After announcing its intentions a year-and-a-half ago, Adobe's PDF file format has officially become a new ISO standard: The new standard, ISO 32000-1, Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7, is based on the PDF version 1.7 developed by Adobe. This International Standard supplies the...
Here's something to look for the next time you visit one of your local merchants such as a clothing store or sporting goods retailer: Check out the cash register. It may not be the old stereotypical, paper-based cash register we see in the movies. It may instead be a personal...
From the executive summary: ‘Today, product costs are fairly uniform. And, since the society is such a mobile one, people think nothing of driving so many miles to look at systems, furniture, or software products they are purchasing for their business. The retailer who pays attention to his or her...
With the current economic climate -- where costsfor everything from gas to milk are on the rise -- consumers are lookingfor increased value when dining out. A solution is Rewardsnetwork.com, anew online dining rewards program that provides cash back savings atthousands of restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, with...
HOUSTON, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Horsepower Holdings, Inc. ("Holdings") announced today that it has commenced an offering, exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, of $275 million of Senior Notes due 2018. The company intends to use the net proceeds of the proposed offering to...
SMITHFIELD, Va., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced today the pricing of its $350 million aggregate principal amount convertible senior notes due 2013 through a registered underwritten public offering. In connection with the offering, Smithfield granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ruled in favor of marriage equality, wedding bells went off in many people's heads. But many others heard the sound of the cash register or the credit card machine as they contemplated the financial windfall in store for the state. As...
SMITHFIELD, Va., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced today that it intends to offer $350 million aggregate principal amount of its convertible senior notes due 2013 in a registered underwritten public offering. In connection with the offering, Smithfield intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option...
Houston has become a sort of Silicon Valley for the global energy industry. Urban cowboy? Think suburban geek. To find a hot spot where soaring oil and commodity prices, and the booming economies of the developing world, are keeping cash registers ringing and construction crews fully employed, you...
ANTI-TERROR police are probing 25 charities which fund terrorist training camps and attacks. Scotland Yard and the security services has already uncovered eight charities connected with the 7/7 bombings, which killed 52 people, and three with the airline plot where terrorists planned to blow up several...
Reference is made to the stock exchange notice dated June 23, 2008regarding the mandatory notification of trade and the expiry of theacceptance period for the mandatory offer set forth by SeadrillLimited for all outstanding shares in Scorpion Offshore Ltd. Seadrill has subsequent to the expiry of the acceptance periodregistered acceptances...
Four teens are under arrest after an overnight crime spree that ended when their getaway car crashed into an Ogden house. Police first became involved about 2:40 a.m. Monday, when a burglar alarm went off at the El Monte Golf Course. A cash register, safe and some...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- K2C Real Estate Solutions has come up with creative ways to stand out in a slowing real estate market. One of these solutions is a $15,000 giveaway, which awards a cash prize to a real estate broker for showing K2C's featured properties, Sheffingdell...
ANTI-SLEAZE watchdogs are investigating senior Tory MP Liam Fox over thousands of pounds he's received in donations. The disclosure is the latest row to rock Tory leader David Cameron over the donations and expenses of his MPs and Euro-MPs. Shadow Defence Secretary Dr Fox has told...
SOUTH SALT LAKE -- Police here are looking for a man who tried to steal an ATM. Three men entered Maverik Country Store, 2650 S. Main, about 2 a.m. on Sunday. While two of the men distracted the clerk, the third went behind the counter and tried...
CALGARY, June 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (TSX - PWT.UN; NYSE - PWE) Penn West Energy Trust ("Penn West") confirms that its June 2008 cash distribution will be CDN$0.34 per trust unit payable on July 15, 2008 to unitholders of record on June 30, 2008. The ex-distribution date is June 26,...
Mexico is now offering sales-tax refunds for goods bought by foreign visitors in five popular tourist haunts -- Mexico City, Cancun, Guadalajara, Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta. But collecting the cash will require digesting lots of fine print as the program gets off the ground. The refunds are...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-20 June 2008-Erotica show implements Toshiba and Avapac solutionsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Erotica, a UK trade show and exhibition, has selected the B-SA4TP printer from TOSHIBA TEC Europe TERIS, a provider of barcode printers, point of sale systems, cash registers, scales, peripherals and software information systems, and...
A man police believe took a cash register from a Salt Lake restaurant Monday was arrested this afternoon after attempting to do the same thing in Taylorsville. About 2 p.m., a man walked into Magic Wok, 3770 W. 5400 South, approached the main counter and took the...
Chartwell Seniors Housing Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX: CSH.UN) ("Chartwell REIT") announced today a cash distribution of $0.06167 per Trust Unit for the month of June, 2008. The cash distribution will be payable on July 15, 2008 to Unitholders of record on June 30, 2008. Unitholders can participate in Chartwell's...
