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Travel smart, stay safe Whether it’s taking in a Broadway show and shopping in New York, celebrating a big birthday in Europe or trekking across whole continents, more women today are blazing trails on their own.
Alleged high-tech roulette scam “easy to set up” An alleged high-tech roulette scam that saw three people walk out of a London casino with ý1.3 million recently sounds too implausible even for a movie plot.
Mercedes takes risk by trying for mass appeal Mercedes-Benz has an image problem, and it’s turning to Mercedes owners — famous and unknown, dead and alive — to polish the brand in its first corporate ad campaign in seven years.
Fast Pass at Airport Security Business travelers may soon have one more item to stuff in their carry-on: a trusted-traveler card to speed them through security lines.
‘Alamo’ to debut Saturday in S.A. San Antonio is rolling out the yellow carpet for the world premiere of “The Alamo,” which was filmed in the Austin area.
Burger King zaps menu, image Burger King had so lost its way that it recently did the unthinkable: It brought back the company’s 76-year-old co-founder to fix the flagship Whopper.
Houston shamed in travel survey Despite the success of Super Bowl XXXVIII, a new light rail system and top-quality museums, Houston bottomed out in a survey ranking the top American cities.
What is déjà vu? The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, “already seen.” Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn’t be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and […]
The Alamo set to debut in San Antonio Hollywood will light up San Antonio this Saturday as Touchstone Pictures and Imagine Entertainment debuts the new movie “The Alamo” at a special premiere at the Majestic Theatre.
Archos reveals the AV500 at CeBIT 2004 If this will indeed be called the AV500, Archos has done a nice job on the successor of its AV300 series. With a slimmer sleeker more ergonomic look, the AV500 makes the AV320 look like a clunky has-been.
TiVo Will Die It’s always hard to write an obituary, especially when the subject is still alive. It’s especially hard for me, because I love the little guy like a brother. But, alas, TiVo (news – web sites) will die.
AMA: Illegal Internet pharmacies threaten public health Illegal Internet pharmacies — which recently have gained more attention in Texas — “are a threat to the public health,” a trustee of the American Medical Association told a congressional committee.
Earth faces sixth mass extinction The Earth may be on the brink of a sixth mass extinction on a par with the five others that have punctuated its history, suggests the strongest evidence yet.
‘Real World’ may come to Austin “The Real World” — the MTV show that set the standard for reality TV programming — might make Austin part of its world.
Via launches teensy motherboard Via Technologies has begun selling a new supersmall motherboard that’s just 4.8 inches square and comes with an x86 chip compatible with Intel’s Pentium processor.
Microsoft eyeing AOL? Report says Time Warner executives have held talks recently about sale of online unit to Microsoft.
Its a bit weird seeing yourself quoted in other people’s blogs… weird… but kinda cool. 🙂 They Blinked thejasoncalacanisweblog Oooo… and picture of me here… fun!
Ellison gives wife rich gift of Oracle stock Software billionaire Larry Ellison has given his new bride a pricey gift — 911,744 shares of his company’s stock.
Rewritable DVDs, old drives don’t always play nice Faster rewritable DVDs for a major format are about to hit the market, but they are not designed to record material in earlier drives.
“Rackspace is profiled on Forbes.com today in an article on our interactive chat on Rackspace.com. This is a first for Rackspace, as Forbes traditionally only covers public companies or those with hundreds of millions in revenue.” Chat Gets Pushy
Cable taps into wiretap law At least one cable operator is starting to comply with a federal law that has long required telecommunications carriers to help police conduct electronic surveillance, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans.
Indies Head to Texas To-Do The annual South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival begins on Wednesday, bringing thousands of music lovers and independent musicians to Austin, Texas, for five days of live music. It’s also the biggest confab of artists who aren’t afraid of the Web or new technologies and are eager to meet […]
Xhtml Friends Network XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
Net hermit to ditch DotComGuy moniker DotComGuy – the man who spent an entire year in a house living off entirely what he could find on the Net – is to change his name back to plain old Mitch Maddox.
Report reveals global problem of drug-resistant TB The largest ever survey of drug-resistant tuberculosis has unveiled “worrying” levels of the disease, with health experts warning that the issue is a global problem.
Brain Size Surprise: All primates may share expanded frontal cortex Researchers have traditionally theorized that the frontal cortex, a brain region linked to mental faculties such as planning and reasoning, expanded to an unprecedented extent during human evolution. However, a new analysis of brains from many different mammals takes the uniqueness out of our frontal […]
Unwelcome baggage: Sick fliers As Ken Proctor, a shoe company executive from Hot Springs, Ark., settled into his EVA Airline seat for the flight from Taipei to Los Angeles, he began to get nervous about the sweat pouring off the man sitting next to him.
Every so often you run into a commercial that makes you chuckle… this is one of them for me. 🙂
Boeing to offer roaming via in-flight WLANs Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems subsidiary and Boeing are to seek ways in which the aircraft maker’s in-flight WLAN service, Connexion, can be tied in to T-Systems’ wireless ISP-oriented roaming enablement platform.
San Antonio is 17th destination city in America for movers San Antonio was the No. 17 destination city among people moving 50 miles or more, according to the 2003 U-Haul Co. national migration trend report for the top 50 U.S. destination cities.
Cutting carbs on the road is tough, but help’s on the way For the low-carbohydrate dieter, a business trip can be like a walk through a minefield. Venturing from the safety of their own kitchens, traveling dieters may find themselves peeling apart sandwiches on planes to gobble the carb-friendly turkey and cheese slices while disposing […]
Long-haul fliers reap benefits of competition The USA’s big airlines are losing their last haven of high profits — coast-to-coast flights.
Bite-mark evidence can leave false impression On 8 April 2002 Ray Krone walked out of prison in Yuma, Arizona, having spent 10 years behind bars, including two on death row. His conviction, for stabbing cocktail waitress Kim Ancona to death, was secured largely on the basis of a supposed match between his teeth and a […]
Astronomers find 10th planet It is a frozen world more than 8 billion miles from Earth and believed to be the farthest known object within our solar system.
Seedy secret of healthier milk revealed Butter that not only spreads easily when cold, but also contains a healthier balance of fats has been developed by researchers tinkering with the diets of cows.
Evidentally, some random woman got Chris Rock’s old cell phone number… she decided to write about – really funny stuff. Crazy, Random “Chris Rock Thing”
Paris Hilton primps for ‘Simple’ trip In the sequel to Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s hit Fox reality show The Simple Life, the socialites-turned-TV stars are driving themselves on a 30-day cross-country trip with no money, credit cards, cell phones or boyfriends.
I was sitting in the session that Craig Newmark was hosting and he mentioned a term called “Toothing”… so I looked it up – and I was shocked. Check it out and here’s another one Who knew?!
Clear Channel runs afoul of indecency rules, again Clear Channel Communications Inc. (NYSE: CCU) is facing a new round of allegations from the Federal Communications Commission that its stations aired sexually explicit material.
New artificial blood shows promise Numerous past attempts to develop synthetic blood have failed because doctors got the basic science wrong, claim a handful of researchers. This week it was announced that a blood substitute based on their alternative theories is looking promising in an early trial.