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Sprint posts Q3 net loss of $326 million, sees 1.3 million subs leave 07 November 2008 at 9:45 am by admin

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Sprint’s year just keeps getting worse. After losing over 900,000 customers last quarter while posting a $344 million loss, the company insistent on advertising with faux soap operas and in black and white (and yellow) is hanging its head once more. During Q3, the carrier saw 1.3 million net subscribers head for the exits, and it also reported a loss of $326 million. According to CEO Dan Hesse, Sprint “has yet to turn the corner,” warning that the process of turning things around would be gradual. Moving forward, the company expects gross additions to “stabilize,” while the turnover rate is apt to remain at around 2.15%. In related news, the provider’s stock price has sunk around 60% in the past six months, and while that’s surely bad news to shareholders, not many other mega-corps out there are doing tremendously better.

[Via The New York Times]

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+ Fujitsu’s in-car safety tech senses drowsiness, reacts to wake you up By admin 07 November 2008 at 9:13 am and have No Comments

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Not that we haven’t seen similar technology from other outfits before, but we’ll take as many in-car safety advancements as we can get. It’s bruited that Fujitsu is conjuring up a sophisticated sensor system that can actually detect when a driver gets drowsy or begins to sink into a deep, dark wonder-world of sleep. Put simply, the system would detect specific changes in the motorist’s heart rate via the steering wheel, and once it determined that you weren’t exactly “with it” any longer, the car could then roll its own windows down, blast the stereo or jolt the wheel in order to get your attention. In our minds, the biggest issue here is to not cause an accident by spooking a sleepy driver out of their slumber, and we presume that’s exactly what the company is working on in its R&D labs.

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