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Submission + - Samsung's New Two-Faced Cell Phone / MP3 Player

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TheTechLounge

on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @09:45PM

TheTechLounge writes: "Samsung has revealed the previously hidden side of their new SGH-F300 cell phone. The F300 looks like an MP3 player on one side, with a 2.1" TFT screen with a resolution of 176x220, and media control buttons. The buttons are touch sensitive and not only respond to clicks, but you can also slide your finger across them to scroll up and down or side to side. The opposite side of the F300 looks more like a traditional cell phone with the number pad and a smaller display."

Submission + - 'Craplets' Could Hurt Vista Launch

Submitted by chromacat on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @09:08PM

chromacat writes: Uncertified OEM installed applications could cause compatibility problems for Vista users — at least one senior Micrsoft official thinks so.

From the CBC article: "We call them craplets," the official said. The term is a contraction of the words "crap" and "applet."

Do You Tell a Job Candidate How Badly They Did? 702

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @07:45PM from the let-the-job-market-sort-it-out dept.

skelter asks: "I have been lamenting with friends in the industry about interviewing woes and the candidates that we find. Consider a hypothetical job candidate comes in after some how making it through screening. In the team technical interview they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is he (or she) not as adequate as he thinks he is, but has demonstrated that he is a danger to any code base. Do you tell them? Quietly step away, usher them out and say nothing? Play with them on the whiteboard the way your cat plays with injured mice? Should you leave them as their own warning to others? Is there any obligation to guide them to gaining real experience? Can you give them any advice or is it all liability?"

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