It’s not often Matt Drudge posts a headline about a company laying off fewer than 20 workers–especially nowadays. announcement 19 employees would be released while the company would ditch its traffic based writer bonus payments and readjust its priorities. Gawker’s announcement is more important than just the 19 jobs lost because of [...]
Bacolor rehabilitation act signed into law
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, assisted by Third District Representative Dong Gonzales, signs into law the Bacolor Rehabilitation Council Act. (Sun.Star Pampanga/Chris Navarro)
BACOLOR — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo formally signed into law Sunday the Bacolor Rehabilitation Council Act (BRCA), finally giving residents of this town the chance to see their beloved hometown rise from volcanic ashes.
Bacolor was buried [...]
Hands On: GIMP 2.6 Is Out
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The geekily quirky, unfortunately named, a few days ago, it’s getting more and more difficult to know what’s significant based solely on the naming and numbering scheme. GIMP.org says, “GIMP 2.6 is an important release from a development point of view.” I’ll treat it that way.
which is the current image manipulation [...]
Microsoft’s ‘DeepFish’ Mobile Browser Deep-Sixed
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Rarely does a news announcement sneak by the blogosphere, but it appears that the demise of the Microsoft has done so.
In a on Microsoft’s Live Labs site, Microsoft said that the market has “caught up” to where it was going with Deepfish, and that there was no need to continue the program. [...]
eBook Hood: Find and Convert Files to Audio Books
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If you commute to the office or school, you know that the trip can be boring–and a little entertainment goes a long way. Some decent reading material can take the edge off, and is designed to provide plenty of options.
The service offers hundreds of free eBooks that you can download and read on [...]
PlisTube: Create Video Playlists of Your Favorite Artists
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When you visit YouTube and look for music videos from your favorite artists, you’re usually opening new tabs or windows for each video that you want to watch, so you don’t lose your search results. If you do lose them, you either have to go back, perform a new search, or rely on the [...]
Apple Software Updates Bring Genius, HDTV to Apple TV
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Apple today rolled out updates to iTunes and to Apple TV software. Both offer for the popular software, but rest assured: Those are in the mix as well.
iTunes 8.0.1 offers a fix to Apple’s recently introduced Genius feature by keeping the current song playing while the user creates a playlist. The update also syncs [...]
As negotiators in Washington struggled to devise a plan to rescue Wall Street and avert a global financial catastrophe, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit noted during an interview at Wharton last week that even with government intervention, global financial markets will need years to recover.
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Bad debt. Frozen credit. Stock market panic. Popular outrage. Political paralysis. The financial crisis that has dominated September’s headlines may feel unprecedented to many Americans. But it feels altogether familiar to scholars who have examined the economies of other nations around the world that have undergone recent banking crises. During a panel discussion held the [...]
On the Clock: Are Retail Sales People Getting a Raw Deal?
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Ann Taylor Stores — a New York-based retailer of upscale women’s clothing — is using a new computer scheduling system that assigns the busiest and most desirable hours to employees with the strongest sales numbers. Those with less success on the selling floor get far fewer and less desirable hours when new schedules are posted. While [...]