Apparently, fear of a deepening recession alone isn’t enough to maintain tech worker loyalty these days–mounting job losses be damned. This week, Google (GOOG) repriced millions of employee stock options that had gone underwater as the company’s share price declined. Now eBay (EBAY...

It can survive a three-foot drop and withstand water sprayed from a fire hose. It’s sea fog-resistant. It meets military specifications for thermal shock and explosive environments. And if you hit someone with it hard enough, you’d probably kill him. What is it? A Dell laptop, believe it...

Hard to believe, but social networking has eclipsed email in popularity. The latest Nielsen survey (PDF) found that 66.8 percent of the global online population spends time at “Member Communities,” a category that includes both blogs and social networks. That makes social networking abou...

Its proposed acquisition of Twitter now little more than an unrequited Superpoke, Facebook is tweaking its own service to mimic the microblogging outfit. The social network on Wednesday unveiled a new homepage that, in a nod to Twitter’s real-time message broadcasting system, now features R...

The rumors were true. Well, partially true anyway. Apple was planning a sweeping refresh of its desktops–but it was one that didn’t merit a special-event rollout. This morning Apple (AAPL) refreshed its desktop line, announcing a new Nehalem-based Mac Pro, a more robust Mac mini and four...

Wall Street expected lackluster results from Dell, and the Round Rock, Texas-based computer giant delivered lackluster. After market close Thursday, Dell reported its lowest fourth-quarter profit since 2002. Net income was $351 million, or 18 cents a share, down 48 percent from the $679 million, or ...

Software is dead.” – Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, June 2000 Salesforce.com has seen a fair bit of its value evaporate amid the economy’s downward spiral. But the same cannot be said of its business, which is apparently doing quite well. Posting fourth-quarter earnings today, Sa...

Well, this brings new meaning to Offline Gmail… Google’s Gmail email service suffered a major worldwide outage early this morning, leaving millions of users without access to the popular service for over three hours. “If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are pr...

An inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft. We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to you.” – Excerpt from Microsoft’s severance repayment request Well, that didn’t ta...

U2 manager Paul McGuinness must be beside himself. Despite the band’s best efforts to prevent its new album, “No Line on the Horizon,” from appearing prematurely on the Internet, copies are being distributed there a week prior to its scheduled release. It’s not the fault of t...