DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, March 3, 2014
-- a new app to help the deaf pay their bills
We all hate to pay our bills, and if we have too many
bills, it may be hard to remember ones we paid on which
dates, etc. There is a new app - Minus Bills Forecast;
it was designed and built in Australia by two app
developers - Toby Pattullo and Dean Hecker. They
are deaf! They are planning to market this app for
public use.
-- A big company serving the deaf files for bankruptcy
Sorenson Communications Inc, the nation's biggest deaf
relay provider, has filed for bankruptcy. It does not
mean Sorenson will go out of business. It means they
are asking to repay their bills in an easier way.
There are six different types of bankruptcy. The most
common ones are Chapter 7 and Chapter 11. Chapter 7
means company goes out of business. Sorenson has
applied for Chapter 11 which allows the company
to continue but repaying their bills. Whose fault
is it? Very possibly the FCC for reducing, every year,
the money paid to relay providers! Anyway, this has
been a big shock in the Deaf Community today.
-- a lobbying group fights a deaf legislator
Mojo Mathers, who is deaf, is the MP in the New Zealand
parliamentary body, representing the Green Party. She has
the support of deaf people in the nation. She recently
flew 500 miles from the nation's capital to a small
town for a radio interview. The Taxpayers Union,
a consumer lobbying group in New Zealand, is very angry
about it, saying it was a waste of money. Mojo told
the party people she has to show up in person for a
radio interview because a telephone radio interview is
impossible. The lobbying group thinks she is just
throwing money away! Mojo has the support of the
fellow MP's.
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