The Sports Network | January 29, 2006
- (Courtesy of LawFuel - The Law News Network)
- Santa Monica, CA (Sports Network) - Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman and a major national law firm have been named as defendants in a $50 million lawsuit brought by a food marketing company for Fraud and Interference with Contract relating to a contract the company had with George Foreman Foods to market Foreman brand steaks nationwide.
- Filed in the Santa Monica branch of the Los Angeles Superior Court by the law firm of Yuhl Rhames & Atkinson, LLP, the lawsuit seeks compensation for lost revenues as well as punitive and exemplary damages.
Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Ky.) | January 27, 2006
- Jan. 27--Tempur-Pedic International reported higher earnings yesterday, but the Lexington company had mixed results in meeting the expectations of Wall Street analysts.
- Tempur-Pedic said its sales increased 9 percent for the fourth quarter and 22 percent for the year 2005, compared with the same periods of 2004.
- For 2005, Tempur-Pedic earned $99.3 million, or 97 cents a share, compared with $75 million, or 73 cents a share, for 2004.
Backchannelmedia | January 30, 2006
- CHICAGO, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- To correct the public record with respect to infomercial rankings, Kevin Trudeau, entrepreneur and author of the bestselling book, Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About, filed a lawsuit today to end what he alleges is Jordan Whitney's misrepresentations of infomercial broadcast rankings.
- However, Trudeau alleges that Jordan Whitney has manipulated such projections by accepting false information from certain infomercial producers and thereby inflating their ranking status.
- Trudeau alleges in the lawsuit that such false listings have skewed the public's and sales industry's perception of Trudeau's infomercial that promotes his book.
Backchannelmedia | January 30, 2006
- LAKEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- "Look ma, no wires!"
- Video Professor, the leader in computing self-tutorials recognizes the growth and also the need for a simple, easy to understand learning method to make your home wireless and make computing more efficient than ever before.
- "Computing today involves more than just a computer," says Video Professor CEO and founder John Scherer.
Backchannelmedia | January 30, 2006
- WEST CHESTER, Pa., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- An acclaimed dermatological surgeon, Dr. Patricia Wexler has treated some of the most famously beautiful faces.
- Dr. Wexler is scheduled to make her QVC(R) debut with the Patricia Wexler M.D. Dermatology line on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 6 PM ET.
- Believing that great skin shouldn't be a luxury, Dr. Wexler targets some of the most common skin care concerns with ground-breaking ingredients and Niacyl and MMPi skin technology that will change the face of skin care.
BusinessWest | December 26, 2005
- A congressionally imposed deadline of Dec. 31, 2006 for full conversion from analog to digital television, or DTV, will not be met.
- And as they say in this business, viewers should stay tuned for new developments.
- For a technology that has been so pervasive and influential in society, television has undergone strikingly few changes in the past half-century.
Dynamic Chiropractic | January 15, 2006
- Three years ago, a snowstorm forced me to spend an unexpected night in a small Montana town.
- Scanning the three stations, I came upon a fellow making some health claims that really got my attention.
- The defendants in this case -Great American Products (GAP) and Physicians Choice Incorporated (PCI) - manufactured and marketed the products Ultimate HGH, Super HGH, Master HGH and Super HGH Booster.
The Baltimore Sun, Maryland | January 29, 2006
- Jan. 29--A Philadelphia nightclub party was where 28-year-old Jessica Scott made her video-dating debut.
- Then Scott set up a profile on Comcast's partner in the dating service, hurrydate.com.
- On Thanksgiving, Americans ordered more than 100,000 songs from Comcast's karaoke on demand, a service that plays music while the lyrics are displayed on the TV screen so viewers can sing along.