High-tech job growth has sparked the Bay Area’s rebound from the recession, but experts warn that the region’s economy could stall unless other industries start to hire.
Troy Wolverton writes about the new Nokia smartphones running Windows Phone 7: While the phones have some slick features, what I saw in a 30-minute demonstration and chance to play with them doesn’t convince me these are enough to compete with the iPhone and Android phones.
Turn your iPhone photo into a piece of artwork? There’s an app for that, and other similar “mind-blowing apps” were also shown at the 1197 Mobile Photography Conference last week.
Larry Magid writes: While Netflix deserves much of the criticism for its wrong-headed customer service miscues, it still provides a valuable service for some people.
Chris O’Brien writes: Just a couple years ago, it felt like consumers were on the cusp of a golden age of video watching with growing choices from Netflix, Hulu and even Comcast. But now, it seems like we face a range of complex choices that are both imperfect and too expensive. What happened?
Inside Facebook’s new headquarters: From exposing structural steel girders and offering them as another site for employee graffiti, to choosing bare plywood as the ceiling material over walkways, Facebook’s transformation of the former Sun campus is meant to telegraph that the company itself remains a work in progress.
While Hewlett-Packard insisted Friday that the personal computer division it has decided to hold onto is in terrific shape, some analysts said the unit has been damaged by the tech giant’s waffling over what to do with it.
Yahoo may be struggling, but don’t write off the tech giant just yet. Analysts say the Sunnyvale company continues to have “phenomenal user loyalty.” Plus its stakes in Yahoo Japan and China-based Alibaba are estimated to be worth $16 billion.
Mercury News interview: Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen talks about her new manual of sorts for philanthropists, “Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World,” which includes suggestions to make your giving more effective.
Energy upgrades: A look at incentives to make your home greener.
Mike Cassidy writes about the effects of foreclosure: It is beginning to look like the national housing tragedy is also a public health crisis, leaving those who lose their homes both broke and broken.
The number of California job sites using E-Verify to scrutinize their workers’ immigration records increased by 37 percent to more than 90,000 from a year ago, according to government records. The state has more job sites using the electronic verification system than any other.
