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December 20 to 31, 2005
A "laptop battery breakthrough" enables more precise readings of battery life, implications for all gadget types: http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/29/
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iness/battery.htm...
April 18 to 24, 2005
The EU last year fined Microsoft $700 million for a
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ing its near-monopoly in the software industry. Meanwhile, an EU Commissioner who could affect the amount of these fines was invited to a lavish...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This week saw a number of profiles of a new generation of activists. Some use the latest technology to promote the environment, some are resorting to radical measures to make their voices heard, an...
New physics chips are taking reality simulation to the next level: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/
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inesstechnology/2002237485_btvideophysics11.html?syndication=rs...
April 4 to 10, 2005
An interview with the CEO of the last pinball machine manufacturer on Earth...
President
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h's approval rating is the lowest ever for a 2nd-term president. J-Walk provides a nice graph...
How well is the U.S. doing regarding the 14 defining characteristics of fascism? You may not agree with all of the points, but a few sure hit the mark: http://www.
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hflash.com/14.htm...
Did you know that in 2000, EPA-banned GMO corn was found in Taco Bell tacos, which could produce anaphylactic shock? Here's more on how corporations are surreptitiously introducing GMO into th...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Meanwhile, high gas prices are affecting small
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inesses, farmers...
Kits turn Subaru vans into VW micro
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imitations and more...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Viral marketing is huge these days. In this article are a few dos and don'ts of viral marketing: http://www.wired.com/news/
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iness/0,1367,66960,00.htm...
Environment Hawaii, an independent, nonprofit, award-winning publication that has been around for nearly 15 years may be going out of
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iness due to lack of financial support. It's the last 100...
At last, "rising gas prices threaten viability of biggest SUV sales". Note that many Americans are still buying inefficient vehicles and driving them farther to boot...
March 14 to 20, 2005
This photographer is doing a booming
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iness capturing 144 megapixel photos - they're so sharp that a picture of an entire building can be used to inspect cracks...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Too
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y to go to Kinko's? Try PrintFu...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Howard Stringer becomes Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, after five years of stock declines and poor
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iness decisions. The beginning of the end was circa 1998, when the mp3 community (then a loos...
Ira Rennert's house was featured on VH1 this week. It's the largest in the world, containing over 100,000 square feet worth of structures, 30 bathrooms, and its own power plant. He owned the compan...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Continuing iPod Phenomenon http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050221/
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INESS05/502210302/103...
Here's a brilliant
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iness and innovative social practice - I haven't heard of any historical precedents for this social role. The
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iness is "Wingwomen", where shy bachelors pay $50 an hour fo...
People using T-Mobile services (like Paris Hilton, who had her personal address book posted all over the net this week) should realize how incredibly easy they are to hack...
February 14 to 20, 2005
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h and Kerry - a visual comparison...
February 7 to 13, 2005
George
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h explains his plan to save Social Security...
A conservative pro-
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h anti-homosexual journalist who had "unfettered" access to the White House and CIA documents was revealed as working under an alias and having close ties to male ga...
January 24 to 30, 2005
It's time for Hawaii to promote innovate mixed-use
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inesses that foster community development. Mentioned last week was the concept of "bike stations", which could be placed next to mas...
Or how about emulating the
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iness model of San Francisco's Brainwash, a successful cafe-and-laundromat that also sells t-shirts and hosts local musicians as well as comedy nights? They've got a We...
All about the new spacesuit of the future, now under development at MIT. It looks nothing like those suits in "2001"...
The 101 dumbest moments in
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iness. Number three: the chairman of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson was forced to resign after it was discovered that he spent 15 years in prison for a string of arme...
The
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h administration OKs drilling for oil in rare grassland in New Mexico, despite objections from the state's governor, who used to be the Secretary of Energy in the Clinton administration. Thi...
January 17 to 23, 2005
The dollar is so weak internationally that drug dealers are now doing
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iness in Euros...
"
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h Gets Positive Rating In Three Countries...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The new 555-seat Air
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A380 is the world's biggest airliner ever built. And it's more fuel efficient than your car...
Unfortunately, it looks like the GM power train in Hawaii's new hybrid
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es is not quite as fuel efficient as promised...
January 1 to 9, 2005
"The
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h Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood"...
December 13 to 19, 2004
The state's
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Link system is the first use of smart card technology in a
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-only mass transit system in America. How about making a smart-card based SuperFerry pass...
A gamer buys a piece of virtual land for $26,500. I should enter the virtual holy cheese sandwich
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iness...
