February 2009

Monthly Archives

  • Google Cell Phone Tracker Follows Peoples’ Real-Time Locations

    Google’s new mobile maps upgrade includes a cell phone tracker that lets you follow your friends’ or families’ locations in real-time. The cell phone tracker is called “Latitude.” It plots a user’s location using cell phone towers, GPS or Wi-Fi connections. Users’ pictures show up on the corresponding location on a Google map. Google is […]

  • Macy’s Layoffs: 7,000 Jobs Being Eliminated

    Macy’s consolidation is also a sizable elimination–of employees. The company is restructuring and, as a result, heads are rolling. From the Macy’s press release: A net companywide total of approximately 7,000 positions are being eliminated from the company’s workforce in offices, stores and other facilities. This total includes approximately 1,200 positions being added to new […]

  • Groundhog Day 2009: 6 More Weeks of Recession

    Or was that 6 more weeks of winter? We can’t tell them apart anymore. Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog who uses his shadow to forecast more winter, made the fated move this morning on Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, PA. From the New York Daily News: ‘‘After casting a joyful eye towards thousands of his faithful […]