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Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters 610

No longer satisfied with your crinkled doctor's note, a growing number of corporations are hiring "Hooky Detectives." Private investigator Rick Raymond says he's staked out bowling alleys, pro football games, weddings and even funerals looking for people using sick days. From the article: "Such techniques have become permissible at a time when workers are more likely to play hooky. Kronos, a workforce productivity firm in Chelmsford, Mass., recently found that 57 percent of salaried employees take sick days when they're not sick — almost a 20 percent increase from statistics gathered between 2006 and 2008."

Comment Re:Nokia and RIM Respond To Apple's Antenna Claims (Score 1) 514

Too bad s60 is a complete dog, with among many other issues, NO memory protection. That's right, you can even hex-patch other programs in realtime! Leads to some fun side effects, like the phone being prone to rebooting itself during calls. I'm guessing those aren't counted as "drops" here on ATT. Not a fluke either, I have 4 of these POS's. Oh, I can make it drop calls too with a 2-finger grip near the bottom, and I've noticed the 3GS and 4g both hold a signal better (low-reception area) for data usage. Not to mention Nokia's history of offering zero support after purchase (check out the n810, same hw as an iPod touch, no OpenGL drivers because Nokia didn't want to pay $4 per device for drivers for the powervr gpu.... Or for an easier one, look at the number of s60v3 phones that didn't get the "free maps" that they made sure to get SlashVertised). Also, re: RIM being better for business uses, including SIP: How is that so, when there wasn't even a third party SIP stack for the BB until a couple months ago, is still very beta, and only works on certain networks and BB's (GSM with full duplex, which isn't standardized across devices)? RIM themselves don't offer any voip/sip APIs either (and have been against such a thing for YEARS). Lame.

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