Smart Networking For Job Searchers (Investor’s Business Daily)
Investor’s Business Daily - If you’re one of the millions of Americans who lost a job in 2009, you’ve probably started networking.
CIA probes Afghan base security after bomber kills 7 (Reuters)
Reuters - The CIA vowed on Thursday to avenge the deaths of seven officers in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and to investigate security breaches that allowed the second deadliest attack in agency history.
Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report (AFP)
AFP - Bowing to Chinese law, Apple is reportedly blocking iPhone users in China from downloading applications about two figures Beijing considers “separatists”: the Dalai Lama and exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.
2009 in review: The year in Apple (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Economic uncertainty. Swine flu. Newspaper articles featuring Jon and/or Kate Gosselin. You can understand why most people will be happy to see 2009 exit stage left. And while Iâm sure the folks at Apple headquarters may be sympathetic to all the 2009-related ennui out there, itâs also safe to say that the company may be a little sad to leave 2009 behind. After all, Apple had a really good year. And the Mac was a major reason why.
AT&T is latest to end Tiger Woods sponsorship (AP)
AP - AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture in dropping support for the world’s top golfer, who’s taking a break from the sport to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity.
Tweets, sexting “unfriended” in U.S. banned word list (Reuters)
Reuters - If you recently tweeted about how you were chillaxin for the holiday, take note: Fifteen particularly over- or mis-used words and phrases have been declared “shovel-ready” to be “unfriended” by a U.S. university’s annual list of terms that deserve to be banned.
No New Year’s toasts in sauna, Russians urged (Reuters)
Reuters - Russia has urged revelers celebrating the New Year in saunas on Thursday night to refrain from popping open the champagne until they have left the steam houses, warning it could prove fatal.
New Year drunks should pay for hospital care? (Reuters)
Reuters - Excessive drinking over New Year’s Eve could cost Britain’s National Health Service as much as 23 million pounds, according to a report on Thursday which recommends drunks be charged a hospital admission fee of 532 pounds ($845.9).
Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010 (Time.com)
Time.com - The populace is anxious about the bicentennial of the founding of the country because really bad things seem to happen every 100 years
Ke$ha sets female download record in U.S. (Reuters)
Reuters - In what is traditionally a high-volume download week thanks to shiny new MP3 players under the tree and download cards stuffed in stockings, a digital sales mark has fallen by the wayside.