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    IBM Prepping For Thousands Of Layoffs "Resource Actions"

    Sony Ericsson Sales Drop By Almost Half in One Quarter

    Tough Times Belt Puncher: Try the Recession Diet

    Vizio Drops Out of Plasma TVs

    Broadband Cut Entirely From Stimulus Bill: Republicans Hate the Internets

    Seattle Thrift Stores Flooded With Shirts From Disgruntled Microsoft Ex-Employees

    Second-Largest DRAM Maker Qimonda's Bankruptcy Drives Memory Prices Up 26%

    Motorola CEO Says Windows Mobile 7's Not Coming 'Til 2010

    T-Mobile Offering Four-Month Payment Plans For Cellphones and Accessories

    Sony Looks Set To Lose $1.1 Billion In Fiscal 2008
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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    03/26/09

    In reply to IBM Prepping For Thousands Of Layoffs "Resource Actions"
    No no no. This is called payrole optimization
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    Image of Scott Roman Scott Roman
    03/26/09

    In reply to IBM Prepping For Thousands Of Layoffs "Resource Actions"
    Where is Obama?

    We dont need any fancy plans, just end the layoffs. There must be something the government can do to end the relocation of thousands of jobs.

    I quote another users comment.

    "This is not a story about another 5,000 layoffs in the sea of the millions already laid off. That's exactly how IBM wants you to report it. In fact, the recession and other layoffs are great cover for IBM. The real story is this is not a typical recessionary layoff, pruning poor performers or re-balancing skills for client needs. This is a story about a deliberate and systematic business strategy to replace 15-20K American workers each year with lower-cost BRIC (Brazil, India, China) workers. So far this year, it is approaching 10K (5K in Jan; 5K today) with rumors of more to come in June and in the fall. This is not a story about moving unskilled work to another country. The layoffs have included highly-skilled and experienced professionals-scientists with PhDs, MBAs, seasoned software developers, marketing experts, consultants, project managers and manufacturing workers. This is a story about throwing near-retirement workers into the layoff pool-and using some of the savings (not sent overseas) to hire lower cost & unsuspecting new college grads." --
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    03/26/09

    @Scott Roman: My interactions with IBM's Applications on Demand division pretty much support this move.
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Sony Ericsson Sales Drop By Almost Half in One Quarter
    But 1/2 in 1/4 is really only like 1/8, right?


    That's not so bad all things considered.

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    03/20/09

    In reply to Sony Ericsson Sales Drop By Almost Half in One Quarter
    Honestly, it's about marketing. I doubt that most people do side-by-side comparisons of mobile phones before buying. They just get the model with the best reputation.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    03/20/09

    In reply to Sony Ericsson Sales Drop By Almost Half in One Quarter
    If the quality isn't there, the customers will not indorse it. 1/2 the crap my kids have is because all their friends are raving about how cool theirs is. Have you heard anyone say, "You HAVE to get an Ericsson!" ever?
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    03/20/09

    @Software_Goddess: My first cell phone was a Ericsson (pre-Sony)..
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    Image of nickhuynh777 nickhuynh777
    03/20/09

    In reply to Sony Ericsson Sales Drop By Almost Half in One Quarter
    That's because they need to drop the "Ericsson" in the name can call their phones "Sony WalkPhones" and drones of folks will be lining up at the Sony Store to buy them.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/20/09

    @nickhuynh777: I think that stopped working some time in the 1990s.
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    02/16/09

    In reply to Tough Times Belt Puncher: Try the Recession Diet
    We do not cut back on bacon. We buy better bacon and eat less of it.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Or simply buy less of everything else, and buy/eat more bacon.
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    02/16/09

    In reply to Tough Times Belt Puncher: Try the Recession Diet
    My gf and I just went shopping last night. Without realizing it until we hit the register we spent over $120.00.
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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    02/16/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: yeah, and you get less too. i didn't realize my half gallon ice cream was no longer a half gallon until i accidentally finished it in two servinds instead of my usual three. cereal boxes are a lot smaller now too.
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    02/16/09

