| Joie De Vivre Hospitality Invites the Community to Assist in Renaming the Coast Santa Cruz Hotel
SAN FRANCISCO, California's largest boutique hotelier, Joie de Vivre Hospitality, announced a national contest beginning today to rename one of its new properties, the Coast Santa Cruz Hotel. The contest invites interested U.S. residents to submit their creative ideas for this unique hotel's new name before December 15, 2007, after which the suggested names will be considered and a new name will be finalized by January 31, 2008. If the new name was suggested by a contest entrant, the winner will be recognized for their creative contribution at the hotel's grand opening event and receive a weekend stay in a suite at the hotel, complimentary breakfast, and dinner for four. To participate in the contest the public can visit www.jdvhotels.com/namingcontest to enter contact information and name suggestions.
Listen up: you can run but you can't collide
FORGET the war on drugs. Sports officials are waging a new battle - against digital music players. At the peak of the US marathon season, with one of the biggest races of the year set for Sunday in New York, some runners are worried, and it has nothing to do with hitting the wall. Will Beyonce be there to push them to the finish? Can they call on Bon Jovi for support when there is no one else to turn to? USA Track & Field, the national governing body for running, has this year banned headphones and portable audio players to stop runners bumping into each other, and to remove any competitive edge. The chief executive of Athletics Australia, Danny Corcoran, said the music question was not one his organisation had faced. "The USA Track & Field policy was based on an insurance decision and it's never arisen as an issue for us," he said.
Amazon intros Kindle: the "iPod of reading"
NewsWeek today provided the first look at the Amazon Kindle (link to be active soon), the company's first eBook reader and self-made electronics of any kind. As suggested by numerous leaks, the reader is designed as the first eBook reader to be in constant contact with the Internet. A new network service, dubbed Whispernet, will let the device reach a new Amazon eBook store to buy books as well as subscribe to digital versions of the New York Times and other newspapers as well as magazines; unlike past readers, this will be accessible not just from a local hotspot over Wi-Fi but a special connection through Sprint's EVDO cellular access in the US. This will let readers keep track of the latest books even on vacation and is intended by Amazon to be the "iPod of reading," according to NewsWeek.
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