A New York art exhibition is stopped after showing a
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h portrait made of images of monkeys...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Restaurants are installing fake phone booths for use by cell phone users to minimize noise pollution: http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/
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iness/10345833.ht...
An absolutely cool higher-tech redesign of the VW
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. I think this would be a huge hit...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Amazon.com is selling more electronics than books: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/
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inesstechnology/2002105349_amazon01.htm...
November 22 to 28, 2004
The chief economist at MorganStanley predicts that America has a 90% chance of an economic "armageddon", citing a number of "alarming facts"...
"Pro-
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h Think-Tank Claims Climate Change May Be Good"...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The latest developments regarding the potential move of the Leslie A. Hicks Power Plant near Aloha Tower. Perhaps a "grand" park is not warranted, but it would at least be nice to see a greener mix o...
Why doesn't someone in Hawaii go into the LIDAR 3D mapping
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iness? Hollywood pays millions for LIDAR 3D models for use in movies, and to date there are no models of the islands...
New hybrid
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es have started in Honolulu and wow the public. New smart card
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passes, too...
New
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inesses are sprouting up to meet demand for the new Firefox browser, now used by 19% of users according to some...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"I want to tell you how much Japanese
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iness man is tired....
"sorryeverybody.com" spawns "werenotsorry.com" and "apologiesaccepted.com"...
November 1 to 7, 2004
An image of
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h labelled "asshole" on CNN thanks to an intern...
"Ag-tourism becomes $35 million
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iness for Hawaii...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Homeland Security agents
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t a toy store this time...
"Technology used to track down Al-Qaeda terrorists is being offered to employers as a means of stamping out... a
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ive behaviour in the workplace"...
October 18 to 24, 2004
UK Guardian readers write to undecided voters in Clark County, Ohio to persuade them not to vote for
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h. A slew of hilarious, vile, and thoughtful letters return...
"Microsoft's Worst Nightmare" http://www.
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iness2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,714129,00.htm...
"The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates" http://www.
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inessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_mz063.ht...
"
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h's Big Joke"...
"Humans Aren't So Complicated" http://www.wired.com/news/
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iness/0,1367,65382,00.htm...
October 11 to 17, 2004
A great interview with Steve Jobs on true innovation: http://
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inessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2004/nf20041012_4018_db083.ht...
On Colum
bus
Day, history professors relate Colum
bus
' cruel history...
"Poll reveals world anger at
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h"...
The average mpg of a 40-foot Gillig Phantom
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, used in Honolulu: about 4. The average mpg of a hybrid-diesel
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used in Seattle: 7.5...
A design analysis of Kerry and
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h's campaign logos. I agree, the Kerry design looks wimpy and old school...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The State of Hawaii just launched the "Hawai'i
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iness Express", which allows one to start a
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iness easily online via all the relevant departments. Unfortunately, ending a
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iness is still ...
"George W.
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h - Keeping America Scared"...
What were the candidates scribbling on during the Presidential debates? Here's
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h's notepad...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
"How
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h's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The popular Kaimuki neighborhood trolley service ends. There's nothing wrong with more
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lines, but now there's less character, no open-air transportation with wide views, and less fun for tourist...
Hawaii's special-effects industry has some heavy hitters. Kai Bovaird, who set up a local shop, made effects for the Matrix. "There's definitely skilled people (in Hawaii) but you need serious an...
A new
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iness model for artists! Green Day sells blank recordable CD-Rs with album designs...
September 13 to 19, 2004
A new travel survey "found Hawaii consistently fell below most competitor destinations in offering good value for the money and unspoiled beauty. Also, Japanese visitors did not view the islands a...
The Oprah car giveaway made a lot of money for GM. It's a sign of new types of promotions to come! http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=
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inessNews&storyID=623604...
"While a student at Southern Methodist University in the 1960s, first lady Laura
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h was known 'as a go-to girl for dime bags of marijuana.'...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How can arts and culture transform a neighborhood? The documentary "Downside UP", about the largest museum of contemporary art in the U.S. and how it transformed an 80 percent vacant town into ...
Levis closes its last American factories: http://www.mcall.com/
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iness/local/all-levissep10,0,1729336.story?coll=all-
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inesslocal-he...
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h vs. Jesu...
"
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h: 'Our Long National Nightmare of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'...
August 22 to 29, 2004
"RSS Attracts Really Serious Money" http://www.wired.com/news/
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iness/0,1367,64716,00.htm...
New efforts in developing flying cars: http://www.
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inessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040825_4462_tc119.ht...
August 15 to 22, 2004
A new
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iness model for healthcare: "same-day" doctors...
