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E-commerce has certainly not been immune from the recession battering the U.S. economy, but for reasons that can only be guessed at, most of the leading e-tailers have not stepped up their efforts to retain customers by providing improved service, according to a recent customer satisfaction survey.
Sony has drastically reduced the production costs associated with its PlayStation 3 video game console by 35 percent, according to information technology researcher
iSuppli. The latest generation of the PS3 costs just under $450 per unit to produce, down 35 percent from the prior generation’s production cost of nearly $700 per unit, iSuppli said.
Even when his cell phone offered no bars on Sunday and he had no other way to get a dial tone, Carlton Smith did not second-guess his 21st Century decision to cancel traditional landline phone service in his house. Smith was one of the many victims of a service outage that affected AT&T Wireless customers across the Midwest all day Sunday.
Taiwan’s economics ministry said on Tuesday it asked DRAM chipmaker Powerchip to resubmit plans for a company turnaround as the government tries to engineer a rescue for the struggling sector. Powerchip, along with other major DRAM makers in Taiwan, recently submitted plans for turning around its operations, after posting massive losses in recent quarters amid the sector’s worst ever downturn.
CashNetUSA.com isn’t your typical financial-services business. For one, at a time when 140,000 industry jobs have been lost nationally year to date, the Chicago-based online payday lender is hiring. For another, the headquarters’ vibe conjures up the freewheeling tech-boom era.