| Watsco, Incorporated Earnings Conference Call (Q4 2007)
Watsco, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, distributes air conditioning, heating, refrigeration equipment, and related parts and supplies in the United States. Its products primarily comprise residential central air conditioners; light commercial air conditioners; gas, electric, and oil furnaces; commercial air conditioning and heating equipment and systems; and other specialized equipment. The company also offers various parts, including replacement compressors, evaporator coils, motors, and other component parts; and supplies consisting of thermostats, insulation material, refrigerants, ductwork, grills, registers, sheet metal, tools, copper tubing, concrete pads, tape, adhesives, and other ancillary supplies. Watsco operates through approximately 380 locations in 32 states. It distributes its products to contractors and dealers who service the replacement and new construction markets.
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Quixtar Among Top 150 on InformationWeek 500 Quixtar Among Top 150 Most Innovative Users of Business Technology for 2006Quixtar Inc., the leading online health and beauty retailer, was ranked 147th on the 2006 InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative users of business technology. Quixtar operates the leading health and beauty retailing site based on sales, according to Internet Retailer. More than just an online storefront, Quixtar provides the infrastructure support for the businesses of hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs who drive the site's sales. Quixtar Independent Business Owners (IBOs) rely on the site to not only sell and order products, but also to track and transfer their business volume, register new IBOs they recruit, manage contact lists, obtain valuable business information, experience product tutorials, and much more.
Trying to Figure Out How to Put a Google In Every Data Center
Google No. 1 has required many years of work to get up and running, along with millions of dollars of equipment and countless hours of mental toil by some of the computer industry's brainiest folks. But Google No. 2 you might be able to build yourself in a spare weekend. That's one way of thinking about a research project at the University of California, Berkeley, being funded, as it happens, by Google, among others. The researchers aren't interested in finding the secret behind Google's search algorithms. Instead, Armando Fox, a computer scientist and director of the RAD Lab project at Berkeley, and his team are trying to take the mystery out of Google's data centers. These data centers are the engines that run Google's search software; Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon have their own.
Innocent Families Discover Meth Still Lurks In Their Homes - Part III
We first alerted homeowners to a problem that has lurked inside their homes for years. Houses that used to be meth labs are now home sweet home to unsuspecting families. We're testing the smallest places, looking for a drug that could coat every inch of a home, without the owner ever knowing about the dangers. Pascagoula resident Lila West is convinced Hurricane Katrina washed her home's meth problem away. When WLOX reporter Keli Rabon asked West if she thought her home was safe, she assured us she was safe. West said before Katrina, she and her family worked hard to clean it up. "All I know is this was the nastiest, filthiest hole I've ever seen in my life. We had every window open, we took all the rugs out and mopped them down with vinegar and water," West said.
UT building fire billows smoke, but only damages ventilation unit
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A blaze in a utility building at the University of Tennessee produced a lot of smoke but no danger to students or other structures on the Knoxville campus, officials said Wednesday. The fire was isolated to a 30-by-30-foot, stand-alone chiller unit that provides heat, air-conditioning and ventilation to education, health sciences and computer sciences programs in the Claxton Complex. .
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