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Verizon Business Hits Bullseye With New System for Texas Hunting and ...
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The state's more than 2.1 million licensed hunters and anglers, who constitute one of the largest hunting and fishing populations in the nation, are now able to obtain licenses more quickly and conveniently, using a state-of-the-art system deployed by Verizon Business for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The system upgrade was provided under an existing Verizon Business contract with the agency. Verizon Business worked with the state to upgrade from an existing point- of-sale system to a leading-edge, completely Web-based automated sales system for processing hunting and fishing licenses in the Lone Star State. The underlying network and existing data centers have also been upgraded. Texas issues about 2.1 million hunting and fishing licenses annually and an additional 600,000 items including stamps, permits, tags and commercial licenses.
German tech show CeBIT goes green
Banners sporting the CeBIT computer fair logo flutter in the wind on February 27 at the fair grounds in Hanover, central Germany. With efforts to fight climate change growing apace around the world, the IT industry is also doing its bit, as the world's largest technology fair starting next week in Germany aims to show. .
Realtors Search for Solutions to Dwindling Water Supplies
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Realtors build communities, and managing, developing and protecting our nation's water resources is key to supporting the current pattern of economic growth and development which supports those communities. For regions like Las Vegas, which is hosting the 2007 REALTORS Conference & Expo this week, water, or the lack thereof, is of particular concern. The western United States, which is one of the fastest growing regions and also one of the driest, appears to be the most challenged by water shortages. "As the leading advocate for private property rights, homeownership and housing issues, NAR supports land use and environmental regulations that help manage growth smartly to sustain water resources and also meet the growing needs of local businesses and residents," said National Association of Realtors President Pat V.
Stop Press: Google News Edges Past Yahoo News in UK
Stop the presses! This important bulletin just handed to me... According to the latest data from comScore World Metrix, Google News UK has edged past Yahoo News UK & Ireland in total unique visitors for December 2007. Film at 11. Okay, okay, so this upset victory in the British Isles seems to be a long shot for today's top story. But in 1972, Edward Lorenz shocked the 139th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science with a talk entitled, "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" So, can small variations in the UK news search engine market produce large variations in the long term behavior of the worldwide search engine market? Now that Yahoo has formally rejected Microsoft's unsolicited bid to acquire the company for approximately $44.6 billion, who knows? What I can report are the details of the stunning upset of the front-runner, Yahoo News UK & Ireland, by the underdog, Google News UK.
After 3 wins, Obama wins Maine, too
They will all remain fat and happy living on their Compounds while the rest of us are left to pick of the pieces of this wonderful Nation. But as Obama states "WE CAN" because we are AmeriCANS. This country will be better and greater then ever … as soon as Bush departs the White House and Barrack and Michelle move in. .
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