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We are pleased to announce that Wal-Mart has reached agreement with Apple to offer iPhone 3G in Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart-managed Sam’s Club* Connection Centers nationwide beginning December 28, 2008. AT&T will support Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club with the activation process for iPhone 3G, and we need all National Retail employees engaged to ensure a successful launch.
*NOTE: This product launch DOES NOT apply to SC Kiosks within Sam’s Club managed by Radio Shack.
Wal-Mart has communicated the following launch plans and execution timeline to their employees:
Execution Timeline:
Mr. Rove has written a detailed plan on how the Republican Party can retake the majority in the government. Click through to the story to read the details, I’ve only provided the headings here:
1. Avoid mindless opposition.
2. Be as comfortable talking about health care and education as national security and taxes.
3. Winning the war on terror is a matter of national survival.
4. Republicans must regain ground among critical voting groups.
5. For now, our party ‘ s face is our congressional leadership.
6. Good candidates are essential.
7. Let every 2012 presidential prospect run free; there is no need to throttle anyone ‘ s candidacy.
8. Anyone interested in 2012 must help in 2010.
9. Culture matters.
10. The GOP must master new media.
Mr. Ballmer’s stance may force Yahoo’s next chief executive to find another way to revive the company’s profit, which declined in 10 of the last 11 quarters as sales growth stalled. Yahoo’s chief executive, Jerry Yang, who spurned Microsoft bids of as much as $47.5 billion this year, announced plans two days ago to step down.
Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., fell $2.41, or 21 percent, to $9.14 a share. The shares, down 61 percent this year, are trading at their lowest price since February 2003. The shares rose 12 percent the day after Mr. Yang announced his decision as investors bet that Microsoft would reopen talks.
Microsoft offered as much as $33 a share for Yahoo in an effort to increase its share of Internet searches and close the gap with Google in online advertising.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 8,000 for the first time since early 2003 after new reports painted a grim picture of the economy and raised the specter of deflation, which would put more strain on hard-pressed businesses and workers.
The Labor Department reported that prices of consumer goods and services fell by a record amount in October, while another report showed that a measure of home building fell for the fourth straight month, to its lowest level in the 49 years that the government has kept that data.
This morning, PBS Interactive unveiled a new look and feel for the PBS homepage. Everyone at PBS is extremely excited about the update, and we hope you like it, too.
Check out the new look at pbs.org
