Ryan's wife is currently traveling alone with their 3-month-old son on the way to an unexpected funeral near Salt Lake, Utah. Despite the fact that she paid for the rental up front as part of an Orbitz package, the local Hertz jerks are refusing to give her the car unless she goes to an ATM and brin...

Open the big book of celebrity endorsement scandals, it's time to make another entry. Swimming star Michael Phelps was just having a bit of fun last November while visiting his girlfriend at the University of South Carolina when, along with all the shots and beer he consumed at a house party that we...

We had been traveling all day. We get into Ft. Lauderdale at 10pm where you have to take a shuttle bus to a “Rental Car Pavillion”. Once there, all of the other counters are empty and of course there’s a big line at Hertz. Mostly because there is ONE PERSON WORKING THERE and NONE O...

Filed under: General Electric (GE), Pfizer (PFE), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Western Union (WU), Recession Yesterday, several of America's largest and most well-know companies cut people at an alarming rate. The liquidation of Circuit City could put a total of 30,000 employees onto the street. Pfizer...

Some friends and I were recently discussing rental car strategies, one of them was planning a vacation to Hawaii, when the subject of debit cards came up. None of us had ever rented a car with a debit card before (we did begin our personal finance development in the era of free and cheap credit afte...

Filed under: Marketing and advertising A couple of weeks ago, Carol Vinzant noted that Hertz (NYSE: HTZ) had stopped its practice of gouging customers for gas fill-ups. Rather than charge exorbitant prices for gas, the renter instead chose the market rate, merely tacking on a $7 surcharge for the co...

In 1960, an advertising agency chairman named Rosser Reeves was known as the high priest of hard sell. He wrote a very popular book titled "Reality in Advertising." His book was translated into twenty-eight languages and was widely used as a college textbook. In many ways it was the beginning of mod...

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A team of Stanford researchers, led by scientist Abbas El Gamal and including researchers Keith Fife and Phillip Wong, are developing a new semiconductor camera sensor with thousands of individual lens elements which can be mass-produced cheaply, and will create sophisticated three-dimensional digit...