We have seen a number of companies laying off their employees in the recent past. Some companies were bound to layoff in order to survive while others just followed the trend. I am totally against the layoffs and I think it should be the last choice, but we have seen a number of companies laying off employees in the recent times while they were making good money.
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Russia is a country where you can find a number of cases regarding copyright infringement. Two years ago a school director in a village was accused of using pirated version of Windows OS on a number of machines. The school couldn’t afford the original expensive software after buying the computer systems with internet connection.
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NPD, the provider of consumer and retail information, has released the third quarter U.S. stats for 2008. According to the report the current economic crisis has increased the legal music downloads in the third quarter to 29% as compared to the Q3 last year. Also the overall demand in music has decreased 2% in the third quarter.
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Symantec has released the Norton internet security upgrade for Mac 4.0. The upgrade contains a number of security tools. It also includes traditional virus protection, a Firewall and other tools that will help protect against spyware and identity theft.
Symantec has also announced the Norton Internet Security for Mac Dual Protection. According to Symantec’s Mac product manager, Mike Romo:
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The Linux Foundation has named Ted Ts’o the new CTO of the foundation. Ts’o is known as Linux Kernal’s first North American developer. According to the foundation, he is seen as one of the most regarded member of the Linux open-source community. He has earlier worked at IBM as a senior technical staff member and as a project leader for the Kerberos authentication system.
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Yahoo Mail this week came up with some new features, but a number of users were having trouble while upgrading it. The upgrade contains some social features and six applications.
According to company’s spokeswoman, Karen Mahon:
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After Seesmic, it is the turn for Twhirl to get some cool updates. Loïc Le Meur describes some of the new features that are going to be present in the next update. So far Twhirl has got over half a million download and is still going steady. Users will have more customization feature, multimedia and video recording option. The Seesmic CEO says that the new version of Twhirl will be more like a Twitter-Seesmic merger. Twhirl was acquired by Seesmic in April this year. Check out the video above for more.
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BBC has finally launched its iPlayer for Mac and Linux, though a bit late than expected by Richard Titus. Now Mac and Linux users can download shows through the new iPlayer for offline viewing. Windows users are already using the feature. Users in the U.K. can access programs from the last seven days through the website. Using the iPlayer desktop software, the downloaded programs can be stored on users’ computer for 30 days.
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Last week we covered a report of NDC Group stating the Sony’s PS3 decline in sales. The sales were down 19% in November 2007 as compared to November last year. Now Sony is struggling in Japan as well. According to Media Create, last week the top ten selling gaming titles in the Japanese market were from Nintendo system (Wii or portable DS console). The Japanese market had been tough for Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony’s PS3 and PSP.
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