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2007 Chrysler Town & Country

We found Chrysler's launch of the 2008 Town & Country minivan at the Detroit Auto Show interesting enough that we asked to review the current version, a 2007 Chrysler Town & Country. Despite its peppy engine, the soft-sprung Town & Country is a handful in urban driving. The car makes...

Tags: leg room, Town & Country, Daimler AG, cup

Product reviews 2007-03-05

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The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...

Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-17

McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market

Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Perks for all workers: remote/metro, small/large firms, etc.

Leveling the playing field for workers' perks I’m on the board of a firm with operations throughout the United States. About half of their workforce and plants are in major metropolitan areas while the other half are in some pretty remote areas. Management is challenged to find...

Tags: Employee, Worker, Next Jump, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Was Apple a "Liar Liar" to the FCC about the Google Voice app?

right...So now you are milking 2 cows: M$ and Apple.Google rules when it comes to software!M$ & Apple would not hold a candle if it was not for their monopolies!Awaits the impending destruction of Google by "The Followers..." ...Yes, there must be an explanation other than "Apple lied... again"[i]Apple hasn't...

Tags: FCC, Apple Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Works of Honor de Balzac. FREE Author's biography & works in the trial 10.2 (Mobile)

List of Works by Genre and Title List of Works in Alphabetical Order Honore de Balzac BiographyAbout and NavigationList of Works by Genre and TitleLa Comdie Humaine :: Novels :: Short Stories ::PlaysLa Comdie Humaine:Scenes From Private Life:The Ball at Sceaux Translated By Clara Bell The Purse Translated by Clara...

Tags: Paris, Mobile, MobileReference, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Gmail FAIL - What it says about Google and email in general

A little perspective...2 hours of downtime since May. That's at least 3 months of uptime if the May outage happened to fall on the last day of the month. Applying a little math, that tells me that GMail has had an uptime percentage of 99.999%. That's the...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail, Google Inc., Gmail FAIL, uptime, downtime, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

PhotoGPSEditor 1.6 (Mac)

PhotoGPSEditor is an easy to use meta-data editor for photo (JPEG, RAW, or Tiff) files, plus it can match data from GPS gpx or NMEA files. The program is freeware, however, donatations can be made to help support future development. With PhotoGPSEditor you can add location and summary details to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Latitude, JPEG, MMISoftware, PhotoGPSEditor, Location Information, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-31

U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room

we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Highways, broadband, broadband over power line, U.S. national broadband strategy, U.S. National

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Smartphone battleground: Apple and Google head to China

The Apple vs. Google smartphone race is coming to China - and from early reports, it looks like Apple is eyeing the rougher road to the top. According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple couldn't come to a revenue-sharing agreement with the big dog mobile...

Tags: China, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., China Mobile Ltd., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'

Let's spend more money, says Congress. They may not see their way to helping Americans get universal health care, but auto care? Big support in Congress for auto care. The House just approved another $2 billion for the "cash for clunkers" program, that started out with half that,...

Tags: Car, Renewable Energy, U.S. Congress, Telecom & Utilities, Sales Strategy, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?

Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I've been saying this for a while.[i]When it comes to trade-offs between security and convenience, convenience always wins.[/i]security = 1 / convenienceRE: Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I can't believe that you're endorsing having the police in any country "wardriving" around to detect...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wireless and Mobility, LANs, Wi-Fi, WLAN, router, Wi-Fi connection

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

US Embassies Abroad (Mobile)

Know your US Embassies!Town Compass presents the US Embassies Abroad Pocket Directory Database.Whether you lose your passport, get in trouble with the local authorities, or would just like to meet some friendly Americans, the US Embassies listing will help you find your way. Perfect for the overseas traveler, particularly in...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, City, Name, Address, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2009-07-09

Contact Tool 1.2 (Mobile)

Contact Tool is your address book's best friend. Use it to search, sort and inspect your contacts for increased efficiency or just for fun. Find people more quickly when you need them or polish your address book while sitting at the airport- Contact Tool does all this and much more!...

Tags: Mobile, Address Book, Tool, Alessandro Levi Montalcini, Productivity, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-07-06

The Real Case in Social Media: Zappos CEO Not All Atwitter About Twitter

When reporting first began on ZDNet’s look at Zappos’ use of social media to build its online retailing business, its CEO, Tony Hsieh, had just crossed 600,000 followers on Twitter. This past week, he passed 800,000. No, the reporting didn’t take that long....

Tags: Phone, Social Media, Twitter, Zappos, Sales Strategy, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-23

US State Department Reschedules Twitter Maintenance Due to Iran Primetime

US State Department Reschedules Twitter Maintenance Due to Iran PrimetimeYou distorted what was said!The statement in this blog, "Statistically the election looks reasonably clean so far as this post by Nate Silver discusses...," totally distorts what Nate Silver actually said.Silver's point was NOT that the Irani election statistically looks clean,...

Tags: Iran Primetime, State Department Reschedules Twitter Maintenance, U.S. Department of State, landslide

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

How mad are iPhone customers at AT&T? The ways are counted!

How mad are iPhone customers at AT&T? The ways are counted!About as *un*scientific as it gets...I'm not really an Apple fan, but the poll just sounds like a ham-fisted way to get some attention, and not a barometer of how people feel about AT&T or their iPhone.Each poll question starts...

Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, iPhone customer

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

Are Tweets and Facebook updates telling burglars when to strike?

A few weeks back, while in Vegas for a long weekend, I posted a random Facebook status update from my phone about landing safely and being ready to play some blackjack. Later, when my wife found out that I had done that, she kind of scolded me: "Why don't you...

Tags: Facebook, Social Media, Twitter, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-11

AT&T: The iPhone's anchor

AT&T: The iPhone's anchorAT&T: The iPhone's anchorWait a second, did I read that right when you said AT&T does not support MMS? So no one on AT&T or with an iPhone can snap pictures and send it to others? I can't believe this is possible, this technology...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, ATT, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Hybrids to increase market share, but...

Hybrids to increase market share, but...Pretty glacial statements . . .Pretty cold language around here. Why the scare quotes around re-tool? Why the talk about hidden agendas again?Do you just hate them because they exist or something? Is there [b]any[/b] way they could earn your trust?Now that they're finally turning...

Tags: Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, battery, X-REV, hybrid, car, electric vehicle

Discussion threads 2009-05-31