Mark your Calendars for National S’mores Day
Chances are every day of the year is a special day for someone or something, and come 10 August, it is the turn for National S'mores Day. Indeed, those who know about such things (I […]
July 2010
Amazing 50% Savings – Short Term Summer Sale at Pro Travel Gear
Wow! From now through Sunday midnight (Eastern time) you can get an extra 50% off everything in Pro Travel Gear's already discounted Summer Sale, but only if you use a special Travel Insider discount code
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Airplane Wing DamAAge – Looks Worse than it Is
Here's an interesting article and amazing picture of what American Airlines politely describes as 'some de-lamination on the plane's right wing'. Apparently an AA 757 on a short flight from Miami to Orlando had one
Your chance to be famous :) Help a reporter writing about international phone service
A reporter writing an article for one of the US's largest daily newspapers would like to speak to someone who has ended up spending way too much money on using their cell phone while traveling
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United Airlines Gets it Wrong – Even When it Gets it Right
A regional jet flight operated under a United flight number between Burlington and Washington found itself to be overloaded, and needed to unload 20 passengers (that's a really strange amount of overloading on a regional
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Amazon : eBook Sales outselling Hardcover Book Sales by 43%
Amazon reported today that in the last quarter, they sold 143 eBooks for every 100 hardcover books. This trend is increasing, with the last month (June) showing 180 eBooks for every 100 hardcover books. Be
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Google discontinues its Nexus One phone, Nokia seeks a new CEO
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the collapse of Microsoft's efforts to sell its disappointing Kin phones. More failure this week, with Google taking the final and inevitable step on its Nexus One
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Apple Admits iPhone 4 Problems, Offers Free Cases
At a hastily convened press conference this morning, Steve Jobs sort of admitted that the iPhone 4 has an antenna problem when held a certain way (see our earlier report on the iPhone's antenna problem)
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Boeing Predicts Boom Times Ahead
Boeing is predicting a market for 30,900 sales of commercial airplanes and freighters over the next 20 years, representing sales worth $3.6 trillion. Its Current Market Outlook, published every year for the last 46 years,
Airlines Exploit Loophole and Avoid Paying $700 million in Taxes
Airlines are required to pay a 7.5% tax to the federal government on the value of tickets they sell. But because the airlines essentially did not charge additional fees back when the taxing legislation was
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Full Body Scanners? Just Say No!
There is a growing amount of concern and unhappiness at the rush by the TSA to deploy whole body imaging scanners – they may or may not work and they may or may not subject passengers
Cramped airplane seating? You ain’t seen nothing yet!
An Italian airplane interior design company is proposing a new style of coach seating that would squash in 50% more passengers than the current already cramped airplane seating, what they call their SkyRider seat. Generally most coach class
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