The job reductions will take place during a three-year period. The announcement of the job cuts could come as early as the first week of next month. If you missed the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas recently you really missed it. This was a great transitional year for equipment and gadgets. One of the reasons is that, unlike past years, the emphasis was not on sales of new computers and demonstrations of faster units, it was on add-on items.
Computers are about as fast as they can be, that is until the next quantum leap.
So, the money is going to printers, interfaces, cameras and the like. The technology is expanding incredibly. A reporter for the Christian Science Monitor reported seeing a 500 meg storage unit no larger than a quarter. Perhaps the most welcome technology is one that will allow people in the most rural of areas to have broadband Internet access. When the Duluth Symphony Orchestra invited young conductor Giancarlo Guerrero to conduct over the weekend, the audience got more than it bargained for.