John R. Brandt's Blog

Google is learning that — gasp! — it's harder to compete when you don't have a monopoly

From The Daily Beast: "The smartphone wars are getting ugly: Google’s Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, wrote a blog post on the company’s official blog ripping into Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle for an 'organized, hostile campaign against Android … waged through bogus patents.'"

Um... Boo hoo?

Slimiest marketing ever

My daughter was in a minor traffic accident, for which she filed the appropriate police report. Three weeks later, a telemarketer representing a local chiropractic clinic rang our house to say: "We're calling about her recent car accident. We just want to see if she's OK."

Yeah, right.

 

L.L. Bean is advertising the "Tote That Takes 500 Pounds..."

...I've carried so much stuff to the beach that it felt like 500 pounds (books, chairs, umbrellas, kids' toys, coolers, kids themselves), but never in a single tote. Does it come with wheels?