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Verizon on Tuesday delivered a mixed bag for the quarter. FiOS TV additions were stronger-than-expected and wireless subscriber additions were on the light side. Meanwhile, the company didn#8217;t break out how many BlackBerry Storms it moved in the quarter. The telecom giant reported fourth quarter earnings of 43 cents a share and 61 cents excluding items [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=56d2621649c9852629e162ab139c6213p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=56d2621649c9852629e162ab139c6213p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=56d2621649c9852629e162ab139c6213" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=0BjVbK.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=0BjVbK.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=6vK1DV.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=6vK1DV.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=onPZaL.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=onPZaL.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=l7pStm.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=l7pStm.p" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/BTL/~4/524397230" height="1" width="1"/

A depressing string of layoff announcements across the corporate world has gotten 2009 off to an inauspicious start. So what do the trends mean for IT employment in 2009? Here’s a sober look at both the good signs and the bad. —————————————————————————————————————————————- January has been brutal for U.S. workers. Company after company has announced layoffs, salary freezes, [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=339df2dd63960e24d24cd3754b123600p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=339df2dd63960e24d24cd3754b123600p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=339df2dd63960e24d24cd3754b123600" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=23uHKB.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=23uHKB.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=N5nEAx.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=N5nEAx.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=0x7tjx.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=0x7tjx.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=8PpPUg.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=8PpPUg.p" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/BTL/~4/524298389" height="1" width="1"/

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Tech earnings: Larry Dignan: VMware#8217;s fourth quarter solid; Better than expected Tech layoff parade continues: TI cuts 12 percent of workforce Sam Diaz: Netflix bucks trends, beats for Q4 Mary Jo Foley: Near-final IE [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8e1b3cb8861f81f4e0e971ec504589a9p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8e1b3cb8861f81f4e0e971ec504589a9p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=8e1b3cb8861f81f4e0e971ec504589a9" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=qner1a.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=qner1a.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=dZzAWU.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=dZzAWU.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=fKKjV2.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=fKKjV2.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=cZtxqy.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=cZtxqy.p" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/BTL/~4/524286192" height="1" width="1"/

pby Jennifer Laycock/p PRemember back in the day when graduation was all about sitting in a stuffy auditorium while some Ben Stein clone in a robe read off a list of a few hundred (or worse, a few thousand) names? Booooooooooooring. These days, Web 2.0 has kicked it up a bit and made things more interesting. At least that's what the team over at Market Motive is telling me in regards to the upcoming graduation ceremonies for their first class of Master Level Consultants./P Pimg src="http://www.searchengineguide.com/images/marketmotive.gif" border="0" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5"I wrote about A HREF="http://www.searchengineguide.com/jennifer-laycock/knowing-your-seo-certification-options.php"Market Motive's certification program/A last month, not long after they announced the program. This month, they're preparing to graduate their first round of students and they're putting an interesting spin on the ceremony./p POn Tuesday, January 27th at 12pm EST (9am PT), the Market Motive team will bring together eight students and eleven faculty members to have A HREF="http://www.marketmotive.com/master-certification-graduation.php"graduation ceremonies via a live webinar/A. The faculty members will pepper the students with questions over the course of the event and will then grade the students to determine whether or not they graduate./p PThe faculty is comprised of a pretty impressive list of marketers including Matt Bailey, Bryan Eisenberg, Todd Malicoat, John Marshall and Avinash Kaushik. I spoke with Michael Stebbins about the event earlier today and he said there will be a few surprise guests popping up with some questions and input as well./p PBetter yet, attendees will have the chance to get some input on their own sites and will also have a shot at winning some excellent prizes, including an impressive discount on future certification courses. /p PIf you've been thinking about going through a certification course or signing up for some online training, this will be a great chance to listen in on the faculty and to hear from some of the students. /p PA HREF="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/307893901"Registration is free/A, you can sign up online./p pbr /ba href="http://www.smallbusinessbrief.com"Check out our small business news site./a/b/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/NYKN6ZY6roTZrnle9pEK8l11zQ0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/NYKN6ZY6roTZrnle9pEK8l11zQ0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=8lvEI7ik"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=cpzmelm7"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=kuQ4uVlE"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?i=kuQ4uVlE" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=jVKDjlxz"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?d=133" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=KiDn4ToD"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=bt1EwkK4"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?d=124" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=h1SKOIfQ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=xnxgUV90"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?i=xnxgUV90" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=lzapuTE2"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?i=lzapuTE2" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?a=j0bVBVPu"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/searchengineguide?d=129" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/searchengineguide/~4/pqXDBR7iZmk" height="1" width="1"/

