You might (or not) remember Chevrolet’s concept car from a few years back, the Nomad. It never made it to production, but a similar car might thanks to Murat Günak, former design boss of the Volkswagen Group.
Günak co-founded a new auto company, Mindset and made the Six50, whose purpose is to buck the trend toward [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, business, design, technology on June 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, at this year’s WWDC, the Apple folks announced that .Mac is being replaced with a new service called Mobile Me. They’re still charging $99 a year for 20 GB storage, push e-mail, and and over-the-air syncing between iPhone and Mac or (gasp) Windows PCs…you know, mostly the stuff that Windows Mobile and BlackBerry [...]
Filed under: advertising, business, technology on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
Last month, I went with my friend Lisa to a an Orlando cafe which has the distinction of being the only cafe in central Florida (and one of two in the entire state) with a Clover coffee machine. For the non coffee cognoscenti out there, it’s basically the brewing method that has made everything else [...]
Filed under: business, humor on June 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s the proof in the form of a headline from The New York Times today: “Broadcom Co-Founder Faces Conspiracy and Drug Charges”. Apparently, the guy had a nasty habit of slipping ecstasy into executives’ drinks when he was meeting up with them.
Enjoy the read.
On a semi-related note: Now, the next time I’m trying to get [...]
Filed under: business, technology on June 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
I was thinking about the name of the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia the other day. Surely, most people don’t puzzle over corporate nomenclature, but I hardly think it’s uncommon for a consummate Volkswagen enthusiast to do. The name Karmann Ghia rolls of the tip of one’s tongue in the same way as the term fahrvergnügen, but [...]
Filed under: business, thoughts on June 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a thought: Pizza Hut serving pasta dinners is akin to McDonald’s serving a t-bone steak dinner. Come on, we defeated Hitler for this?
Filed under: business, thoughts on June 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
I was just reading about the latest demo of Google’s Android mobile operating system. The Android Community site got an exclusive live preview of the latest version, and posted plenty of pictures and video, most importantly, this:
In a nut-shell, this system is already looking like it can do whatever the snazzy iPhone can dish out, [...]
Filed under: business, rants, technology on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
While reading about the unsurprisingly bad consumer confidence numbers, I came across this article focusing on the Florida consumer confidence numbers.
In the midst of the numbers, and the suggestion that the stimulus checks (as I expected) had no effect on consumer confidence, I found a glimmer of good news:
Although most economists foresee price declines extending [...]
Filed under: business, news on May 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
If you haven’t heard of the Clover, you aren’t a coffee snob; and if you aren’t a coffee snob, then you won’t care, and this post is not for you. That said, if you’ve already had a cup of coffee from a Clover, then consider yourself both lucky and in the vanguard. Very few cafes [...]
Filed under: business, reviews on May 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Seriously, people are still on about this “buy no gas” nonsense? Do so many people have such a fundamental lack of understanding in economics that they actually believe that boycotting the two largest gasoline brands will force a price war that cuts the price of gas in half?
I’ve been seeing the Facebook group How to [...]
Filed under: business, rants on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »