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Microsoft has said marketing teams were hard at work fixing the company’s Web search image. As a brand, Live Search wasn’t working. But Kumo? What? Microsoft’s search team posted a screen shot of a redesigned search site, called “Kumo,” on its blog Tuesday. A leaked memo from the team’s technical leader, Satya Nadella, described Kumo.com as a test program that can only be accessed from computers on Microsoft’s network.
Dell said Thursday its profit dove 48 percent during the fiscal fourth quarter as the recession forced consumers and businesses to spend less on technology. The company also said it expects to make further cuts to its work force. Earnings for the quarter that ended Jan. 30 sank to $351 million, or 18 cents per share, from $679 million, or 31 cents per share, a year earlier.
A few weeks after launching the first wide-scale layoffs in its history, Microsoft admits it screwed up a key part of the plan. First Microsoft realized that an administrative glitch caused it to pay more severance than intended to some laid-off employees. The company’s response: It asked the ex-workers for the money back.
Global shipments of personal computers posted their first quarterly decline in six years during the last three months of 2008 as consumers and businesses alike gripped their wallets in fear of further economic turmoil, a technology research group reported Wednesday. Framingham, Mass.-based IDC said worldwide shipments slipped 0.4 percent from the October-December quarter in 2007.
A video for the title track on hip-hop veteran Common’s forthcoming album, “Universal Mind Control,” begins with a digital music player pulsing to the beat. The viewer is pulled through the screen into the gadget’s guts, where the cool, collected rapper lets loose an easy stream of lyrics. It takes hitting rewind a few times to notice that the music player isn’t one of Apple’s slim new iPods.