http://making-update.blogspot.com – SIRIUS Satellite Radio today announced preliminary second quarter 2008 financial results, including a 25% increase in revenue to $283 million, total subscribers in excess of 8.9 million and a 70% decrease in its adjusted loss from operations.
As of June 30, 2008, SIRIUS had 8.924 million subscribers, an increase of 25% from June 30, 2007 subscribers of 7.143 million. Retail subscribers increased 7% in the second quarter 2008 to 4.677 million from 4.365 million in the second quarter 2007. Read more »

http://making-update.blogspot.com – The US Navy has fired the captain of the first US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be stationed abroad after a fire onboard hurt dozens of sailors and raised alarm in host Japan. The USS George Washington is set to arrive in late September in Yokosuka, a naval hub near Tokyo, despite public protests in the only nation to have suffered nuclear attack. Read more »

http://making-update.blogspot.com – "CNET reports that Cuil (pronounced 'Cool'), a startup founded by the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, is launching a new search engine today that claims to index three times as many Web pages as Google." Running a few searches left me underwhelmed with the content of the results (hitting the next-page button on a search with a listed 62,200,000 results — for "seattle" — got me the unexpected error message "We didn't find any results for 'seattle.'"), but pleased with the actual layout of the results when it worked, Read more »

http://making-update.blogspot.com – p2pnet news view | Advertising:- “With Knol, we are introducing a new method for authors to work together that we call ‘moderated collaboration’,” says Google in the introduction to its newest advertising magnet. “With this feature, any reader can make suggested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or modify before these contributions become visible to the public. This allows authors to accept suggestions from everyone in the world while remaining in control of their content. After all, their name is associated with it!” Read more »

http://latest-india-news.blogspot.com – Mobile service provider Airtel organised a series of customer contact programmes in Keonjhar, Joda and Barbil recently.
The idea behind the entire show was to nurture customer relations, resolve their queries and appreciate existing customers for utilising the services.
The workshops organised at these three places witnessed overwhelming footfall of customers, company sources claimed adding that more than 1,000 customers visited them there. Read more »