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Layoffs loom for Malaysian electronics sector

Layoffs loom for Malaysian electronics sectorSucks for us and it sucks for them. In a global economy, no one is ammune.Everyone has been living beyond their means and this is the result. Things will get better after everyone has learned their lesson.Speaking of hard drives.http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/374/1050374/seagate-barracudas-7200-11-failing

Tags: Workforce management, electronics sector, layoff, electronics

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

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It's public versus private in dispute over electronics recycling laws

It's public sector vs. private industry in dispute over local and state e-waste recycling laws. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Electronics, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-06

We're still in a recession...Don't buy an Apple (the free iPod isn't worth it)

I own an Apple. It's a MacBook and it's about a year and a half old. The little 13" bit of polycarbonate has served me well and it's been a reliable companion. I bought it when I had a bit of extra money in a student loan...

Tags: Car, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Recession, Board, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Greenpeace guest post: Time for real IT Leadership in tackling Climate Change

When Greenpeace first started campaigning on the electronics sector in 2005 we wanted to see companies change the way that products were made, used and disposed of to tackle the massive amounts of toxic e-waste being dumped in developing countries. by James Farrar

Tags: Greenpeace, Information Technology, Electronics, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-15

U.S. CTO: Infrastructure growth needs private sector investment

The technology backbone of the United States needs a major overhaul and government alone can't do it, the nation's first chief technology officer said today. It's going to take a cooperative effort, including a massive influx of "hundreds of billions" of private capital dollars, for the U.S. to catch up...

Tags: Innovation, U.S., Investment, Government, Leadership, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Greenpeace Cool IT: But does GP miss the point?

Greenpeace upped the ante on the IT sector by switching focus from reporting on the environmental performance of consumer electronics to looking at how the industry as a whole is performing on climate change. Yesterday they launched their inaugural Cool IT ranking of the top 12 IT firms performing on climate change. The ranking is...

Tags: Greenpeace, Information Technology, James Farrar, Management, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-28

HP Report: Good Performance on Sustainability (but dinged by Greenpeace)

HP released their 2008 sustainability report today and again, unsurprisingly, it's a deeply impressive effort. HP has pushed the boat out with substantive improvement in the quality of the disclosure as well the accessibility of the report which has been much enhanced with the use of interactive dashboards. I'm finding...

Tags: Sustainability, Greenpeace, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Commitment, Goal, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Apple - Evolutionary or just reinventing the wheel?

John Gruber posts a gushing piece on the genius of Apple's manufacturing and marketing strategy. It got me wondering as to how evolutionary Apple actually is, and if there's any other company in the consumer electronics sector that could take so long to bring basic features to a product and...

Tags: Apple Inc., John Gruber, Consumer Electronics, Marketing Research, Personal Technology, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Tech layoffs up 74.2% in 2008

Job cuts in the tech sector increased 74.2% in 2008 compared with 2007. 186,955 jobs in the telecommunications, computer, and electronics sectors were slashed, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. by AM

Tags: Job, Layoff, Electronics, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, AM

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Report: Tech layoffs skyrocket in 2008; not looking much better for '09

When the economy started to crumble for the housing, automotive and banking industries last year, there's was some optimism that Silicon Valley and the tech industry might be able to withstand the storm. Clearly, that was a short-lived dream. A report released today by...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Job, Layoff, Unemployment, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Samsung paints an ugly tech picture

It's one thing when Sony loses money--it's not all that surprising. But when Samsung loses money you know things are bad in techville. The big news out of Korea today is that Samsung, one of the globe's tech titans, lost money. The fourth quarter loss wasn't huge--$14.4...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Would you buy a Dell smartphone?

Wired's Priya Ganapati has indicated that PC behemoth Dell may be readying its own smartphone to arrive as early as next month. Some analysts posit that Dell could make an announcement at 3GSM or the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona in mid-February of this year. One analyst from Kaufman...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Smart Phone, Ganapati, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Tech workforce pinched by economy, feeling like 2003

That economic doom-and-gloom has finally hit the tech sector and it looks like job cuts in the electronics, telecom and computer industries could be flirting with numbers they haven't seen in years. According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a global outplacement firm that tracks daily job cut...

Tags: Human Resources, Job, Job Cut, Recruitment & Selection, Sam Diaz, Technology Sector, Workforce, Workforce Management

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Best Buy cuts outlook; Sees 'most difficult climate ever seen'

Best Buy said Wednesday that it is facing "rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior have created the most difficult climate we’ve ever seen" and cut its earnings and revenue projections. Indeed, Best Buy's same store sales fell a whopping 7.6 percent for October. The company's outlook comes...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Same-store Sales, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Holidays look more humbug than happy for electronics chains

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about the effects of the economy on the tech sector as the holidays approach and how companies are coping. Diaz also shares the silver lining of the financial crisis for consumers.

Tags: Holiday, Financial, Electronics, Financial Accounting, Finance, Personal Technology, economy, Circuit City, Dell, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz

Videos 2008-11-10

Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs

A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...

Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-03

$600 mln worth of nanomaterials for electronics to sell in 2008

The global market for nanomaterials for electronics applications will reach $600 mln in 2008 and grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40% to reach nearly $7 bln in 2015, according to The Information Network. The Semiconductor sector will have a 62.1% share of the $600 mln market...

Tags: Electronics, Market, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

$600 mln worth of nanomaterials for electronics to sell in 2008

The global market for nanomaterials for electronics applications will reach $600 mln in 2008 and grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40% to reach nearly $7 bln in 2015, according to The Information Network. The Semiconductor sector will have a 62.1% share of the $600 mln market...

Tags: Electronics, Market, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Apple sells 1M iPhones; 10M apps downloaded

Apple sells 1M iPhones; 10M apps downloadedDisposable incomes at work and homeSo why do I keep reading the same news over and over again in the headlines about the mortgage industry falling apart and fuel prices and health plans going up? I'm sure the Apple buyers aren't delaying payments...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership

Many large-scale government technology initiatives are failing due to an exodus of qualified systems engineers away from the public sector to private industry. An in-depth analysis of the problem conducted by the National Research Council reveals the considerable impact of this problem. The...

Tags: Leadership, Systems Engineering, Computer, CAD, Productivity, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-27