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<\/a><\/p>\nThe pretty pictures on their web site are pretty. This is the terminal I saw at Whole Foods last night:<\/p>\n
This should be Verifone’s BIG Opportunity. Their day in the sun!<\/p>\n Then I read their Investor presentation. I can’t understand a single word. See if you can. Click here: IR Presentation September 2014 final 2014-10-16<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Then I look\u00a0 at their financials. They stink big-time. From the Wall Street Journal’s <\/em>site:<\/em><\/p>\n Good news, here are the quarterly numbers. They’re losing less money.<\/p>\n In short, the opportunity is there: EMV and Apple Pay will increase the demand for these type of terminals. But Verifone makes too many things and delivers too many “services.” Maybe one day Verifone will figure its place in the sun. The company needs a Steve Jobs.\u00a0 Kill the bad products. Focus on the ones that make sense.<\/p>\n Back to checking out 99 other companies.<\/p>\n This is hard work.<\/p>\n My favorite traveling monitor: <\/strong>It’s the ASUS MB168B+ 15.6-Inch Screen LED Monitor. It’s wafer thin. Slides easily into a backpack or a roll-on. Lights up into a glorious second monitor to a laptop. With many pixels — 1920 x 1080. The thing is completely powered and driven by one USB cable. No power supply. Nothing extra to carry, except the small cable and it also fits into the flat “pleather” case. Having two monitors when you travel is a huge productivity boost. The monitor is now available, finally. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Useful Stuff:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n + WAZE gets better every day. I’m finding my way around Portland with WAZE. It’s a no-brainer.\u00a0 Best turn-by-turn directions of them all. When you get to your destination, WAZE now offers to remember where you parked your car. For alta kakas like me, that’s huge.<\/p>\n + Susan used her iPhone, the hotel’s WiFi and WhatsApp<\/em><\/strong> to text me from Rabat, Morocco that she had landed safely. A reader suggests we download Viber which lets us text and make free phone calls — so long as both of us have Viber.<\/p>\n + Public WiFi is dangerous, slow and unreliable. I use Personal HotSpot<\/em> on my iPhone. You have to tell your carrier to turn it on.<\/p>\n + If you get a SIM card for your travel phone, please remember to set up voice mail.<\/p>\n \u00a0Everybody and their uncle is targeting mobile users.<\/strong> <\/span>Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Salesforce… except IBM. Who knows why?<\/p>\n Saves him wearing ear buds? Will it fit the bigger iPhone 6, or the iPhone 6 Plus?<\/p>\n Friends visited Australia. <\/strong><\/span>Australians take their humor and their signs seriously:<\/p>\n Favorite Dorothy Parker quote:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIf you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nHarry Newton who’s visiting Portland, Oregon to see granddaughter, Eleanor.<\/p>\n