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Samsung S4: good phone but complex to use

Phil Baker

The new Samsung Galaxy S4 is this year’s replacement for the company's hugely popular Galaxy S III, introduced a year ago. The S III has been a huge success because it took the lead in bringing Google’s Android OS to a phone with a beautiful large display in a thin, lightweight package. If there was one criticism about the S III, it was the cheap feeling of its plastic enclosure. It’s the tradeoff Samsung makes for cost and thin shape.

May 20, 2013

Don’t let preconceptions decide school funding

Thomas D. Elias

When it comes to setting education funding policies for California, preconceived notions have long held at least as much sway as actual reality.

May 20, 2013

A historic mystery with a happy ending

Lori Ann Stevens

Imagine being tasked with demolishing and reconstructing a 14-story historic building in downtown San Diego in one year without any access to the building before construction.

May 17, 2013

Ma, they’re sending me to ‘Nam

Stan Sewitch

One of the treasures of aging is recognizing frequent paradox and irony. Paradoxes provide a visceral education in the limits of our perception of truth. Makes us humble and therefore open to learning. Ironies teach us that no one deserves anything. Expectations are routinely thwarted in creative and often humorous ways.

May 17, 2013

Cubic stays on independent course

John Patrick Ford

Back in 1959, the electronic and aerospace industry in San Diego was dominated by giant General Dynamics. That year a small “black box” manufacturer took the leap to go public.

May 16, 2013

A small business: for love and money

Daniel Coffey

This is a shout-out for some of my favorite small businesses and their owners, people who give a good name to enterprise and care about their customers. These are businesses where you know the owner on sight and every customer counts.

May 16, 2013

Deploy social media for daily business outreach

Jeffrey Gitomer

What do you do every day to build attraction and brand?

May 15, 2013

A brief history of slimy Dem snoops

Michelle Malkin

It's always the "low-level" peon's fault, isn't it? When Democrats get caught red-handed abusing government powers and bullying their political enemies small and large, nobody at the top knows nuttin'. The buck stops ... in the janitor’s closet or something.

May 15, 2013

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