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Vodacom, RIM launch BlackBerry in Tanzania

Mobile operator Vodacom Tanzania has teamed up with Research In Motion (RIM) to launch the BlackBerry solution to its subscribers across the country. The operator is launching the BlackBerry Curve 8310 and BlackBerry Pearl 8110 smartphones for both pre-paid and post-paid customers, allowing them to access e-mail (including attachment viewing), phone, messaging, organiser, web, multimedia and other applications while on the move. Vodacom Tanzania is offering a pre-paid account for as little as TZS36,000 (USD27.66) for 30 days, rising to TZS99,000 for 60 days or TZS180,000 for 180 days. A Vodacom post-paid account costs TZS36,000 per month for a consumer package or TZS54,000 for a BlackBerry Enterprise Service subscription plan - which includes BlackBerry internet service access for free.

Malevich Painting Fetches $60 Mill.

Kazimir Malevich’s painting Suprematist Composition was sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $60 million on Monday. The name of the buyer was not made public. The sale price is the most ever paid for a work by Malevich or any other Russian artist. The largest sum paid for a Malevich work previously was $17 million in 2000, and the highest paid for a Russian work was $20.9 million for Vasily Kandinsky’s Fugue. Suprematist Composition has been displayed in museums in London and New York.

Wawel Savings Bank Will Not Apply for Federal ...

WALLINGTON, N.J., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wawel Savings Bank (OTC:WAWL) (BULLETIN BOARD: WAWL) today announced that the Bank will pay a cash dividend. The special dividend of $.125 per share is the seventh consecutive dividend paid by the Bank and represents a 19% increase over its last dividend paid in July of this year. The cash dividend will be payable to stockholders of record as of December 10, 2008 and will be paid on December 19, 2008.

Rogers 3Q operating results boosted by iPhone 3G

Canadian cable, mobile and fixed line provider Rogers Communications has reported that its consolidated revenue grew by 14% year-on-year in the third quarter to CAD2.98 billion (USD2.31 billion), and net income increased by 84% in the same period to CAD495 million. In the three months to the end of September, Rogers achieved net mobile subscriber additions of 239,000, including 191,000 post-paid users, and reported continued growth in monthly ARPU, driven in part by a 38% increase in data revenues, which accounted for 16.5% of wireless network turnover. Total mobile users reached 7.744 million at the end of the three months, including 6.293 million post-paid and 1.451 million pre-paid. Rogers launched the Apple iPhone 3G on 11 July and activated 255,000 of the devices during the quarter, approximately one-third of which were new subscribe

Pre-Paid Legal Services Q3 Net income increases 25% - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (PPD: News ) announced a 25% increase in third quarter net income to $14.442 million from $11.573 million last year. On a per share basis, earnings increased 40% to $1.23 from $0.88 last year on 10% decrease in the weighted average number of outstanding shares.

High Paid Search Budgets Under Scrutiny

Online accommodation powerhouse HotelClub, with annual gross bookings of more than $500m, has dramatically cut its marketing reliance on paid search.

Bank offers paid career breaks

An Irish bank has offered staff a paid career break in a bid to cut costs during the recession, it emerged today.

Palin makeup artist paid more than policy adviser

The celebrity makeup artist was paid US$22,800 for the first two weeks of this month, while McCain¡¦s foreign policy adviser received US$13,200

Is Your Paid Search Agency Paying Attention?

I was just going through a White Paper by an agency on the subject of paid search quality scores. I hate to be picky, but if your intent is to explain keyword auctions to your clients, then factual errors don't really sit well with me. In outlining the history, this paper essentially said that Google invented Quality Score to deal with relevancy issues in 2005, and prior to that everything was a pure auction a la GoTo.

Get paid for recycling your phone

But instead of contributing to the toxic waste in landfill, you can recycle your phone, and get paid for it.

