Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Homes on company’s old site have Esprit decor
- Taylor Moving of Boulder:
- FAQ: Reprieve or RIP for Windows XP?
- Mayor accused of overseeing US drug trafficking network

Homes on company’s old site have Esprit decor
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 4, 2008
The spirit of Esprit, the storied San Francisco clothing company that was all the rage for teenage girls in the late ’80s, is alive in the form of a 142-unit condominium complex under construction in its old headquarters. Homes on Esprit Park, in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood, retain some of the original features of the offices for the company founded by entrepreneurs Susie Tompkins Buell and her former husband, Doug Tompkins. , which the couple founded in the late 1960s after selling clothes from the back of their station wagon, severed its ties with San Francisco when it sold its U…
It’s got a lot of character and style. Twomey, who has a three-bedroom condo listed for sale on nearby Potrero Hill, said there isn’t much inventory in the area and that the homes hitting the market are selling. “They’re not moving fast, but they’re moving,” he said. About 21 units at Homes on Esprit Park are now in contract and another half-dozen have been reserved, said Rob Levy, development sales manager with of McGuire Real Estate. Levy said he’s pleased with the pace but added he expects sales to be slower than originally projected because the market is so soft. 3 million for the largest space, a 2,800-square-foot three-bedroom that currently houses the sales office.

Taylor Moving of Boulder:
Broomfield Enterprise – Broomfield Enterprise (subscription) – Apr 4, 2008
He engaged Taylor in early March to move the museum’s only piano, a Laffargue player piano, built in New York in 1921 and sold that year at a Denver music store to a Boulder County family – whose descendants just donated it to the museum. “It has always been in the family, and they kept it in good shape, but they didn’t have room for it anymore,” Lindskow says. Taylor moved the historic piece from the family’s home to museum storage, a distance of eight or nine miles. “We’ve used Taylor before,” Lundskow says. “We like to use a local company. And all the movers themselves and the owners take a personal interest in the objects,” he says. The museum has called on Taylor Moving before to transport items too large and heavy for its staff to manage…
The company transports as many as 1,200 households and businesses each year. It specializes in moves within Boulder County, but regularly transports people all over Colorado and occasionally outside the state. Leah Taylor says, “A lot of local moving companies have been affected by the economy, going out of business or being bought up by national chains. We’ve managed to stay busy and in business and were even voted Best Mover in Boulder by Camera readers in 2006 and 2007. We are not nationally funded, so we depend on happy customers for continued business. ”Because the family is very hands-on, you almost always reach a Taylor when you call the office, and always meet one of them on your in-home estimate. They have a lot of repeat customers and referrals because customers know the owners will always be involved in the process and the movers are always first-rate.

FAQ: Reprieve or RIP for Windows XP?
InfoWorld – Apr 4, 2008
Microsoft pushed back the cut-off dates last September, when it postponed the then-looming demise of XP by five months. Will other computer makers jump into the ULCPC market Microsoft certainly thinks so. To guide hardware OEMs in designing XP-capable ULCPCs, Microsoft yesterday issued a detailed set of guidelines (download PDF) for laptops that rely on flash-based storage instead of traditional hard drives. But in general, the guidelines spell out notebook PCs that pack 2GB to 8GB of flash storage and sport a minimum of 256MB of system memory and a processor running at 500MHz or faster. Only hardware that meets Microsoft’s still-cloudy ULCPC definition will be allowed to ship with XP Home after January 2009…
Desktops need not apply, in other words. Is Microsoft extending its technical support for XP to account for these ULCPCs? Nope. The company said previously that it will shift Windows XP from what it calls “mainstream” support to its “extended” support stage next April, and that isn’t changing. When a Microsoft product leaves mainstream support behind, the company ditches all of its free support except online self-help and issues free fixes only for security vulnerabilities. But Microsoft doesn’t directly support Windows when the operating system is preinstalled on a new machine — it’s the hardware vendor’s responsibility to take Windows support calls. So yesterday’s announcement really doesn’t matter, support-wise. Even though, say, Asustek may install Windows XP Home on ULCPCs after the operating system falls into extended support limbo, it’s never-no-mind for Microsoft as well as customers.

Mayor accused of overseeing US drug trafficking network
Dallas Morning News – Apr 4, 2008
Gil arranged for the transportation of 11 kilograms of cocaine – worth about $500,000, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration – to New York in November 2007, the same month he was elected mayor of Izúcar de Matamoros in the Mexican state of Puebla. The city is southeast of Mexico City. The DEA believes Mr. Gil used his national moving company to ship the cocaine inside tractor-trailers. In March 2004, the DEA seized one such truck, marked with the name Gil Moving and Storage, carrying about 150 kilograms of cocaine. Gil’s brother, Eduardo Gil, was driving…
The DEA believes Mr. Gil used his national moving company to ship the cocaine inside tractor-trailers. In March 2004, the DEA seized one such truck, marked with the name Gil Moving and Storage, carrying about 150 kilograms of cocaine. Gil’s brother, Eduardo Gil, was driving. Gil was arrested March 23 at the Long Beach Airport in California and transferred to New York on Tuesday.