Plantronics

Plantronics laying off 18% of employees, now!

by Matt Burns on January 20, 2009

Effective immediately, 900 jobs have been cut at Plantronics. That means 19% of employees don’t have to go home but they can’t stay at their cubes. Bluetooth headsets are to blame. It seems that the company fell way short of sales expectations in that category and then there is the whole worldwide money slump we seem to be in. Plus, the Plantronics’ bloggers lounge CES ‘09 must have cost ‘em a penny or two. After all, there was two couches and a couple of folding chairs. Next year, it’s probably just going to be the folding chairs if they sponsor the area though.

Free Bluetooth headset if you get a ticket for not using a one

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by Matt Burns on October 18, 2008

Well, this is awful nice of Headsets.com. If you happen to earn a ticket for talking on your cell phone while driving, the site will give you a free Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth headset. All you have to do is fill out a form and in the name of safety, they you the headset. The small print reads as the offer is only valid for the first 734 claims so get out there and starting breaking the law!

via GadgetReview

Plantronics Announces Late-Summer Earware

by Doug Aamoth on June 28, 2007

Plantronics has two, count ‘em, two new headsets — one cancels noise out, the other keeps noise in.

The Voyager 520 is a noise-canceling Bluetooth headset “featuring robust noise-canceling technology for business-quality performance”.

It’ll set you back $99.99, available in August.

For the less-mobile (but still pretty mobile), there’s the sound-isolating .Audio 480 Virtual Phone Booth headset “for laptop multimedia and Internet conversations.” It’s the smallest computer headset that Plantronics has pushed out yet.

Analog version available for $89.95, USB for $109.95 — also available in August.

I have a Gamecom Pro1 headset from Plantronics and it’s real, real nice. Good stuff outta Santa Cruz, California.

Plantronics Delivers Superior Sound and Noise-Cancellation with New Voyager Bluetooth Headset

Plantronics Launches the .Audio 480 Virtual Phone Booth Headset

Plantronics Pulsar 260

by John Biggs on March 27, 2007

I don’t usually get excited about headsets, but the Plantronics Pulsar series has produced a few strong stereo headsets and the 260 is the latest of the bunch. The headset comes with noise-isolating earbuds and a tiny little Bluetooth dongle with microphone.

The headset will sell form $109.95 and includes inline answer buttons and fast forward/rewind buttons right on the unit. It also has an audio-out adapter for stereos and speakers, so you can stream your tunage to almost anything.
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