Open Wireless Network Looms on Horizon
Autor admin | 02.02.2008 | Category SEO
Thanks to an unidentified bidder in the FCC’s closely watched wireless spectrum auction, it’s now all but guaranteed that an open wireless network will emerge in the United States.
The Federal Communications Commission, which is not revealing bidders’ identifies, on Thursday said it had received a $4.7 billion offer for a block of frequencies in the 700MHz band.
Since the bid meets the FCC’s reserve price, it puts into play an important rule governing the auction: The spectrum winner now must allow any devices and any applications on the frequencies.
That now stands to unleash both unlimited possibilities for wireless services as well as fears that the possibilities may be undercut if the high bidder isn’t fully behind the notion of an open network.
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Super Bowl Advertisers Mostly Unprepared, Search-wise
Autor admin | 02.02.2008 | Category SEO
Super Bowl Advertisers Mostly Unprepared, Search-wise
It seems that every year it’s the same story. Advertisers pony up big bucks to create and air an ad during the Super Bowl, then fail to prepare for what most people are going to do when they get back home after the game or to work on Monday: search for the ads they saw.
This year seems to be shaping up in much the same way, unfortunately. We’ll look at the full results on Monday, but in preparation for the big game, Reprise Media’s Peter Hershberg takes a look at the search presence of some past and potential advertisers in today’s SearchDay, “Super Bowl Advertiser Search Trends.”
To keep up with the ads during the game, you can follow “Scorecard” on Twitter.
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Open Source OS/2: The Impossible Dream
Autor admin | 02.02.2008 | Category SEO
For nearly three years, a group of OS/2 supporters has been asking IBM to offer up the source to the long-abandoned operating system. For three years, IBM has said no.
Is it finally time to relegate the petition to the same retirement patch as OS/2 itself?
The latest rejection from IBM’s legal department came just two weeks ago. The letter from Yvonne Perkins in IBM’s Enterprise Platform Software group read, in part, “We have considered the positioning of OS/2 and open source several times in the past, and for a variety of business, technical, and legal reasons we have decided to not pursue any OS/2 open source projects.”
As a project abandoned in 1997, OS/2 doesn’t seem to have much value left in it, especially when comparing its kernel with Linux and Mac OS X today.
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Moto Assesses Its Handset Mojo
Autor admin | 02.02.2008 | Category SEO
Motorola’s announcement late Thursday that it’s undertaking a strategic assessment of poor performing business units, specifically the handset division, for potential sale or spin-off didn’t take any industry pundits by surprise.
Declining sales and failure to keep up with competitors on the product side are issues that have been dogging the Illinois-based company since it failed to push out another Razr-level success.
What is a surprise is that the vendor made it clear it would have no further comment going forward. In addition, the new CEO Greg Brown has only been on the job since Jan. 1, and typically leaders are given more than 30 days before any big decisions are announced.
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Mergers, Bailouts Outweigh Job Losses, Google
Autor admin | 02.02.2008 | Category SEO
Traders had a lot of mixed signals to deal with on Friday, and in the end, they chose to side with the bullish ones.
Stock futures were down overnight after Google missed Wall Street estimates, then up big in the early morning on Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo. They took another hit less than an hour later on news that the U.S. economy unexpectedly shed 17,000 jobs last month.
And that was all by 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, an hour before the stock market opened for trading.
The regular trading session went much the same way, with reports of pending bailouts of bond insurers eventually tipping the scale in favor of the bulls.
The market has had a lot of cross-currents to digest in the last two weeks.
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