Weekly Roundup Black Friday 13 April 2012
Good morning I was excited to read about JK Rowling’s next book, ‘The Casual Vacancy’, being released in September – especially because it is a book for adults. But upon going to the information on […]
2012
Some Success Against Rip-Off eBook Pricing
On Wednesday the Department of Justice announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Apple and five book publishers – Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin. The suit alleges an illegal conspiracy to
Boeing Beating Airbus in Both Orders and Deliveries
Normally one shouldn’t pay too much attention to the respective sales figures for Boeing and Airbus during the course of each year, because large orders appear irregularly, and while it is interesting to see one
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Weekly Roundup Friday 6 April 2012
Good morning It is a strange and semi-random process, deciding what to write about. I started off Thursday this week with some half written materials for publication today, and then during the morning, stumbled across
Is Delta Going to Buy an Oil Refinery? And Why? (Not an April Fools Day Joke)
Okay, so we all know that airlines burn a lot of jet fuel, and that fuel competes with labor to be any airline’s number one greatest cost. And if there is one thing the airlines
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Wyndham’s Woeful Website – the World’s Worst?
The internet has been a core part of hotel companies’ promotional and distribution activities for at least five years now, maybe even ten or more. It is no longer new, it is well known, to
Weekly Roundup Friday 30 March 2012
Good morning Another week with quite a lot of additional content, and it is hard to know which of the other three blog entries I posted during the week to point you to first. And,
North Korea : Your Chance to Travel In the Steps of Our President – and Further
North Korea has been in the news quite a bit this year, first with the death of their leader and the succession of his son; and more recently, when our leader went to South Korea
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The Airlines and their Peculiar Approach to Customer Satisfaction
For almost a month now, United Airlines has been issuing regular announcements proclaiming the great success of its computer system changeover. Most mainstream media have been parroting United’s announcements without additional comment. Almost alone, Joe
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Beat Gas Station Ripoffs With GPS Based Realtime Gas Price Apps for your Smartphone
I wrote a week ago about being tricked/trapped into spending $5.80/gallon for gas (when the going rate everywhere else was $3.80 or less) while returning a rental car to Orlando Airport. The good news is
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Weekly Roundup Friday 23 March 2012
Good morning Anna and I are now back from our time in the Orlando area, and – as promised – here is a huge newsletter and lots of other articles to compensate for the very
The iPad 3’s First Week – Hero or Zero?
The iPad 3 was generally well received when announced on 7 March, and its first day of sale last Friday, 16 March was preceded by the usual lines of people waiting overnight to be first
