CRN News Briefs, April (Calls to turkey) 10, 2006

CRN News Briefs, April 10, 2006
CRN - Salesforce.com suffered a serious crash that left its hosted CRM service unreachable for much of last Thursday, an outage that came just one day after the company issued a press release hailing its high uptime over the past month. Customer reports

The Friends of Tom DeLay
Weekly Standard - IT WAS CALLED THE SAFE HOUSE. Rep. Tom DeLay, Republican of Texas and majority whip of the House of Representatives, frequently visited the townhouse his former aides had bought in January 1999 as a place to make fundraising calls and confer with

Boy's 911 calls put trouble in spotlight
Detroit Free Press - A Detroit mother couldn't save her son five years ago, and now her heart breaks anew because another child couldn't save his mom. In both cases, pleading calls to 911 failed to bring help. Anshiree Martin's 9-year-old son, Damion Cottingham, died in

Law Firm Training Programs Teach by Example
Law.com - Rather than assemble a group of associates for another tedious lecture on the art of writing an effective client memo, 15 partners at Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone volunteered to become writing coaches. Reliving freshman English, each worked

Napster May See Q4 Upside
Forbes - Piper Jaffray maintained an "outperform" rating and $6 price target on Napster after the company announced Thursday that it will exceed its previously provided guidance for its fiscal fourth quarter. "Today's positive preannouncement shows that

MSU president calls pay raise system broken
Springfield News-Leader - Missouri State University President Michael Nietzel told faculty and staff Tuesday that a proposed merit pay system will eliminate "a hidden (pay) system where you haven't had a chance to be heard." Nietzel is recommending that the university

Top soldier calls for money to rebuild fleet, aircraft
Lucianne.com - Toronto - Canada s top soldier said Tuesday he wants more support for the military, more public funds and more recruits to better support missions such as the country s controversial operations in Afghanistan. ''I m not ashamed to say we need

Seymour phone calls spark feud
Connecticut Post - SEYMOUR First Selectman Robert Koskelowski on Tuesday accused Supt. of Schools Tom Petruny of misusing a new school communications system to rally parents to attend a Board of Finance budget hearing. Many of the 300 townspeople attending Monday