nandemoari writes It seems not even Microsoft is impervious to the effects of this increasingly painful recession. According to reports, the Redmond-based company is preparing to lay off about 17 per ...
A few weeks back we discussed the perspective that the economic meltdown could be viewed as a global computer crash. In the NYTimes magazine, Joe Nocera writes in much more depth about one aspect of t...
newtley writes Two days ago we discussed the earlier p2pnet report that the RIAA had fired MediaSentry (now called SafeNet). Now the Wall Street Journal is confirming this report. MediaSentry has been...
theodp writes Working as a NASA intern, grad student Erez Lieberman had a eureka moment, resulting in an algorithm that detects whether a person is standing correctly or is off balance. Unfortunately,...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A statue stolen last month from Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff's Florida home has been returned undamaged, and with a note attached, to a country club where the accused swin...
fortapocalypse writes I'm getting paid a good salary as a Java developer and the hours are great. It is also very stable, which means something in today's economy, especially with a family to feed. Ho...
isconsin shopper accused of packing cart with prime cuts, fine cuisine A suspected grocery thief still has a taste for finer cuisine, even in the struggling economy, police say
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AP - A movie about a maverick, his journey from Wall Street to Main Street, his desperate search for a monkey and a game-changing revelation about his carbon footprint probably would make ...
A new Web site for campaign finance information in Wisconsin includes the state Capitol in Madison in front of a striking skyline — of Minneapolis. State Sen. Jeff Plale noticed the geography ga...
Pennsylvania You know the economy is bad when a bank robber is told by a teller that she has no money. The nerve of the first teller to scream and faint. The gall of the robber to actually threaten ...
TechDirt is spotlighting a call by Michael S. Malone, a columnist for ABCNews.com, for letting Silicon Valley create jobs once more. Malone argues that Sarbanes-Oxley and other attempts at accounting ...