August 8 to 14, 2004
A great
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iness model for online publishing - "fast turnaround e-books"...
Facing competition from Wal-Mart, the #1 toy seller, Toys 'R' Us may go out of
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iness...
Are
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inesses starting to get the clue about global warming...
Abu Ghraib: "...private-sector employees actively took part in horrifying prisoner a
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e". Examines the growing trend of the government to sidestep laws by hiring corporations to do the dirty work...
Our wonderful Presidential candidates: http://j-walkblog.com/blog/images2/
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hcorn2.jp...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Topic of the Week: Supporting Local Arts and Designs Hawaii is one of the toughest states for those involved in the arts to make a living. The word on the street is that Studio One, a popular galler...
4) Implement arts-specific loan programs and small-
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iness assistance...
The new, groovy world of open-source
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iness models...
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h's approval poll data, mapped against terror alerts...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
How the RIAA shut down a respected, thriving music store due to the sale of popular DJ-made mixtapes: http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2004/07/21/
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ting_berrys_music.htm...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"Thousands of truckers,
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drivers and rest-stop workers are being enlisted to spot terrorists"...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The (relatively new) RoadRunner
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iness-class services are not only competitive with
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iness-class DSL now, but are actually cheaper as the bandwidth gets bigger (Hawaii prices) - you get bette...
Second, the Carlyle Group is looking to buy Verizon Hawaii - this is just part of their recent massive purchases of telecoms in the Pacific region. The deal is "complex", as it involves a number o...
If you've seen Fahrenheit 9/11, you know who the Carlyle Group is - the largest private defense contractor in the world and one of the most powerful companies that most people have never heard of...
June 14 to 20, 2004
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inessWeek reports that privacy battles are being won over RFID...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Curious locals dig up Area 51 wireless perimeter sensors on public land and get
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ted by the FBI and Air Force agents...
An S.F. gallery closes after its owner is assaulted for displaying a painting depicting the a
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e of Iraqi soldiers by American troops. And this in the typically "counterculture" North Beach area too...
The way the music died "What will it take for an artist to make it in the music
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iness these days?" A Frontline special, view it online...
Computerless single mom gets
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ted by the RIAA, can't afford to settle...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Two teen poetry students give a public anti-Iraq/
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h reading. Their teacher is fired and the poetry club shut down...
Will the RIAA create artificial scarcity in the $3 billion cellphone ringtone market? http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/
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iness/technology/8685217.ht...
May 10 to 16, 2004
More groovy green efforts from San Francisco: an ink jet cartridge recycler and an industrial composting company. This is a great model for cities to follow to get small
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inesses recycling compos...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The "eBay economy" is growing. This is a great
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iness idea - sell things on eBay for others. Mailbox places should take this up as an additional service...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
In class a 15-year old art student draws
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h's head on a stick. The Secret Service visits the school...
April 19 to 25, 2004
And Intel plans to cut the lead content of computer chips by 95%: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/
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iness/20040407-1355-ca-intel-lead.htm...
A fellow dot-com veteran invents a new "Clip-n-Seal" product in hopes that it will finally get him out of Web design: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/
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iness/138143_clipnseal05.htm...
If you listen to a CD I give you, will you be
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ted? As part of a nationwide crackdown, the FBI raided Deer Valley High School...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"The share of the economic pie going to wages and salaries has plummeted to just over 50%, its lowest level in at least the past 50 years, and perhaps longer....
"Dodgy Patents Rile Tech Industry" http://www.wired.com/news/
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iness/0,1367,62930,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
"Easy-to-use unit converts scrap wood to electricity" http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/09/build/
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iness/30-wood2electric.in...
March 31, 2004
Let's face it folks - taken as a whole, Hawaii architecture sucks. And the urban planning leaves a lot to be desired. http://starbulletin.com/2003/09/17/
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iness/engle.htm...
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
United Airlines announced that more than 2 million customers used their self-serving kiosks in a single month. No modern airline can survive without them. Actually, that could be a great
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iness ...
Ever wonder why so many
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iness majors think Microsoft invented computing? A study of eight textbooks reveals total ignorance of the role of Unix in
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iness...
A great article explains how 25 years of poor spreadsheet technology (read: Excel) has encouraged faulty decision-making, scandalous
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iness practices, and small-mindedness in general. Where are th...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Well, this is really late but I've been
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y developing the Web site for Soullenz Gallery - check it out...
Search local
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inesses and services with Google...
Dasani bottled water pulled from all shelves in the UK after large amounts of a carcinogen is found in it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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iness/story/0,3604,1174127,00.htm...
