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Energy giant Dominion Retail just offered me an electricity rate of .0874 ($8.74) per kilowatt hour (kWh). That’s pretty good so I sprung for it. Switching electricity suppliers wins me a savings of $6.05 a month based on my July bill and would have been more had inclement weather not prevented switching on our air conditioners. The deliverer of my power National Grid charges 10% more for supply at .09714 per kHh. Welcome to competition to be your electricity supplier. Yes, in the age of deregulation you can decide from a handful of electricity producers and choose the cheapest or even get renewable energy. Surprisingly few people are taking advantage of this option or are even aware of it, but selecting a new electricity supplier is easy. Just Google or Bing “competitive electric rates” in your state and go from there. You’ll still get a single bill from the company that delivers the electricity to your home or business. They won’t change. At the moment, delivery constitutes a third o

A couple of weeks ago, Sarah Deutsch got a typical call. The associate general counsel at Verizon spoke to a lawyer friend who informed her that someone was selling the internet address Verizonwirelessstorm.com on eBay for $1 million (Dh3.67 million). For Deutsch and her team of five trademark lawyers, it triggered another weary process of trying to track down the seller and reclaim the web name. "We get reports of thousands of violations each day and it is difficult to prioritise which ones we go after," she says. Verizon, the US telecommunications operator, owns a portfolio of 10,000 domain names, everything from the obvious verizon.com to misspellings such as verison.com and names such as verizonsucks.com, which they would prefer to keep out the hands of mischief-makers or competitors. This is typical for large companies. Microsoft, for example, owns more than 24,000 domain names. Deutsch's job is about to get much harder. Next spring the Internet Corporation for Assig

Washington: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sought to assure Wall Street and Congress on Tuesday that the US central bank will be able to reel in its extraordinary economic stimulus and prevent a flare up of inflation when the recovery is more firmly rooted. Bernanke, in prepared testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, also said any such steps will be far off in the future and that the central bank's focus remains "fostering economic recovery." To that end, he again pledged to keep its key bank lending rate at a record low near zero for an "extended period." Economists predict rates will stay at record lows through the rest of this year. Bernanke is expected to face tough questions from lawmakers about taxpayer bailouts of financial companies, slow-moving government efforts to curb home foreclosures and efforts by the Obama administration to expand its regulatory duties. "The Fed has made some big mistakes," said the panel's

Washington: The Watergate Hotel, part of the complex made famous by a US presidential scandal, has failed to attract any bids at auction and has been taken back by the lender that holds the $40 million note on it. PB Capital Corp. took back the property on Tuesday after bidding opened at $25 million and there were no takers. The 30-day foreclosure notice, sent to hotel owner Monument Realty, expired on Thursday. Paul Cooper, vice president of the auction house, Alex Cooper Auctioneers, said about 10 bidders had registered for the auction and each gave a $1 million deposit. The Watergate complex was made famous by the 1972 burglary that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

London : A young alcoholic who began binge-drinking at 13 has died in hospital after being denied a life-saving liver transplant . Gary Reinbach, 22, was given only weeks to live after developing one of the worst cases of cirrhosis his doctors had seen. But health chiefs ruled he should not be exempt from strict transplant criteria that require a 'dry' spell of at least six months before organs are donated. On Monday, his family in Dagenham attacked the decision as they revealed his slide into alcoholism started at the age of 11, when his parents split up. The break-up triggered years of heavy drinking that began at school and ended with his death at 5pm yesterday in a critical care unit at University College Hospital . His mother, Madeline Hanshaw, 44, said: "He was in a wheelchair for the past two months, he couldn't eat, he couldn't talk. How could he have discharged himself to show he could stay off the drink? "These rules are really unfair. I&

