Apple’s Cut In Flash Purchases Slows ‘08 Outlook
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
Market research firm iSuppli announced it’s cut its outlook for global NAND flash revenue growth in 2008 to the single digit percentage range, a major drop from the 27 percent it projected for 2008.
And just like the FBR Capital Markets research note earlier this month that reported a slowdown due to a major drop in Apple part orders, iSuppli is basing its projections on Apple’s parts orders which are way down.
iSuppli ranks Apple as the number three consumer of NAND (define) flash memory behind SanDisk and Sony, purchasing $1.2 billion in flash memory last year for 13.1 percent of the market. However, memory firms tell iSuppli that Apple has significantly cut its memory orders for 2008, pretty much confirming what FBR said.
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Black Hat: Dtrace a Rootkit?
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sun’s Dtrace application was developed primarily as a tool to help monitor functions on Solaris. According to a pair of security researchers at the Black Hat conference, you can also use Dtrace as the basis for a rootkit-like tool for offensive and defensive security operations. At the conference, Security researcher Tiller Beauchamp noted that Sun created Dtrace in 2003 released it as part of Solaris 10 in 2005 under the CDDL open source license. Later, Apple incorporated it into Mac OS X Leopard. At its core, Dtrace is a framework for performance observability and debugging in real time. (Read the full post about ‘Black Hat: Dtrace a Rootkit?’…)
Microsoft to Open More Software Blueprints
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft said on Thursday that it would make key technology elements of some of its best-selling software products widely available to boost interoperability of its software with that of competitors and customers. To make connecting Microsoft products with third-party software products easier, Microsoft will publish on its Web site key software blueprints, known as application program interfaces, pertaining to its high-volume products used by other Microsoft products. RELATED ARTICLES EU Launches New Probes Against Microsoft EU: Microsoft Now in Full Compliance EC Gains on Microsoft’s Loss For more stories on this topic: Microsoft also pledged not to sue open-source developers for development or noncommercial distribution of those software blueprints. (Read the full post about ‘Microsoft to Open More Software Blueprints’…)
comScore Search Engine Rankings: Google Up, Double Digit Growth for MSN Live
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
comScore Search Engine Rankings: Google Up, Double Digit Growth for MSN Live Rich search engines got richer in January in the monthly search engine rankings. Among the Top 50 properties worldwide some surprises surfaced this month as comScore reported total searches grew at a 7.9 percent clip. Sites owned and operated by Google enjoyed 7.7 billion searches. No shock, maybe awe. Yahoo sites again came in a distant second (2.5 billion searches) — again growing at less than half Google’s overall 8 percent rate. Google.com grew even faster - 9.4 percent. YouTube’s modest 2.6 percent growth rate slowed the core search engine down. Microsoft sites at 1.1 billion searches means a combined Microsoft-Yahoo would only total 3.6 billion searches. (Read the full post about ‘comScore Search Engine Rankings: Google Up, Double Digit Growth for MSN Live’…)
Google to Sell Display Ads in Web Videos
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc. plans to start selling ads to appear in Web videos after it agreed a partnership with YuMe, an online video advertising network.
YuMe, a Redwood City, Calif.-based start-up, said on Thursday, it will serve InVideo overlay adverts as part of Google’s AdSense for video beta advertising program.
Google has traditionally used AdSense for text-only advertising but said the video program extends its offer to targeted, contextually relevant video graphical ads and text overlays.
Google has been working on ways of developing advertising revenue for online video since it bought YouTube, the video-sharing site, in November 2006.
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Social Media and Online Commerce: Birth of Socialommerce
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
With all the media attention focused on Microsoft’s not-so-friendly takeover bid of Yahoo, a below-the-radar acquisition target proves why social commerce is the future of search.
Google is in talks to acquire Facebook competitor and global social network, Bebo. Along with Hi5, Google social network Orkut dominates the South American social networking landscape. Adding Bebo, which owns 65 percent of the UK market, would fit nicely in the growing Google puzzle of acquisitions and partnerships (YouTube, MySpace, Urchin).
Google and The New New Thing
Google’s buying into social networking and social search in a big way even though monetization remains problematic.
Despite social network traffic increasing eightfold in 2007, social search engines still account for less than 1 percent of total Internet traffic, according to Hitwise.
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5 Ways to Discover Link Building Ideas
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
Coming up with great link building ideas can be a challenge. It requires creativity, research, and thinking outside the box. Let’s review some techniques to get your business started in the process.
One of the most direct methods to discover link building ideas is by solving customer problems. I illustrated this in link building case studies for B2B and the travel industry. By solving a customer problem, I discovered great link building ideas — a.k.a. link bait (define).
Why is this simple method often overlooked and forgotten?
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CA Tweaks Its Mainframe Storage Tools
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
CA is pushing out new versions of CA Vantage Storage Resource Manager and CA Vtape Virtual Tape System with the claim the upgrades boost data protection while streamlining storage management in the mainframe environment.
“These products now offer great visibility into the storage environment and illustrates our strategy of unified storage methodology,” Stefan Kochishan, director of storage product marketing, told InternetNews.com.
Kochisahn said the mainframe environment, while typically heftier in terms of data loads and data-processing workload, faces the same storage challenges that open systems face. The problem, though, is that the operating environment is often bypassed when it comes to new management technologies and tools.
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Sun To Christen Texas Supercomputer
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
This Friday, there will be a party on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.
What else is new, right?
Well for starters, the party is to celebrate the launch of what will be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, and definitely the fastest available for scientists looking to do non-military research.
The computer is the 500-teraflop system called Ranger, built by UT and Sun Microsystems at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT’s J.J. Pickle Research Campus.
Based on the November 2007 Top 500 list of supercomputers, it will be second only to IBM’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer in terms of performance, or third if you include the distributed petaflop grid that Folding@Home has assembled with PlayStation 3 users.
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VideoEgg Hatches Alternative Video Ad Model
Autor admin | 21.02.2008 | Category SEO
Interactive marketers know that video ads are engaging. But engagement is a slippery metric, and so far it’s been a tough one to plug into the value equation of rich-media advertising.
VideoEgg, a leading video advertising network, has released what it said is a solution to the problem, AdFrames, a video-placement program with pricing based on viewer engagement, rather than mere impressions.
“Advertisers need to move beyond the metrics of eyeballs and evolve from ‘how many’ to ‘how good,’ VideoEgg chief marketing officer Troy Young said in a statement.
In the traditional CPM structure, advertisers pay a fee for every 1,000 views their placements net.
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