Entries from February 2005

February 28, 2005

Rezoning application for Kelowna, BC-based call centre

Rezoning For Call Centre: “City council will be looking at a rezoning application Monday afternoon that could create 400 jobs in Kelowna.”
Kelowna, B.C., could be getting its third major call centre if a rezoning application is approved by the Council of the City of Kelowna, according to Castanet.net news producer Ray Turner. It already has [...]

February 27, 2005

For a Start-Up, Visions of Profit in Podcasting

(Readers’ Note: I wanted to provide you with this interesting, biographical sketch by The New York Times’ technology writer John Markoff on a new San Francisco-based “podcasting” company called Odeo. It was started by Audioblogger founder Noah Glass and Blogger co-creator Evan Williams. Normally, I do not make a habit of reprinting copyrighted news pieces; [...]

February 22, 2005

ChoicePoint screws up

Personal information and data warehouser ChoicePoint was forced to admit, red-faced, that it screwed up with some of its “due diligence” practices when credentialing customers in its small business segment. At the heart of the information it disclosed in a shocking, and quite embarrassing, company statement, organized criminals, who include a Nigerian citizen that plead [...]