Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Northern Virginia home sales up 5% - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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During the month, 1,803 homes were sold in the which includes the citiexsof Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church as well as the countiesa of Fairfax and Arlington, according to Rockville-basex market research firm In the same montg in 2008, the number of homes sold was The median sale price of a home in the area fell 7 percentg in May to $375,000, according to MRIS. D.C. home salesa did not do as well last There were 484units sold, down 9 percenrt from 533 homes sold in the same month last The median sale price droppe d 10 percent, from $440,000 in May 2008 to $394,950 last Units spent an average of 91 days, or 13 more on the market last month over May 2008.
Unit on the Northern Virginia market, however, are beinv snapped up faster thanlast year. Homes are spendinh an average of 76 days onthe market, or 13 less days than the same periodd a year ago. In Fairfax County, 1,331 homew were sold in May. That is up 4 perceny compared with ayear ago. The median sale price dipped nearly 10 percento $360,000 last month. In Arlingtonm County, the median sale pric e was up 11 percentto $469,000 and 239 homes were sold up nearly 5 percent from the same month a year ago. Princ William County experienced a 4 perceny increase in sales of753 homes, comparedc with 724 homes sold in May 2008. The median sale pricd was down nearly 19 percentto $207,777.
Units spengt an average of 78 or 50 less days onthe market, than in May 2008. Prince George’s County home sales were up 28 percent, with 494 units sold last month. The median sale price was down 21 percentyto $224,900, but homes spent, on 33 more days on the marke than they did in May 2008. Montgomery County home sales last monthb totaled874 units. The median sale price was down 13 percent to andhomes spent, on two more days on the market than they did in May 2008.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Google tackles password weaknesses with two-step sign-on - ZDNet (blog)

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Google tackles password weaknesses with two-step sign-on

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That code, however, is a code that changes, unique to a single sign-on. The code comes to the user by way of SMS, an automated phone call or a smartphone ...



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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Mom of tot killed in sweltering heat forms awareness group - WFAA

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Mom of tot killed in sweltering heat forms awareness group

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DALLAS - The death of a toddler left in a hot daycare van Thursday has been ruled accidental. Two-year-old Sir Anthony Smith was supposed to ...



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Friday, September 17, 2010

Lawyers face tight job market but some law firms are hiring - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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Kimura considers himself His graduating class at the saw what he calleda “mixedf bag” of employment opportunities and is enterinhg the job market with both apprehension and excitement. “I think that’s a vali d worry, especially with all the doomsday news stories aboutr big law firms in the metropolitan he said. “But there are a good number of us who are very Kimura interned with the McCorriston firm for two summerds before landing ajob offer. It’sa no secret that the legall industry has been hit hard bythe recession, particularly on the Mainlanr where law firms have shut slashed jobs or rescinded job offers to first-year The Washington, D.C.
-based National Association for Law Placement reported that entry-level recruiting started its downwar trend in 2008 after four consecutiv years of solid recruiting nationwide. More than half of the 42,00o0 law school graduates every year go on to work forprivated firms, according to the association. The rest go into public interest agencies, judicial clerkships, governmentr and the military. Some Hawaii law firms say they’r still hiring. Norman an associate and hiring coordinatorfor , which is addingy two new first-year associates in said Hawaii firms, which have traditionally been conservative in hiringt and expanding, has benefiteed from the Mainland crisis.
“Withh the Mainland market, we’re getting a lot more who typically would havestaye there, wanting to come home because of the uncertainty,” he The UH law school graduatew between 90 and 102 studentse each year. Most of them participate in summer internshipp programs during their firsrt or second year in the hope of liningh up job offers by the third summer whenthey graduate. The school hosts on-site interviews with smalp and large firmseach semester, but demand and participatio has slowed a bit this year.
“W e are a little concerned and we are working reallyu hard forour graduates, but we’re not expecting a significantg difference from last year — we’re down a said Amy Wiecking, director of career serviced for the UH law school. Most graduates who foundx jobs got them either through networking or by applyinf directly tothe firms. For this Wiecking said, it’s important that candidatesw make themselves visibleto employers. First-year associates at private law firms in Hawaii can expecg to earnbetween $60,000 and $85,000 a year.
Wieckinb said the opportunities for law school graduates still are plentifulk with many taking on clerkships with federal and state and even entering thenonprofit

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Intel to buy Wind River for $884M - San Antonio Business Journal:

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Intel's $11.50-per-share offer is abouf a 44 percent premium overWind River'sx closing price on Wednesday of $8. Wind River stocmk lost more than half its value betweena 52-week high of $12.98 last August and a low of $5.61 in March. The stock closed Thursdayy at $11.72, up 47 percent. Santw Clara-based Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) said buying Alameda-based Wind Rive (NASDAQ:WIND) will help it expand its software into thousands of embeddeed systems and mobile devices includinggsmart phones, in-car "info-tainment" systems, aerospace and defense, energy and thousande of other uses.
Wind River will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary after the deal closesz duringthe summer, reporting to Renee James, head of Intel’zs software and services group. "Our combinatiom of strengths will be of greag benefit toWind River’s existing and future said Ken Klein, Wind River president and CEO. Foundeed in 1981, Wind River has more than 1,600 employee and operations in more than15 countries. Durinb its fiscal year ended Jan. 31, Wind Riverd reported $10.7 million in net income on annuall revenueof $359.7 million. The companyh on Thursday posted a 21 percenrt increase in netincome $561,000, or 1 cent a for its first quarter despites a 6.
5 percent drop in revenued to $63.8 million.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Study: Cleaner Potomac boosts underwater grasses - Baltimore Sun (blog)

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Study: Cleaner Potomac boosts underwater grasses

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Analyzing 18 years of data, US and British scientists found that as nutrient levels in the river declined, the extent of submerged aquatic vegetation, ...


Potomac River cleanest in decades, scientists say

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Potomac River responding to cleanup

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Potomac River Gains New Life

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