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Lenovo is moving away from its business origins with the launch of a new consumer oriented PC line, dubbed the "Idea" range, later this month. Lenovo's next chief looks to the future Stephen Ward, general manager of IBM's Personal Systems Group, will lead the way as the new Lenovo sets its sights outside China. Lenovo keeps IBM PC unit at arm's length To ensure minimal disruption to its customer base, Lenovo's new IBM-branded business will initially operate virtually as a separate entity. Can I still buy a laptop with Windows XP? Not ready for a Vista laptop? Simply want to stick to good old XP? Here are your options on the market. Who's afraid of the $200 Linux PC? Cheap PCs with a Linux operating system seem to have hit the users' sweet spots, with taking the plunge into the alternate OS not nearly as hard as users had thought.
Jeffry Gardner: End of The Trib is part of the demise of serious ...
He is, in essence, a dinosaur, as dated as a rotary phone, as out of fashion as a powder-blue leisure suit. At one point in the movie, Bell is seated in a coffee shop reading a newspaper. No cell phone, no flat screen TVs, no laptops. Nothing but a cup of coffee and the previous day's events afforded in cold black-and-white. Just 28 years ago. The Stone Age. For the past 28 years, and longer, The Tribune has been running up stairwells as journalists began taking elevators. Sure, it's an afternoon paper, and the changes came sooner and harder to that element of the business. But by and large, the bell tolling for The Tribune — and all of print journalism — sounds a lot like theme music to Fox News Network. Or the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. In fact, it's easy to make a case that those nightly news themes, combined with the silent but deadly sounds coming from news sources on the Internet, have killed what was once considered not "fair and balanced" but rather objective and unbiased.
Nurses form nonprofit to prevent deaths from sudden cardiac arrest
As a registered nurse, Patricia Mathison of East Orleans has seen patients die from sudden cardiac arrest because a lifesaving device was not available. Now Mathison, fellow nurse Judi Franklin of North Harwich and Annie Dugan, a retired nurse who lives in Marstons Mills, have formed Connecting Hearts to ensure that every victim of sudden cardiac arrest has an equal chance for survival. The mission of the nonprofit organization is to raise money to expand the presence of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) throughout the Cape. "If there are more AEDs available countless more lives will be saved," Mathison says. Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the U.S., striking more than 350,000 people annually, with a survival rate of only about 5 percent, according to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association.
St. Lucie residents ally to sway public against wind turbine plan
FORT PIERCE While Florida Power & Light Co. is moving forward with plans to bring wind turbines to St. Lucie County, a group of residents is trying to spread information about the controversial project. The 3-month-old grass-roots group, Save St. Lucie Alliance, says it wants to get accurate information out to residents. On Saturday, about 40 residents attended a meeting at the Fort Pierce Community Center, where Brad Jones from Naples, N.Y., presented his findings and perspectives. .
Search for Soldier's Missing Fiancee Takes Bizarre Turns
Raeford, N.C. — Authorities launched a massive search after a Fort Bragg soldier said his fiancee had crashed in Hoke County. Investigators, however, are not sure that the missing woman was ever in North Carolina – or of her true identity. Capt. John Kivett, with the Hoke County Sheriff's Office, thought he had a real emergency on his hands Tuesday: A 29-year-old woman, stunned from a car crash, wandering through the woods. "She was crying. She was screaming at some points," Kivett said. "She told me she was cold. She wanted help." Spec. Randall Dabbs, 29, believed his fiancee – a woman was identified as Jollyn Sue Silver – was driving an Enterprise rental car from her hometown of Gresham, Ore., to welcome him back from Iraq. When Silver called him in a panic, Dabbs went to the sheriff's department.
Local group's bid to save Sonics up to Olympia
A high-powered local ownership group says its $300 million plan to renovate KeyArena could convince the NBA to keep the Sonics in Seattle. Now all they have to do is convince state lawmakers to approve the idea before they adjourn next week. .
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National Pen may get new work here (12/29/07)
National Pen Corp. in Shelbyville may be seeing some new faces soon. According to both the South Florida Business Journal and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Atlas Pen & Pencil Co. will close its Hollywood, Fla., facility and move its production to Shelbyville and Tijuana, Mexico, on April 1... .
Nearby businesses wondered about 'spa' clients
Business owners near a north Chandler spa police say was a front for prostitution had no solid evidence but a few clues something unusual may have been going on inside. "I suspected something might be going on," said Kurt Carmichael, owner of rental business Karaoke Sing-A-Long, next door to Blue Sky Spa. Both operate in a strip mall on the northwest corner of Dobson and Elliot roads. "The thing I noticed is that a lot of guys would go in and out of there," Carmichael said. "I never saw a woman." .
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