Universal Broadband “While the US talks, other countries are acting. Both Finland and Spain have now decided to add ‘broadband’ to their universal [telephone] service requirements.
"By 2011, any Finn or Spaniard, no matter where they live, should be able to get a reliable 1Mbps connection at a reasonable price,” ars technical.com reports.
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It’s news to me: Who to trust? “For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them,” Rasmussen reported today, 10-24-09.
The polling organization asked this question: “I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue.” Responses were:
Healthcare
...D-40%; R-46%
Education
...D-38%; R-43%
Social Security
...D-37%; R-45%
Taxes
...D-35%; R-50%
Economy
...D-35%; R-49%
Abortion
...D-35%; R-47%
Immigration
...D-33%; R-40%
National Security
...D-31%; R-54%
Iraq
...D-31%; R-50%
Government Ethics
...D-29%; R-33%
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Boston Hyatt Regency; Photo by RM Miles
The Hyatt debacle in Boston seems to have largely passed. Now it is time for the corporation, potential investors, and communications experts to determine whether any real brand damage resulted or the labor-management melee just created bruised management egos. (This is not to imply that real damage, emotional [...]
Hyatt’s Boston-area firing of nearly a hundred housekeeping employees has demonstrated how a management decision, perhaps thought to be a merely local action, can reverberate around the world and threaten the foundations of an otherwise respected brand.
The Boston Globe broke the story in its September 17 edition and the very next day, at 6:24 pm [...]
It is such an obvious statement — employees are critical stakeholders — that to say it seems foolish and sophomoric. But it is a critical fact that needs to be repeated because Boston executives at three Hyatt Hotels seem to have missed that lesson in their corporate management class.
Here’s how this blunder came about at [...]
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