The HP TouchPad is dead, apparently,48 days after the device went on sale. In spite of the huge potential such reviewers as PCMag.com saw in the TouchPad, obviously HP didn't. It announced that in the fourth quarter of this year, the company will cease producing it.
Hence, the gigantic fire sale going on right now.
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott this week found his policies on the receiving end of numerous challenges as the governor's calls for less government, privatization and less red tape wound their way through the courts.
NEW YORK -- Scene: An elevator in New York Presbyterian Hospital where several others and I were temporary hostages of a filthy-mouthed woman who was profanely berating her male companion.
Gov. Rick Scott was in Miami Friday to kick off the 500-day countdown to the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of modern-day Florida. Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first reached the peninsula in 1513.
He was joined by Ambassador Cristina Barrios, consul general to Spain and Secretary of State Kurt Browning to mark the beginning of "Viva Florida 500," the state's quincentennial celebration.
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At a time when more than 13.9 million Americans are out of work and millions more have quit looking, the craven geniuses in Washington, D.C., have a brilliant two-prong solution: import more immigrant workers and block the deportation of illegal aliens already here.
It's a poor economic plan, and not much of a re-election strategy unless Democrats can get those folks registered to vote. But the president and his handmaidens in Congress are pushing ahead.
After announcing 500 new Central Florida jobs last week, Convergys Corp. plans to add nearly 900 more customer-service and sales jobs at its Jacksonville facility.
The self-described "global leader in relationship management" currently has 1,200 employees in the Jacksonville area and is adding positions to serve an unidentified telecommunications client.
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