We are hoping to end the current annual Travel Insider Reader Fundraising Appeal this week. At the time of writing, we have 307 people who have responded with generous support, leaving a gap of only …
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Good morning Only a few days remaining until Halloween. Not many people in the US appreciate how very US-centric Halloween was, but also how the rest of the world is now rushing to embrace it …
I ordered a $5.80 radio antenna from Amazon earlier this week. It arrived two days later, with free second day shipping, courtesy of my Prime membership. If I’d ordered another $29.20 worth of stuff, it …
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Good morning A nostalgic farewell wave to AOL’s Instant Messenger – another technology and company that started off on the leading edge of something that had yet to be given the name of ‘social media’, …
As promised, deliveries of Amazon’s astoundingly affordable $150 10.1″ Fire HD 10 tablet started arriving on Wednesday – in my case, in a ridiculously large-sized box 50 times larger (yes, I was so curious, I …
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Good morning Happy birthday to the lovely and now undeniably old 747. It was 49 years ago on 30 Sept 1968 that saw the ceremonial roll-out of the first 747. It is interesting to see …
Google’s own phones (albeit made by a varying range of third-party manufacturers) – in the past sold under the Nexus brand and more recently under the Pixel brand – have a tiny market share (about …