Reinforcing market analysts’ speculation that Sony stands poised to stage a major comeback, the consumer electronics giant this week delivered two major announcements, putting the competition on notice that it will contend for market dominance. On Tuesday, March 9, the company reported that it will begin sales of 3D televisions. On Wednesday, March 10,...
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You gave hope to the weird and unlikely,” Kevin Smith aptly tweeted yesterday morning on news of Corey Haim’s untimely death. “RIP, sweet boy,” former girlfriend Alyssa Milano added. The Los Angeles Police Department and a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office confirmed his death early Wednesday morning, but they refused to...
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More than half-a-million petitioners join FaceBook campaign. At 88, Betty White is enjoying as much popularity, good press, and good work as ever in her sixty-year career. In the last several months, White has starred in the Super Bowl’s most popular super-commercial, collected a Screen Actor’s Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and been the focus...
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Just as Wednesday night’s “American Idol” threatened to become a major yawn, Michael “Big Mike” Lynche electrified the studio audience and lit-up satellites and fibre-optics with his poignant, moving, inspiring, heart-felt virtuoso performance of “This Woman’s Work.” Dedicating the song to his wife, who recently gave birth to their daughter while Lynche remained in...
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A former IT employee of HSBC’s Swiss division, has stolen 24,000 customer accounts, potentially exposing the customers to potential prosecution of tax in their home countries. Switzerland banks have one of the highest levels of secrecy in the world and this breach will cause many who had “hidden” accounts in Switzerland to panic. Switzerland’s...
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Reporting a surge in first quarter sales and higher-than-expected earnings, Ford Europe unveiled new models of its popular Focus and showcased its technological innovations for the new model year. Although spokespeople for Ford would not comment for the record, they implied that Toyota’s woes had contributed to Ford’s windfall. A spokesperson did say, “European...
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Maybe not the internet revolution as advertised, but definitely big news. For the last two weeks, Cisco Systems, Inc., by far the world’s largest producer and supplier of network equipment, counted down to an announcement the company said would “change the internet forever.” Tuesday, Cisco took the wraps off its new CRS-3 routers, leaving...
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Put the spring break travel dilemma into a little perspective: For less than it costs to load the kids into the old family mini-van and lug them across the country to a theme park, you can fly the whole crew to Orlando, taking them on the family vacation of a lifetime—a Disney Cruise. Travel...
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For friends of Mother Earth who still feel a serious and compelling need for speed, designers and engineers at Porsche have just unveiled your ultimate dream machine—the 918 Spyder Concept. Even if you do not feel all that concerned about the planet’s future, but you enjoy a genius piece of automotive engineering, the new...
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One techno-pundit dubbed Sony “the Chicago Cubs” of consumer electronics—so much talent, so many best-of-class products, and never first place on the sales charts. Long before anyone imagined iTunes, Sony was pioneering digital music. Among Windows-powered personal computers, Sony’s Vaio is widely regarded as the best for both performance and for reliability. Until iPod...
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