Sprint Nextel Announces Actions to Reduce Labor Costs by about $1.2 Billion
Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) today announced that the company will take actions in the first quarter of 2009 to reduce internal and external labor costs by approximately $1.2 billion on an annualized...
RIM CEO: Buggy smartphone software is the “new reality”
While our experience says otherwise, we really hope that the practice of launching buggy smartphones hasn't been institutionalized. The Wall Street Journal just published a report about the “bumpy la...
Music pirates will not be disconnected from the internet
Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout the law by illegally sharing music and video files, The Times has learnt. — Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary...
Nintendo brain-trainer ‘no better than pencil and paper’
A 10p pencil is just as good as a £100 Nintendo at stimulating the memory, according to a study that dismisses the DS Lite's claims to boost the brain. — The survey of ten-year-old children found no...
Windows kicks Linux to the curb
Gosh, that didn't take long! — Last July Linux had a huge opportunity to beat Windows in the red-hot netbook market (see Linux for housewives. XP for geeks. ). But faster than I'd expected Microso...
Mobile VoIP Startups Looking Beyond Cheap Calls
What do mig33, iSkoot and Truphone have in common? They are all startups that have raised gobs of money from venture capitalists. They all offer mobile VoIP clients. And now, all three are looking ...
Long Tail Not Dead Yet: eMusic Says It's Alive And Well
There have been a series of criticisms to Chris Anderson's concept of “The Long Tail” lately. While most don't hold up under scrutiny, a few have made some good points that don't actually go against ...
Multiple Windows 7 versions coming? Say it ain't so!
These pictures supposedly come from a new build of the Windows 7 beta, 7025. It goes without saying that while we knew this was a possibility, we've been seriously wishing against it. We hope these ...
why open video?
[ Note: Mike Shaver gives the short version of this post. I have done a great job of burying the lead here. There's a post from the Wikimedia Foundation on the topic and a post in the Mozilla Blog a...
Four Things You Need To Know About Knol
Recently Google mentioned that 100,000 different articles have been posted to Google Knol. I've been meaning to talk about Google Knol for a while, because there's a few things you need to know. It ...
Can Microsoft Blame Netbooks?
Over the last two days, a couple people have told me that Microsoft largely blames year-over-year Client revenue division declines on netbooks, which most analysts refer to as mini-notebooks. Yes, ne...