How the paid search industry is killing itself

It may not be as bad as the banking industry, but SEM could use some help. Here's how paid search can get itself back on track before things get worse.

Forged KDs paid for phone

Kuwait : Police are looking for an unidentified man wearing dishdasha, who reportedly purchased a new cell phone from a store in Hawalli and paid the cashier with forged money — KD 270, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.

Click fraud rate for paid search ads remains at around 16% in Q3

The average click fraud rate for paid search advertisers in the third quarter was 16%, down slightly from the 16.2% reported for both the second quarter of this year and the year-ago quarter, according to the Click Fraud Index of web traffic quality auditor Click Forensics Inc. The leading source of fraudulent clicks was botnets – robotic software that generates clicks on ads automatically – which were up 10% over this year’s second quarter to account for an average of 27.6% of click fraud traffic in the third quarter, according to the report.

Google continues to dominate paid search market

LONDON - Google increased its dominance of paid search spending in the UK during the third quarter of 2008.

Bloggers : Get the paid ClustrMaps+ version FREE

ClustrMaps, by special arrangement with WinVistaClub, is pleased to offer 5 licenses of the paid version of ClustrMaps+ free to the readers of WinVistaClub.

Outspark's Pre-Paid Game Cards Coming To Best Buy Stores Nationwide

Outspark ( www.outspark.com), a leading "virtual playground" of online community-based gaming for all ages, announced the arrival of its pre-paid cards at Best Buy stores across the United States. Through its partnership with GMG Entertainment, Outspark's SparkCash Cards will be available in Best Buy stores nationwide beginning November 2, 2008.

Thuraya Launches Pre-paid Phone Recharging Service

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Telstra releases new pre-paid plans and blue tick Next G handset

Technology news and Jobs arrow Telecommunications arrow Telstra releases new pre-paid plans and blue tick Next G handset

Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots?

An anonymous reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot more slowly than anything else, necessarily, as one commenter points out.) The National Law Journal article behind the post requires subscription. Quoting: "Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees are suing over time spent booting [up] their computers. ... During the past year, several companies, including AT&T Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Cigna Corp., have been hit with lawsuits in which employees claimed that they were not paid for the 15- to 30-minute task of booting their computers at the start of each day and logging out at the end.

Google Updates Quality Score, Criteria for Paid Search Listings

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Cheeze to handle Exclaimer's paid search and SEO account

LONDON - Exclaimer, a provider of mail utilities and software add-on products for Microsoft Exchange, has signed digital direct agency Cheeze to its paid search and SEO account without a pitch.

BBB Advice on Giving, and Receiving, Pre-paid Bank Cards

Two plastic gift cardsAccording to a recent survey by Archstone Consulting, consumers are expected to spend $25 billion on gift cards this holiday season. Given the current economic downturn, and consumers’ desire for flexible spending options, Archstone predicts pre-paid bank cards will be one of this year’s hottest gifts because recipients can choose to spend the money on “nice to have� items, or if need be, on daily expenses such as gas, groceries or bills.

It's the sleigh bells that are ringing not those expensive mobiles

Experts predict that Australians will shift to cheaper communications devices this Christmas season. The release of new broadband pre-paid packs by 3 anticipates this trend, and Telstra is expected to follow suit. Citigroup forecasts an increase in pre-paid sales in the December 2008 as a result of the collapse in the pricing of 3G (third generation) handsets

SoCal Investors Going Mobile

We’ve got two recent SoCal mobile home park sales to report, one in Hesperia and the other in La Mesa. The larger of the deals was in Hesperia, where Waterhouse Management Corporation paid $3.35 mil for Coral Isle Mobile Home Park, a 70-space ($47.9k/space) park located at 9426 Tamarisk, east of I-15 and south of Main St. Jason Phillips of Sperry Van Ness represented the buyer and the sellers, John O’Carroll and David Milani. According to SVN, this deal represents the highest price per space ever paid for a mobile home park in the High Desert.

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