March 1 to 7, 2004
The first car designed by women for women was launched at the Geneva Auto Show, with emphasis on comfort, storage, and low maintenance: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
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iness/3528757.st...
An influential Washington policy group released a report stating that the entertainment industry's pursuit of anti-piracy laws is bad for
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iness and for the economy...
February 23 to 29, 2004
At a French cartoon festival kids draw pictures of obese Americans and
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h next to Hitler...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Got a Mac? Hallelujah! http://
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inessweek.com/magazine/content/04_08/b3871084.ht...
"When I started in the music
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iness, music was important and vital to our culture... that's all changed....
Add wireless to your
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iness! At Schlotzsky's in Texas, a survey finds that more than 40 percent of customers say that free wireless access is a factor in choosing the restaurant to dine at...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
January 12 to 18, 2004
"Experts slam Wal-Mart lockdowns" http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/
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iness/7739156.ht...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Is the American Dream over?
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iness Week said so, and so does this article. More proof that the rich are richer and poor are poorer. "The Death of Horatio Alger"...
Will a new high-tech fund in Hawaii work? Local VC Barry Weinman may not like it, but I think the state needs to provide a starter foundation for
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iness before VCs can step in. Local VCs have neve...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Does anyone in Oahu need a free
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iness-class RICOH FT7870 copy machine? I'm not sure if it's been sold yet...
A new electric "in-wheel" engine can make vehicles up to 50 percent more efficient and is being tested on a city
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in the Netherlands...
December 15 to 21, 2003
A Texas housewife is
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ted for selling a vibrator... she faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine...
A good interview with the somewhat recently
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ted Tommy Chong, from Taft Correctional Institution...
December 8 to 14, 2003
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iness Week on "The Rise of The Indian" There are more IT engineers in Bangalore than Silicon Valley now. Startups seeking funds are now asked what their "India strategy" is...
December 1 to 7, 2003
The woman who claimed to be trampled at Wal-Mart after Thanksgiving has been found to have filed 16 previous claims from various
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inesses...
The a
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e of period typography in the movies...
November 24 to 30, 2003
A nonviolent protester is "hogtied and a
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ed" at Fort Benning...
November 17 to 23, 2003
We now return you to our weekly broadcast. Lots of new science/tech this week for some reason... Things got a little heated in London...
In Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy wrote a nice article on
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h and his attack on the environment...
November 10 to 16, 2003
An interview with Gore Vidal about his latest book on the Founding Fathers and what they would have done to
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h...
A British reporter finds
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h protesters are a diverse crowd...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
"Why Those Young Men Aren’t Watching TV Anymore" http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/
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iness/SiliconInsider/SiliconInsider-1.htm...
October 27, 2003
ChevronTexaco and Ecuador http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/23/
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iness/world
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iness/23texa.html?ex=1067572800&en=cc9b358b298a8763&ei=5062&partner=GOOGL...
October 20, 2003
This week was Marriage Protection Week! In honor, here's an article about how only 50.7% of America is actually married: "Unmarried America...
I should get into this
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iness... "Execs who are tech dummies seek secret training...
October 14, 2003
"Answers Please, Mr
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h...
October 6, 2003
"Mergers, acquisitions, takeover bids... that's the vocabulary as would-be wives take a
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iness approach to relationships...
September 30, 2003
You heard it here first folks. Windows is indeed a threat to national security: http://
bus
iness.bostonherald.com/
bus
inessNews/
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iness.bg?articleid=36...
The RIAA withdrew one of their suits due to mistaken identity - This Mac-using grandma was liable for $300 million for stealing songs by artists such as the rapper "Trick Daddy"...
September 8, 2003
Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the recent progress made in synthetic diamond tech (see the recent Wired) and you'll see how the entire industry could be completely automated i...
India's struggles with genetically modified crops... http://www.wired.com/news/
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iness/0,1367,57615,00.htm...
September 2, 2003
LEDs and the future of the light bulb: "If the world switches over to LEDs rapidly enough, it could obviate the need to build more than 100 power plants between now and 2020...
August 25, 2003
Promising biomass-based power generation technology "Fueled by sawdust pellets, corncobs or coconut shells, BioMax generates electricity for rural towns,
bus
inesses...
Rockin' on without Microsoft This is the best, no-nonsense, pragmatic, pro-
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iness view of one CEO who removed every bit of Microsoft software from his company. If you're still using Windows in you...
July 10, 2003
With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? Apple's latest tech wizardry makes voice calling over the Net a snap. That could be a push off a cliff for today's telecom giant...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...