The Scandal that Keeps on Giving Stories of exploitation and abuse on Craig’s List first broke late in 2009. Investigative reports of prostitution and other illegal activity escalated in the flurry of activity around the “Craig’s List Killer,” the disaffected medical student who allegedly murdered at least two prostitutes he solicited via the online...
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CNN exposes criminal exploitation and sex-slavery in Craig’s List “Adult Services”
Possibility of Apple’s 7-in iPad Stirs Debate
DigiTimes, an IT publication based in Taiwan, reported last week that a new smaller version of the iPad was scheduled to be released in 2011 based upon reports of component manufacturing companies ramping up for the smaller parts. DigiTimes reported that the new iPad would be between 5 and 7 inches and be priced...
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Gulf oil disaster enters final phase.
For the last week, Tropical Depression Number Five, not quite a hurricane but definitely a menace, has halted drilling on the relief wells that ultimately will seal Deepwater Horizon, ending history’s worst environmental catastrophe. As the tropical storm moved ashore and Gulf of Mexico weather improved over the weekend, BP officials announced they would...
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Critics’ Consensus: Nothing happens in Eat, Pray, Love.
It’s the intelligent film reviewers’ consensus. The majority of sensitive, insightful, kind and forgiving international film critics agree: Everything that made Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love a runaway best-selling book contributes to making it a monumentally boring movie. The book’s premise appeals to every woman’s heart. Writer Liz Gilbert yearns for something breath-taking, and...
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Steven Slater goes viral.
On Monday, Steven Slater, disgruntled Virgin Airlines flight attendant, made headlines with his much publicized and even more widely debated departure from his job. The sequence of events started simply enough: A passenger failed to comply with Slater’s pre-take-off instructions for proper stowage in the over-head compartments. The “disagreement” escalated after the passenger told...
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Disney reports record profits. “Killers” slay Lionsgate.
The Magic Kingdom is 40% richer at the end of this quarter, and investors feel supercalifragilistic-expialidocious that generous applications of talent and fairy dust earned Disney’s movie unit approximately $2.5 billion(usd) during the late spring and early summer. Disney productions currently own the top three spots on the 2010 movie earnings rankings. More importantly...
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Fantasia sings the blues.
“American Idol” Fantasia Barrino left a Charlotte, North Carolina, hospital late Wednesday after two days’ treatment for a drug overdose, a near-fatal combination of aspirin and “a sleep aid.” Barrino overdosed in the wake of discovering a court complaint filed against her by Paula Cook, the estranged wife of Antwaun Cook with whom the...
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BP completes “static kill,” begins “bottom kill.”
Gulf residents remain skeptical about BP’s long-term commitment. After extensive weekend testing, BP and government officials reported Monday that the mud and concrete poured into the top of Deepwater Horizon have effectively sealed the top of the well. Further testing confirms that the two relief wells are on target to join the main borehole...
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Unemployment Spikes among Computer Execs
Eager techies need not submit their resumes, because there are no vacancies; but weekend cleaning crews tidied-up vacant executive suites at Apple and HP in the wake of Friday’s sensational changes at the tops of the two computer giants’ organization charts. On Friday, Apple Computer, Inc. confirmed that Mark Papermaster had left his job...
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There’s no app for the hottest of hot buttons—“Net Neutality.”
Buried under reassuring news about BP and intriguing news about Wycliff Jean, the news could have slipped right past preoccupied techies, imperiling them more than they might realize until the prime time had passed. Either hidden on page 7 or tucked away in the business section, the headline read “FCC Suspends Closed-Door Hearings on...
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What’s wrong with Google?
“The problem with Google is that Google thinks there is a problem with Google,” declares Allyson Hilliatd, senior technical analyst at Patterson-Forbes Partners. “The big kids at Google imagine their company is suffering an identity crisis, and they are having trouble making their company grow up.” In other words, Hilliard explains, as Google has...
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Mixed messages for Blackberry lovers
The last five days have taken Blackberry devotees and RIM stockholders on a magic carpet ride, crashing them hard on announcements that two major middle-eastern countries have banned use of the world’s most popular hand-held devices. then sending them sky high on news of a long-anticipated product upgrade. Key Arab nations ban Blackberries. The...
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