Sweet Shopping Dubai Delights

Dubai - More than Eye Candy

Satisfy your sweet tooth when you take a trip to the United Arab Emeirates.

As more travellers European holidaymakers find cheap flights to Dubai they return with tales of a city built to impress.

Dubai has a reputation of excess beyond belief so it is unsurprising that it now boasts a monster sweet shop

Those with a sweet tooth can't miss a visit to the world's biggest sweet shop, Candylicious, which is one of the latest shops to open at Dubai Mall. Positioned right in front of the mall's aquarium, it's hard to resist the vibrant rows upon rows of sweets and chocolate. Whatever sugary treat you're craving, you should find it in the aisles of this 10,000 square foot shop.

http://www.candyliciousshop.com/

Mobile Broadband | Pay as You Go

Mobile Broadband | Pay as You Go

Arguments about available mobile broadband bandwidth have little relevance to residential and commercial fixed broadband. In these applications, the number of providers is limited and they are attempting to use price discrimination to capture a greater portion of available profits from the content providers. Network neutrality isn't an issue solely for mobile services.

All the carries and ISPs have to do is charge for download instead of straight bandwidth. That's it, problem solved. No government involvement, no new regulations, and "neutral".

Broadband Swindle?

What's that? The carriers would rather be allowed to throttle specific services in the background so I don't know I'm not getting the bandwidth I paid for?

I am one of the people who thinks that they should just allow me to do what ever I want with the service that I purchase (assuming it is legal). I wouldn't mind usage-based pricing - pay as you go mobile broadband for example.

Usage-based pricing = the end of spam mail! Yay!

Not yay. Spam originates overseas and if they don't have to pay per megabyte, they'll still send it. Usage-based pricing = more money spent on spam.

File Share Abusers Cut Off?

Why not limit access to the part of the internet that they abused? A first step would be blocking ports used by the file sharing programs and limiting their daily/weekly/monthly download and upload volume at the ISP. If they continue to find ways to abuse the system, then limit them at the ISP level to a few thousand approved web sites and download of email.

Charity Shops - Charity Gifts and Christmas Cards

One of my obsessions is the objectionable way that some charity shops are run.

There's something very fishy in the charity shop model. Indeed, it is even the case that a charity shop is only required ot hand over 15% of its turnover to charity. Hence the vast proliferation of charity shops on the high street.

Charity Gifts

Where are the profits going? 'Area managers', company cars, huge middle-management wages, re-shop fittings and the like - charity gifts - for those in most need?

In the past week charity shops UK has had a refit. Every three years, as routine, wether it's needed or not, which has necessitated every single one of them being closed for a week..

Our local Charity Shop was beatifully laid out and excellently run. Its refit has left it exactly the same as before except for a new laminate floor.

Charity Christmas Cards

I am deeply suspicious of charity shops. And such as the Christmas charity cards, who only return 5p in the pound to the charities. Talk about a scam! What a fabulous marketing idea - 'we're a charity supporting mental health, or the homeless, or people in Africa or whatever' - which brings people eager to help flooding into the shops. And yet they give a tiny proportion of the income from charity Christmas cards to the charity in question.

Are charity shops just big business with a fabulous business model: free stock, great image, perfect marketing angle - and unfettered capitalism behind the scenes?