With the advent of the Internet and the continuous challenge of the economic downturn at present, a lucrative business venture may be hard to come by. This is what Tissa Godavitarne’s program offers. The program brings you one of the best ways to earn money online. How Tissa Godavitarne's program works One thing for sure, the program is not that complicated. The moment you sign up for it, you will have access to the back office (control panel) of the program and get a people search engine website for free. People search engine refers to a certain website wherein the Internet users can use it to search for people according to their name, their phone number, email and even through their address. Your search engine website will be included with your affiliate links and ads. These affiliate links and ads will become your income sources . To start generating income, your search engine website has to be promoted on the Internet so that there are traffic flowing into your site. If you ar

Marketing is a basic need for any business to flourish and expand. Internet is the easiest, fastest and the most effective way of making people aware of your organization and your products and thus increasing or expanding potential sales opportunities of the product. Thus, Internet marketing can be summed up as a process of providing information about your organization and its product and also taking feedback from the users about their preferences and their needs, using internet as a medium. Many people, who own a business, usually launch their own website in order to promote their products and business. But, after starting the website, one thing that you will discover is that there is low traffic or initially no traffic at all. This means there is a need for good Internet marketing tool. Under are some of the best tools with the help of which you can improve and support the marketing objectives of your business online. Website Blog: Blogs are one of the best internet marketing tools.

Traffic from search engine is the main source of traffic this days and to get more traffic from search engines you should be ranked high and for this well SEO is needed. When it comes to SEO[search engine optimization], getting other websites to link to your website is the most important factor in achieving top search engine rankings. Here are 10 link building strategies listed which surely help you for top search engine rankings: 1. Quality Article Is Must – Write quality articles that other websites will want to post on their websites and link to. The higher the quality of the article, the more one-way links you’ll get. The best articles to write are ‘how-to’ and informational articles. 2. Google loves wordpress blogs – Setup a Wordpress blog on your website and post articles to it once per week. It’s a great way to build the size of your website, keep your website content fresh and get incoming links. Plus Google loves Wordpress! 3. Promote your articles online – Take the articles t

In the business world, you are required to spend money in other to get more money. This separates the serious business owners from the non-serious ones. But having an online business is different from the traditional business. In the online business, you can use a blog and make money from it. You don't have to spend money hosting your blog or to pay for any service. If you want to make money online without spending any money, these are what you should do. 1. Get a free blog: - Any one would work just fine, but the blog of most internet marketers is blogger. This is easy to create and set up. You would have to decide if you want to make money with contextual ads or through affiliate program. After you have decided what you want to do, you would go to blogspot and publish the post you have written. 2. Get Traffic to the Blog:- After publishing your blog post, the next thing you want to do is to get traffic to the blog because traffic, your blog is like a fish swimming in the pacific

Google has recently posted a video that is pretty useful for you to increase your AdSense revenue. The video can be access here . The video provides a lot of AdSense optimization tips to help you figure out the best locations for displaying your AdSense on your site without against AdSense program policies. If you haven't known yet, Google doesn't allowed publishers to blend their ads too much with content. For the past six months, Google has been hunting down sites and blogs that get high click-through rate and high AdSense earning. The reason is that they blended their AdSense ads too much with content; making the ads look part of the content. This definitely will generate high click through rate but Google doesn't like it because the visitors not aware they are clicking ads This AdSense optimization video of Google not just useful for AdSense beginners, I think the experienced publishers will also find some good AdSense earning tips in the video. So, if AdSense is one

Sales letters are still a very effective way to generate demand for all sorts of products or services. This is especially true if you already have an opt-in list. However, everyone knows that most people don't like receiving sales pitches in their emails. For your sales letter to be effective in generating demand for the products and services of your online business, there are a couple of steps for you to follow. Step #1: Determine Your Objective Before you begin composing your sales letter, be sure you have a clear notion of what your objective is. Think about what exactly you want to communicate and what you hope to achieve with your sales letter. Step #: Consider Your Target Market As an online business owner, you should already know the demographics and psychographics of your own target market. Consider their needs and preferences before you begin writing your sales letter. This will help you determine how best to communicate with them. Step #3: Come Up with a Catch Phrase Thin