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Cellphone Contracts Ignore Elder Consumers

Let's boost legislation to revamp the system.

(SALEM) - The term "disconnect" does not seem to be in the vocabulary of those who author contracts for the cellphone firms that pretty much control the communications channels of America.

That lack of capacity to terminate a 2-year ironclad contract for a disabled consumer is nothing short of a travesty. Consumers are given two choices: either stay trapped in that contract or else die off.

Consumer and Privacy Organizations Issue Statement on Do-Not-Track Mechanisms

Privacy and consumer organizations issued a statement on DNT.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) "seeks to support the wide adoption of Web technologies in digital publishing contexts. . . to reinforce cooperation around well defined technical issues."

In this regard, the W3C conducts workshops around a number of technical issues. A workshop will be held in Berlin on March 11 and 12 to discuss how Do-­Not-­Track (DNT) mechanisms should work.

`Startling Breakthrough` - Baby With H.I.V. Cured

More than three million children globally are living with H.I.V.

(NEW YORK) - An infant with H.I.V. infection has successfully been cured according to an article today in the New York Times.

The news was reported Sunday as a "startling breakthrough" expected to bring a reduction to the number of children afflicted with H.I.V. whih has the potential to cause AIDS.

Detectives Arrest Man in 1982 Aloha `Cold Case` Homicide

Detectives are seeking the public's help regarding this case.

(PORTLAND, OR) - February 28, 2013--Washington Sheriff's Detectives arrested a man and charged him with the 1982 homicide of Lori Billingsley who was 17-years old.

Washington County Sheriff's Detectives arrested 49-year old Kenneth Lee Hicks of Saint Helens. He was charged with the 1982 murder of Lori Billingsley.

Toxic Vapors Found in Google Offices

TCE vapors reach unacceptable levels; efforts to remedy it in progress.

(MOUNTAIN VIEW mv-voice.com) - A carcinogen was found to be seeping up from contaminated soil into buildings at Google's building in Mountain View.

New Ap Instantly Alerts Bondsmen and Attorneys Upon Arrest

Don’t spend hours waiting to make one phone call –with Off to Jail App you can have your closest friends or family already waiting there to pick you up when you're released.

(HOOVER, Al.) - You never know when it might happen. Maybe you're in the wrong place at the wrong time or maybe you just made a bad decision. Suddenly those red and blue lights are flashing behind you and you're off to jail.

Who will you call? When will they pick you up? How long will you be stuck there? With Off to Jail App you're covered!

Investigative Journalism In Mainstream Media: From Flaccid to MIA to DOA

Those who wish to be informed need vehicles like Salem-News!

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Gee, what took them so long? Mainstream Media (MM) are now openly admitting that investigative journalism, theirs in particular, whether in print or on the web, has been dwindling for quite some time.

Unlike the first stages of an intervention, getting someone beyond denial and to admit they have a problem, MM have totally capitulated and abandoned altogether the turf of engagement that formerly gave unique insights

I Was a Paid Internet Shill

Our regular readers know the grief we take in comments, here is some real insight.

(SAN FRANCISCO Above Top Secret) - I am writing here to come out of the closet as a paid shill.

For a little over six months, I was paid to spread disinformation and argue political points on the Internet.

Ray Gun Feared as America`s Biggest Threat

Conducting interviews on this topic is the former security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the author of the newly released book "A Nation Forsaken", F. Michael Maloof.

(WASHINGTON DC WND) - The nation's attention of late has focused on a nuclear bomb or an intense solar storm as the source of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, assault on the nation's vulnerable electrical grid system that could fry our electronics and wreak havoc on critical infrastructures.

Estimates are that tens of millions of fatalities could occur in the aftermath of such an event as food, fuel and power supplies evaporate and the nation is transported instantly back to the 18th-century lifestyle without a power grid or anything else electronic.

Salem IT Pro Receives National Attention

Chris was selected by a panel of esteemed industry judges, including representatives from leading IT news websites and online communities.

(SALEM) - A Salem Systems Administrator for Northwest Human Resources, Chris Gahlsdorf, has been selected in a national competition by Eaton Corporation as the most prolific IT professional in the nation.