BRIEFCASE RESIDENTIAL SALES STRONG IN MARCH.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - March proved to be a heady month for Conejo Valley home sales, as the Conejo Valley Association of Realtors announced 244 single-family home sales for the month Wednesday. This represents a dramatic increase, with only 174 sales in February and 193 in March 2001. The median price this year was $423,080, up from $385,210 last year. Condominiums also showed increased activity, with 105 sold in March, compared with 72 in February and 93 last March. Listings dropped compared with last year, with new residential postings totaling 452 this March, down from 492 the same month a year ago. NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. acquisition of Telemundo OK WASHINGTON - Federal regulators approved a plan Wednesday to transfer Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo Communications Group Telemundo Communications Group is a holding company within NBC Universal for the television properties bearing the Telemundo brand. It is owned by General Electric and based in Hialeah, Florida.[1] Inc.'s television stations to NBC. Last November, NBC and Telemundo filed applications seeking the Federal Communications Commission's consent to the transfer of control of corporations holding the licenses of 11 full-power TV stations and 17 low-power and TV translator stations. The FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. reviewed the proposal from both broadcasters and determined ``the applicants are fully qualified and that grant of the transfer of control applications will serve the public interest, convenience and necessity.'' Microsoft issues new security fix SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. released a patch Wednesday to fix 10 newly discovered security flaws in its Web server software, the most serious of which could let a hacker take over someone else's server. The flaws affect the past three versions of Microsoft's Internet Information Server See IIS. (World-Wide Web) Internet Information Server - (IIS) Microsoft's web server and FTP server for Windows NT. IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: from workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPs hosting websites that receive and Internet Information Services See IIS. software, which are run on millions of computers worldwide. Weaknesses in the same Microsoft software allowed the Code Red and Nimda worms to spread across the Internet last year. The most recent flaws, discovered by Microsoft and several security experts, generally will not affect home computers. AT&T is dropping Rose Bowl in 2003 AT&T Corp. dropped a bombshell Wednesday when the telecommunications giant said it would not renew its contract as the presenting sponsor of the 2003 Rose Bowl Game. The decision leaves the ``Granddaddy of Them All'' college football game without a major corporate backer for the first time in more than four years, opening the door for another company to attach its name to one of the most storied events in sports. ``Currently, we're not pursuing the presenting sponsorship of the Rose Bowl,'' said Cindy Neale, an AT&T spokeswoman. ``At the moment, we're not in any discussions to be the presenting sponsor next time.'' The pullout pull·out n. 1. A withdrawal, especially of troops. 2. Change from a dive to level flight. Used of an aircraft. 3. An object designed to be pulled out. Noun 1. leaves the Rose Bowl as the only game in the four-team Bowl Championship Series without a sponsor. The Fiesta Bowl is sponsored by Tostitos; the Orange Bowl is sponsored by Federal Express; and the Sugar Bowl is sponsored by Nokia. ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Sports, which owns the rights to choose who sponsors the Rose Bowl game, has been tight-lipped tight·lipped also tight-lipped adj. 1. Having the lips pressed together. 2. Loath to speak; close-mouthed. See Synonyms at silent. throughout its negotiations following the national championship game between Nebraska and Miami on Jan. 3, when AT&T's four-year contract expired. Late Tuesday, ABC Sports officials in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of maintained that negotiations were ongoing. ABC officials did not return calls for comment Wednesday after AT&T's announcement. |
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