UPS Pay Penalty for False Delivery Claims With 17 States

(10/21/2015) Have you ever waited for UPS driver at home for delivery, they didn't show up but the online tracking said "they tried to deliver but cannot be done?" I experienced several times of "no show" of UPS's (same as USPS) online shipping. I don't want to blame 'lazy drivers.' But I think UPS's business culture must allow this to happen pretty often. Now they have to pay for their "over promise and under delivery." But $4.2 millions of penalty? That is ridiculously low.

Student Amazon Shipments Clog Dorm Mailroom?

(10/21/2015) It is a small news with a big implication: future generation's shopping habit is changing. Amazon provides free Prime membership to college students and it's working really well. Now the college dorms find it is overwhelmed by students Amazon online shipments (not just from Amazon, of course). It should be a serious warning sign for other brick-and-mortar retail stores. If Walmart, Target and BestBuy don't improve their online shopping environments and experience, they may not be relevant in the future.

Digital Camera x.0?

(10/08/2015) From the time the first digital camera launched in the market place, we know it's going to change the whole game. After that, the quality of digital camera has improved a lot, more pixels, stability and anti-shock, low-light shooting, time-lapse, and 4K video etc. The simple point-and-shoot cameras now are almost encroached by smartphones. The newest Apple iPhone 6s and Google's Nexus 6 both have very powerful digital camera functions. Now many digital camera makers have to move up to SLR (single-lens reflex) camera market for survival.

Will these digital camera makers find a short period of peace in the SLR market? I guess not. Three years ago, there was a light field technology developed by Lytro that allows users to refocus after pictures are taken. However, due to clumsy and awkward design and bad marketing, Lytro didn't have any big impact on the market. Though, Lytro now reposition themselves and launches a new Lytro Illum, which at least looks more like a digital camera. I am not sure if Lytro Illum will make a difference.

Personally, I think this new one may shake the SLR camera market (one day?). A new company called "Light" combines 16 cameras into one device, Light L16. Their technology will allow users shoot really high quality digital photos, and it looks very similar to the point-and-shoot digital camera that was our darling years ago but now sits in our drawer. I think this will be a big deal. One catch: it's not launched yet, a new product will be available in 2016 summer.

 Light L16 videos

Light 16 professional review

Fortune Evaporation May Kill Nicaragua Canal

(10/02/2015) Do you remember that Japanese bought Rockefeller Center in NYC in 1990? Many American thought then Japanese would take over USA then. This is another example of free-fall. The Nicaragua Canal maybe just a mirage reflecting from this Chinese tycoon's dream.