Out-of-bounds perks?
When you go out on a limb in asking for new job benefits, it helps if you know just how far is too far
TV Tower Fire Sparks Net Use in Russia
When a broadcast tower fire threw several Moscow TV stations off the air last week, many would-be TV viewers turned to the Internet. In some…
Visa issues 10 ‘commandments’ for online merchants
In an attempt to reduce online credit-card fraud, Visa U.S.A. in San Francisco announced 10 “commandments” for online merchants to guard its cardholders’ information. And,…
Fake bank Web sites trick consumers into giving up personal data
A hacker doesn’t have to break into a bank’s computer to steal account numbers and access codes. It may be enough to set up a…
Structured Financing
Structured financing is a way of borrowing money against an asset or a projected asset without consideration of the creditworthiness of the borrower.
J. P. Morgan IT Exec Loosens Grip on Services
Will turn over firm’s back-office operations to Bank of New York
Larger banks have edge in electronic CRM, report says
Larger financial institutions have an edge over small and nimble Internet upstarts in electronic customer relationship management (CRM), according to a new report released by…
Lloyds Bank to Spend $24 Million on CRM
Lloyds TSB Group PLC has said it will spend $24 million on a customer relationship management (CRM) system designed to integrate customer information from all…
Tightening the Seams
The future is multimedia, and journalists are quickly learning to tailor their work for different mediums Late last year, Chicago Tribune reporter William Gaines got…
The Web Factor
The Internet is changing the playing field for both ad agencies and their clients White the Pioneer Valley still lags behind other areas of the…
Perot attacks campaign finances
DETROIT, Nov. 2 — Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot continued to hammer away at campaign finances Saturday, accusing both major party candidates of selling…
Religious warriors ready to avenge human rights abuses
The killing of two Russian border guards has raised tension in a forgotten conflict.
Runaway Russian ‘Slaves’ Plague Caucasus Republic
NAZRAN, Russia, April 10 — Ingushetia has a lot of problems. The war with nearby North Ossetia, a troubled relationship with overlords in Moscow, run-away…
Cossacks Accuse Chechens of Terror Tactics
NAURSKAYA, Russia — Legend has it that in 1774 the women and children ofNaurskaya fought off an attack by the Turks, armed only with pitchforks…
Ingushetia Poll Marked by Violations, Opposition Says
NAZRAN, Russia, Feb 28 — Preliminary poll results on Monday showed that General Ruslan Aushev was headed for re-election as  president of the volatile southern…
Ghost of Gamsakhurdia continues to haunt Georgia
Maria Korolov in Jikhaskari finds that sightings of the dead president are a daily occurence
Azerbaijan Army Regroups, Pulls Itself Together
QERVEND, Azerbaijan – Six months ago Azerbaijan’s army suffered defeats so monumental that the president fled the country and a fifth of the Transcausasian republic…
Russians thrown into Tajik breach
Maria Korolov reports from a nervous border post overlooking Afghanistan on how CIS troops are fighting an uphill battle to keep the frontier intact against…
Refugees Flee Torture by Soldiers in Abkhazia
GAGRA, Abkhazia – It is noon in Gagra, Abhkazia, where refugees gather in the courtyard of a former resort hotel converted to wartime use. “They…
Agencies Track Gangs And Drugs By Computer
There are two types of drug dealers: the one who looks like a genteel businessman, living an upscale life in an upscale neighborhood, and then…
The Narcotics Trade
Though difficult to track statistically, the illicit drug business in Lake County shows signs of growth that have enforcement agents scurrying. Neither the Lake County…
Former Soviet republic replaces leader again civil strife continues
KHODZENT, Tadzhikistan — Tadzhikistan’s Parliament has removed the nation’s acting president in a lopsided vote, replacing him with the country’s third leader since the collapse…
Tadzhikistan replaces leader again
KHODZENT, Tadzhikistan (UPI) — Tadzhikistan’s Parliament removed the acting president by an overwhelming vote Thursday and replaced him with the country’s third leader since the…
Sound carries well in the coastal foothills of the…
UPPER ESHERA, Georgia — Sound carries well in the coastal foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, which at sunrise these days means rifle fire and bursting…
Sides in Tadzhik conflict refuse to heed peace call
KURGAN-TYUBE, Tadzhikistan — Combatants in the strife-torn Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan Thursday ignored calls by a newly-created interim council to cease fire and work…
Portrait of a small Caucasus war
UPPER ESHERA, Georgia (UPI) –Once guns were gifted. To gift someone you can also click here for best ar 15. But now sound carries well…
New promises of help for war-torn Tadzhikistan
DUSHANBE, Tadzhikistan — A peace mission to the Central Asian state of Tadzhikistan led by officials from neighboring Kyrgyzstan ended in the Tadzhik capital Dushanbe…
Russian military plays role in Tadzhikistan conflict
DUSHANBE, Tadzhikistan — A provisional ruling council asserted authority Friday in the strife-wracked Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan and Russian troops began playing an active…
Bombs and bullets, not ballots, concern in west of Georgia
GAGRA, Georgia — While most of the rest of Georgia was to vote Sunday in parliamentary elections, refugees returning to the north of the breakaway…