| Business Travelers Can't Seem to Pack Light on Gadgets
Sony's PlayStation Portable video game system has a Web browser and video player. That's not enough for travelers such as Troy Steward, 39. The computer systems architect from Amherst, N.Y., carries multiple electronics, including two cellphones (a Motorola (MOT) RAZR for work and Treo for personal calls). He uses his PSP only for video games, and an Apple iPod for movies and music. "I (carry) whatever it takes," he says. Why folks lug around so much stuff: •Battery life and storage. Putting a movie on the PSP would take up too much space on its storage card, Steward says. That's why he needs the iPod. About 36 percent of smartphone users surveyed said battery life kept them from using the phone too often, Hughes says. •Interface and synchronization.
Earnings Preview: Home Depot
Meanwhile, Home Depot has recently revealed a number of planned job cuts. At the beginning of December, Home Depot said it will cut 950 jobs and close several call centers that handle orders for home installation, planning to shift the work from those centers to stores and improve customer service. And then in January, Home Depot revealed plans to cut 500 jobs at headquarters. By comparison, Lowe's Cos., the nation's second biggest home improvement retailer, posted a 33 percent lower fourth-quarter profit on Monday and forecast weak same-store sales in the current quarter and for the year. BY THE NUMBERS: Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expect 43 cents in earnings per share and sales of $18.02 billion. ANALYST TAKE: Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analyst David Schick said it's likely that Home Depot's fourth quarter, which includes the all-important holiday season, wasn't a strong one.
It's a wrap: Lynchburger finishes directing first feature film
Martha "Marty" Elcan made the transition from Southern gal to California girl about a year too soon. In the 1970s, the Lynchburg native had just finished taking voice and diction classes at the University of Virginia when she auditioned for a film called "Rollercoaster," which was shooting at King's Dominion that summer. At the time, Elcan says, she had a strong Southern accent, but worked hard to lose it for the audition. After reading her lines, "the casting director looks at me and says, 'Where's your Virginia accent?'" Elcan recalled in a phone interview last week from her home in Van Nuys, Calif. But as hard as she tried, "I could not get my accent back." It all worked out in the end for Elcan, who helped out on the set of "Rollercoaster" and found her true calling behind the camera.
CES 2008 Picks and Pans
There were more new HDTVs than people in Las Vegas this week. (And our favorite was only a concept model! Doh!) But we liked some other stuff, too, including high-fashion notebooks, cell phones that silence with a wave of your hand, and even a set of diving goggles with their own built-in camera. Here's more of what the PCW CES team loved and hated at this year's show. .
Intel christens Silverthorne as “Atom”
George Ou Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Previous Post: Microsoft's free enterprise search is a must try Next Post: A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management Intel christens Silverthorne as "Atom" Posted in: Servers News Hardware Desktop Virtualization Energy efficiency - green Processors Intel Storage Consumer electronics Build it yourself Intel has officially announced its new branding for the "Silverthorne" processor and the "Menlow" platform. The Silverthorne processor will be called the "Intel Atom". The Menlow platform will be called "Intel Centrino Atom". The Intel Atom processor will be used in the Intel Centrino Atom platform. The new Atom logos are shown below. Intel released technical details of the new Silverthorne processor last month at ISSCC 2008.
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