March 2006
5 posts
Lobbyist Abramoff gets 70 months
Disgraced former US lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been jailed for nearly six years for conspiracy and fraud.
Abramoff - who had close links to top Republicans - had pleaded guilty to the charges, which relate to the purchase of a fleet of casino boats in 2000.
In a separate case, he has admitted to tax evasion, defrauding his clients and conspiring to bribe public officials.
An ongoing federal...
Patriarch - Spreading Palestinian Nationalism
Young Palestinian rapper Patriarch releases his first album “Son of a Refuge”; the album is an instant hit with all young Arab Americans in the Bay Area.
The album is straight from the heart, and talks about the struggle and the plight of all Palestinian people. It is spoken from the eyes of a Palestinian refugee growing up in America, having to deal with racism, lack of equality, and...
Google buys Writely, watch out Microsoft
Google buys Writely, watch out Microsoft, and where are the VC’s?Google beet Yahoo to the punch. They saw good technology and the potential, so they jumped on it before anyone else got the chance. The price tag is undisclosed (yet) but I doubt it’s any cheaper than what Yahoo paid for del.icio.us.
Angel investors and VC’s need to jump on the bandwagon and secure themselves a piece of...
Creating Free Virtual Tours--Now with an MLS...
RISMEDIA, March 9 — Users of FlyInside.com, a Web site for creating free virtual tours, now have the ability to generate MLS/IDX compliant tours. The unbranded options are automatically generated along with every tour created through FlyInside.com.
Unlike the company’s standard free virtual tours which have the ability to generate leads for the agent, the MLS compliant tours have no brand or...
Israelis ask Oscars to drop Palestinian suicide...
By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A group of Israelis who lost children to Palestinian suicide bombings appealed on Wednesday to organizers of next week’s Academy Awards to disqualify a film exploring the reasoning behind such attacks.
The bereaved parents said they had gathered more than 32,000 signatures on a petition against the nomination in the best foreign film category of...