Tips on how to sound intelligent, powerful, polished, articulate, and confident

Do you want to sound intelligent, powerful, polished, articulate and confident? Of course you do! Voice coach Carol Fleming, [...]

$10,000 Bill… For Text Messages

The cell phone industry hasn’t exactly been shy about billing its customers for all manner of things. Roadside assistance… without your asking for it? That’ll be $2.99 a month. Ha, that’s nothing. Now one customer, Sean Clark, has been slapped with a bill for a whopping 10 grand, because his developmentally disabled daughter sent a [...]

$4,800 Bill for Turned-Off iPhones

Last month I told you about the fellow who, misunderstanding AT&T’s international data plan and the amount of bandwidth the iPhone actually uses, ended up with a $3,000 bill after a couple of weeks overseas. Many felt unsympathetic, saying he should have known what the charges would be since AT&T was up front about the [...]

‘Taliban surrounded’ in Kandahar fight

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan – Afghan, U.S. and Canadian troops have surrounded a pocket of some 250 Taliban fighters who have commandeered people’s homes in villages just outside Afghanistan’s major southern city, officials said Wednesday.
Hundreds of Afghans — their cars and tractors piled high with personal possessions — were fleeing the battleground about 15 miles north [...]