Blog posts from Ed Estlow
Scam: Is That Rolex Genuine or Fake
The second scam we at BeckerTime want to address is that of fake watches. As you probably know, Rolex watches are among the most counterfeited items on Earth. Just walk down any street in a Mexican tourist town and you can step into a shop and buy a fake Rolex. These fakes used to be […]
What A Day With eBay!
We’re pretty excited about what happened last Monday. It was quite a day for us with eBay! Matt Becker, CEO of BeckerTime visits NASDAQ in sunny California to help eBay ring the bell to close out the trading day. You may know, eBay recently spun PayPal off into its own independent company. Yep, PayPal is […]
Leap Second Overtakes Y2K As Worst Internet Menace
Well, it turns out that the leap second implemented Tuesday night caused far more disruption than the mythical Y2K bug did fifteen years ago. That is to say, about 2000 networks around the world were down for a few minutes at midnight UTC. The same thing happened in 2012, with consequences that were a bit […]
All Of A Sudden, A Flood Of Smartwatches
With the official launch of the Apple Watch, it seems like smartwatches are coming out of the woodwork. TAG-Heuer, Frederique-Constant/Alpina, Breitling, a weird one called Hoptroff, and probably a lot of brands whose efforts I haven’t heard about yet, have all gotten on the bandwagon with one sort of connected watch or another. But that’s […]