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No to YESS — Yahoo Employee Satisfaction Survey Shows Morale Morass

Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2011 at 12:07 pm PT

Apparently, Yahoos can’t get no satisfaction.

Yahoo Layoffs Coming December 13 (And Not This Week, Though It's Still Bad News)

Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2010 at 3:16 pm PT

This will be short and–considering the topic–bittersweet. Despite a report in TechCrunch saying layoffs at Yahoo might be imminent, previously reported termination of employees in its product unit will not take place this week. Actually, according to sources familiar with the situation, they will take place in about two weeks, around December 13th.

Aliph Collaboration Deal With Cisco for Jawbones in the Workplace Launches

Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

In April, Cisco unveiled a wide-ranging collaboration with Aliph–a San Francisco start-up that is famous for the noise-canceling Jawbone Bluetooth mobile headset–to deploy its software and device in Cisco’s IP phones in the enterprise. It launches today. The idea is to use the Jawbone device and the software that manages it to allow workers to move around an office and have the call move with them, echoing increasingly mobile consumer behavior.

Aliph in Collaboration Deal With Cisco–Jawbones in the Workplace?

Kara Swisher in News on April 28, 2010 at 8:40 am PT

Today at a partner event, Cisco will unveil a wide-ranging collaboration with Aliph–a San Francisco start-up that is famous for its noise-cancelling Jawbone Bluetooth mobile headset–to deploy its software and device in its IP phones in the enterprise. It is a big win for Aliph, since the networking giant is a dominant player in the arena to provide telephony solutions to businesses, part of its Voice and Unified Communications division. The idea, said sources, is to use the Jawbone device and the software that manages it to allow workers to move around an office and have the call move with them, echoing increasingly mobile consumer behavior.

AT&T Workers Create “Ready to Strike” Ringtone

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, Wall Street Journal in News on April 10, 2009 at 4:32 pm PT

AT&T and the union representing its workers are still in contract talks, but workers have published a song, with accompanying ringtone, called “Ready to Strike,” just in case. The song’s pro-labor lyrics include “Get ready to strike, get ready to walk the line” and “Protect my health care, don’t lower my wages/Realize, recognize, mobilize, stay alive” and even a shout-out to technicians who support U-verse, AT&T’s TV service.

Charlie Rose Gives His Laid-Off Employees an On-Air Salute

Peter Kafka in Media on December 22, 2008 at 2:08 pm PT

There’s no good way to get fired, and a fond farewell from the TV program that just fired you won’t help pay your COBRA. But it’s better than a kick in the pants.

The 168-Hour Work Week

John Paczkowski in News on December 15, 2008 at 11:34 am PT

If the line between your work and home life hasn’t yet been blurred by near-ubiquitous Internet connectivity, just you wait. Because by 2020 it’s likely to have been erased entirely. That’s the word from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, whose recent “Future of the Internet III” study suggests that the dawn of the mobile phone as a “primary” Internet connection will essentially obliterate the boundaries between work and home.

Next Up for Media Layoffs: ABC?

Peter Kafka in Media on December 5, 2008 at 5:11 am PT

Yesterday, two of the world’s biggest media companies fired 1,350 people. Which just means there are many more to go. Barclays Capital analyst Anthony DiClemente predicts that Disney will follow in the footsteps of Viacom and NBC and will focus the brunt of its cost-cutting/firing at its ABC network.

Sarah Palin's Dead Turkey Interview

Kara Swisher in News on November 24, 2008 at 3:13 pm PT

How much do I love the Internet? Muchety-much after seeing this interview that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave plastered all over the Web, in which the former Republican VP candidate gives a local Anchorage television station an interview as a Thanksgiving turkey is being slaughtered right behind her. Still, ever the trouper (and sanguine hunter, it seems), Palin obliviously keeps up the turkey patter, having just “pardoned” another turkey earlier. Such is fowl fate.