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Man Uses YouTube to Help Deliver Baby
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Google, Internet,
A man in Cornwall, UK, actually used YouTube to help him deliver the couple’s fourth baby. Marc Stephens, a 28 year-old engineer, went online at about 10:30 p.m. when his wife figured it was “time.” With a history of delivering quickly, Jo’s husband apparently figured going online would be faster than taking her to the hospital when a midwife couldn’t make it. He Googled “childbirth” and came up with a couple of clips on YouTube. Sometime later, a healthy Gabriel came forth. Fortunately, he did take her to the hospital after the event. Both are doing famously, thank you very much.
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TiVo Your Domino’s Pizza
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smartphones, Home Entertainment, Smart Home, Internet,
You can already order Domino’s Pizza online or from your cell phone, and now TiVo has added the service to its menu. Ask for delivery or pick-up, then track the delivery from your TV. Although there is no charge for the service, you will have to look for the take-out restaurant’s advertising entry points and click on “I Want It.” Set up a user name and password on Domino’s site or enter your address on TiVo, then build your own. You have to pay by cash when it comes, which they say should be within 30 minutes.
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DHL to Discontinue U.S. Domestic Shipping Services
Posted by Patrick Phelps Categories: Corporate News, Transportation,
DHL, a popular shipping alternative to FedEX, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service announced today in a press release that it will end all domestic shipping services effective January 30, 2009. According to the release, DHL’s U.S. Express business will focus entirely on its international offerings and will discontinue its domestic-only air and ground services, eliminating its U.S. ground hubs, and reducing the number of stations from 412 to 103. This will result in a reduction of 9,500 U.S. jobs at DHL Express on top of the approximately 5,400 positions already reduced since January; retaining 3,000 to 4,000 U.S. Express employees, tailored to the needs of international express customers. This reduction is expected to allow DHL’s U.S. Express business to reduce its operating costs from $5.4 billion to under $1 billion, a decrease of over 80%.
We’re hoping that this loss in competition doesn’t drive up the cost of shipping, seeing as the majority of our gadgets are doorstep-delivered by one of these shipping giants. Cross your fingers.
Aguilera, Richie Share Same Delivery Date
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, ABC, Gossip,
UPDATE: Christina Aguilera reports on her own website that her son, Max Liron Bratman, was actually born on Saturday.
Thanks to Britney Spears’ hospitalization and Dennis Quaid’s overdosed babies, LA’s Cedars-Sinai hospital has been receiving a lot of unwanted publicity lately. Hopefully two highly-anticipated deliveries at the facility yesterday will (temporarily) direct the media’s attention toward other celebrity matters.
- Celebutante Nicole Richie and boyfriend Joel Madden welcomed a a 6 lb., 7 oz. baby Friday. (This birth officially brings Richie’s weight back down to “0”.) The girl, named Harlow Winter Kate Madden, is the first child for both The Simple Life star, 26, and the rocker, 28. Plans for a wedding will be set at a later time.
- Same place, different time. E! Online is reporting that singer Christina Aguilera, 27, and husband Jordan Bratman, 30, are also proud new parents. According to a text message sent out yesterday, the couple welcomed their child sometime around 4pm yesterday. No other details have yet been released.
In other baby news, actress Courtney Thorne-Smith (According to Jim) and her husband, Roger Fishman, introduced a son Friday: Jacob Emerson Fishman. One day prior, David Alan Grier (In Living Color) and his wife, Christine Y. Kim, said hello to daughter Luisa Danbi Grier-Kim. Both couples are first-time parents.
Congrats to all the new moms and dads!
E! Online
Would You Like Fries Delivered With That Big Mac?
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Editorial, Internet, Transportation,
How does McDonalds compete with Burger King’s recent success with its tie in to The Simpsons Movie? They offer free delivery, at least in Brooklyn and the Bronx in New York. There is no charge for businesses and residences. You order online, following the trend of many other fast food restaurants, especially pizza. We notice our fries are not always all that fresh just getting it from the drive-thru window to our mouths, so in the time it takes to deliver we think we will just grab our usual yogurt for lunch and save the carbs.
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