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Climber.com now offering Personalized Career Counseling

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Online recruiting expert Climber.com announced a new service targeted to job seekers– Personalized Career Counseling.

“Today’s employment market offers a wealth of opportunities for professionals in the IT, healthcare, and other highly competitive sectors– but that all too often translates into candidates getting rushed into a job that’s not perfect for them,” explained Climber.com CEO Mike O’Brien. “At Climber.com, we recognize the importance of going beyond ‘job satisfaction’ to total job passion. Working with our career counselors, Climbers in these high-impact professions will receive a free one-on-one counseling session to explore their career goals, identify their marketplace value and reach a better understanding of the types of companies that will be their best match.”

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Originally posted on December 14, 2007 @ 12:12 pm

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Yahoo! commits to Apache Software Foundation as sponsor

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apachelogo.jpgYahoo! Inc. announced that it has become a platinum sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Continuing its dedication to open and collaborative computing and research, Yahoo!’s financial sponsorship of the non-profit, volunteer-run foundation will help provide much needed working capital, hardware infrastructure, and support resources required to serve the ASF’s industry-defining projects and incubating initiatives.

Yahoo!’s support of the ASF stemmed from its work with the Apache HTTP Server and Lucene projects. Today, several members of Yahoo!’s development teams are active, long-term code contributors to Apache Hadoop, the open source platform that makes it possible to efficiently process vast amounts of data on a cluster of commodity hardware.

Yahoo! joins current ASF sponsors Google, HP, Covalent, Tetsuya Kitahata and Two Sigma Investments.

Originally posted on December 13, 2007 @ 10:42 am

Amazon.com buys J.K. Rowling’s rare book

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rowling.jpgAmazon.com, Inc. has purchased J.K. Rowling’s “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” at an auction held by Sotheby’s in London. The book of five wizarding fairy tales, referenced in the last book of the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” is one of only seven handmade copies in existence. The book was purchased for £1,950,000, and Ms. Rowling is donating the proceeds to The Children’s Voice campaign, a charity she co-founded to help improve the lives of institutionalized children across Europe.

“Even before establishing her charity, J.K. Rowling had done the world a rare and immeasurably valuable service—enlarging forever our concept of the way books can touch people—and in particular children—in modern times,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. “When we deliver Harry Potter, kids are camped out at the post box, and the drivers get hugs.”

“The Tales of Beedle the Bard” is handwritten, extensively illustrated, and autographed by the author. It is written in an Italian handmade notebook, bound in brown Moroccan leather and embellished with five individually hand-chased hallmarked sterling silver ornaments and mounted moonstones. It is 157 pages long. One of the five original stories included in the book, “The Tale of the Three Brothers,” is told in the final Harry Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” This copy of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” purchased today is one of only seven copies handwritten and illustrated by the author. The six other copies have been given to friends of Ms. Rowling in appreciation of the support they provided her throughout the writing of the Harry Potter series.

Amazon customers around the world are invited to visit to read editorial reviews of the five fairy tales, and to join the online discussion of these and other Harry Potter stories with other fans of the bestselling series.

Originally posted on December 14, 2007 @ 10:06 am

Agematis to provide Netvibes with personal online storage technology for its millions of use

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netvibes.pngAgematis, provider of online data storage and sharing solutions , and Netvibes have combined their expertise to offer its users an online file storage and sharing service. Fully integrated in the new version of the Netvibes site, the service will be available on the personalized pages of Netvibes users.

The upgrade of the 30 million personalized pages created with Netvibes across more than 150 countries will happen over the next coming weeks. Each user of the Netvibes community will have access to a 2GB storage space that will be extendable upon request.

Originally posted on December 13, 2007 @ 1:48 pm

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DrFirst creates e-prescribing experience on iPhone

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drfirst.pngDrFirst, an electronic prescribing and medication reconciliation services company, announced that physicians will have access to an unparalleled e-prescribing experience on the Apple iPhone through DrFirst’s Rcopia e-prescribing system. Physicians and their staff will be able to perform all of the essential functions of electronic prescribing in real-time on a mobile browser through a WiFi or wireless carrier’s broadband connection.

E-prescribing on the iPhone with RcopiaMini allows physicians to provide a higher level of patient service and safety, streamline practice workflows, and save time and money through the efficiency of electronic medication orders, renewals and formulary checking. New prescriptions and renewals are sent electronically to the patient’s retail or mail order pharmacy. RcopiaMini checks for patient insurance eligibility, formulary, and patient medication history. The application also offers clinical decision support tools to check prescriptions for drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions and appropriate dosing.

Originally posted on December 17, 2007 @ 6:11 am