Meanwhile, the Idaho Statesman is reporting that Micron is asking employees to take up to 12 days of time off in December and January as a cost-cutting measure to help the company. A spokesman for the company was not immediately available for comment.
In HP’s case, the company is ordering employees to take an [...]
CNET News reported earlier this month that Andy Schuon, a longtime music industry executive, was a candidate. Last week, TechCrunch wrote that Owen Van Natta, Facebook’s former chief revenue officer, was in the running. On Saturday, The Los Angeles Times reported the field has been whittled down to the two of them.
“What MySpace Music [...]
I speak of course of the removal of a very necessary feature called the cloud view. This would take the list of stories from just 15 a page to hundreds of headlines in a huge swarm. Better yet, those stories would be sorted in chunks (by the hour), and were set up to let you [...]
Verizon Wireless paid nearly $10 billion for licenses in the C block, which are subject to a special FCC rule that requires the winner to allow any device to connect to a network using this spectrum. Verizon will use the spectrum to deploy a 4G network using long-term evolution (LTE) technology. The company expects to [...]
Google has begun showing details about how it customizes search results for location and search history.
• Location, as judged by an approximate real-world city based on a user’s Internet Protocol address or by address information stored in a user’s Google account.
• Search history. For users who have Web History enabled (users must explicitly enable it), Google also [...]
Oracle reported improved quarterly earnings Thursday, in part fueled by sales of its Fusion middleware.
Oracle posted net income of nearly $1.1 billion, or 21 cents a share, for the period ending August 31, up 28 percent from the same period a year ago. Excluding charges, Oracle posted earnings of 29 cents a share, beating [...]
Facebook amasses billions of photos, friend connections, and status updates and stores them up in “the cloud,” and Dell is working on being one of the main providers of the infrastructure–servers–that makes the cloud possible.
Two of the biggest names in tech are teaming up on a cloud computing project that they plan to announce at [...]
According to the reports, Live Search Cash Back, is based on Microsoft’s acquisition last year of Jellyfish, which has been piloting such a program, the reports said. Jellyfish said on its Web site Tuesday night that it was “currently offline to perform necessary service upgrades and enhancements.”
It’s worth noting the fact that to get cash [...]
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Having a hard time explaining Google’s Chrome browser to your tech-backward friends or family members? Play them this 12-minute Real Deal podcast, in which I cover just the highlights of Chrome, a few of its downsides, and why Chrome matters even if you don’t use it. Listen [...]
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