Is a Chipset From 2004 To Blame For Vista’s Problems?
Autor admin | 29.02.2008 | Category SEO
Some remarkably blunt internal e-mails from Microsoft executives indicate that the company eased the minimum requirements for PCs to be considered “Vista Capable” so Intel could sell an sub par chipset with the certification logo.
The e-mails, part of the evidence in a class action lawsuit against Microsoft over the Vista Capable marketing program in late 2006, were obtained by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper. Clearly the e-mails were meant for internal consumption because they contain a rather damning charge.
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Decision Time for Microsoft on $1.35 Billion Fine
Autor admin | 29.02.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hasn’t seemed like his old self lately.
The charismatic head of the software giant has been known for most of the past 20 plus years as hyper to the point of eccentricity – and virtually always cheerful.
But onstage during Wednesday’s launch of the company’s latest versions of its major server products in Los Angeles, Ballmer appeared more reserved than normal. His constant pacing across the stage as he talked was there, but he hardly broke a smile throughout his keynote speech, and the overt enthusiasm that has always characterized his presence both on and offstage was somehow lacking.
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Amazon Mum on S3 Overload Fixes
Autor admin | 29.02.2008 | Category SEO
It’s been nearly two weeks since an overloaded authentication server knocked Amazon’s S3 storage platform offline for several hours, and the company has yet to provide specifics on the fixes it has promised.
Amazon’s explanation on the outage day was the same statement provided this week when InternetNews.com questioned it on service improvements.
“We are taking immediate action on the following: improving our monitoring of the proportion of authenticated requests, further increasing our authentication service capacity, and adding additional defensive measures around the authenticated calls,” Amazon stated.
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eBay, MercExchange Bury The Hatchet
Autor admin | 29.02.2008 | Category SEO
eBay reached a settlement with MercExchange today, putting to rest a long-running legal squabble that dates back to September 2001.
eBay said that it would purchase the three patents from MercExchange which had been at the center of a high-profile infringement case that eventually made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
The disputed patents relate to eBay’s “Buy It Now” feature, which allows consumers to lock in the purchase of an item being sold at auction at a fixed price.
“We’re pleased to have been able to reach a settlement with MercExchange,” eBay General Counsel Mike Jacobson said in a statement.
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Amid Growth, Dell Misses Q4 Estimates
Autor admin | 29.02.2008 | Category SEO
UPDATED: Citing increased expenses and a number of one-time charges related to everything from acquisitions to legal affairs, Dell’s profits fell a little short in the fourth quarter, and it warned that despite many improvements, the company wasn’t out of the woods yet.
Revenue was up a healthy 10 percent, to $16 billion for the quarter, although that fell a little short of expectations as well.
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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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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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