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Why it’s hard for Toyota to figure out what’s wrong (WP-BLOOMBERG) By Frank Ahrens I won’t lie to you: I was not a good engineering student. That’s one of the reasons I went into journalism. But I did manage to acquire a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering, and the recent Toyota hearings on Capitol Hill brought back a lot of memories. Specifically, memories about how engineers figure out why mechanical things fail. It was made painfully clear at the hearings that a number of lawmakers do not understand the process. An exchange between Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Toyota president Akio Toyoda illustrated the problem. Toyoda said that when his company gets a complaint about a mechanical problem, engineers try to duplicate the problem in their labs as a way of trying to find out what went wrong. Norton said: “Your answer — we’ll wait to see if this is duplicated — is very troublesome.” Norton asked Toyoda why his company waited until a problem happens again to try to diagnose it, which is exactly what he was not saying.<... |
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GPS capability gives Foursquare an edge (WP-BLOOMBERG) By Rob Pegoraro So this guy walks into a cafe. He looks around, recognises the staff behind the counter — and whips out a cellphone, launches an app and taps a button labelled “Check-in here.” Then he gets a coffee. That is a routine occurrence for people using — make that, playing — a social-networking service called Foursquare. This free service (foursquare.com) turns going out into a collaborative sport: People use its mobile software to check in to restaurants, shops and other venues, to share tips about those places and to see whether other friends on Foursquare are nearby. For their trouble, they get virtu... |
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Samsung to unveil broadband HDTVs with embedded Skype capability (THE Peninsula) Doha: Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd and Skype recently announced that the new Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 series models of 2010 high-definition televisions will feature embedded Skype software allowing Skype users to make video and voice calls through the TVs. Samsu... |
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Top 10 famous movie hotels (REUTERS) Travel firm TripAdvisor (www.tripadvisor.com) has come up with a list of the top 10 famous movie hotels, according to its editors. “While many travellers enjoy in-room movies as part of a relaxing hotel stay, these star-studded properties offer guests an actual connection with some classic movie scenes and famous characters,” Christine Peterson, chief marketing officer for TripAdvisor, said in a statement. 1. The Fairmont San Francisco, San Francisco, California This grand hotel, set atop the steep incline of Nob Hill, has reached equally great heights on... |
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Visiting your college kid in HK (WP-BLOOMBERG) By Jacqueline L Salmon A few details to remember when you visit your child abroad: You’ll eat a lot. You’ll shop a lot (after all, Mom or Dad is paying). Your attempts to snap family photos will be treated warily. And taxis? Forget about them. At least, that’s what I learned when I recently visited my daughter in Hong Kong, where, as a junior at Syracuse University, she was taking a semester abroad to experience life as it’s lived halfway around the world. My mother and I arrived in November with a duffel bag full of warm clothes for Sarah’s upcoming mountain-climbing trip to Malaysia and boxes of her favorite granola bars. And for five days, she acted as our tour guide in one of the world’s most crowded cities. Having your child be your guide is an odd mixture of going native and going tourist class. Sort of like Lonely Planet meets Fodor’s. You do what your child wants to do. Your desires are treated with detached amusement and, more ofte... |
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In Roanoke, the jewel on the hill (WP-Bloomberg) By Nancy Trejos “The Grand Old Lady,” as the Hotel Roanoke is known, has been around for as long as Roanoke has been called Roanoke, which is to say, for nearly 130 years. (The former railroad town in southwest Virginia was originally called Big Lick. How fortunate for the hotel that someone decided on a name change.) Perched on a hill overlooking the city, the Tudor-style building towers over everything around... |
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Weight Watchers gives backing to McDonald’s in meal deal (The Times) by Sophie Tedmanson and Helen Nugent In one of the least likely corporate endorsements of all time, the slimmers’ group Weight Watchers has given its backing to McDonald’s in a meal deal that has provoked outrage among anti-obesity campaigners. The restaurant group, the subject of Spurlock’s 2004 film Super Size Me, highlighting the damage a McDonald’s-only diet wrought on his body, said its arrangement with Weight Watchers invo... |
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Meals rise above frozen fields in Tarrytown (WP-Bloomberg) By Joe Yonan Making the much-awaited travel to a temple of the farm-to-table movement in January might seem foolhardy, especially when the place is in New York state, not Napa Valley. The air is frigid, the ground frozen, and any exposed crops have withered on the vine. What would we eat? Duo of Potato and Flight of Cabbage? I knew that wouldn’t be the case at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, which chef Dan Barber and family opened in 2004 as a way to show diners how their food is raised. Barber, who also operates Blue Hill in Greenwich Village, has deep roots in Northeast farming: Blue Hill Farm in Great Barrington, Mass, has been in his family for three generations. His restaurants were inspired by the farm, not the other way around, so if anyone could prove that the line from field to fork could be direct — even in the dead of winte... |
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Veterans battle Hurt Locker’s portrayal (WP-Bloomberg) By Christian Davenport Time magazine called “The Hurt Locker” “a near-perfect war film,” but Ryan Gallucci, an Iraq war veteran, had to turn the movie off three times, he says, “or else I would have thrown my remote through the television.” Critics adore the film and it has been nominated for nine Oscars — a feat matched only by “Avatar,” the top-grossing movie of all time — but Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, says that’s “nine more Oscar nominations than it deserves. I don’t know why critics love this silly, inaccurate film so much,” he wrote on his Facebook page. Many in the military say “Hurt Locker” is plagued by unforgivable inaccuracies that make the most critically acclaimed Iraq war film to date more a Hollywood fantasy than the searingly realistic rendition that civilians take it for. To which you might say: It’s just a movie and an action flick at that. It’s Tinseltown fiction... |
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Feeling job pressure, women in South Korea put off marriages (WP-Bloomberg) By Blaine Harden In a full-page newspaper advertisement headlined “I Am a Bad Woman,” Hwang Myoung-eun explained the trauma of being a working mom in South Korea. “I may be a good employee, but to my family I am a failure,” wrote Hwang, a marketing executive and mother of a 6-year-old son. “In their eyes, I am a bad daughter-in-law, bad wife and bad mother.” The highly unusual ad gave voice to the resentment and repressed anger that are common to working women across South Korea. In a country where people work more and sleep less than anywhere else in the developed world, women are often elbowed away from rewards in their professional... |
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