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Archive for March 28th, 2006


Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Presidential suites are for prestige
By Ian Mylchreest
And they are also for one more thing, reports New York Times: Marketing. The paper reports that the "presidential suite" started with Ulysses S. Grant seeking such a suite on a visit to New York and that every president since Herbert Hoover has slept in the Waldorf Towers presidential suite. Companies rent the ultraluxurious penthouses for [...]
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Supremes to hear patent case
By Ian Mylchreest
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case tomorrow that pits some of the biggest corporations in the country against one another, reports the New York Times. The case involves eBay and a patent owner who won an injunction from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a court that has made a [...]
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Get ready for the big boom
By Ian Mylchreest
If you need a primer on the afterlife of the dot.com boom, take a look at Fast Company, where Adam Penenberg reviews the long history of people who did not understand innovation and what has always happened after the first boom and bust. He has numerous examples of people who said the phone was a toy [...]
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Great bods are back
By Len Butcher
Let’s hear it for women with great bodies. Despite all the pressure put on women, particularly those in the entertainment industry, to look anorexic, most of the women in the Top 10 of FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women” are bodies that you know enjoy a pizza or some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Blonde actress [...]
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