For the third installment of our “Airline Livery and Airline Branding” investigative series, we look at a few commercial airline brands and liveries in a time warp. For three of the planes on our list today, that time warp goes backwards to decades past; the fourth has warped ahead with modern-generic stylings. Read the rest of this entry »

The Life and Times of Forrester blog has done some digging and come up with the 100 oldest registered domains on the Internet, dating back to March 1985. The list is a good mix of obscure personal sites and forward-thinking corporate giants.

Who are you expecting to be in the Top 10? Microsoft? Maybe Steve Jobs and his early Apple brand? The answers may surprise you. Read the rest of this entry »

In the second installment of our “Airline Livery and Airline Branding” investigative series, we look at some companies that haven’t quite merged the concepts of corporate identities and airline liveries. These liveries are not as atrocious as those featured in Part 1 of our series, but they still have a long way to go. Read the rest of this entry »

After three years of tumultuous consumer relationships and scathing Better Business Bureau reports, Fig (formerly known as LipoDissolve) has shut themselves down.

LipoDissolve was a controversial “fat melting” procedure that promised to remove fat from hard-to-move places like lovehandles and tummies by injecting medication into these areas. From the beginning, the procedure - and the corporation behind it - have been at the center of consumer complaints regarding non-results, allergic reactions, and shoddy business practices (mostly stemming from the inability to take Fig up on their “money back guarantee”).
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With cold weather comes cold season - and the dry, tickly cough that sneaks up on you at the worst times.

It strikes in the most inopportune situations - crowded movie theatres, school exams, bedtime - and often without warning. A niggling, scratchy, tickle in your throat that you just can’t cough away. Throat lozenges help sometimes; coughing rarely does. But you can’t stop it. So what can you do to combat this sickly symptom that is more annoyance than danger?
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