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Taking Software For Older Drivers On a Quick Spin

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on August 12, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Walt Mossberg, in his Personal Technology column, reviews DriveSharp, software that aims to train the brain to think faster on the road.

New York Times Cuts Salaries, Jobs

Peter Kafka in Media on March 26, 2009 at 11:19 am PT

Last year, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller told the newspaper’s newsroom that he would try very hard to not fire any of them. But he didn’t say anything about pay cuts. The Times today announced that it would be cutting salaries of its nonunion employees from 2.5 percent to 5 percent, and that it would be asking for “similar” cuts from its unionized newsroom workers “in a spirit of shared sacrifice and as a way to otherwise avoid layoffs in the newsroom.” It has also laid off 100 employees from its business operations.