Battle line has been drawn: YahooSoft goes for more Search shares, Google gets into the O/S market. This reminds me of cable companies getting into telephony (digital voice) and internet, forcing the hands of ATT and Verizon to come out with Triple Play at considerable build-out costs. What we as consumers need is to have…

We got Future Shock. Then Culture Shock. Now Tazer Shock. The maker of police shock gun improves its battery capacity which enables it to  “zap” three times without recharge. Stocks went up. Tazer wasn’t the only happy camper yesterday. Virgin Mobile got acquired by Sprint as well. The MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) used to…

If you watch CNN, you still see Billy Mays pitching Jupiter hands-free phone docking (supposedly helps you drive safely, even if you were already dead). What are they taking us for? Can’t tell a taped segment from a live one? Pavlov’s lab subjects (ring the bell, the dog salivates without the Wendy’s ladies asking “where…

1973. Bobby Riggs. The infamous tennis match. How about that! I tried at tennis, but the game was too fast for me. Luckily, at the game of life, according to Darwin’s observation, all species need to survive is the art of being the fittest, not fastest. Creatures are made sometimes to stay still and change…

Both of my grandfathers had died by the time I was born. The closest I came to a grandfather figure was great Uncle Mai. He rode the bicycle, wore a beret and smoked a pipe. And you could always count on Uncle Mai to show up early on New Year’s day. I remember him because…

UN General Secretary even admits that he has an image problem. I tried the UN web site, and clicked on Secretary General. He does have a picture standing behind a podium, addressing me the only web audience as far as I am concerned. I thought being in that important post, at this time in human…

Back in the 70’s, pop psychology titles like “I am OK, you’re OK” ruled the chart. Then came the 80’s with “cities on the Hill” kind of positive thinking (charge it baby, you are worth every percent of interests). We are to reinvent ourselves, like Madonna, Cher and Simon (Garfunkel). Sweeping the negatives under the…

Frank Mc Court died a millionaire. He was one of the rare few who could make a living by the pen. Billion of people have been living in poverty, but only a handful could paint a readable picture of poverty for mass consumption. The rest are still too busy looking in the dumpsters for “other…

“The town square belongs to me” repeated the homeless man in Cinema Paradiso. Modern life has to claim its space, and the theatre itself got rigged with explosion to make room for parking lots. And Alfredo, our blind projectionist, had sent of his squirt protegé to the city to make something of himself “never to…