No Poole Party in New England
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FOXBORO, Mass. (Sports Network) - New England Patriots  starting cornerback Tyrone Poole has been placed on injured  reserve with a knee problem, officially ending his season.
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When, where: Tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday (if necessary), 7, at Mullins Center, Amherst. TV, radio: None.
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None of the weather models on Monday predicted Tropical Storm Noel would threaten the U.S. oil and gas production facilities in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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No ships in bottles. No nautical charts. No dark wood paneling. And definitely no oil paintings of dead partners.
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Middlesex Superior Court has rejected a bid by Globe Direct, the direct mail subsidiary of The Boston Globe, to block a Wilmington direct mail firm from using information alleged to have been misappropriated by former Globe Direct employees, the Wilmington firm said yesterday.
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No one is certain if Deval Patrick will be on hand to present the Governor's Cup to the winner of tonight's Commonwealth Classic between Boston College and Massachusetts in Amherst.
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A celebration scheduled for this weekend at Montgomery County's new hotel and conference center, marking the 26th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, was canceled after the hotel's operator learned that it would violate federal law.
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By Ed Richter, Middletown Journal, Ohio  Feb. 6--MIDDLETOWN -- The city's Park Board and owners of Towne Mall will  be no-shows at today's Middletown City Council meeting.    Both originally were expected to make presentations to the council.
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(InfoWorld) - A contrite and repentant Google canceled a party that irked eBay and that a source said led eBay to remove all of its ads from Google's U.S. network earlier this week. On Monday, Google announced it would throw a party in Boston on Thursday evening designed to attract eBay merchants who would be in town to attend the eBay Live annual seller conference. The purpose of the party: Protesting eBay's decision to forbid merchants in its marketplace from using Google's Checkout online transaction system. The online auction company found Google's move to be in bad taste, and at some point after the party was announced, eBay took the drastic measure of pulling all of its ads from Google's AdWords U.S. network. A source familiar with the situation said that the decision to turn off the ads had come from eBay's top executives who were steaming over what they perceived as a low blow by Google designed to embarrass eBay in front of its top merchants. It would be hard to disagree with eBay executives' assessment, considering the mocking tone of Google's party announcement, encouraging eBay merchants to gather at the Old South Meeting House, where in 1773 mass protest meetings were held, leading to the Boston Tea Party. "We'll use the same spot where revolutionaries launched the Boston Tea Party to celebrate freedom with free food, free drinks, free live music -- even free massages," the official blog posting reads. Then, on Wednesday afternoon, Google unexpectedly cancelled the party after its officials apparently determined they had gone too far. "eBay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy this week in Boston, and we did not want to detract from that activity. After speaking with officials at eBay, we at Google agreed that it was better for us not to feature this event during the eBay Live conference," reads a posting on that same blog. eBay, which had earlier blasted Google for the planned party, said it was pleased with Google's decision. "It's reassuring to see that Google recognizes that their actions were inappropriate. We're pleased that our partner chose to do the right thing and cancel their event," eBay said in a statement. However, eBay is keeping its ads off AdWords, eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said. The eBay Live event begins Thursday in Boston. The spat is yet another sign of what many consider a significant deterioration of relations between the two Internet giants in recent years as Google has become a partial competitor to eBay. Earlier Wednesday, Durzy said the decision to pull out the ads wasn't related to the party and characterized it as an ordinary experiment by eBay, similar to others the company constantly does to determine the best allocation of its advertising and marketing budget. But there is nothing ordinary about eBay and Google, and the pullout is likely to have significant repercussions for both companies while it lasts: eBay is the largest paid search advertiser in the U.S., and Google is the country's largest paid search ad network. In March, eBay ranked first in the U.S. among paid search advertisers with 802 million sponsored link exposures, or 4.1 percent of the total, according to comScore Networks. That doesn't even take into account eBay's comparison shopping engine, Shopping.com, which ranked third on that list with 357 million sponsored link exposures, or 1.8 percent of the total. Meanwhile, Google topped the list of search engine referrers, handling 57.3 percent of all paid search ad clickthroughs, comScore said. Yahoo took a distant second place with 26.1 percent of clickthroughs. At the center of this week's confrontation is Google's Checkout online transaction system, introduced about a year ago and so far banned from the eBay sites. EBay argues Checkout doesn't have enough of a track record yet, while Google charges eBay with trying to protect its own PayPal online payment system. In addition to Checkout, Google has been entering eBay territory with other products like its Base listings service. In May of last year, eBay and Yahoo struck a wide-ranging partnership that, among other things, made Yahoo the exclusive provider of search and display ads within U.S. eBay sites. Although Google performs a similar function for eBay sites outside of the U.S., the eBay-Yahoo tie up was seen as a defensive move by eBay and Yahoo against Google. Google hasn't replied to requests seeking comment.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Resolved for 2005: No tigers as pets in New York, better access to health care for everybody in Maine, and no lawyers or juries arguing about whether a restaurant is to blame for obesity, at least in Illinois and Missouri.
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com Staff | October 15, 2004. Sports fans across New England will take a break from the Red Sox-Yankees series Sunday afternoon when the Patriots get set to host the Seattle Seahawks.
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India's capital New Delhi will shun New Year celebrations, with elite hotels and clubs cancelling festivities after the devastation caused by a massive tsunami across the Indian Ocean.
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The Coast Guard called off its search Wednesday for five fishermen lost at sea when their scallop boat capsized in cold, turbulent water off Nantucket.
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Parenting classes donât cover what to do when your child goes limp.
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By Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 3--NFL 1, God 0.   The National Football League has sacked plans for Super Bowl parties at  Woodbury Lutheran Church and churches across the country, citing copyright  concerns.
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By Karen Lovett, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H.  Dec. 13--HOLLIS -- A community farm project hit a snag Monday as Hollis  selectmen rejected putting town money towards its development.
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The Trail | Party is without a candidate who has excited the establishment or the grassroots.