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Miserable Monday with 40,000 Layoffs

More Microsoft IE stories. Please stop! IBM guy finally gets into Apple. IPhone patent looks as if it will impinge on Palm Pre. New Zealander get MP3 player with military screts. 2TB Green HD from WDC. USA may require to make cell phones click loud when taking pictures. Chip market to fall 28-percent. EU warns […]


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Miserable Monday with 40,000 Layoffs

Layoffs at Sprint and Philips. IE being finalized. Win7 stops downloading on Feb. 10. Blackberry glitches. Photoshop CS4 pirated version has virus. Femtocell changing the way we use phones. iLIFE 09 ships tomorrow. I have no idea what iLIFE actually is and do not want to know. Twitter valued at $250 million. For what? Zune […]


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Microsoft Fires 5000

Microsoft kills 5000 down, profits fall too. Google revenues up while profits slip. Apple made money from overseas. Sony warning of a full year loss — $3 billion. Quad core price war breaks out. Now is the time to get a computer! Seagate finally gets the drives fixed. MSFT sends out a bad patch. Texas […]


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Conficker Worm in 6-Percent of All Computers

Jan. 21 marked by no news. Everyone is on pins-and-needles over upcoming earnings reports. Intel may take a loss for the first time in 22 years. Conficker in 6-percent of all computers says Panda. Seagate hard disk fix doesn’t work right. AMD dropping prices again. Linden buying virtual retailers. HP CEO makes 42.5 million. Google […]


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IBM Sez: Strong 2009

Payment processor Heartland may have lost 100,000,000 credit card numbers to hackers. Intel’s new chips. Steve Jobs needs to disclose health info to SEC. Comcast being probed for phone practices. Android point man quits. Belkin faking reviews. IBM sees strong 2009. Where are the MSFT job cuts? Seagate has maybe 30-percent of drives failing. The Conficker […]