Online auction sellers need customer service and they are shifting gears and searching for sites that meet this need. A recent report, (12-20-2010) by Janet Morrissey of TIME.com was titled "On Hold at eBay: Customer Service Lines Go Dead" in which she tells about phone services being disconnected and unbelievable "on-hold" times, while awaiting a representative to address ones problems, questions and concerns. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2037970,00.html#ixzz1Aezhjplww "Great customer service leads to customer satisfaction, which leads ...

Intranet Connections (www.intranetconnections.com), provider of the popular intranet CMS software, turned to Social Media tools to organize and run a charity campaign in conjunction with the recent holiday season. During the month of December, CEO Carolyn Douglas and Online Marketing Manager Rachel Lai connected with Intranet Connections clients over Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook with an offer to donate $100.00 to a charity of their choice. "Intranet Connections would not be the company that it is today without the feedback and input from our clients. We wanted to ...

2speakEZ.com, a foreign language learning program, recently launched their new website. This amazing program is an EZ learning online portal for kids and adults who are interested in learning foreign language basics in a cost effective manner. Rosetta Stone may boast a comprehensive language study but www.2speakEZ.com will have you speaking common phrases of a new language today. "This website launch is an exciting step for 2speakEZ.com and the customers we serve. It allows users to learn a foreign language at their own pace, anywhere they have Internet access," said ...

Spa Dhara, a luxuriously appointed five star spa, has launched its first day spa resort in Fremont, CA. Providing a calming and relaxing resort spa environ in the midst of a bustling Silicon Valley, Spa Dhara features some of the most sought after therapies from across the globe. Spa Dhara features the first authentic luxury hammam on the West Coast, affording spa guests a unique opportunity to experience and benefit from the bathing rituals of Turkey and Morocco. The spa also has a very impressive Rhassoul Suite where spa-goers can enjoy body clay treatments under ...

Round The World Experts, specialists in booking world flights, are welcoming in 2011 by offering their customers the chance to win the value of their flights in land arrangements, whether that be adventure tours, transport or accommodation. To be in with the chance of winning, all you have to do is tell friends and family about the great service received from Round The World Experts. Then, when the friend makes their own booking the customer is entered into a free draw to win the value of their flights back, and both receive an automatic GBP50 discount off any future ...

Inter-Xect Search Solution is designed to work with 6 core entities - individual people, universities, communities and large-medium-small enterprises. Enterprises and people are allowed to broadcast -Structured Sytematic Information through a Inter-Xect Broadcasting Engine. This broadcast information is available for Search at the Inter-xect search engines. So, how is it different from a Google? Google and traditional search engines collect information by scanning through web pages on the Internet. They are specialists in searching for information that's not structured. ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. To learn the stories of Mexicans who escaped a violent, war-ravaged homeland and jump-started the Latinization of Texas and the Southwest, tune into San Antonio's PBS station, KLRN, at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 30. During this time slot every Thursday, PBS will air stories about Mexicans who revolted in 1910 against the 31-year dictatorship of then President Porfirio Diaz and how thousands of Mexican families fled and found peace and opportunity in Texas and the Southwest. Friends and family members ...

No sooner than EE Technologies (EET) completed the expansion and addition of its 4th Surface Mount Technology line, EET announced the addition of a 5th line at its manufacturing plant in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico. "We are delighted to be able to accommodate the growth of our existing customers as we continue to demonstrate world class commitment, consistency, and cost-management for them", said Sonny Newman, President of EET. He continued, "We also want to have the capacity and flexibility to diversify our business further and grow into promising new markets." Originally, ...

There are many people that will agree that the United States education system needs some work. The recent movie, 'Waiting for Superman' pointed out many of the issues and made some suggestions towards resolving some of these issues. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, donated $100 million on the Oprah Winfrey show towards this cause. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch and other tech giants all have gone public with their position on the need to make America more competitive with education reform. And now a new social network called Moolakee has been created to help with ...

Because up-to-date, high quality learning materials are essential to today's fast-moving businesses, it has never been more important to have an effective means of translating and localising content for users around the world. Jointly the two companies have harnessed the latest technologies and integrated their production processes, to create, localise and distribute learning materials for their customers on a global scale - delivering training courses and reference materials to multiple languages and cultures, faster than ever before. CM Group CEO Tim Buff said, "We ...

RFID Journal features MEPS Real Time's Intelliguard drug management system story. Someone can live or die depending on the correct medications being dispensed. Hospitals and medical professionals clearly agree leveraging better tracking of a drug's expiration dates, information about the drug administered, tracking and updating inventory levels, all performed in REAL TIME, would assist in preventing errors. A San Diego hospital is testing an RFID-based drug-management system developed by MEPS Real Time, an RFID solutions provider based in Carlsbad, Calif. The system, ...

CyberlinkASP, the leader in outsourced IT and integrated managed hosting solutions, today announced continued solid performance throughout 2010 and into 2011. CyberlinkASP currently hosts and manages virtual desktops and back office applications for hundreds of small to medium sized businesses across the United States from its proprietary Dallas InfoMart datacenter utilizing Citrix based technologies. CyberlinkASP's engineering staff, help desk and sophisticated technical support capabilities have fueled widespread acceptance of its virtual desktop product. Users have ...

