In hard economic times, people look for enjoyable distractions.  A game-like tactic should be deployed through a handheld card chart wheel, or an app for cells and computers.  Street promoter volunteers from legislative offices would approach people and ask, "Are you Rich Enough for a Repub… Read full post »

The Oscars have traditionally been an at-home and decidedly insular at-home experience. Next year’s experience will be public.  

 Whether best actor film, best picture, and other categories (divided onto separate cards), customers can fill out a Oscars Latte Lottery card with pro… Read full post »

The New York Times (NYT) had surveyed its most valuable readers as to the proper pay scale and received favorable responses before reaching a decision to charge online readers through a pay-wall. Some newspapers said that getting just 5 to 10 percent of their readers to pay would constitute a viable… Read full post »

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That was the response that Taco Bell offered a a week ago after a class action lawsuit asserted that its beef taco recipe is fillers and only 33% beef (a violation of USDA standards). Parent company, Yum! Brand, fought back by announcing its somewhat… Read full post »

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Round these parts, everyone is concerned about corporations coming in and drilling for gas.  Up and down the Delaware River all the way to the Catskills, regular people are organizing everywhere.  They're holding pancake breakfasts just to get the neighbors informed.  They're wondering… Read full post »

What good is the Fifth Estate if the people don’t have the skills to report on stories?  How does one know the difference between a real story and a profiteering one?

People are complai… Read full post »

A calamity of mistakes could have been deadlier.  So what would you do about dangerous choppers and a sand-filled computer after a little girl drown?

On June 22, 12-year-old Nicole Suri… Read full post »

Just when I thought it was safe to leave Apple iPhone 4 alone, a blog shows that the adaptor catches on fire!

Click the report from Technology Blog of the adaptor flaming immediately after it is plugged in.… Read full post »

If you think the exchange of 12 Russian spies on US soil was strange, take a look at the PBS Frontline story on 2,000 private companies that span the nation in intelligence operations with no real oversight.

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Let’s face it, most CEO’s are rich.  Now a Harvard Study shows that the richer they are, the meaner CEO’s can be.

The abused workers don’t have all the answers, but I queried a few to ask if they thought this was true and why. Here… Read full post »

It’s wait and see for Sprint 4G.  There are shortages that the company didn’t anticipate. 

Sprint hoped to leap ahead by snagging customers from the compe… Read full post »

The press conference for Steve Jobs and Apple helped.  If they are lucky, maybe the lawsuit will go away too.

Jobs is correct in that other competitive smart phones have issues.… Read full post »

US federal agents say Russian suspect may not have been an actual spy.  

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Mashable is reporting that US federal agents are questioning an alleged Russian spy in the recently reported spy exchange operation.

Alexey Karetnitov was employed at Microsoft&rsquo… Read full post »

73% of teens online use social networking websites and 62 percent get their news about current events and politics online.  

The variety of news acc… Read full post »

On Friday, July 16th, there will be a press conference at 10AM PST to discuss the software glitches plaguing the iPhone 4. Journalists are invited, according to the Washington Post. http://bit.ly/bHN4Z5

The press conference follows numerous consumer complaints, a class action… Read full post »

We’re learning in class about the Slashdot technology blog as the place where the nerds will beat you up with a rating system, especially if you don’t post with your real name.   Now there’s a post there that bullies and nerds have similar personality traits.

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 A few blog posts back, I recommended that Apple maintain a forum for owners of the iPhone 4 to air their gripes.  Now Wired reports that there were a few Apple threads, but that Apple has removed all but two.  Here’s one to click.  The ad for the iPhone 4 is still/… Read full post »

Let’s just say I called it first in my blog back on July 6th. Now P.R. experts are saying the iPhone 4 will be recalled.  I have been following this Apple story since my blogging career started --about a month ago. Back then I likened the circumstance of the faulty phone… Read full post »

Pew Research says that 99 percent of all news stories are generated from blogs.  What will the news reporters do if blogging is dying?

Yes, the Economist is speculating that blogging is dying.  News… Read full post »

Engineers for Consumer Reports has confirmed that the iPhone 4 does have antenna problems.  

This may be a comfort for all iPhone 4 owners that are having problems with the AT&T warranty dep… Read full post »

Several lawsuits dating from 2007 to 2008 are being permitted to go forward against AT&T and Apple.  The lawsuits, now consolidated, claim that Apple had locked consumers into five year contracts that had originally been two year contracts with AT&T.

Judge James Ware of the US District C… Read full post »

A new app from Google Labs will make parking easier for some and have others participating in social media in their cars.

Drivers can will their parking spaces to other drivers through a Google map.  Mar… Read full post »

Are Twitter, FoursSquare, Gowalla helping people to burglarize your house or rob you?  You are broadcasting that you’re not home. What if thieves know where you live or where you are going to be?

Webroot commissioned a survey in June of 1,645 social network users (including 624 UK-b… Read full post »