Update 3:50 p.m.: Microsoft confirmed that the Puget Sound area cuts on Thursday accounted for 872 of the 1,400 jobs that were cut.
The software maker indicated it is not cutting any specific products, though it is re-evaluating its priorities in some areas. It is still hiring in some businesses, such as search, CEO Steve Ballmer [...]
“Mobile devices are expected to continue to become more powerful and communicate at higher speeds, eventually giving people the power and functionality of a full desktop,” the National Institute of Standards and Technology says in its draft of Guidelines on Cell Phone and PDA Security. “Besides increasing productivity, such improvements are rapidly turning cell phones [...]
“We know we have some challenges with the brand and perception,” Burk said. “Simple awareness is still a challenge for us.”
The latest project doesn’t just require one to use Microsoft’s search engine, however. At least for now, it also requires Microsoft’s browser (Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher) as well as a Windows PC. Microsoft said [...]
KBB's new Web site optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch.
Kelley Blue Book (KBB), the popular Web site that rates and provides information on motor vehicles, launched on Wednesday its new version that’s optimized for
iPhone’s display (both the original and the iPhone 3G). The new site also works with
iPod Touch.
I tried out the site with my [...]
See also: Palringo.
Although all iPhone communication apps remain hobbled until background processing is available, Fring does appear to be the most capable voice and text chat app there is for the device, and it’s well worth installing.
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Fring)
On the iPhone, Fring can read both your IM and Skype buddy lists, as well as the [...]
Flickr's home page now features a 'recent activity' tab that lets people interact more quickly with others on the photo-sharing site.
“This is not about adding new features, it’s about reducing the number of clicks of many of our most important core features,” she said. As long as a user has a fast network, the new [...]
In a world where we expect results on-demand, online video’s slow crawl to maturity has left many frustrated, especially now that both the venture dollars and ad dollars are drying up. There continue to be plenty of dead ends and bad ideas. “We just landed on Plymouth Rock and we’re on the way to L.A.,” [...]
I like the concept, and I like how easy it is for site managers to implement the system: They don’t have to do anything. Plista does the lifting.
I still like the concept here. Plista lets you rate products and content, gives you a lot in return for your rating activity, and it makes [...]
Voice-transcription service Vlingo has launched a really fantastic new iPhone application (download) that lets users talk into their phones to search the Web, dial contacts, and update their status on Twitter and Facebook. Much like Google’s
iPhone app which was released early last month, users are able to do all this without ever having to use [...]
Let’s hope Yahoo has finally learned that the maxim “If you build it, they will come” simply does not apply to a social network.
Even still, they have to differentiate themselves: Bebo, which has been acquired by AOL, touts its library of original video programming. Hi5 recently launched a mobile site that it hopes will make [...]
