URI Partners with Zip Car for Campus Transportation

(9/30/2014) Do you sometimes just need a vehicle for a short period and does not want to rent a car for whole day? For business owners, sometimes they need cars to pick up clients for a short period, traditional rental car is expensive and difficult. Zip car is an alternative.

Now the University of Rhode Island partners with ZipCar to offer car sharing to students and faculty. In that page, there is information telling students and faculty how to utilize Zipcar to solve their transportation around several campuses.

Data Breaches in the US

(9/29/2014) Here is a list of data breaches in recent years.

Company -- Time of news -- Impact -- Type of data breaches
Post Office (USPS) -- November 2014 -- 500K employees and some customers-- Employees email, SSN, telephone #'s
CurrentC (MCX) -- October 2014 -- Unknown -- emails hacked
Dairy Queen -- August to October 2014 -- 395 stores -- consumer credit cards
Home Depot -- September 2014 -- 56 millions -- consumer credit cards,
Target -- December 2013 -- 40 millions -- consumer credit cards,
TJ Max -- March 2007 -- 46 millions  -- Consumer credit cards (unsecured network)
Heartland Payment Systems -- January 2009 -- 100 millions cards & 650 financial companies -- Credit card data
Sony -- May 2011 -- More than 100 millions -- User personal data

US DOT on flight delay and in-flight phone call

(9/29/2014) On cntraveler.com, there is a report about the most recent DOT's perspective about flight delay, in-flight phone call and airline mergers.

Here is a page summarizing the passenger's Air Travel right. While FAA is standing up to protect passenger's right due to past serious delays. Airlines cancel flights when the delay may be caused by weather or other uncontrollable factor in order to avoid huge penalty (examples of American Airlines). In the last two years, there are way more flights canceled than before, which causes more travelers missed their flights, canceled their business trips and vacations, and found it more difficult to reach their destinations.

Frontier Pilot Orders Pizza for Passengers Stuck on Plane

(9/29/2014) When you are stuck in the airplane due to air control or whatever reason, you are hungry and thirsty. Imagine warmhearted pilots brings you some nice pizza? This is what happened to 160 Frontier Airlines passengers.

Nobody Loves Waiting, but Dancing? Maybe

(9/22/2014) Not many people will say they love waiting. But we wait all the time in the modern society. Here is an interesting design for people waiting for red light.

31 Wonderful Innovations That Can Change Our Lives

(9/20/2014) They might be crazy, but some are very useful.

I would love this one.

(11/10/2014) Is curry crust pizza great innovation of Pizza Hut? Well, it depends on how many new customer orders will choose curry crust pizza. My comments: if this new product just replace Pizza Hut's old order, or it significantly increase the preparation time, then it will turn out to be a failed "new product innovation."

iPhone 6 Exrpress

(9/16/2014) It's a chartered express cargo plane (Boeing 747) for iPhone 6. "God bless it," I hear 195000 iPhone 6 new users pray.

"Believe me, this is not the only airplane hauling them apples," he added. "I'm guessing about 20 - 30 heavy's a day coming out of China with just iphones for this launch."

A heavy, he added, is a "BIG airplane."