TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Pacific Bell to Cut 600 Managers by End of Year: The new cuts come even though 4,300, or 24%, of the company’s 18,000 managers have already retired under the program in the last year. Company President Phil Quigley said the reductions were part of a program announced last year. “To the extent possible, we will utilize voluntary means,” Quigley said in a statement. “However, we will invoke the involuntary option of the plan if the other options don’t meet our needs.” Pacific Bell is a unit of Pacific Telesis.