Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Housing unemployment woes leave movers shaken
- Big il Ready for Big Gamble in Iraq
- Seagate And Western Digital Show Mac Shops Some Storage Love
- Castroville’s Cardinale Moving and Storage receives award

Housing unemployment woes leave movers shaken
San Francisco Chronicle
But in 2008 only 11. 9 percent of Americans moved he said. The stay-put trend has hurt moving companies according to Stephen Weitekamp president of the California Moving & Storage Association whose 430 member firms offer full service relocations. “There’s nowhere for people to go” Weitekamp said adding that the real estate slump has limited crosstown moves while the weak job market has hurt corporate hiring. “Even people who are looking to retire and relocate are watching their home values deteriorate and that makes them hesitate” he said. Amy Messinger co-owner of Cummings Moving Co. in South San Francisco said this is the worst slump anyone in the local industry can remember.

Big il Ready for Big Gamble in Iraq
Wall Street Journal
Another inmate stole some intelligence-corps uniforms and arranged for a getaway car. Shahristani and two others managed to evade guards duck into a storage room and put on the stolen uniforms. After hiding for several hours they snuck past some visiting intelligence officers playing cards and hustled out the prison gate. They met up with their families and snuck across the border into Iran. For the next few years Mr. Shahristani helped Iraqi dissidents and refugees.
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Seagate And Western Digital Show Mac Shops Some Storage Love
bMighty.com
The Dock is a USB hub with a direct connection to the drive providing a quick and easy way to plug in the FreeAgent Go as well as three additional USB ports. n the desktop the company added the FreeAgent Desk Drive for Mac 2TB. With two terabytes of storage and a Firewire connection the drive costs $340. Moving from the individual to the network: Western Digital announced a My Book World Edition II dual-drive NAS system. The drive comes with two drives configured for RAID 1 mirroring and backup software for Mac as well as Windows. Besides the security features of automatic backup from one drive to another the My Book World Edition II also incorporates Western Digital’s MioNet remote access service. Users can retrieve data from the network-attached drive via any browser.

Castroville’s Cardinale Moving and Storage receives award
The Salinas Californian
Applicants were judged on four categories that closely correlate with the CMSA Code of Ethics which consisted of: Management Practices; Marketing Advertising and Sales Practices; Customer and Vendor Relations; and Community Service. Cardinale Moving & Storage has been an active member of CMSA for 37 years. Vincent Cardinale has served as the CMSA Monterey Chapter President twice and has been on the CMSA Board of Directors for more than 10 years. He was most recently CMSA Chairman of the Board for the 2008-2009 year.