Category Archives: At Work

Nexus One upgrade fee lowered after complaints

In a surprise move, Google and T-Mobile have announced that some T-Mobile users wanting to upgrade to the Nexus One can now do it for $100 less. Caving in to wide spread complaints about the handsets initial $379 price tag, … Continue reading

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Google cyber-complaint is the tip of a silent iceberg

Coordinated attacks on IT systems are common, yet companies and governments have kept largely silent. The growth of computer services that rely heavily on the Internet means the stakes are growing higher. That may explain why Google spoke up about … Continue reading

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Complaints rolling in about Google Nexus One

Google’s Nexus One phone may have been one of the most anticipated devices of the last few weeks. But since the smartphone’s launch last Tuesday, it has left a string of unhappy customers in its wake. Nexus One has been … Continue reading

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Nexus One unleashes a googol of complaints

Less than a week old, the new Nexus One “superphone” from Google Inc. is producing more questions and complaints from early adaptors than Google’s infrastructure is prepared to deal with, according to PCWorld. Its post says that Google – whose … Continue reading

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‘Fatties’ kicked off dating website

Piling on the pounds at Christmas may put a slight dampener on the New Year but the consequences were rather more grave for more than 5,000 people expelled from an online dating community. The so-called “festive fatties” were kicked off … Continue reading

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Former workers file complaint against clam plant

A group of workers at a Millville clam-processing facility has filed an unfair-labor complaint against the company, alleging that 32 people were improperly fired. In the complaint, the group, which calls itself the Workers’ Committee of LaMonica Foods, reported that … Continue reading

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Officials: Programmers helped fake records in Madoff scheme

Two computer programmers who worked with Bernard Madoff’s company were arrested Friday morning by the FBI on charges they falsified books and records in the massive Ponzi scheme, officials said. Arrested at their homes were Jerome O’Hara, 46, of Malverne … Continue reading

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Health worker fired for hockey flu shots

CALGARY, Alberta – Senior health officials in the Canadian province of Alberta said on Wednesday they had fired an unidentified worker for giving National Hockey League players preferential access to the H1N1 flu vaccine. The controversy boiled over this week … Continue reading

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Was Gillette a rogue deputy or a good cop?

John Gillette was either a rogue deputy or a “squared away” cop whose way of doing business was a model for others in the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office. Department brass have said Gillette was the latter, even after he had … Continue reading

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Making People Poor at Walmart

At the world’s largest and most profitable retailer, low wages, unpaid overtime, and union busting are a way of life. Now Wal-Mart workers are fighting back. * In 2001, sales associates, the most common job in Wal-Mart, earned on average … Continue reading

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