Nortel’s Slide Continues
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
While a number of players in the networking space had a great year in 2007, telecom vendor Nortel was not one of them.
The company reported its fourth-quarter and 2007 results yesterday, and they weren’t pretty — with both financial and personnel losses.
Nortel reported a net loss for 2007 that totaled $957 million ($1.98 per share) — a steep decline from the year earlier, when Nortel reported net earnings of $28 million ($0.06 per share).
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Revenues at Nortel were also on the decline in 2007. (Read the full post about ‘Nortel’s Slide Continues’…)
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Shareholders Blast Yahoo Over Microsoft Bid
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, Yahoo said that seven shareholder groups have filed lawsuits against the company’s board of directors since Microsoft announced its unsolicited bid to take over the company. The class action lawsuits charge that Yahoo’s board has breached its fiduciary duty to the shareholders in its response to Microsoft’s offer of $31 per share. The lawsuits are a sign of growing pressure on the company to come forward with a plan to restore value to the slumping Internet giant. RELATED ARTICLES Yahoo’s Severance Plans a Defense Against Microsoft? Microsoft-Yahoo: Will it Work? (Read the full post about ‘Shareholders Blast Yahoo Over Microsoft Bid’…)
Schedule optimization for SES New York
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
Schedule optimization for SES New York The biggest Search Engine Strategies conference of the year will be held the week of March 17 in New York City. Whether this will be your first SES New York, or the fifth one in a row that you’ve attended since 2004, you might appreciate some free advice on schedule optimization. One look at the conference at a glance will tell you why. There are more than 70 workshops, keynotes, panels and sessions over the four-day Search Engine Strategies conference. And, on the fifth day, there are an additional six SEM training classes following SES New York. Since there are five concurrent tracks during the four-day Search Engine Strategies conference and three concurrent workshops during the fifth day of SEM training, no one can attend everything. (Read the full post about ‘Schedule optimization for SES New York’…)
Google Eyes Medical Records, Data Sharing Business
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
ORLANDO, Fla. — Google has unveiled a plan to help U.S. patients gain control of their medical records and is working with doctors’ groups, pharmacies and labs to help them securely share sensitive health data.
The long-rumored entry by Google into the highly sensitive field of health information came when Chief Executive Eric Schmidt introduced on Thursday a service it calls Google Health at a healthcare industry conference in Orlando, Fl.
Google said it has signed deals with a range of companies, including medical tester Quest Diagnostics, health insurer Aetna, Walgreens and Walmart pharmacies, as well as several hospitals.
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Sun’s Source Code Donation Met With Skepticism
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
Sun is donating the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 system to the OpenSolaris storage and Java.net communities to spur more cost-effective technologies and help solve digital archive and preservation challenges facing enterprises.
OpenSolaris is currently under the CDDL license.
Developers can download the free Sun StorageTek 5800 binary code, formerly code-named “Honeycomb,” by clicking here. It runs on any x86 system.
The StorageTek 5800 is a digital archive storage system powered by Sun’s OS, Solaris, and built on open source software.
Sun has donated a large amount of storage software before to OpenSolaris.
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eBay, MercExchange Settle Long Legal Fight
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
eBay and MercExchange have settled a long-running patent lawsuit, said eBay on Thursday, ending a fight that prompted a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
In the settlement, Internet auction leader eBay will buy three patents from MercExchange needed to run its Web search, online auctions and fixed price sales, as well as other assets, for an undisclosed sum, eBay said in a statement.
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The legal fight, which began in 2001, resulted in a Supreme Court ruling in 2006 that weakened courts’ power to issue injunctions to bar firms from using infringing technology. (Read the full post about ‘eBay, MercExchange Settle Long Legal Fight’…)
Yahoo Changes Minimum Bid Policy on Search Ads
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo Changes Minimum Bid Policy on Search Ads
Yahoo this week changed the way it will set minimum bids on some keywords in Sponsored Search ads in the U.S., bringing it closer in line with Google’s policy. Instead of setting all minimum bids at $0.10, Yahoo will now allow the market to set a variable minimum bid. That means that in some cases, the minimum will be above $0.10, and in other cases it could be lower.
The minimum bids will be set based on the relevance of ads to a keyword, the number of bidders and their bid amounts. It will not be based on advertiser conversions.
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Google is an Optimist. Newspapers are Pessimists.
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
In my last column, “SEOs, Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There!,” I made some recommendations for the newspaper industry that some felt were a bit extreme. In particular, Roe Pressley from DOCUcopies.com took the time to address some of my recommendations.
Roe wrote: “I must contest the affirmation that organizations formerly known as newspapers need to be the Twitters or Facebooks of their communities. Maybe I misunderstood the point here, but it seemed you further implied that legitimate news organizations need to change to compete with decentralized, peer-to-peer (Web 2.0?) networks and communities and become an online ’social -centers.’ The problem is this: People need official news outlets to get facts.
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Online SEO Training Options
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
As you start looking around for a training course for SEO you need to ask yourself what style of training suits you best. If online SEO training is something that appeals to you, there are many options available.
One of the main benefits of online training is you can learn at your own pace. You also don’t have to worry about travel costs or what to wear to class. In some of the in-person, instructor-led courses, travel costs alone can be a significant expense.
On the other hand, online courses do not provide the classroom style that provides an instructor to ask questions, clarify principles, or share personal experiences.
Virtualization Battle Not a Sure Thing
Autor admin | 28.02.2008 | Category SEO
One of the most important technologies on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s mind at Wednesday’s launch of the company’s new server products wasn’t really in attendance.
In fact, Microsoft is still 180 days from releasing its server virtualization technology — its Hyper-V hypervisor (define).
“We’re not the leader in server virtualization,” Ballmer told the audience at the company’s “Heroes Happen Here” server launch event in Los Angeles. That doesn’t mean that he isn’t deeply interested in Microsoft becoming the leader.
Microsoft staged the event to formally launch Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008.
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