Date: Wed, 20. August 2008 11:49:17

AP - For school bus driver Jamille Aine, a cold is more than an inconvenience. His employer does not offer paid sick days, so if he can't shake the bug, he may not be able to pay his bills.

Date: Thu, 5. June 2008 23:47:52

Elaine Fulps is thrilled about the prize she won at a minor league baseball game. But she's hoping she doesn't have to collect anytime soon. Her prize? A $10,000 paid funeral.

Date: Thu, 5. June 2008 23:47:52

Elaine Fulps is thrilled about the prize she won at a minor league baseball game. But she's hoping she doesn't have to collect anytime soon. Her prize? A $10,000 paid funeral.

Date: Tue, 6. December 2011 19:25:41

HOUSE OF THE DAY: This Beverly Hills Pad Is On Sale For $55 Million-SIX TIMES What the Owner Paid For It 5 Years Ago HOUSE OF THE DAY: This Beverly Hills Pad Is On Sale For $55 Million-SIX TIMES What the Owner Paid For It 5 Years Ago Surely Publicis, the giant holding company that owns such venerable ad agencies as Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo ... (more)

Date: Thu, 27. November 2008 15:28:08

You've Got Supper has recently decided to move from a paid subscription service to a free service business model. With the economy heading into a direction which most are fearful the switch from a paid subscription to a free service is a differentiator between You've Got Supper and their competitors. With the economy being such a popular topic for many households, not just in the U.S but across the globe, a free service allowing people to control and get a grasp on how much they spend, cook and eat on weekly basis is greatly needed. (PRWEB Nov 22, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/dinner/recipes/prweb1646774.htm

Date: Sat, 2. July 2011 12:28:16

Police union argues all former personnel must be paid to marchHerald SunACTING Chief Commissioner Ken Lay faces a revolt from rank-and-file members over their right to be paid to march in a gay-pride parade, but not on Anzac Day. Officers are paid to support the gay event, but not for participating on Anzac Day, ...and more »

Date: Wed, 2. December 2009 15:04:59

APC Magazine details how Optus, an Australian mobile phone operator, has for months been deliberately blocking access to Android paid apps. "Optus is the exclusive Australian mobile carrier for the HTC Dream and Samsung Galaxy Android phones, and yet people who signed a long-term contract for these phones have to date been blocked from buying paid Android apps and getting the full Android experience. ... APC found many angry and frustrated comments on the Whirlpool community forums by Optus amp; Virgin Mobile customers." The article speculates, reading between the lines of the opaque comments offered by both Optus and Google, that the carrier is "demanding a cut of the sales revenue from Android apps if it is to remove its restriction on accessing them."pa href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/12/01/2140234/AU-Mobile-Operator-Optus-Blocking-Paid-Android-Apps?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/12/01/2140234"/a/ppa href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/12/01/2140234/AU-Mobile-Operator-Optus-Blocking-Paid-Android-Apps?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/z6ZN123Eo2nSYyNddgWWfoH_6dw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/z6ZN123Eo2nSYyNddgWWfoH_6dw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/z6ZN123Eo2nSYyNddgWWfoH_6dw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/z6ZN123Eo2nSYyNddgWWfoH_6dw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/o5mRRrvKMxU" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 25. June 2009 23:23:14

AP - For years, landowners have gotten paid for not farming. Now they may get paid for not cutting down trees.

Date: Thu, 25. June 2009 23:23:14

AP - For years, landowners have gotten paid for not farming. Now they may get paid for not cutting down trees.

Date: Fri, 15. January 2010 15:05:17

An anonymous reader passes along this quote from a report at 24/7 Wall St.: "There have been over 3 billion downloads since the inception of the App Store. Assuming the proportion of those that are paid apps falls in the middle of the Bernstein estimate, 17% or 510 million of these were paid applications. Based on our review of current information, paid applications have a piracy rate of around 75%. That supports the figure that for every paid download, there have been 3 pirated downloads. That puts the number of pirate downloads at 1.53 billion. If the average price of a paid application is $3, that is $4.59 billion dollars in losses split between Apple and the application developers. That is, of course, assuming that all of those pirates would have made purchases had the application not been available to them for free. This is almost certainly not the case. A fair estimate of the proportion of people who would have used the App Store if they did not use pirated applications is about 10%. This estimate yields about $459 million in lost revenue for Apple and application developers." A response posted at Mashable takes issue with some of the figures, particularly the 75% piracy rate. While such rates have been seen with game apps, it's unclear whether non-game apps suffer the same fate.pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/15/0810230/App-Store-Piracy-Losses-Estimated-At-459-Million?from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/15/0810230"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/15/0810230/App-Store-Piracy-Losses-Estimated-At-459-Million?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bX39HLeYblFxpKvehuuNttHNzY0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bX39HLeYblFxpKvehuuNttHNzY0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bX39HLeYblFxpKvehuuNttHNzY0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/bX39HLeYblFxpKvehuuNttHNzY0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/38YpBbGZf_g" height="1" width="1"/