NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — After posting a fourth-quarter loss, Verizon Communications, Inc. said Tuesday it plans to cut about 13,000 jobs this year.
Verizon recorded a net loss of $653 million, or 23 cents per share, compared with a profit of $1.24 billion, or 43 cents a share, a year earlier.
The loss came after the company [...]
January
26
Google’s end run around Apple’s App Store is complete: Google Voice is ready as a Web application.
iPhone owners can now get in on Google Voice with the release of a Web application.
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Owners of the iPhone and Palm’s WebOS devices can now get in on the mobile Google Voice experience with the Web app, which [...]
January
26
RSS technology makes it possible for anyone to keep up with fresh content without having to visit the site in question. Now the same holds for webpages without RSS thanks to a new Google Reader feature.
Today Google has rolled out a subtle change to Google ReaderGoogle Reader that lets you create custom feeds to track [...]
January
21
Tesla Motors will receive a long-sought $465 million loan to build a factory to build its planned Model S electric sedan, the U.S. Department of Energy said on Thursday.
Tesla S electric sedan unveiled–photos
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With the loan, Tesla will be able to start making the Model S in volume during 2012 and ramp up [...]
January
17
WASHINGTON — With more than 100 million miles apiece on the odometer, NASA’s Endeavour and Atlantis space shuttles are well-used — but lovingly cared for.
And now they’re on sale.
NASA announced Friday that it was slashing the price for the orbiters to $28.8 million apiece to help encourage buyers from schools and museums to snap them [...]
The ongoing patent battle between Apple and Nokia escalated Friday, when Apple moved to block imports of Nokia cell phones to the U.S.
Apple made its request in a complaint filed with the International Trade Commission in Washington, an independent federal agency that examines issues including unfair trade practices involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. The [...]
A major earthquake struck just off the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, sparking a tsunami watch for parts of the Caribbean, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
There was no immediate report of damage or injuries from the quake. However, The Associated Press reported that a hospital had collapsed.
The quake had a reported magnitude of 7.0 [...]
What’s so special about today? It’s a palindrome
Jan. 2, 2010, is the second such date out of 36 that occurs this millennium. The first was 10/02/2001.
Aziz Inan, a University of Portland electrical engineering professor, has been studying this phenomenon and speaks with great enthusiasm as he describes the history of palindrome dates.
Before 2001, he [...]
Happy New Year =). Hope every one has an incredible 2010.
