Monthly Archives: November 2023

The Magic of Amazon

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday just over, I’m marveling at how Amazon has changed our buying habits. Not just becoming a substitute for driving to a store, but so much more. First, you cannot find many of the items on Amazon in other stores, certainly not the depth of choices. Whether it’s a motorized […]

Ai Pin: A new product attracting attention and ridicule

A new tech gadget that’s soon going on sale is receiving a huge amount of attention from the tech community. It debuted at Paris Fashion Week on the lapel of supermodel Naomi Campbell, it was featured in a TED talk watched by tens of thousands, and it’s received $230 million in funding from Silicon Valley insiders. Rarely […]

Fake airline accounts scam Twitter users

These days it’s safe to assume when you’re contacted by a stranger using email, texting, or social networks, it’s likely a scam. That’s the nature of the internet with so many trying to make a buck. It takes very little effort for a twelve-year old savy computer user in their basement in some far away […]

Hertz EV plans short out

Hertz thought they were being forward thinking when they ordered 100,000 Tesla Model 3 EVs last year, amounting to about a quarter of their fleet. Now a year later, its plans are in disarray and on hold. At the time it seemed to be a clever attempt to move on from their bankruptcy and take […]