Work | Jason E. Shao

Sue Cable TV – It Makes Wife Fat, Kids Lazy

Jan

9

2004

Man says he’s addicted to cable; wants to sue Charter – Cable TV made a West Bend man addicted to TV, caused his wife to be overweight and his kids to be lazy, he says. And he’s threatening to sue the cable company. The real kicker under this story is that the man is suing ...

Video iPods That Work

Jan

8

2004

The Future of Portable Video Players – But Mr. Jobs outlined three reasons he doubted video players would ever approach the success of audio players – not even counting their high price ($700 and up) and the time-consuming difficulty of loading huge video files onto them. It was clear from his answers that Mr. Jobs ...

Nafta and Mobile Factors of Production

Jan

6

2004

NAFTA reality check – However, when Ricardo said that free trade would produce shared gains for all nations, he assumed that the resources used to produce goods — what he called the “factors of production” — would not be easily moved over international borders. Comparative advantage is undermined if the factors of production can relocate ...

Can Apple Grow the Mac?

Jan

5

2004

Expo Speculations [Jan. 05, 2004] – With all the hoopla over ITMS for Windows and the fact that iPods work with non-Mac computers, it’s easy to overlook the fact that Apple’s music strategy is another proprietary platform play. That’s the strategy that gave Microsoft its monopoly and made Apple a niche player in the computer ...

New NJ Drivers Licenses

Jan

2

2004

“(extlink)New N.J. Licenses May Cause Problems”:http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/122903-njdmv.html – Beginning January 8th the state Motor Vehicle Commission will begin on a limited basis issuing new digital drivers licenses– but because they’re so new, they may not be accepted at first. Some commission workers who already have digital licenses found that out the hard way. [ “(extlink)ABC”:http://www.abc.com ] ...