The weather is not looking up for those working at NEC, as a revised financial forecast for FY 2011 was recently released, where their executives’ crystal balls predicted an annual $1.3 billion loss. This would mean it is the company’s third loss for a quarter in the past four years, and in order to avert further bleeding of their coffers, NEC has announced that they will take the painful decision of making around 10,000 folks redundant in their current positions. Bloomberg Businessweek reported that President Nobuhiro Endo announced the cuts, where the majority of the cuts will affect NEC’s mobile phone handset business, and around 7,000 of them are said to lose their jobs in Japan alone.
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If you have always wanted the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but did not bother to sign up with Verizon (read our review on the Verizon-bound Galaxy Nexus), here is another chance for you – with a different carrier, of course. It seems as though there is a choice for consumers now who want Google’s current flagship phone model, and Sprint has stepped up to the plate by putting the registration page for the Galaxy Nexus live. This Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone will deliver the “pure Android” experience right out of the box, and if you are interested, just head on here and sign up. With 32GB of internal memory and a dual-core 1.5GHz processor in this puppy, you will not find yourself running out of storage space on your mobile device anytime soon – unless, of course, you are one who loves to shoot video in High Definition video wherever you go. Now that’s a surefire way to fill up the space inside the Galaxy Nexus super fast (and any other phone, for that matter).
Whenever a consumer electronics device is being prepared to be released to the masses in the US, it will have to jump through all the hoops and loops set up by the FCC. While the Sony Xperia S has already been spotted in the past, said smartphone (which has already dropped the ‘Ericsson’ moniker if you have noticed), has already been seen roaming through the 
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX50 is a cousin of the WX70. Both share the same functionalities, but the DSC-WX50 is a bit more affordable because it uses a 2.7″ LCD display where the WX70 has a better 3″ Display. Optically, both cameras are the same as they use Sony’s 16 Megapixel CMOS sensor, and a 25mm lens with a 5X optical zoom. Sony has also added “Clear Image Zoom”, which is a digital zoom technology that produce sharper images than the conventional digital zoom that simply “magnify” the image. This remains nonetheless a digital zoom technology. 
The kingdom of Thailand is the first country in the world that has agreed to Twitter’s recent controversial move that allows certain countries to 
I have always liked the idea of how Sebastian Shaw always knocked himself up (you can stop laughing now) each morning in order to have a reserve of strength throughout the day, and Bishop, who hails from the future and is capable of absorbing energy and using it in other creative methods, have such creative mutant powers. Us humans can only fantasize of such a situation, but perhaps the future might arrive sooner than we think – researchers over at Purdue University have come up with a new medical implant that is extremely partial to music – by developing a pressure sensitive microelectromechanical system (MEMS) that relies on sound waves as a source of potential energy. 
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The Bard once said, a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet – and while I agree with that statement in a general manner, surely a console name like the Nintendo Wii U would affect a small minority out there that would only purchase a console based on the coolness level of its name? Word on the street from a Nintendo insider has it that the Japanese company is considering a rebadging of their upcoming Wii U console, and might just call it something else. Right now, we will just have to make do with the Wii U as a frame of reference, and the Japanese gaming company certainly needs a hit in the next console, so perhaps maximizing its chances by giving it a decent name which appeals to the masses might just do the trick? Should Nintendo rename their upcoming console, what would you like to have Nintendo call it?