Every night for the past couple of months, the weather person on one of my local TV news programs has been counting down the days to the nation#8217;s switch to digital television. I can almost say it in my sleep: In February 17, the old analog signals will turn off to make way for all-digital [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6bbfeaa02742becf3a1f430a794bc645p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6bbfeaa02742becf3a1f430a794bc645p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=6bbfeaa02742becf3a1f430a794bc645" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=cQnFkG.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=cQnFkG.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=0sRFX2.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=0sRFX2.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=Yv4hDB.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=Yv4hDB.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=fMgVCo.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=fMgVCo.p" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/BTL/~4/523978862" height="1" width="1"/

This company#8217;s mission is to help its clients #8220;profit from interaction#8221; with customers. You#8217;re probably never heard of it. But at about the time the Macintosh was born, it was cited by Business Week for teaching companies how to use toll-free 800 numbers to handle customer complaints. Two years after the Mac was introduced, this [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=46f83a994d72944186fdcf9778e5ba19p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=46f83a994d72944186fdcf9778e5ba19p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=46f83a994d72944186fdcf9778e5ba19" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=eG2kB7.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=eG2kB7.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=15aeOb.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=15aeOb.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=VtJanM.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=VtJanM.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=oLbm79.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=oLbm79.p" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/BTL/~4/523905477" height="1" width="1"/

Texas Instruments is cutting 12 percent of its workforce because the company is #8220;not counting on a near-term economic rebound for improvement.#8221; TI delivered the latest round of cutbacks#8211;joining companies like Microsoft, Intel and Sprint#8211;as it reported better than expected fourth quarter results. TI said there will be 1,800 layoffs and 1,600 voluntary retirements or departures [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c3fcbf63f6d2e56facdd19276e9970d9p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c3fcbf63f6d2e56facdd19276e9970d9p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=c3fcbf63f6d2e56facdd19276e9970d9" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=pU43dm.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=pU43dm.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=L5KUgE.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=L5KUgE.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=ilC6Qn.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=ilC6Qn.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=Q7m4Sj.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=Q7m4Sj.p" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/BTL/~4/523831617" height="1" width="1"/

Netflix, considered by some on Wall Street to be recession proof, beat analysts estimates for its fourth quarter, reporting an adjusted net income of $22.7 million, or 38 cents per share, on revenue of $359.6 million. Analysts had been expecting income of 34 cents on revenue of $354 million. Revenue was up 19 percent from [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7a4b95b635e768981f4596a7182a6947p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7a4b95b635e768981f4596a7182a6947p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=7a4b95b635e768981f4596a7182a6947" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=ZKN7mL.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=ZKN7mL.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=H56c2K.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=H56c2K.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=MpycTr.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=MpycTr.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=fAVcae.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=fAVcae.p" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/BTL/~4/523823555" height="1" width="1"/

VMware#8217;s fourth quarter performed well amid the economic meltdown. The company on Monday reported net income of $111 million, or 29 cents a share, on revenue of $515 million (statement). Excluding items, VMware#8217;s net income was $142 million, or 36 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 26 cents a share. In the year [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=846c74a7605cb3466ca9a63bbd70eae9p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=846c74a7605cb3466ca9a63bbd70eae9p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=846c74a7605cb3466ca9a63bbd70eae9" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=i9U6lI.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=i9U6lI.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=Q44aAc.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=Q44aAc.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=roWML7.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=roWML7.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=vO2pMy.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=vO2pMy.p" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/BTL/~4/523823558" height="1" width="1"/

Symantec on Monday rolled out a beta for GoEverywhere, a online workspace/storage hub that allows anyone to access Web applications. The security company says GoEverywhere is a product of its business incubator that hunts for new business opportunities. Thus far demand must be doing ok. After registering for the beta I received the following message: #8220;After processing you [...]br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6e787109c9f3b694c1a6ac1e2c132960p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6e787109c9f3b694c1a6ac1e2c132960p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=6e787109c9f3b694c1a6ac1e2c132960" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=3y8DsG.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=3y8DsG.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=diFrhi.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=diFrhi.p" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=ntCQ4Q.P"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=ntCQ4Q.P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?a=suxV9H.p"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/zdnet/BTL?i=suxV9H.p" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/BTL/~4/523743566" height="1" width="1"/