Weekly Roundup, Friday 16 August 2019
Good morning It is now barely a week until Labor Day and the traditional end of another summer. The airlines are gleefully banking rich profits due to travel this year being up 4% on last …
Amazon’s World Domination Moves a Step Forward : The New Alexa Echo Auto
There’s a massive “land grab” going on at present, with Google’s Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa both rushing to become your “go to” device for voice interaction/control. The chances are you now have competing voice services …
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 16 August 2019
Good morning I’ve had a very busy week this week, and thought I’d – excuse me – quickly rush off a short piece as a feature article for this week. But the “quick short piece” …
Internet Speed Overkill
We’ve just upgraded our internet connection speed to 500 Mbit/second for both uploading and downloading. We have vivid memories of the various connection speeds we’ve had in the past, stretching all the way back to …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 9 August 2019
Good morning I went on a mini-road trip this week, covering over 800 miles in two days, with 650 of those miles featuring my teenage daughter and her friend in the back of the car. …
Get a Headphone Splitter to Share Audio
I went on a 650 mile drive this week, accompanied by my teenage daughter and her friend in the back of the car. Rather than enjoy conversation with me, they decided they wanted to watch …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 2 August 2019
Good morning Usually, if at all, in this area we get a power cut or two as a result of a “wind storm” in fall. Sometimes that can result in a loss of power for …
Lessons From Two Recent Power Cuts
Lessons From Two Recent Power Cuts We take so much for granted and simultaneously become ever more dependent on electricity. This is the first in a series of articles about how to deal with a …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 26 July 2019
Good morning My article last week about Boeing’s Bad Decision when it decided to update its 737 one more time in 2011 drew a lot of comment, and is now the most viewed page on …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 19 July 2019
Good morning The build up to the Apollo 11 celebrations is reaching a crescendo. As I type this, a website that is recreating the journey in real time tells me that at this moment, 50 …
Did Boeing Secretly “Bet the Company” Yet Again on an Airline Project?
Boeing announced today a $5.6 billion pre-tax charge in its second quarter for costs related to its B737 MAX problems. This followed the earlier $1 billion charge in its first quarter, and is based on …
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Our Recommendations for This Year’s Amazon Prime Day Deals
This year, Amazon’s Prime Day Promotion is spanning two days – Monday and Tuesday. It includes the usual range of “loss leaders” (most of which have already disappeared) just like a Black Friday at Walmart, …
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