Get information on how to start a gift basket business, one of the fastest growing types of home businesses today. Businesses, recognizing gift baskets’ versatility, now forms a large part of the gift basket business and are sending them to their employees, sales force and business clients. The gift basket business is a low-cost, low overhead business that depends primarily on your creativity and imagination. Customized Baskets- A number of your customers will want items in their gift baskets that are not currently included in your item list. The goals of your marketing strategy should be to spread the word about your business, create a desire for your products, cultivate the image that you want for your business, and convince buyers that your gift baskets are the best. You can even send them a complimentary gift basket, with your sales materials to help ensure that your business will be at the top of their minds should they need to send a gift to their own clients or employees. read more

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Business owners are invited to claim theirs at the new Web site and then log on to make corrections,"Phares said. Business owners can go directly to the site to claim a free listing. Customers that subscribe to an enhanced package are listed in additional categories and can specify additional search terms that will bring up their listings. This integration is a key to being found on Google, which is still where most people search for business information. By hooking these listings into the huge footprint of the newspaper sites, it gives Google a reason to find the information. It is a much better site, much more user-friendly, faster and better business search capacity. read more

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These icons link to social bookmarking sites where you can share this story and discover new Web pages. McALLEN — All calls to Haiti on Time Warner Cable’s digital phone service will be free through the end of February, the company announced this week. The discount also will be applied retroactively to all calls made to the island nation since Jan. All Time Warner Cable customers are eligible, including those who sign up for service during the program, said Sabrina Heins, a local spokeswoman for the cable provider. Customers who already have paid for calls to Haiti that are covered by the promotion will receive a credit from the company. read more

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AT&T, which offers the nation’s most advanced mobile broadband experience, expects Wi-Fi usage to continue to surge as more customers utilize Wi-Fi on their smartphones and integrated devices and have Wi-Fi included with their service. AT&T continues to lead its competitors by including Wi-Fi for more than 27 million customers - as of third quarter 2009 - with AT&T High Speed Internet, AT&T U-verse(SM) High Speed Internet, and qualifying smartphone and 3G LaptopConnect plans. A recent AT&T survey found that 43 percent of AT&T Wi-Fi users said they accessed an AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spot four or more times in the past 30 days. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. read more

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TOR is often used by people who want to enhance their privacy while surfing the Internet, as IP addresses are an important piece of information to collect when monitoring Internet traffic. Web sites will record the IP address of the last exit point out of the TOR network, which could make it appear users have an IP address from a Brazilian ISP when they are actually in Germany. The project’s operators have refreshed identity keys for the two directory authorities, which means people also need to upgrade their TOR clients to versions Tor 0. CW Live speaks with Fotios Kotsiopoulis, HP ProCurve presales consultant, about the rapid uptake of 10 Gigabit Ethernet to accommodate increasing computational and storage density brought on by application growth, widespread use of blade servers and large-scale virtualisation — and what this new trend in Ethernet standards means for enterprise IT managers. This week’s CW Live podcast features a discussion between Audrey William, research director at research firm Frost & Sullivan Australia, and Craig Campbell, business unit executive for Integrated Communications Services at IBM Australia / New Zealand on why companies are adopting unified communications, and whether there is any benefit to hosting a unified communications solution in the cloud. This week’s CW Live features a discussion between Dr Kevin McIsaac, IBRS Research’s Advisor for Virtualisation and Craig McKenna, Consulting Technical Leader, System Storage, for IBM’s Growth Markets division, on why storage virtualisation is key to an organisation’s information management plan. read more

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Crain’s today publishes its annual directory of Chicago-area foundations. The directory lists approximately 40 foundations with offices in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties. It includes information about assets, total grants awarded and largest grants made by the foundations, according to data from their most recent fiscal years. The recession has been as tough on foundations’ investments as it has on the average American’s IRA. Is now a good time to start a private foundation? Copyright © 2010 Crain Communications, Inc. read more

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For customers who have received bills before the implementation of the program, Time Warner Cable will issue credits to their accounts, with no need to call a customer service representative. Time Warner Cable estimates that the program will provide $200,000 worth of relief to affected customers. Time Warner Cable Chief Operating Officer Landel Hobbs said, 'My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Haiti as they struggle with this horrific natural disaster. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers a suite of phone, Internet, Ethernet and cable read more

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