Cruise.com is offering exceptional deals on Regent Seven Seas Cruises which provide some of the best cruise choices for luxury cruisers looking to go the 'all-inclusive' route. From unlimited shore excursions to free beverages, wines and premium spirits, Regent Seven Seas cruises are often a leave-your-wallet behind affair. But what exactly is included on these cruise vacations to destinations like Alaska, Europe, the Mediterranean, South America and beyond? Airfare and Hotel: All Regent Seven Seas cruises include free roundtrip airfare, airline surcharges, airline ...

The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity and invited the world to take action to safeguard the variety of life on earth. Unfortunately, though, it is seldom completely clear what should be safeguarded. An example is provided by the cheetah, which conventional wisdom tells us does not vary much throughout its wide (if shrinking) range. Recent work in the group of Pamela Burger of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna challenges this view and shows that the cheetahs in Northern-East Africa and those in Asia differ markedly from ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A new guideline from the American Academy of Neurology recommends using plasma exchange to treat people with severe relapses in multiple sclerosis (MS) and related diseases, as well as those with certain kinds of nerve disorders known as neuropathies. The guideline is published in the January 18, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Plasma exchange, formally known as plasmapheresis, is the process of taking blood out of the body, removing constituents in the blood's plasma thought to be harmful, ...

Mixing commonly used antibiotics with common blood pressure medications may cause hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure) and induce shock in older patients, requiring hospitalization, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj100702.pdf. "Macrolide antibiotics (erythromycin, clarithromycin and azithromycin) are among the most widely prescribed antibiotics, with millions of prescriptions dispensed in Canada each year." writes Dr. David Juurlink, Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research ...

High birth weight in First Nations (North American Indian) babies are linked to a higher risk of postneonatal death (infant deaths that occur from 4 weeks to 1 year of age), according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj100837.pdf. High birth weight or infant macrosomia is defined as a child being born above the 90th percentile relative to a fetal growth standard. Maternal obesity, impaired glucose tolerance and gestational diabetes can all contribute to infant macrosomia and these ...

Binge drinking, an activity that many young people engage in, has associated adverse health risks and we need to do a better job of controlling overall alcohol usage, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj110029.pdf. "Given the many stakeholders involved in the sale and consumption of alcohol, we need a national strategy for controlling overall alcohol use," write Drs. Ken Flegel, Noni MacDonald and Paul Hébert in the editorial. "Public health agencies, the hospitality industry, liquor ...

A review of research evidence produced by researchers from the Peninsula Technology Assessment Group, part of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, has played a pivotal role in the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to extend the availability of donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine and memantine for Alzheimer's disease announced today (18th January 2011). A previous appraisal by NICE of these drugs in 2004 approved the use of donepezil, galantamine and rivastigmine for people with moderate Alzheimer's disease, while ...

Medicare Preventive Services Coverage Not Aligned with USPSTF Recommendations Evaluating the alignment of Medicare preventive services coverage with the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, researchers find that of the 15 USPSTF recommended interventions for adults aged 65 years and older, Medicare reimburses fully for only one.* For most preventive services (60 percent), Medicare reimburses fully for the service or test, but only partially for the coordination of obtaining that service. For four services (27 percent), Medicare reimburses clinicians ...

Do you want that in a pill or a shot? A pill, thank you, but most patients never have that choice. The problem with administering many medications orally is that a pill often will not dissolve at exactly the right site in the gastrointestinal tract where the medicine can be absorbed into the bloodstream. A new magnetic pill system developed by Brown University researchers could solve the problem by safely holding a pill in place in the intestine wherever it needs to be. The scientists describe the harmless operation of their magnetic pill system in rats online the week ...

Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant feature of a zoom capability, unlike the human eye. The "eyeball camera" has a 3.5x optical zoom, takes sharp images, is inexpensive to make and is only the size of a nickel. (A higher zoom is possible with the technology.) While the camera won't be appearing at Best Buy any time soon, the tunable camera -- once optimized -- should be useful in many applications, including night-vision ...

Warfarin use may be associated with a significant increase in the risk of death after traumatic injuries, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "The prevalence of warfarin use in the United States is unknown, but the Food and Drug Administration estimates that more than 31 million prescriptions for warfarin were written in 2004," according to background information in the article. "Warfarin is a commonly used anticoagulant [prevents the formation of blood clots] for ...

A significant portion of the U.S. population does not have access to trauma care within an hours' drive, with certain vulnerable groups at higher risk of worse access, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Trauma centers are a key component of the infrastructure of the U.S. health care system because they have been shown to decrease morbidity and mortality [illness and death] for injured patients of all age ranges, from children to the elderly," the authors write as background information in the article. ...

As many as one in 16 surgeons reported having suicidal thoughts in the previous year, but few sought help from a mental health clinician, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Death from suicide is more common among physicians than among the general population or among other professionals, according to background information in the article. "Although suicide is strongly linked to depression, the lifetime risk of depression among physicians is similar to that of the general U.S. population," the authors write. ...