According to The Endicott Alliance and WRAL Tech Wire, IBM has today announced yet another round of layoffs.
Since 2005, IBM has reduced its work force in the United States by nearly 30 percent, according to figures published by IBM through 2009 and estimated since by the Endicott Alliance. Continue reading
Oh good. Google has decided that the world is ready for digital glasses. That’s right. It’s just about time that we all had facts and data broadcast mere inches away from our eyeballs. This won’t be infuriating in the least. Not one single person will become that guy who has the new fangled Web-Specs, and like a cyborg, will start rattling off all the fun! exciting! mind-numbingly inane things! he just looked up on Google from rolling his head to the side, blinking at lightning speed, and basically walking into traffic because Todd, just had to show off. This thing will be awesome. (The machines. They’ve been sent to kill us.) Continue reading
So, you’re enjoying your fondle-slab, a/k/a the iPad 2, are you? You are working, playing, day or night, the iPad has the fit that’s right.
Until there’s a new one. Continue reading
Hey nerds! Gaming nerds! Yes, I do mean you. Put down the controller for a second and check this out.
You know Microsoft’s beloved popular gaming platform, the Xbox 360, yes? Of course you do. Well, what do you know about the Xbox 720, my friend? Continue reading
Every now and then a story comes along that makes my acid reflux kick in. I’m still trying to digest a riveting story of the Foxconn plants in in Shenzhen, China where all things Apple (and a lot of other things) are made. Basically just deplorable working conditions like 16 hour shifts, no talking at work. None. Period. Overtime that doesn’t get paid out and if you complain you will be blacklisted and fired. On the job injuries that are completely avoidable like repetitious movements that are non-stop with no rotation into other duties. Think carpal tunnel but in a country where you’re not going to get any FMLA or Workers Comp. Underage workers and cluster suicides have been documented. It’s hard to listen to and not start thinking “I can’t believe everything I own,” and I mean actually a great deal of things I own since I am a computer nerd, a geek, a guru and a participating citizen of this great nation of consumption, “…is made in this manner.”
So, early this morning, BoingBoing.net with some pretty serious accusations towards Google’s falling ethics and a specific bit of fraud that seems to be going on in Kenya. Basically, Kenya does not have a good public business directory. There are no yellow pages and most businesses do not have a web presence. So, a company called Mocality decided they were going to do that. Continue reading
If you’ve turned on your TV recently you may have noticed a series of (awful and borderline racist) commercials for www.Buy.xxx. Yep, you can now register Slores.xxx (or whatever). Yesterday the .xxx top level domain (TLD) officially opened as more than 100,000 sites were registered with the domain management company ICM Management.
The creation of the .xxx TLD has been roiling the adult industry for the past few years but is now just creeping into the mainstream media. Continue reading
When the music industry is failing and no one is buying CDs the solution is always to charge more money. It worked for Abercrombie and Fitch earlier this decade right? Oh wait…
When the content creators are asking you to charge less money and willing to take the pay cut the solution is always to charge more. It’s worked really well for the airlines right? Oh wait… Continue reading
SplashData has released their list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011. Of course, you should know exactly what they’re talking about. Those six digits or so that you plug in whenever you want to access your bank account, your email, and all the stuff that’s really important to you so Skynet won’t be able to steal your identity and then make Terminators in the year 2152. Whatever. You can’t stop Skynet. Silly humans. Anyway, in your valiant attempt to control sentient robots, there is a list of passwords an infant in Albuquerque could crack, so maybe you shouldn’t use them.
So who would have thought that you can just waltz down NASA parkway and apply to be an astronaut? Definitely not this guy. But, as it turns out, that’s exactly how you become an astronaut. Continue reading