    @Anonymoose: Don't get me started about packaging getting downsized. It's getting to be now even if you buy the 'store brand' instead the savings aren't all that great either..
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    02/16/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: And could I have used the word get and it's variants any more in that comment??
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    Image of Ethan Shaffer Ethan Shaffer
    02/16/09

    In reply to Tough Times Belt Puncher: Try the Recession Diet
    I find that the "get all of your wisdom teeth removed" diet works pretty well.
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    Image of KStrike155 KStrike155
    02/16/09

    @Ethan Shaffer: You could also try the "get mono" diet. That worked for me in High School: lost 12 pounds in 3 days. It's easy when all you're doing is throwing up and you're not able to eat.
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    Image of Ethan Shaffer Ethan Shaffer
    02/16/09

    @KStrike155: Ah, yeah. I forgot that one.


    When I was in high school, most of the football players got a weird sickness and they all lost quite a bit of weight. I can't remember what it was called, but it happened to almost every single one of them.

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    Image of Sora57 is rendering Sora57 is rendering
    02/16/09

    @Ethan Shaffer: Any given sundae.
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    02/16/09

    In reply to Tough Times Belt Puncher: Try the Recession Diet
    I only wear overalls.
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    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    02/16/09

    In reply to Tough Times Belt Puncher: Try the Recession Diet
    Hmmmmm I donno. I eat plates and plates of bacon, not kidding and I'm getting to the point that the superficial Miami people think its time not to lose more. I even went t doctors to try and figure out why I kept losing weight but they said that they certainly couldn't figure out why. Karmic payback for years of being fat in high school?


    Plus bacon is pretty damn cheap.


    Besides, as being a girl I must but completely new jeans that show off my shape. Belting doesn't do much here. Next thing I know I'll be walking around in leggings so if I lose more weight something fits me.

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    02/16/09

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: I wonder if the 70+ hours a week at Moto has anything to do with it??
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    02/16/09

    In reply to Tough Times Belt Puncher: Try the Recession Diet
    Usually cutting back the grocery bill results in weight GAIN since most cheap foods are fatty or strachy and fresh foods, especially fruits and veggies are very expensive, and even moreso in off growing season.
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    02/16/09

    @Curves: It depends on how poor you are to begin with. If you are rich enough to eat high quality foods, spending less means getting fast food that makes you more fat. If you are poor and are already eating unhealthy food, then becoming more poor means eating less food.
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    02/07/09

    In reply to Broadband Cut Entirely From Stimulus Bill: Republicans Hate the Internets
    I partially blame Obama. There was a certain crude truth to George W. Bush's famous declaration that the 2006 midterm election gave him political capital to spend.


    Obama has a ton of political capital. But that capital has no value until it is spent. At a certain point, he is going to need to pull his allies in the Congress in line and explain the situation.


    President Obama needs to sit the Republican bloc down and explain that they will either vote for the bill which has the reasonable concessions that Obama and the Democrats made or the bill that will pass is the one with all the Democrat bells and whistles and no concessions to the Republicans.

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    Image of FuzzysFriedChicken FuzzysFriedChicken
    02/07/09

    In reply to Broadband Cut Entirely From Stimulus Bill: Republicans Hate the Internets
    Not enough was cut. Stimulus bill should stimulate the economy, not be a Democrat wet dream of free spending.
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    02/07/09

    @FuzzysFriedChicken: lol @ your simple understanding of how "things work".
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    02/07/09

    In reply to Broadband Cut Entirely From Stimulus Bill: Republicans Hate the Internets
    • $16 Billion for school construction


    • $3.5 Billion for higher education construction


    a major part of creating construction jobs totally cut from the bill :P

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    Image of RobotVampire RobotVampire
    02/07/09

    @skotfarkis: Yeah, let's build new schools when many states have school sitting empty, good plan.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    02/07/09

    @RobotVampire: GET OFF MY INTERNETS.
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