Thinking about making a move to another company? Sure, the economy is in tatters and layoff announcement have become commonplace, but it’s always nice to know whether or not people at other companies are as miserable enjoying their jobs as much as you. Glassdoor,… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
DISH to Pay $5.9M to 46 States; satellite co. dinged with the fee after bad sales practices and numerous consumer complaints. (Consumerist) NBC Universal had a Bummer of a Second Quarter; revenue was down 8 percent, and profit down 41 percent. (MediaMemo) Beam Aboard (in an… Read More »
I’ve had my eye on CinemaView monitors since they were announced, but was a little put off recently by the lack of any forthcoming news. Now, Collins America, the makers of the upcoming CinemaView Mini DisplayPort compatible monitors that you can actually… Read More »
MoTR 178 is 35:20 minutes long and is a 32.4 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: Hello World! Palm releases the Mojo SDK. How big a… Read More »
Email is a great tool for office communication, but is it really the best way to keep track of discussions? There are other choices, like communicating via IM or using wikis. Yet another option is ShareFlow, a new app from Zenbe, the people behind… Read More »
Confessions of an unbranded professional (WebWorkerDaily) Mozy vs. Carbonite: Mac backup smackdown (TheAppleBlog) Windows 7′s impact, and Microsoft’s more open development (OStatic) Smartphones: the ultimate model for greener cars? (Earth2Tech) Google: YouTube will soon be “very profitable” (NewTeeVee) Dear Verizon: Please stop disabling GPS in… Read More »
In some industries, bankruptcies, shutdowns and pullouts have become so commonplace that we’ve had to start deathwatch lists just to keep track (see: coal, ethanol). Not so in the electric scooter sector, which has only begun to rev up at the starting line. But this… Read More »
Nokia, the corporate parent of Symbian, has sold its Symbian Professional Services business to consulting giant Accenture, the company said today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but I imagine its value was trivial, given that Symbian is desperately trying to make itself… Read More »
Using USB sticks with flash memory has become second nature to many mobile PC users. They are a convenient way to carry a lot of files and use them with multiple devices. The folks at Elan have produced an innovative gizmo that lets you use a… Read More »
When Wal-Mart tells its more than 100,000 suppliers something, they listen. This week the world’s largest retailer said that it will create green labels and a green index to rate the environmental impact of all the products that land on its shelves. For suppliers that… Read More »
Multiplatform video company Current Media said today that Mark Rosenthal, the former president and COO of MTV Networks and CEO of Interpublic Media, will replace co-founder Joel Hyatt as CEO. Rosenthal had been a Current board member since the inception of the company. Hyatt will now… Read More »
Verizon’s not merely bowing to federal pressure, it’s using the concessions it is making towards handsets as way to weaken AT&T’s grip on the iPhone. With its willingness to make all of its phones available, (albeit to the nation’s smallest carriers) it’s breaking ranks with AT&T,… Read More »
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