Stepping Up Your Brand This Christmas Season

On November 29, 2009

Stepping Up Your Brand This Christmas Season

With all the talk in the media in regard to retailers deep discounting their wares, where does this leave small independent retailers? For one thing it provides an opportunity to step up the customer relationship. Large corporations cannot turn on a dime due to their size and complexity. SME’s (small to medium enterprises) on the other hand [...]


On November 29, 2009

Twitter, Facebook Holiday Shopping Lists Include Going Public

Twitter and Facebook are certain to leverage their value as real-time, personalized lifelines for consumers during the holiday shopping blitz when the social networks seek to become publicly traded media companies in 2010, according to Diane Mermigas.


On November 29, 2009

Core and Context: The Wheat and the Chaff of Enterprise Apps

To gain the most return on modernization projects, many enterprises are separating core from context when it comes to legacy enterprise applications and their modernization processes. As enterprises seek to cut their total IT costs, they need to identify what legacy assets are working for them and carrying their own weight, and which ones are merely hitching a high cost -- but largely unnecessary -- ride.


On November 29, 2009

TSA Buys 150 Body Scanners For Digital Strip Searches

The Transportation Security Administration announced this week that will be expanding its full-body scanner program which takes digital images of a passenger's body underneath their clothes at airport security checkpoints. The agency will procure 150 of the machines, with five showing up at Sea-Tac Airport next year. The body scanners, which critics say provide a digital strip search and are detailed enough to show genitalia, will be an alternative to metal detectors, the TSA announced. According to the TSA: Advanced imaging technology does not store, print, transmit or save the image. All machines have zero storage capability and all images are automatically deleted from the system after they are reviewed by the remotely located security officer. Of course I believe the TSA is being honest...


On November 29, 2009

LAX, Where a Love Spat Can Be a Bomb Scare

It was all moving relatively smoothly at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday for its expected 1.5 million passengers until a lovers' spat became a bomb scare. The couple, a man and a woman who remain unidentified, were quarreling in a Mercedes Benz SUV when the female driver stopped the car and threw her partner's two duffel bags out onto Sky Way, an airport access road. The airport police bomb squad reported to the scene while the couple, after driving around the airport, later returned for the bags. The road was shut down as the bomb squad ripped open the bags to look for explosives and the couple, which police said were arguing as they rushed the man to his flight, were held for...


On November 28, 2009

Sequenom Stock Now the Plaything of Rumors

It will be interesting to see what happens to Sequenom (SQNM)'s stock on Monday when the markets open again. The troubled company left observers with a Thanksgiving mystery on Wednesday and Friday: Why would its shares jump from $3.20 to $4.20 on no news whatsoever? And who would buy stock in this basket-case of a company?


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