When Eugenie Smith’s hands started tingling, she figured her biking gloves needed more padding. When she felt out of breath after a short walk on a treadmill, she assumed it was pneumonia. When her chest hurt, Smith chalked it up to indigestion. She was wrong, wrong, wrong. Smith was actually having a heart attack, and […]
Ministering to young adults at New York’s Riverside Church, the Rev. J. Lee Hill Jr. hasn’t had much success in recruiting for Sunday morning services. But his mission trips to New Orleans, Louisiana, since Hurricane Katrina and his efforts to connect with older teens and 20-somethings — the so-called millennial generation — via Facebook have […]
Sick of sending big checks to the IRS? For some business owners, this tax season will bring a rare reversal: A stimulus-fueled tax change is putting cash back into the pockets of qualifying entrepreneurs. Bill Hewitt, who owns several real estate ventures in Denver, recently collected a $150,000 refund check from the IRS thanks to […]
BlackBerry has introduced its official Twitter application, offering users of the most popular smartphone brand a feature on the rival iPhone that they now can only covet. On its official blog, Research In Motion, which owns BlackBerry, said it has begun sending out a limited number of invites to test Twitter for BlackBerry. “The Twitter […]
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Friday said he’s optimistic that his search engine will not have to pull out of China over hacking and censorship issues. “I’m an optimist. I want to find a way to work within the Chinese system and provide more and better information,” he said. “I think a lot of people […]
Google is expected to plunge into the world of Facebook and Twitter, using its popular Gmail service to allow users to post status updates and items. The search-engine giant, which recently tweaked its search function to allow easier access to social media results, has planned an event for Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET at its […]
A judge ordered an ex-aide to former Sen. John Edwards on Friday to turn over a sex tape said to depict Edwards and his former mistress, an official in a North Carolina court said. Judge Abraham Penn Jones found former Edwards aide Andrew Young and his wife, Cheri, in civil contempt of court, said Tammy […]
A ninth-grade student was in custody Saturday and charged with murder after he allegedly shot a classmate in the back of the head at their northern Alabama middle school, authorities said. The shooting happened during a class change around 1:45 p.m. Friday at Discovery Middle School in Madison, just west of Huntsville, police said. “I […]
Former Houston Mayor Bill White may be trailing all three Republican candidates for governor in a new survey, but a top Democratic consultant said it shows him as well-positioned to start the general election. The latest survey by the political newsletter Rasmussen Reports found White trailing Gov. Rick Perry 48 percent to 39 percent; U.S. […]
Some of the stars are aligning in the favor of the Shell Houston Open. Three, to be exact. And counting. World No. 4 Lee Westwood and No. 7 Paul Casey of England and No. 9 Rory McIlroy of Ireland have committed to play in the April 1-4 PGA Tour event at the Redstone Golf Club […]
As terrible as it is to lose your house to foreclosure, at least it’s a relief to put your biggest financial headache behind you, right? Wrong. Facebook Digg Twitter Buzz Up! Email Print Comment on this story Vanessa Corey Former homeowners may still be on the hook if there’s a difference between what they owed […]
Text messages are short, quick and cheap to transmit. So why are they adding so much to your wireless bill? The messages are such a tiny piece of data that they cost carriers only about one-third of a cent to deliver, according to computer scientist Srinivasan Keshav, who testified before U.S. senators on the issue […]
