Assistive Technology: Past, Present and Future
Businessportal24 (Pressemitteilung), Germany - 5 hours ago… Provide assistance with hearing or visual limitations such as flashing light system for the doorbell, hearing aids and closed caption decoders for TV. …
Archive for January, 2006
Fire damages buildings in Westwood
Bergen Record - WESTWOOD - A fire early Sunday damaged two Third Avenue storefronts and a few apartments, authorities said. No one was injured in the 12:02 a.m. blaze, said police Sgt. Rod Fortunat. Hillsdale and Emerson firefighters assisted in battling the blaze
Wal-Mart heralds charity, retail boom
Mansfield News Journal - MANSFIELD — The new Wal-Mart Supercenter at 2485 Possum Run Road is scheduled to open Jan. 31. The store’s grand opening celebration will include donations totaling $35,000 to local charities, store manager Amy Bowen said. The contributions, through
Community Calendar
Budgeteer News - Divorce Care , a divorce recovery group, meets at 6:30 p.m. at Bayside Baptist Church, at the corner of New York Avenue and Belknap Street in Superior. To register, call 394-6002. The Lake Superior Chapter of the Norse Federation annual Scandinavian
Daily Briefing
Asheville Citizen-Times - RUTHERFORDTON U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor, R-Brevard, said Tuesday he has obtained $2.6 million from the federal defense budget for a company with a manufacturing plant here to develop defense products. The appropriations earmark will allow 3TEX to
Verizon Wireless and UTStarcom Offer Award-Winning Pocket PC XV6700
MobileBurn - BEDMINSTER, N.J. and HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Verizon Wireless, the first wireless company to deliver wireless broadband service from coast to coast, and UTStarcom Personal Communications, a division of UTStarcom, Inc
FAMILY: Turning 103 and feeling just fine
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Willie Wells, who turns 103 on Thursday, misses her twin, who died just over a year ago. But she stays active. “We don’t let much grass grow beneath our feet,” her niece says. Stylish in her Christmas sweater and jovial as she headed out the door to
Companies tell seniors to do nothing on Medicare plans
New Hampshire Union Leader - For millions of senior citizens struggling to make sense of Medicare’s new drug coverage, one pitch is enticingly simple: Don’t do anything. It’s a message being pushed by private insurers eager to hang on to 5 million older Americans who already buy
Four million ’should have hearing aid’
Daily Mail - Four million people in the UK could benefit from wearing a hearing aid but are doing nothing about it, according to a new campaign. More than 150,000 people have so far taken a telephone hearing check as part of the Breaking the Sound Barrier
Sequim council asks for prettier second phase to shopping center (01
Peninsula Daily News - SEQUIM — Go ahead and build, but make it pretty. That’s what City Council members told the developer of the Sequim Village Marketplace’s next phase. The unlandscaped space around Home Depot, a Village Marketplace first-phase anchor, “looks like a
Surinder Singh elected
Tribune - Mr Surinder Singh was elected as Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of the city here today. The house voted Mrs Shyama Negi as the Senior Deputy Mayor and Mr Harmohinder Singh Lucky as the Deputy Mayor. Despite minor hiccups, the final result meant a
And he said, let there be light
Calcutta Telegraph, India - 11 hours ago… going to be a complex affair but it will be ready by next year, though I am so heavily dependent on medicines and can t hear very well, even with hearing aids …
Neediest Cases tops 8,000
Daily Mail - Charleston, WV - 21 hours ago… The reader had noticed the case of an elderly woman who was taking care of two adult daughters and needed home repairs and hearing aids. …
City s newest homeowners express their gratitude
Penticton Western, Canada - 18 hours ago… hearing problem. The cost of batteries and maintenance for six fragile hearing aids puts a strain on the family s budget. Then …
The Good Word: The trials of technology
KeepMEcurrent.com, ME - 15 hours ago… relays this event to his cronies. If I had some money to invest, it would be in hearing aids. Our future society will definitely …
6 bad jokes to start the year
Quad City Times, IA - 21 hours agoAn elderly gent had serious hearing problems for many years before going to the doctor where he was fitted with a set of hearing aids that allowed him to hear …