SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stephen Terrell expected a group of happy users when he updated hispany’s Facebook profile page to the new Timeline format, allowing his mostly senior-citizen customers to register to win a trip to Hollywood to meet nonagenarian actor Betty White.
Instead, there was an explosion of anger and confusion.
A customer checks the features of a BlackBerry handset at a mobile showroom in New Delhi. RIM said on Wednesday it cut prices of four of its smartphone models in India.
NEW DELHI – BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. has cut prices of some of its smartphone models in India by up to 27%, in a move to boost sales in the world’s second-biggest mobile phone market.
India is one of the few growing markets for RIM, which is facing tough competition from Apple Inc. and high-end devices on Google Inc.’s Android platform used by a range of handsetmakers, including Samsung Electronics.
RIM said on Wednesday it cut prices of four of its smartphone models, including the entry-level Curve 8520, which is its best-selling smartphone model in India.
Sunil Dutt, managing director for RIM’s Indian operations, said the four models accounted for about 60% of the company’s sales in India, where BlackBerry devices have gained popularity among the youth.
The price cuts are aimed at making the phones “more accessible to a wider number of consumers in the country,” Mr. Dutt said in a
WASHINGTON • Justin D’Heilly never saw it coming.
He was working as a Domino’s Pizza delivery driver in St. Paul, Minn., in 2009 when he pulled over to take a call from his manager, who told D’Heilly he could no longer drive for the company.
A background check had found some problems with his motor vehicle history, but D’Heilly wasn’t told exactly what the trouble was, nor was he given a copy of the damning report.
When he checked with police to see if his license had been revoked, D’Heilly learned that it was valid and that he had only a couple of speeding tickets. He was fired the following month.
“They never officially told me why,” D’Heilly said. “I just kind of faded away from them, I guess. … I’ve always been a good employee there. I’ve never had any kind
Every email to your child. Every status update for your friends. Every message to your mistress.
The U.K. government is preparing proposals for a nationwide electronic surveillance network that could potentially keep track of every message sent by any Brit to anyone at any time, an industry official briefed on the government’s moves said Sunday.
Plans for a massive government database of the country’s phone and email traffic were abandoned in 2008 following a public outcry. But James Blessing of the Internet Service Providers’ Association said the government appears to be “reintroducing it on a slightly different format.”
Blessing said the move was disclosed to his association by Britain’s Home Office during a meeting in recent weeks.
Britain’s Home Office declined comment, saying an announcement would have to be made to Parliament first — possibly as soon as next month.
There was no indication of exactly how such a system would work or to what degree of judicial oversight would be involved, if any.
A Home Office spokesman insisted that any new surveillance program would not involve prying into the content of emails or voice conversations. “
Former prime minister Paul Keating has come out strongly against the Gillard government’s car industry subsidies, saying that such moves reverse economic liberalisation undertaken in the 1980s and that any manufacturing jobs lost will be offset by employment gains in the services sector, according to a report by The Australian Financial Review.
What the Labor Party have done is create a new middle class in Australia, Mr Keating said, according to the newspaper. The trouble is, it hasn’t been that good at identifying with its own creation and managing it.
Mr Keating is by far the most prominent Labor Party figure to criticise the government over the auto subsidies, though former prime minister Malcolm Fraser earlier this year accused auto makers of screwing Australia, the report said.