I’m writing this column on a brand new computer. It’s eight days old now, and just perfect. And beautiful. And so special.
My very first Mac.
I’m writing this column on a brand new computer. It’s eight days old now, and just perfect. And beautiful. And so special.
My very first Mac.
Mobile phone companies – handset manufacturers, operators and others – have been preaching about convergence for years, almost a decade now. They tell us that a mobile phone is all we need in the future because — everything will be in it.
When I was a kid, my father was an appliance store manager. Maybe the times were tough, maybe my parents couldn’t afford daycare, but I spent a lot of time with my father at the store, playing around with televisions, radios and stereos.
Rest of the Scanorama column after the jump.
A local businessman was stunned to realize the meeting he attended at lunchtime required no input from him whatsoever.
“I think this proves one of the oldest economic theories wrong. There is such a thing as free lunch,” Kenneth Adam, CFO, said. “I just had one.”
The meeting with a local tax consultant was arranged by Mr. Adam’s PA.
“I did nothing but eat: my PA fixed it all, I didn’t buy anything, and I was totally texting with my buddies all through the lunch, like I always do. I’ll even bill somebody for my time,” he said.
“Frankly, when my business school professor said there was no such thing as free lunch, I believed him. This is mind-boggling.”
