Big Brother voting costs slashed
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Media & professional: Channel 4 has halved the cost of Big Brother phone voting and will not make a profit from the service.
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William Hill has shortened the odds on Hilary Benn replacing John Prescott to 6-5 as ballot papers go out to almost four million voters.
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THE REGION Bond fees lowered to woo customers
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U.S. News & World Report - One Vote &#39;08, the national campaign to make poverty a campaign issue in the 2008 presidential election, will spend $30 million in the four earliest primary and caucus states: Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given the effort, begun with the help of U2&#39;s Bono, a $22 million grant. Campaign organizers say that amount is the &quot;minimum&quot; for the campaign, making it surely one of the biggest issue campaigns thus far announced for the 2008 election cycle.
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LONDON The British Broadcasting Corporation has announced a major cost-cutting move, eliminating about 29-hundred jobs or more than a-tenth of its work force.
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It's a phone-in vote on phone-in voting There's been a lot of controversy about dubious premium rate phone-ins connected to TV shows this week, but that hasn't stopped Orange setting up a telephone vote for staff to decide whether or not it should sponsor the mother and father of all telephone voting shows - Big Brother.â¦
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Shabnam Paryani becomes the first Big Brother contestant to be evicted from the house by public vote.
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Communications equipment maker Tellabs scaled back the size of its purchase of Advanced Fibre Communications (AFC) Tuesday, reaching a new agreement that will drop the price tag on the deal to $1.
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Wal-Mart is reducing the price of its online program.
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THE REGION NStar Electric is cutting power rates 21.2 percent for 3,600 big commercial and industrial customers April 1. The Boston utility said the rate change for customers who use over 25,000 kilowatt-hours monthly will cut prices to 10.147 cents per kilowatt hour from 12.803 cents now, separate from an additional charge for delivery that is not changing. The big ...
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Diebold Inc. today reduced its third-quarter and full-year earnings forecasts as it absorbs costs for recertifying its electronic voting machines in California and for expenses related to a pending civil action in that state.
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The South Dakota race that will determine whether Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle stays on Capitol Hill is the costliest congressional election so far this year.
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Doctors and trial lawyers spent millions of dollars in an unprecedented, four-state election battle over limiting damage awards and attorney fees in malpractice cases. The voters' verdict: a virtual stalemate reflecting deeply divided public opinion.
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted 273-149 on Wednesday to slash federal subsidies paid to college student-loan companies, such as Sallie Mae and Citigroup Inc, by $19 billion and boost grants to students, ignoring a White House veto threat.
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The Federal Election Commission eased some political fundraising rules Thursday in hopes of salvaging a tattered presidential financing system in the 2008 campaign.
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The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tenn.-area voters is expected to cost local officials about $1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected.County officials say that thieves broke into Davidson County Election Commission offices on the weekend before Christmas, smashing a window with a rock and then making off with a $3,000 router, a digital camera, and a pair of Dell Latitude laptops containing names and Social Security numbers of all 337,000 registered voters in the county.County election officials began notifying residents of the breach on Jan. 2, and the local government is offering victims one year of free identity theft protection from Debix Identity Protection Network.Debix says that 25 to 35 percent of victims of this type of breach typically request this service. With the city paying Debix just under $10 per account, the price tag for the laptop theft is expected to be in the $1 million range.Since state data breach disclosure laws went into effect a few years ago, the theft of an unencrypted laptop computer can become a major problem for any organization that stores sensitive data.&quot;It is a very bad information-handling practice to keep sensitive information about individuals including their Social Security numbers on an unencrypted laptop or any other device that is removable,&quot; said Paul Stephens director of policy and advocacy with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a privacy advocacy group that has tracked the exposure of 217 million records in the United States over the past three years.Laptop thefts have been the source of privacy breaches at AT&amp;T,&#160;The Gap, and the Chicago Public School system recently.The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County&#39;s IT services department is now working with the Commission to make changes to protect residents from this type of incident and has already come up with 19 recommendations, said Janel Lacy, a spokeswoman for Nashville Mayor Karl Dean.
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Ofcom is cutting the price BT can charge its rivals for putting their broadband equipment in its exchanges by up to 60%.