Weekly Roundup Friday 29 June 2012
Good morning It has been more a tech than a travel week, with the exciting release of Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet being announced on Wednesday. One of the articles added to this weekly roundup …
Month: June 2012
Does Size Really Matter (for Tablet Screens, that is)?
When the iPad first launched in April 2010 (a mere two years ago) life was fairly simple for mobile computing. You could use a smartphone, with screen sizes typically 3.5″ and, rarely, growing up to …
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Our Internet Freedoms Are Being Constrained by Unelected Censors
The news this week that Twitter is about to start censoring tweets so as to ‘curb hate speech’ sounds admirable and long overdue. But is there a darker side to this? We suggest that yes, …
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Google’s Nexus 7 Ups the Ante in the New Tablet Wars
Google this morning announced it would start selling its own tablet, to be known as the Nexus 7. This was the key highlight of a presentation to over 30,000 Android developers (and journalists) at the …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 22 June 2012
Good morning Well, the summer solstice has already been and gone (it was Wednesday) and the days are getting shorter once more. I’m always flummoxed by the way that summer commences on the longest day …
The TSA is Now Obsolete
The TSA is focused on finding specific outlawed things on people and in their possessions as they pass through airport security. As we have regularly explained over several years, this is a misplaced focus. The …
How Hawaiian Airlines is Redefining Itself
You’ve probably heard of Hawaiian Airlines (HA). But have you noticed their steady growth and new route structure over the last few years? The airline is doing an excellent job of turning its operating base …
Microsoft’s Strangely Incomplete Tablet Announcement
Microsoft staged an event in Los Angeles late this afternoon. Indeed, it was late both in the sense of scheduled start time and actual even later start time, and even if it did start at …
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Southwest’s Fashion Police on Patrol Again – Too Much Cleavage?
What is it about Southwest – the airline that used to use raunchy inuendo and hot-panted flight attendants as advertising messages, and which adopted the stock market symbol LUV as much for the racy implications, …
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Delta Now Seeks to Dominate the Jet Fuel Marketplace – But With What?
Delta is becoming oil-crazy, and one wonders/worries if its senior executives shouldn’t be concentrating more on operating airplanes than on their one obsolete unprofitable and irrelevant oil refinery. We earlier extensively analyzed Delta’s purchasing an …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 15 June 2012
Good morning If you’ve been debating whether or not to join your fellow Travel Insiders on our tour to North Korea this September, there’s now another reason to come. One of the huge highlights of …
What is the Purpose of the No-Fly List?
You probably know about the US no-fly list. It is a list of many tens of thousands of names of people (back in 2007 it seems to have had more than 34,000 names) who – …
