Howard Greenstein's Website

The website of Howard Greenstein of the Harbrooke Group

Dell Store to open down the street

It seems Dell has been watching the Apple Stores, and is opening its own retail outlets, both in Texas, and in Nyack at my local Palisades Mall. Palisades is supposedly the 2nd largest


We the people (are being watched…)

My old friend Mitch alerts me to another potential privacy problem. Of course, he could have called, but it might have been tapped… Surveillance society: Growing daily? by ZDNet‘s Mitch Ratcliffe — A bill


Good Customer Service…ongoing

I’ve had accounts with Fidelity for years. I had one set of stocks at SSB (no link) that I wanted to transfer out to save on fees charged. Well, the fine Citi/SSB folks charged me


Evolution of Economics

Verna Alle Economic Theory free-fall – there are no good models of the knowledge economy. All our ideas are based on product and commodity If we create new ideas and share, all people come away


Meshforum – David Levinson

Transportation networks – networks (like railroads) can’t easily be reconfigured  – you can’t turn a rail station to an airport. We have fast, empty trains – we don’t think about empty trains when no one