After losing 109,000 subscribers overall and 683,000 postpaid customers in the forth quarter, Sprint will again begin layoffs and store closures.
Roughly 4,000 employees (6.7% of their workforce) are expected to be laid off and 125 retail stores (8% of their stores) will be closed.
Unlike a lot of layoffs, people at the top aren’t safe this [...]
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Not EVERYONE is hating on Windows Vista…at least not from within Microsoft itself.
Jeff Jones, Microsoft Director and self-proclaimed “Security Guy” has published report about security vulnerabilities for Vista compared to several other modern operating systems and Vista comes out on top, beating Windows XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X 10.4.
Check [...]
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According to a new rumor at TreoCentral, Palm will be closing down all of their retail stores except for those in airports by the end of this month.
The bigger surprise to me is that they hadn’t been closed already. I don’t go to the local mall very often, but when I do and I pass [...]
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More camera news from Canon with new PowerShot introductions.
The PowerShot A590 IS ($180) features include:
8 megapixel sensor
DIGIC III image processor
4x zoom
Image stabilization
Facial recognition
Motion detection
High ISO
2.5-inch LCD
Auto red-eye correction
Optional optical converter lenses
The PowerShot A580 ($150) features include:
8 megapixel sensor
DIGIC III image processor
4x zoom
Facial recognition
Motion detection
High ISO
2.5-inch LCD
Auto red-eye correction
The PowerShot A470 ($130) features include:
7.1 megapixel sensor
DIGIC [...]
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In addition to the Canon Rebel XSi 450D that was announced today, Canon has also introduced an improved SD1000 point-and-shoot camera.
The new camera, called the SD1100 IS, features:
8 megapixel sensor
Image stabilization
DIGIC III image processor
2.5-inch LCD
The SD1100 IS will be available in new, fashionable colors: Bohemian Brown, Pink Melody, Rhythm and Blue, Golden Tone, and plain, [...]
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A week ahead of PMA, Canon has unveiled their replacement to last years Rebel XTi–the new Canon Rebel XSi 450D.
The specs are:
12.2 megapixel APS-C CMOS (1.6x focal conversion)
3-inch live view LCD (up from the XTi’s non-live-view 2.5-inch)
Larger viewfinder than XTi
DIGIC III image processor
9-point AF, 3.5fps shot rate (up to 53 images in JPEG, 6 in [...]
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Apple has been riding high for a while now and days ago reported their best quarter ever.
But…things haven’t always been so positive for the boys and girls in Cupertino.
Wired has put together a story about some of Apple’s most notorious flops. Here, for your enjoyment, are these flops combined with a little extra research from [...]
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