to have him involved. He's been a friend for a long time," stated Todd Meagher, the company's CEO.

MyStore.com is owned by yourStore, LLC (http://www.yourstore.com/) which is a virtual real estate company and application service provider offering individuals and businesses with FREE online "retail" space and software usage in the form of personalized web stores located within the company's marketplace http://www.mystore.com/ and an e-commerce service provider offering seller support and software services; including web hosting, site design, marketing, fulfillment and inventory and customer management tools.

Neiman Marcus Marks its 100-Year Milestone; Luxury Retailer Celebrates ...

DALLAS, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- One hundred years ago, three young entrepreneurs, Herbert Marcus, Sr., his sister Carrie Marcus Neiman, and her husband A.L. Neiman, invested just over $75,000 to open the first Neiman Marcus store in Dallas, TX. Today, the specialty retailer operates 39 full-line stores in 18 states and the District of Columbia, an e-commerce web site and a successful catalog operation. To celebrate the 100th anniversary, the downtown Dallas flagship store is hosting a special centennial exhibit honoring the past and looking forward to the future.

The exhibits, which are on display from October 13, 2007 to November 3, 2007, include one-of-a-kind designs from the world's leading fashion designers; a look at the future of jewelry, furniture and art; special artist installations; and an opportunity to write a wish for the future to be added to the Future Tree.

MyWebGrocer.com expands with new appointments in sales and development

MyWebGrocer.com is expanding with the appointment of two new sales representatives to the team. The company, which provides e-commerce and Internet marketing solutions to grocery retailers, has more than 80 retail grocery chain clients for services including web site design and hosting, e-mail, online circulars and other e-commerce operations.

Rob Rice, who joins the company in a sales and business development role, will be focusing on the New England and the Tri-State area encompassed by New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He brings more than 19 years of experience in the grocery field to his new role, including 13 years of experience in retail grocery, customer relationship management, and sales of software, technology, analysis, direct mail and related data processing solutions.

AAAS: State of the Art in Nuclear Physics-Theory

The final symposium I attended on Sunday before heading to the airport was a real brain bender. Titled "Nuclear physics: New answers, new questions about the visible universe." The talks spanned both theoretical and experimental aspects of the field—this article will focus on the theoretical lectures, a second article will cover the experimental discussions. The first speaker, Dr. Don Geesaman, eloquently stated the goals of the field: "the mission in nuclear physics is to understand the origin, evolution, and structure of baryonic matter in the universe—the matter that makes up stars, planets, and human life itself."

All of the talks, both experimental and theoretical focused on hadrons, their substituent quarks, and the forces that hold them together. Hadrons are strongly interacting subatomic particles that are composed of quarks.

MPA settles with China Net service

With fast Internet connections to home computers still something of a rarity, China has a massive Internet cafe culture, where consumers spend many hours, often in groups, watching movies.

Cafes pay a monthly subscription fee to Jeboo or other similar platforms for a LAN system, with Jeboo providing daily updates of content, which includes movies, TV shows, sports, music, general entertainment and cartoon programming.

Although most of the content offered by Jeboo is authorized, the MPA member company titles were not.

Terms of the settlement, reached Feb. 28 but only recently unveiled, will be endorsed by the Shanghai No. 2 People's Intermediary Court.

"This court-supervised settlement affirms the sovereignty of the Chinese judiciary for the prompt and equitable resolution of intellectual property rights disputes, which should be gratifying to copyright owners around the world," Frank Rittman, VP and Asia-Pacific regional counsel for the MPA said.

Variety: Digital Editions

It makes it the copyright holder's job to find infringing content on a site like YouTube, and to request the content be removed.

"If YouTube takes stuff down when they get a notice, they're pretty much protected by the safe harbor, no matter how many people post copyrighted content," Schultz said.

Despite the protections of the Copyright Act, a copyright holder can still try to sue YouTube for copyright infringement and seek damages. Nguyen said one suit has already been filed against YouTube by Robert Tur of Los Angeles News Service, alleging a video he shot of the 1992 beating of Reginald Denny was posted to YouTube without his permission and seen more than 1,000 times. Tur's lawsuit, filed in July, claims the copy on YouTube limited his ability to profit from the video by licensing it.

MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them

The argument of whether it's useful or not, though, has nothing to do with bloat or the memory footprint of the OS. 163. RE: MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them Maybe Jamie and Adam should test the "myths" of linux install, vista bloat, and the general stability of these OS's on Mythbusters, hm? 162. RE: MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them The only thing I say good about MS software is that people have to upgrade systems as the os changes. I get free computers when helping people upgrade and then I put Linux on the discarded computers. Small businesses could save a fortune in equipment cost if they knew what could be done with classic systems. Like Emeril says: "Don't tell anybody or everyone will be doing it." Thank you Microsoft. 161. RE: MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them The only thing I say good about MS software is that people have to upgrade systems as the os changes.

LIVE BLOG: Apex Beating Britt 33-31 Going Into Fourth

I'm here inside Minges Coliseum now, and I'll be keeping you up-to-date on what's going on in the Apex vs. Jack Britt game. The favorite here has to be Britt, but Apex's magical run through the playoffs could continue. I think we're going to see a very good game here, but the thing I'm looking for is how the height of the Bucs impacts how Apex plays their game. We'll see soon enough. The clock shows 1:35 before the start of the game, we'll have a little longer than that, though.

9:37 AM: Well, I'm still in Raleigh at this point, but we're preparing to head out to Pitt County to cover the final day of the Eastern Regionals. We will have coverage of both local games: Wakefield vs.

Police fire tear gas as Serb protests continue

The question of using force to hold back Serbs who do not want to remain under Pristina's authority ... is being seriously discussed," Lavrov said in the broadcast, without offering any evidence. "This will only lead to yet another 'frozen conflict' and will push the prospects for stabilizing Europe - and first of all for stabilizing the Balkans - far to the side."

The EU did not immediately respond to Lavrov's remarks. But EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said earlier that the bloc's mission would cover all of Kosovo, including the northern parts where Serbs are concentrated.

Moscow has said the EU mission is illegal because it does not have approval from the UN Security Council, where Russia is one of the five permanent members with veto power. .