Blogs Posts in Gossips category; 468 blog posts

Online gamers the winners as FTSE falls

Online gaming stocks were the big winners on Wednesday, as investors bet that the US government could relax its approach to internet gambling. Bwin.Party was the top performer among the mid-cap stocks, rising 23% to 160p on the first trad [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Job hunt help for workers

FORMER workers of the South Grafton abattoir took advantage of an information session hosted by Centrelink at the Grafton Community Centre yesterday as they explored future employment opportunities and support payment eligibility. Repr [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Crash course: How to get a job during a recession

Employers are still willing to pay the right money for the right candidate. Statistics indicate that around 43,000 employers are seeking employees for 80,000 vacancies. This fact shows that the Pakistani market is still full of jobs. H [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Lawyer must make his case with more active job search

The legal profession was hit hard in the economic downturn, and lawyers such as Jeffrey Koval, who specializes in real estate and retail development, were struck particularly hard. As development slowed to a crawl, so did business at his [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

The job hunt: One man's struggle to get back to work

Nearly 9% of the American population workforce is unemployed. The fallout goes far beyond financial. Depression, physical illness and marital problems are all collateral damage that can't be measured. Steven Jackson knows the [...]

Posted On : May, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

ASK LIZ RYAN: Consulting alongside a job search??

Way back in the last economic downturn, the dotcom/bomb era, job-seekers often had to choose whether to focus on a full-time job search or take consulting projects. Lots of employers were wary of hiring people who might take a full-time j [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

The Job Hunt: What Worked for Me

My job hunt began the fall of my senior year. I began researching more and more the types of jobs I would potentially like to get into. I realized that I wanted to incorporate my mechanical engineering education, my passion for green buil [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

'No attention' paid to hate crime

"Virtually no attention" has been paid to why people carry out hate crimes in Scotland, the Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland (EHRCS) has said. The commission said the number of hate crimes in the country was rising [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Omaha tip foils cyber crime

The report came in to the Omaha FBI office in May 2009 about suspicious payments wired to 46 separate bank accounts. The tipster — from a part of the financial industry that federal officials are keeping anonymous — ended up [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Europeans Propose Global Internet Treaty

The Internet Governance Forum in Lithuania is set to consider 12 principles of Internet governance that would, among other things, uphold the existing support of net neutrality. Under the proposal, countries would agree to work acro [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Internet must remain free from government control

There is no better time than now to ensure that the internet and its world wide web stays globally sound with the help of non-government agencies, says Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and N [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Internet's capacity for instant reaction changing rules of m...

ANALYSIS: It was only after a FG tweet that mainstream media could catch up with online bush fire, writes HUGH LINEHAN, Online Editor BY THE time Brian Cowen had completed his 13-minute interview on Tuesday’s Morning Ireland , the [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Police issue paedophile warning over 'Pedobear' internet jok...

Police in the US have issued a bizarre warning to parents about a ‘paedophile’ cartoon bear that was created by a website as in internet joke. Pedobear was created on 4chan, a chaotic, largely unregulated network of messagebo [...]

Posted On : Sep, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Purists and Zealots for Internet Freedom

To hear some big-time business columnists tell it, fighting for freedom is a bad thing. The usually sensible Steve Pearlstein at the Washington Post notes that, "net neutrality zealots" (also known as "ayatollahs of net ne [...]