Link (Gizmodo): <Configure Your Own High-End MartinLogan Speakers> Straight from Lawrence, Kansas, get these speakers and you’ll know for the first time the meaning of “high-end” sound. But get this: you can go to MartinLogan’s website, and (as Gizmodo puts it) “digitally fondle” your speakers (virtually configure your order online). Real. Good. Sounds.
If you love insight to technology (and maybe you’re even an attorney), you’re certainly aware of the Futurelawyer and his penchant for spotting the good stuff. I scan only about 20-30 feeds daily (my faves among my enormous google reader feed subscriptions/search alerts), but his is one of the first I usually find myself viewing. [...]
Per Bloomberg, Dell Inc. shares rose after the computer maker completed a yearlong investigation into accounting errors and admitted executives manipulated financial results to meet quarterly earnings goals. I see that CFO Don Carty pulled one out of the play-down-a-probe playbook, in stating: “This is not a happy story for Dell or one that we’re [...]
From AP online, DALLAS – American Airlines is suing Google Inc. over the Internet company’s sale of keywords ads for rivals triggered by its own trademarks. American filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth seeking unspecified damages. A Google visitor who enters certain words or phrases that American trademarked – for [...]
The Wichita Eagle highlights the story of the Vornado fan’s origin and manufacture in Wichita: After the war, Sutton hired a research company to investigate the feasibility of manufacturing fans. The research company sent him a $30,000 invoice and told him not to build the fans. Sutton didn’t listen. He believed more in the power [...]
The N.Y. Times (primary authors NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and VIKAS BAJAJ; reporting contributed by Jenny Anderson, Eric Dash and Gretchen Morgenson) presents an excellent inquiry (and perhaps answers) regarding How Missed Signs Contributed to a Mortgage Meltdown. Apparently, while some saw the writing on the wall (and only precious few reacted), others say there is [...]