CEA News
Last week, Starbucks announced that its profit margin would be 97% lower than last year’s, at 1 penny a share, compared to 21 cents a share in 2007….
This points out to a wider trend: the Golden Years are over. The years of spending $5 on a coffee daily are now looking to us as days [...]
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We have beer Fridays (well, most of the time). Want to get our bunch to clean up on Friday? We found a way! Get everyone a beer, and you’ll be set to go! Friday at 6:00pm is the magic, happy, clean-your-desk-if-you-want-one hour. And until a few weeks ago, we use a prettyhurt.com crutch as a [...]
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We love to hear about how Skype helps connect people. One of the stories that was relayed us and that we would like to share is one of Skype in the classroom.
This great teacher posted a completely hands-on, practical how-to use Skype in the classroom
Our take on it: this is an awesome idea. [...]
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No on Prop 8
October 24, 2008
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to [...]
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DisplaySearch, a marketing forecast company, anticipates the notebook PC market to remain strong for the remainder of 2008 and into 2009, while other industries will struggle through the economic slump. Many customers have been replacing their desktop systems with notebooks, creating a trend that the analysis expects to continue. Another primary factor, the popularity of mini-notebooks, has been [...]
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is seeking an Election Day vote by the commission on white-space, bringing to a head a long-running debate over whether white-space should be used for unlicensed wireless applications.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, at a news conference Wednesday afternoon, said he was going to circulate a report to his fellow [...]
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Officescape is proud to announce that it has entered into a Service Providers License Agreement (SPLA) with Microsoft. This highly-sought-after agreement allows Officescape to license Microsoft products on a monthly basis and integrate these services and hosted applications into an online office platform with other business applications. It also gives Officescape access to the most [...]
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SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwire) — 10/13/08 — IPEVO,designer of devices that enhance the Internet experience, announced today that the Consumer Electronics Association(CEA®), the producer of the International CES®, has named it as ani-stage awards finalist. This debut technology event features the most innovative new consumer technology products that will soon come to market.CEA’s i-stage [...]
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As disclosed at In-n-out.com :
“You may be aware of a rumor about our menu prices being lowered for our anniversary on October 22nd. This rumor is untrue. We’ve always tried to keep our prices as low as possible in order to give our customers the greatest value. One of the ways we accomplish this is [...]
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Cisco consumer blog covers some news about IPEVO
by Johanna Fry
Over the summer, I went down to the U.S. Open of Surfing, where I met Henri Duong, Director of Internet Strategy & Development at IPEVO, a Silicon Valley startup that specializes in devices for communication over the internet, like Skype.
IPEVO caught my eye at the U.S. [...]
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