WSJ: Coffee shops pull plug on laptop users
Here’s an interesting trend out of New York. Is the west coast next? According to The Wall Street Journal coffee shops are pulling the plug…
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Is your companion worth an extra $49?
That is the question. It seemed too good to be true, the Alaska Airlines promotion where your companion could fly with you for only $50…
That’s not happiness to see me, Clinton and the North Korea Joy Luck Club
It’s quite amazing the news out of North Korea and Bill Clinton’s visit (overshadowing Hillary?). This photo, though, looks slightly different than standard Washington White…
Sail it off the lot and you lose $50M
Do you remember the uber sailboat, the Maltese Falcon, Tom Perkins was building a few years back? A refresher: cost $150M, length 289 ft. (the…
Brand management and damage control 2.0: Social media to the rescue?
Audi’s “unintentional acceleration” fiasco of the 1980s might have looked very different if Twitter and Facebook were around. Could the PR nightmare been avoided 140-characters…
San Francisco 49ers, new Santa Clara stadium preview
We have a pretty looking preview of what could be the 49ers new stomping grounds sometime this century. But the big question remains. Will they…
My Denver airport version of Sliding Doors
This past week I began the wonderful adventures of air travel again after a several week hiatus from packing everything in 3 oz. bottles and…
Review: Lenovo IdeaPad U350 13.3″ laptop
For a first generation CULV-based laptop, the Lenovo U350 delivers on most counts.
Korbel pops the cork on its new website
KORBEL POPS THE CORK ON ITS NEW WEBSITE GUERNEVILLE (RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY), CA, July 31, 2009 – Korbel California Champagne has popped the cork on…
TechCrunch on NYT, new media business models, and lean journalism
Michael Arrington, founder of a network of technology blogs including TechCrunch, published an interesting piece yesterday on new media business models and a hypothetical example…