News that AT&T will cut 12,000 jobs--or 4% of its workforce--due to "economic pressures, a changing business mix and a more streamlined organizational structure," and DuPont will cut 2,500 employees is sending stock futures down, along with lower earnings forecasts from Merck, Nokia, and Credit Suisse. GM, Ford and Chrysler are headed back to D.C. to ask for a $34 billion bailout. And the Labor Department revealed that jobless claims fell "unexpectedly" by 21,000 (as in the actual jobless claims were 21,000 less than expected) last week, but that still means there were 509,000 jobless claims: "The four-week moving average...
In a recent interview with Cedric Dupont, product manager for Google SearchWiki, we found that Google doesn't intend to provide an option to disable SearchWiki. "While users don't have the option of turning off SearchWiki, they do have the option not to use the feature. By turning off the feature entirely, people will never get used to the new offering or see how it might be useful to them. We encourage people to try it out."Fortunately, there are some ways to hide SearchWiki's visual clutter:1. Sign out from your Google account. The feature is only available to authenticated users since...
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it. Or maybe you'd like to add some notes about what you found on that site and why you thought it was useful. Starting today you can do all this and tailor Google search results to best meet your needs.Today we're launching SearchWiki, a way for you to...
Google is letting you get personal with your search results. The Internet company plans to introduce today a new feature, called SearchWiki, that allows users to change their results from Google searches. You can move items up and down in the rankings, remove them entirely, leave notes about whether you found a particular site useful and add sites that either don't show up in the search results or are buried. Then it remembers those changes the next time you log in. And that is a catch, with privacy implications: You must be logged in to use the service so Google...
Disagree with Google's search results? You'll be able to do something about it with a change the company plans to release starting Thursday. Google's SearchWiki is a feature that lets people elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results. Google remembers the changes a person made to search results, so repeat searches will show the same customizations and notes. Google has been offering SearchWiki as an experimental feature to some people for months, but starting Thursday it will become available to anybody who's searching while logged in with a Google account. "This is a search feature that gets a user...
What we have here is a bike lock that has compressed air and colored dye running throughout the lock. When a would-be thief cuts through the lock, said thief along with the bike and everything within a few feet is then sprayed with the dye along with SmartWater, which is an invisible ink. But the lock itself doesn’t seem to be too bad given its theft deterrent feature. I don’t own a bike so I’m not up on all the latest bike locks, but the lock barrel and lever components are encased in hardened steel and Dupont Hytrel molding....
div class="imageleft"> Because after all, petrochemical research means tiny towns. Most spots for chemical companies have always featured lab guy + beaker and knowing smile. Emphasis on 'knowing.'...
Have you ever found yourself sitting in a restaurant and completely turned off by the service you recieved? Or maybe you experience the best crab cake you have ever had? Up until recently, the best you could do was go submit your review to sites like Yelp - if you remembered when you got home. Thummit, a Launchbox Digital incubation company based in Washington, D.C. hopes to solve that and similar problems for you using your cell phone. The idea is simple, and builds on the successes of other mobile companies like Twitter: You send a text message to a...
Random-sampling the mix of entrepreneurs who made it to OpenCoffeeDC earlier this week, the wretched economy has deterred um, let’s see — no one. Gotta love that entrepreneurial spirit! Optimism still reigns — rains, even. Everyone in the group echoed anti-parallels to the dot.com crash (”Back then, ‘Internet’ was a bad word and investors ran from technology; today, it’s the financial markets,” and ““negligible costs of getting started”) — even attending VC Jonathan Aberman waxed enthusiastic: “People will invest in things they understand,” he noted, referring to the backlash from Wall Street’s love affair with exotic but obtuse instruments, “and...
The Wired debate between the Obama and McCain camps on technology policy is on. It'll take place next Thursday at 12:30 at the New America Foundation in Dupont Circle. You can RSVP here and read about the issues here. It should be great fun. If you have suggestions for questions to ask, please email me....
The U.S. stock market fell again today as investors worried that the global economy is still weakening despite recent attempts to intervene. The Dow fell 514 points, or 5.7 percent, to 8519.21. The S&P 500 fell 6.1 percent. Weak corporate profit forecasts, a jump in the dollar and falling oil prices spooked investors, according to various market reports. The fears suggest a global slowdown will happen even though lending may return to normal. The dollar hit multi-year highs against major currencies. The market seemed to anticipate a bad week as hundreds of companies begin to report their earnings for the...
Don't get me wrong, the limited edition gun-metal grey PS3 was badass and everything, but as you can see, this MGS4 tribute is on an entirely different level. Crafted by Morpheon Mods, the entire console and controller is a combination of carbon fiber and midnight black done in a digital camouflage technique and protected with nine coats of DuPont Chroma clearcoat. If that wasn't enough, the laser-cut stainless steel marquee artwork is illuminated by 15 white micro LEDs and Hideo Kojima himself was kind enough to autograph it. Oh, and there is a working backwards-compatible 60GB PS3 hidden in there...
AP - Wall Street retreated Tuesday after forecasts from DuPont, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments raised fears that companies' outlooks for the fourth quarter and beyond could indeed signal a severe economic downturn. After logging sharp gains the previous session, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 2.5 percent, while the Nasdaq composite index lost more than 4 percent following a weak showing by technology names....
