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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a gathering of analysts that the company won’t be making any further layoffs, and once word got out, Wall Street proceeded to pummel the company mercilessly, sending its stock to an 11-year low. Analyst Rob Enderle told us the no-more-layoffs decision made sense because there just aren’t a lot of unnecessary people on Redmond’s payroll, but Wall Street was having none of it.
Maybe the people over at Hulu really are evil aliens trying to turn our brains to mush. Or maybe they’re just beholden to the studios that sign their paychecks. Either way, Hulu’s decision to take its content stream away from startup Boxee has users crying foul. Boxee is an open source application that makes it ridiculously easy for users to view online content on their television sets — too easy, apparently.
OK, you heard Oprah rave about the Kindle, and you were so impressed that you ordered one. Then you ended up waiting because the darn thing was out of stock — for months! Your patience is being rewarded, and you’ll be getting the improved version 2 of the Kindle, which has more memory to store books, better battery life, an improved screen and more intuitive buttons. And the same exact price tag: $359.
Apple may have just thrown a big bucket of cold water all over the Palm Pre love fest, courtesy of the U.S. Patent Office. The company has officially secured the rights to the technology behind the distinctive multifunction touchscreen found on the iPhone and the iPod touch — it’s what gives you the ability to pinch and spread your fingers to zoom in and out of a photo or a Web page.
If you want a G1 Android phone but you can’t bear the thought of using a carrier with pink logo, help is on the way. You can now get a version of the HTC handset that’s both SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked. But in order to get one — and, yes, they really are limiting quantities to one per customer — you have to jump through some hoops.