$48.5B Deal For Bell Moves Forward
Autor admin | 29.03.2008 | Category SEO
The trend towards technology privatization can be blocked or pushed forward by governmental regulatory hurdles, no matter if the company is in the U.S or Canada.
Bell Canada Enterprise (BCE) is now on the Government-approved side of regulators for its $48.5 billion U.S.-leveraged buyout deal that will see the publicly held telecom giant privatized.
The key hurdle in the approval by the Canadian Radio and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC), the Canadian equivalent of the FCC, was foreign ownership concerns — with foreign in this case being U.S interests.
“The application under review proposed to privatize the country’s largest communications company and included significant foreign interest,” Konrad von Finckenstein, Q.C., chairman of the CRTC, said in a statement.
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Last Minute Vote Switching in OOXML Decision
Autor admin | 29.03.2008 | Category SEO
“It’s not over until it’s over,” is a classic aphorism that Yogi Berra is reputed to have coined. He couldn’t have been more right when it comes to Microsoft’s quest to transform its Office 2007 file formats into a broadly recognized international standard.
With less than 24 hours to go before the cut off for nations to change their votes in the great contest to see if the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will grant Office Open XML (OOXML) standards status, the playing field is shifting like the bases on a sandlot baseball diamond.
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More Enterprises Buy Into Storage Virtualization
Autor admin | 29.03.2008 | Category SEO
Storage virtualization is gaining traction with Fortune 1000 enterprises, according to a new study that found 35 percent currently use the technology and plan to expand their investment during the next two years.
Additionally, deployment is expected to hit 50 percent by 2009 — a 400 percent spike since in adoption since 2005, according to a new report from research firm TheInfoPro.
Storage virtualization’s popularity is on the rise because it is expanding beyond its initial benefit of providing storage efficiencies, said Robert Stevenson, TheInfoPro’s managing director of storage research.
One reason the technology is wooing buyers is thanks to its ability to reduce costs through consolidation.
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Mobile Content Hunger Bodes Well For Carriers
Autor admin | 29.03.2008 | Category SEO
When it comes to mobile content there’s little customer loyalty to wireless carriers, except when it comes to ring tones and games, according to a new report from ABI Research.
Mobile device users are more likely to grab third-party or Web-based content over what’s pushed to, or loaded on, a handset, states the report.
“Perhaps more with the mobile phone than any other consumer electronics device, content is obtained from a variety of sources,” Michael Wolf, ABI research director, stated in a press release.
But that doesn’t necessarily push cellular service providers down to the market cellar, as today’s mobile device users are clearly demanding, and expecting, more content offerings.
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Does Google Allow Good Google Bombs?
Autor admin | 29.03.2008 | Category SEO
Does Google Allow Good Google Bombs?
To some, it appears that Google has painted itself into a corner with its reliance on linking for its ranking algorithm. The lines between legitimate SEO, paid links, and Google bombs are becoming increasingly blurred.
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Technical Analysis: Pullback
Autor admin | 29.03.2008 | Category SEO
Stocks have given back much of their recent gains, but bears don’t seem to have seized control just yet. For starters, downside volume has been tame, below 80%, and the advance-decline line (first chart below) hasn’t turned sharply lower either. But we’re still waiting for stocks to break out of their two-month trading range. 12,743 on the Dow (second chart) remains the big hurdle for the bulls. A close above that level would confirm the Transports (third chart) in a Dow Theory bull signal, reversing November’s bear signal. 12,100 is first support on the Dow, and 12,250-12,300 first resistance. The S&P (fourth chart) needs to clear 1338, 1345, 1370-1380 and 1400-1406, and 1310, 1300 and 1287 are support. (Read the full post about ‘Technical Analysis: Pullback’…)
Red Hat Rises As Stocks Fall
Autor admin | 29.03.2008 | Category SEO
Stocks fell for a third day Friday on fresh evidence that consumers are reining in spending, but Red Hat bucked the downtrend with better than expected quarterly results.
Red Hat shares gained 5.5% on earnings and sales that came in just ahead of Wall Street expectations.
Red Hat wasn’t the only tech stock to escape the selling, as Apple, Yahoo, Research In Motion, Dell, Qualcomm, Nvidia and Broadcom were among the Nasdaq most active stocks sporting gains on the day. RIM benefited from an RBC Capital upgrade. Apple gained on a Bank of America report predicting a high-speed iPhone and strong sales, and Qualcomm rose on reports of a mobile TV deal with AT&T.
Tessera Technologies soared 33% on a favorable International Trade Commission ruling in its patent dispute with Motorola, Freescale and Qualcomm.
Amazon Stretches Elastic Computer Cloud
Autor admin | 29.03.2008 | Category SEO
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has expanded the features offered in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a Web service that provides virtual storage farms for developers.
The new features are Elastic IP addresses, and the ability to launch compute instances in multiple availability zones — what amounts to further virtualization of the already virtualized storage service.
The new capabilities make the EC2 service more robust and cut the amount of time developers spend waiting for processes to be worked through.
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