Weekly Roundup Friday 29 March 2013
Good morning Today is day 73 of the 787 grounding. Boeing conducted a test flight this week, and being as how the short two hour flight saw the plane safely return back to Paine Field …
March 2013
Single Supplement Scourge Can Not Escape Unavoidable Arithmetical Logic
Every so often, a travel writer/journalist who is contracted to write a regular column on travel topics finds themselves short of creative ideas and staring at a deadline. So they reach back into their pile …
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Nearly Last Chance for This Year’s Christmas Cruise
This is a quick note, out of the usual Friday schedule, to ensure you don’t miss out on this year’s wonderful Christmas Markets Cruise opportunity – our special 40% discount is due to expire on …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 22 March 2013
Good morning Welcome to spring, a spring which saw almost a snowfall here in the Seattle area on Thursday, after a snow-less winter. But I’m once more pushing my mower around the lawn on a …
The Future of High End Smartphones 2013 – 2014
Last week saw the announcement of market leader Samsung’s new high-end Galaxy S4 phone (analyzed here), due to go on sale at the end of April. In the short while prior to that, both HTC …
Boeing’s Bizarre (Non)Testing Schedule for the 787 Battery
Imagine you are Michael P Huerta, head of the FAA. Boeing comes to you and says ‘Well, we don’t yet know what caused the two battery fires that we earlier promised you were impossible and …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 15 March 2013
Good morning Today is day 59 of the 787 grounding. But this week saw the FAA give Boeing approval to proceed to test and confirm the validity of its ‘fire box’ fix; assuming nothing untoward …
Samsung Galaxy S IV Phone – The Last of the Super-Releases?
Samsung unveiled its latest high-end phone at an event in New York, starting at 7pm Eastern time today (Thursday). The Galaxy S IV (also abbreviated as S4) is self evidently the successor to the very …
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Google Becoming Leaner and Meaner
At one point, Google seemed to be the poster child of a new business ethos. Its core mission statement said to do no evil (with the clear implication that most major businesses happily would do …
Hotel Rewards Diminish Further in Value – It’s Greed, Not Inflation
The underlying premise of both airline and hotel loyalty programs, although obscured by complications such as points and miles, is that after spending/staying/flying a certain amount, you get some small percentage of your participation returned …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 8 March 2013
Good morning Happy International Women’s Day to all readers of the fairer gender. It is surprising that American retailers haven’t made this another event that mandates men spending massive sums on cards, gifts, flowers and …
Someone Stick a (Pitch)Fork in the 787 : Is It Done?
For seven weeks now, we’ve had more and more bad news and alarming revelations as the 787 burning battery saga unfolds. But this last week seems to set a new record for alarming revelations. It …
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