Advocate; Baton Rouge, La. | October 13, 2005
- In their search for America's favorite family recipes, Baton Rouge native Gwen McKee and her co-editor, Barbara Moseley, have taken to the back roads.
- "Interstates don't get you anywhere," McKee said from Westchester, Pa., where she was promoting the latest cookbook from her Brandon, Miss.-based Quail Ridge Press on QVC, a shopping channel.
- For more than two decades, McKee and Moseley have traveled the country, "discovering, testing, tasting and selecting the best recipes we could find" for the "Best of the Best State Cookbooks."
MARKET WIRE | October 13, 2005
- Cairo.com, the free online service for finding local sales, today announced the appointment of Frank Han as President and Chief Executive Officer.
- Han joins Cairo.com from television retailer HSN, where he led HSN.com and spearheaded dramatic growth in its online business.
- An e-commerce innovator, Han will oversee all aspects of Cairo.com's leading local sales shopping website and business.
The Philadelphia Inquirer | October 14, 2005
- Oct. 14--PHILADELPHIA -- Video-on-demand -- the video store in your remote control -- was for two decades the gee-whiz technology just over the horizon.
- Welcome to the other side of the horizon, where "gee whiz" often morphs into "so what?"
- Comcast Corp., the nation's largest provider of cable-TV service, announced Thursday that it had served up one billion VOD programs since the service debuted in 2002.
The Philadelphia Inquirer | October 13, 2005
- Such an Internet portal would allow Comcast to offer a trove of online content not available to high-speed Internet customers of competitors such as regional phone companies Verizon Communications Inc. and SBC Communications Inc.
- The trio of Google, Comcast and AOL could produce "a pretty dynamic portal," the person familiar with the talks said.
- Besides providing high-speed Internet service, Comcast and Time Warner also are the nation's number-one and number-two cable-television operators, with about 33 million subscribers nationwide between them.
Gourmet News | October 01, 2005
- Her own desire to locate hard-to-find items led Katharina Davitt to start the German Corner, an online store based in Keno, Ore., that offers a host of German-made items, including kitchenware products.
- "I started missing certain things," explained Davitt, who said her father, who was a German-born chef, had also introduced her to the quality of Germanmade kitchenware.
- Bowyer said much of the high-quality stainless steel used in kitchen gadgets and cutlery today was developed during World War II.
Cincinnati Post | October 13, 2005
- PHILADELPHIA -- Google Inc. and Comcast Corp. are talking with Time Warner Inc. about acquiring ownership stakes in America Online's Web portal AOL, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
- Under the deal, the three companies would form a new entity through which they would jointly own the Web portal, according to the person, who requested anonymity Wednesday because release of the information was not authorized.
- AOL has been successful of late at generating online content, but America Online's business prospects have suffered as more people switch from dial-up Internet access to high-speed connections.