Hewlett-Packard reported increased profits Thursday as its PC business turned in a strong quarter, but the company will slash thousands more jobs to reduce costs. HP has already cut 34,000 jobs as part of a plan to boost profits announced two years ago. It will now cut an additional 11,000 to 16,000 jobs to make its workforce “more competitive,” it said. It announced the cuts along with its earnings report for the quarter ended April 30. HP’s profit for the period was $1.27 billion, up 18 percent from a year earlier, on revenue of $27.3 billion, which was down 1 percent. Its Personal Systems Group, which sells PCs and laptops, continued to buck industry trends by turning in its second straight quarter of growth, with revenue up 7 percent to $8.17 billion, HP said. Strong sales to businesses offset a slump in consumer sales.
The update fixes a bug that wouldn't allow GS5 owners to receive SMS or MMS messages.
T-Mobile USA has rolled out voice over LTE in its home base of Seattle, offering high-definition voice and promising benefits to subscribers from a technology that in time could save carriers a lot of money. VoLTE carries voice calls over a phone’s LTE data connection instead of a 3G circuit-switched network. That may eventually mean carriers can operate just one network, but it could also allow them to offer a broader range of services, including video calling. With VoIP, video chat and other communications services readily available “over the top” from Internet companies, carriers want to get into the game with integrated offerings, called rich communications services.
We all wish we could stay in closer contact with friends and family – but some of us have our contacts spread out a little farther than others. If you’re making calls from Chicago to Canada to Cabo San Lucas, you know how quickly you can eat up the minutes on your mobile plan. That’s where an Intel-powered 2-in-1 or tablet device saves the day. With plenty of power and a world of apps at your command, it’s easy stay in touch without breaking the bank. Many people like
Modern travel demands modern technology. Certainly a smartphone can be your concierge at times, but it’s not the best choice for every task. Whether you’re researching a trip or trying to get some work done while you’re on it, an Intel-powered tablet or 2-in-1 is often the better option. Outfitted with the right apps, you’ll be amazed at how handy these devices can be on the road. Here’s a rundown of the apps and equipment that’ll be your best friends out in the wild. Travel planning and tiny screens don’t mix. For checking out destination photos, researching area maps, and typing in all your search queries, a 2-in-1 like the
Samsung has reportedly found another device category on which to attach itself, with The report, which cites unnamed sources, says Samsung's VR headset will be powered by the company's flagship phones, such as the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 3, and could launch later this year. It will reportedly have an OLED display and will focus on gaming, but many of the details—including how head-tracking will work—remain unclear. On some level, the growing interest in virtual reality—especially from tech heavyweights like Samsung and
Companies that want to migrate large numbers of users from Windows XP, which Microsoft stopped supporting last month, now have some help with a free tool from CA Technologies. The CA Desktop Migration Manager can copy a user’s files, browser bookmarks, desktop settings and other pertinent information to network file storage, allowing the administrator to upgrade the laptop or desktop computer to a new version of Windows or move the user to a new Windows computer altogether. The software can move the data and settings either to a new machine or back to the original machine once the upgrade is completed. The product also works with
A hacker has confessed in court to hijacking other people’s computers to make murder threats in a bizarre case that saw the source code for a virus stashed in the collar of a cat. Yusuke Katayama, a chubby, bespectacled former IT worker, was accused of sending online messages in 2012 that threatened mass murders at elementary schools and warning of bombs in an airplane and at a shrine. On Thursday he changed his plea in the case to guilty, according to Japanese press reports. He had been out on bail but was taken back into custody this week. “It’s all true,” NHK TV quoted Katayama as telling the Tokyo District Court, a reversal of his not-guilty plea in February.
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For all of eBay's talk about notifying users about its Seems very wrong that over 24hrs after the announced they were hacked to Press that eBay still haven’t sent email to their customers.
Ads might be headed to all kinds of Google-owned products, but not Nest thermostats.
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Sony’s top executive vowed to finish reforming its troubled electronics business by next April, saying the company has no choice if it wants to return to growth. “If we cannot execute all the things we need to get done this fiscal year and generate real results, it will be all but impossible to envision a growth strategy for the mid- to long term,” CEO Kazuo Hirai said at a corporate strategy meeting on Thursday. The urgency comes after miserable results for the year to March 31, 2014, for which Sony posted
For the past 20 minutes, if you search anything on Google, the authorship images, where it shows a picture of the individual who wrote the content shown in the Google results, no longer shows up. Here is a picture of what a search results look like with authorship images (was documented yesterday):...
Each day, more and more people are shopping with their mobile devices. To succeed in this market, you need deeper insights into your mobile ad campaigns. Join us Tuesday, June 3rd for this Digital Marketing Depot webcast to learn how to use call analytics to gain and leverage those insights....
On Tuesday, Google pushed out their revised Panda Algorithm code-named Panda 4.0. Panda is designed to remove low-quality content from Google’s search results. Yesterday, we published an early Winners & Losers report on which large sites were impacted the most both in a positive and...
The average cost-per-click advertisers pay for Google ads has been declining year-over-year since the fourth quarter of 2011. The rise of mobile has long been seen as the driving force behind the declining average cost-per-click (CPC) — a glut of new ad inventory coupled with the fact that...
Earlier this week, Google released new updates for Chrome OS devices, including new “hotwording” capabilities. According to the announcement, the “Okay Google” voice search is now available on Chrome’s New Tab Page and Google.com (the US version only). Darrell...
People often talk about including elements on a page to improve landing page conversions and user experience. I know I’ve personally written a lot on this particular topic. But, did you know that removing page elements can be just as effective at increasing conversions as adding or tweaking...
MetaFilter is a news and discussion site dating back to the early years of the web. Founded in 1999, it’s attracting attention this week after coming forward about how a Google penalty has severely harmed its business, to the degree of having to let staff go. It serves as a poster child of...
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Is eBay A Big Loser In Google’s Panda 4.0 Update? — Winners & Losers Data Yesterday, Google began rolling out their Panda 4.0 update designed to punch...
Yesterday, Google began rolling out their Panda 4.0 update designed to punch low-quality content. That’s generated both “winners” who have moved up in rankings as “losers” have dropped down — and eBay might be one of the big losers. Searchmetrics gave us their...