Security Roundup Friday 4 March 2011
Remember the good old days, when going through Customs upon returning home simply meant hoping they didn't discover you'd gone over your alcohol allowance and that you'd spent more than $400 on items you were […]
2011
New High End Noise Canceling Headphones at a Special Low Ball Price
Our favorite noise canceling headphone manufacturer, Outside the Box – the people who make the Plane Quiet and Solitude brands of headphones – have come out with the Solitude X – their latest model of
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Apple Announces their iPad 2 – A Lackluster Product that Disappoints rather than Excites
At a press event today, Apple announced the release of their successor iPad model, the iPad 2. But as exciting as this was, there was a ghost present that threatens the success of the iPad
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How to Travel the World On the Other’s Guy’s Dime – book review
Something most of us merely dream about is regularly traveling around the world, for months at a time. The reality is that few of us can afford either the time or the money to indulge
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Weekly Roundup Friday 25 February 2011
Good morning As mentioned last week, I'm spending a few days at Disneyland with my daughter, and so there's not a lot of material this morning. But among the items following below, there's another interesting
Boeing ‘Leadership’ – “We’ll wait 6-10 months and see what Airbus does”
Are they or aren't they? That is, will Boeing modify/re-engine its 737, or will it design a completely new plane? Airbus decided what to do last year, and made it official on 1 December 2010
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Testing Shows AT&T iPhones to be Twice as Fast as Verizon iPhones
I've always said that AT&T has been given a very unfairly bad reputation by people who complain about what they perceive as poor data connection speeds on the AT&T wireless network. Independent testing has shown
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TSA Agent Test Smuggles Gun Many Times Through Body Scanner
We all know the TSA miss about 20% – 25% of objects in X-rayed carry-on bags, but the TSA claims their new X-ray machines that take whole body pictures of travelers see everything hidden beneath
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Weekly Roundup Friday 18 February 2011
Good morning Thanks to everyone who answered the survey about the distance at which you'd switch from driving to flying. The answers were surprisingly broadly spread all the way from the people who'd drive no
Airline Roundup Friday 18 February 2011
Forgetful United Airlines? United discovered, late Tuesday, that it had not completed safety checks on a critical equipment upgrade on its fleet of 757s – an upgrade that that occured the better part of –
Netflix Video Streaming – A Revolutionary App and Internet Paradigm Shifter
In late November last year, Netflix announced a new way to watch movies. They will stream movies to you instantly – you choose from over 20,000 different movies and television episodes, and within seconds of
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Virgin America Adds Service to Chicago
I wrote last week about O'Hare freeing up some terminal space for new airlines in their L concourse. And now, less than a week later, Virgin America has announced new service to Chicago, commencing on
