Jan 17, 2010
If you have some spare change and would like to own part of history, you can put your offer in for an authentic space shuttle at 31.43% off the asking price. There are some strings attached and you have the next 30 days to look under the matress to find the money before putting in the offer.
Here is a fact that you might not know about the Shuttle ...
Dec 7, 2009
Google announced today that they are taking an aggressive move to make reviews more accessible to those brick and mortar stores. Google will allow U.S. consumers to read reviews about local stores on their cell phones when they point and scan the bar codes on those local stores.
Google labeled this initiative as "Favorite Places on Google", and Google sent out 100,000 bar codes to 100,000 most popular local ...
Nov 16, 2009
The once high flying Sharper Image is back, but utilizing a different business model with funding from Camelot Venture Group. I doubt that they are able to breach their ever successful pre-2004 strategy and this holiday season is going to be a good barometer. Their present model evolves around selling to consumers through other retailers as well as maintaining a presence online. I have no doubt that Sharper ...
Oct 9, 2009
I was in Seattle recently and I met up with some of my friends from college, most of them worked for Microsoft. Wait, I think it was everybody who worked for Microsoft and there were people from the server group, guys who were working on the long awaited Windows 7 to some guys working on the infrastructure of their internal applications. One thing I heard from them were "Microsoft ...
Oct 8, 2009
Earthlings, in the show of their military might are flexing their muscles and literally taking a shot at the moon. In the pre-dawn hours Friday, a rocket is scheduled to punch a 13-foot-deep hole in the moon's south pole to deter an Martians from invading Planet Earth. This bold action was planned many moons ago when the rocket was launched in June 2009 and it is set for ...
Oct 1, 2009
Saturn was the shooting star of the and was the "the" company that was aiming for the moon and beyond. That was in the 1990's when Saturn was positioned by GM as "a different kind of car company" and that brand cultivated a huge following where Saturn owners would driver across the country to Spring Hill, Tennessee for special events and gatherings.
Last week, I was reading through Consumer ...
Sep 7, 2009
I admit that I am not a big college football buff but I know the teams, who is leading and who just lotst big time. In a USA Today article on Sept 3, 2009, I was rather shocked to find out that it small football schools take their lumps for a sum.
College football used to hightlight the competitive elements of sportsmanship and the enjoyment by participants. In the ...
Aug 26, 2009
In the book, Stealing MySpace by Julia Angwin (published in 2009), it brought up lots of interesting facts especially in the earlier years. Here are some things that you might not know about that small company that started in Los Angeles, CA.
Domain name (MySpace.com). The original domain name was bought and utilized as a free online file storage and at its peak, it saw 7.5 million registered users utilizing their ...
Aug 21, 2009
As reported on CNN, Internet boot camp operators are under investigation after a youth boot camp attendee died and another was admitted in critical condition.
Well folks, this is happening in China where the parents are sending their kids to these Internet boot camps that have sprouted up like mushrooms after storm. Internet use has skyrocketed in China, especially among teens and young adults. Knowing about this alarming addiction, ...
Aug 12, 2009
Benson, the world's largest carp is sleeping with the fishes. Benson lived for 25 years and was a resident of Bluebell Lakes, a private fishing complex in Tansor, England. The Bluebell Lakes is a catch and release fishing complex and anglers from across Europe came to fish for Benson.
On the flip side, Benson was caught and put back in the lake 63 times, hitting a high weight ...