THE FUTURE ALREADY GOT HERE
Posted on August 29th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
BUYING GLASSES ONLINE, AN EYE-OPENING EXPERIENCE
Posted on August 22nd, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
Joy just ordered her first pair of glasses online. She couldn’t resist after reading “Seven Reasons to Order Glasses Online,” an article we found — where else? — online. We’re not going to go into all the reasons, but here are the ones that impressed us. Number one is price. Number two is free return. The third is parking. These also turn out to be the reasons for almost any online purchase. It is no secret and no longer a surprise that buying online is the winner in the retail Olympics. Amazon.com is the leader but not the only name in online shopping. Its sales are increasing 20 percent a year, while traditional large retailers’ sales have been moribund for […]
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COUNTING THE WAZE
Posted on August 15th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
CHAT WITH A WORLD WAR I SOLDIER
Posted on August 8th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
LOSING SKYPE
Posted on August 1st, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
Our 96-year-old friend Ida uses the free Skype service to have video-chats with her friends in Australia. One day, her account was wiped out. Could this happen to you? (Think of that question as having been asked in scary monster movie title type.) You might think this had something to do with her age, and she must have hit the wrong button or spilled something on the keyboard. But no, we found dozens of similar complaints on the web. One guy wrote: “Where has my account gone? I do business all over Europe and today you just trashed my account with the credit I had as well? You idiots. If somebody within Microsoft made the decision to do this – […]
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