technology
Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian company best known for creating the BlackBerry smartphone, was recently placed on the endangered companies list by influential business writer Henry Blodget of Business Insider. Blodget’s controversial May 19 web headline pronounced that “RIM’s toast,” while his article’s otherwise identical print version at Canadian … Read More
The other day, whilst expunging my all beef patty & deep-fried potato conscience on the treadmill, I happened to catch on one of the gymnasium’s many monitors a scrolling headline about the future plans of McDonald’s for some 7,000 of the chain’s European locations: to replace cashiers with ABM-like machines. … Read More
Friend, and Like: two words whose everyday meanings used to be quite simple. In today’s post-Facebook times, those meanings are changing from qualitative to quantitative. In the process, they are arguably being cheapened, though not (yet) dragged down to the level of Craigslist NSA hookups. The primary goal of a … Read More
