Nokia Trips the Silverlight Fantastic
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
In an interesting turn of events, Nokia announced Tuesday that it will make Microsoft’s Silverlight streaming media technology available on its S60 Symbian OS-based smartphones this year – and will do the same for its Series 40 phones and Internet tablets as well.
The two companies plan to demonstrate Silverlight running on a Nokia S60 smartphone on Wednesday of this week at Microsoft’s MIX08 Web developers in Las Vegas, according to a Nokia statement.
“The arrangement with Nokia will substantially extend the reach of Silverlight by making the platform available for hundreds of millions of devices,” Nokia’s statement said.
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Cisco Turns Techs Positive
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
A steep sell-off Tuesday on worries about Intel’s margins and Citigroup’s losses turned into a slight gain for the Nasdaq by the close after Cisco Systems reaffirmed its long-term growth forecast.
Intel traded 3% lower for much of the day after warning that NAND flash pricing pressures are hurting margins, but managed to follow the Nasdaq back to breakeven after Cisco CEO John Chambers reaffirmed the company’s long-term 12-17% growth forecast at the Morgan Stanley tech conference. Cisco ended the day 2% off its lows.
Amazon.com and Apple also provided support for stocks.
Ask.com to Cut 8%, Revamp Search Plans
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
Ask.com to Cut 8%, Revamp Search Plans
Ask.com will stop trying to compete directly with Google as a mainstream search engine, and will instead focus on targeting niches where it feels it can prosper, based on the way users are searching with Ask.com now. Reports from Reuters and the Wall Street Journal quote new CEO Jim Safka saying “We are reorienting the company around where we can grow,” and “If we can do a better job of understanding who these customers are and answering their questions, we will grow.”
Safka took over as CEO in January, edging out popular Ask.com boss Jim Lanzone.
A total of 40 layoffs were made, across multiple departments.
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Yahoo Announces onePlace at CeBIT
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo Announces onePlace at CeBIT Yahoo took advantage of the CeBIT conference in Hamburg, Germany to announce the forthcoming launch of onePlace, a content management solution developed as part of the company’s growing mobile services. The platform works on a system of bookmarking, allowing users to categorize their favorite content (news, videos, images, emails, etc) and then view it with ease on their mobile device. Dynamic content will be automatically updated, which should appeal to the likes of sports fans, investors, and frequent flyers. A feature called “Pulse” enables users to view the latest changes to their content collections. (Read the full post about ‘Yahoo Announces onePlace at CeBIT’…)
Microsoft Relents to IE Web Standard Controversy
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
After years of complaints that Internet Explorer doesn’t properly embrace Web standards, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) late Monday announced that the next release of its browser will support standards by default.
As part of the company’s recently announced “interoperability commitment,” Microsoft plans to make Internet Explorer 8 (IE 
default to the upcoming browser’s highest level of standards compatibility.
IE 8, which is about to begin private beta testing, will implement three modes of Web standard behaviors. (IE 7 only supports two modes.)
The oldest mode, which the company calls “quirks” mode, supports Web pages that are typically very old, written for early versions of IE.
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Spot Runner Buys Weblistic: Local Search on Video Steroids
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
Spot Runner Buys Weblistic: Local Search on Video Steroids Today Spot Runner announced its acquisition of Weblistic, a provider of local online advertising, in an all-stock transition. Spot Runner is an internet-based television ad agency headquartered in Los Angeles. The company says in its press release, “The acquisition of Weblistic will enable Spot Runner to correlate TV and online advertising with phone- and Web-based responses to provide tracking, analysis and results.” The result promises to be an integrated offering of online, TV, and radio advertising for small businesses in their local markets. (Read the full post about ‘Spot Runner Buys Weblistic: Local Search on Video Steroids’…)
NetSuite to Sell Customizable Apps For Niche Markets
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
Software magnate Larry Ellison’s NetSuite (NYSE:N) plans to turn its business-management software service into a platform for developers to create customized management programs for small and medium-size businesses.
The company, which delivers its software as a service over the Internet, sees customers and developers adding features for niche markets, then selling those products.
NetSuite sells software that small and medium businesses use to manage their finances and sales activities as well as to run Web stores. It sells a version that is customized with extra features specifically designed for software makers — the same package it uses to manage its business.
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Virgin Charter Launches Vertical Search Engine
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
Virgin Charter Launches Vertical Search Engine Sir Riichard Branson launched a new vertical search engine, Virgin Charter, that promises to revolutionize high-end corporate travel and last minute luxury travel. Scott Duffy, Virgin Charter CEO, said his search engine combines three of the best ideas on the Internet: local search user and seller reviews (eBay); Priceline’s auction; and the “simplicity of Expedia.” They’re partnering exclusively, though, with Travelocity Business as online business travel agency. Virgin Charter’s targeting the $30 billion market for private air travel with an online auction marketplace. To put the private charter “size of market” in perspective, $30 billion is roughly the total size of the search market. (Read the full post about ‘Virgin Charter Launches Vertical Search Engine’…)
IBM Pushing Microsoft-free PCs For E.Europe
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
HANOVER, Germany — IBM has teamed up with partners in Austria and Poland to offer Microsoft-free (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) personal computers for the eastern European market, IBM said in a statement on Tuesday.
IBM (NYSE:IBM) said it was offering the PCs based on the open-source Linux operating system together with Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) software distributor VDEL of Austria and Polish distributor and services firm LX Polska in response to demand from Russian IT chiefs.
The PCs will include IBM’s Lotus Symphony software based on the Open Document Format, a rival format to Microsoft’s Office Open XML document format, which Microsoft is trying to get adopted as an approved standard by ISO (define).
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Dell Offers Notebooks Built For Abuse
Autor admin | 04.03.2008 | Category SEO
Notebooks often take more physical abuse than a rental car, and that’s by their owners who paid for them. In some cases, the laptop may find itself in harsh surroundings; with a South Pole expedition, in a Marine unit in Iraq, or with missionaries in Africa.
There aren’t that many choices for laptops that can take a lot of punishment, but Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is adding one to the mix with the launch today of the Latitude XFR D630. The D630 is designed to address performance and compatibility issues Dell felt is a common problem in similar ruggedized notebooks.
“Dell is one of the only vendors in the rugged space that doesn’t require a tradeoff of performance and durability,” claims Brett McAnally, Dell’s director of product marketing for commercial notebooks.
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