We May Not Want Standards But FTC May Give Us Some
Autor admin | 12.04.2008 | Category SEO
We May Not Want Standards But FTC May Give Us Some
The standards debate may be in full swing in our industry - but the decisions may be soon taken out of our hands if the FTC continues to define allowable advertising practices.
MediPost has a good overview of the developments of behavioral targeting and how they can be used. “Ad industry players are urging the FTC not to impose any new regulations — and also argue that the proposed voluntary guidelines are too restrictive,” they reported.
Where this gets close to our industry comes from the people seeking greater regulations.
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Google: A Clear & Present Danger to Corporate Data Privacy
Autor admin | 12.04.2008 | Category SEO
Google: A Clear & Present Danger to Corporate Data Privacy UPDATE: Editors’ Note: At the request of Google, we’ve removed the photo of Google engineer Jayant Madhavan, co-author (with Alon Halevy) of the Google Webmaster Central blog post, Crawling through HTML forms, posted by Maile Ohye, Senior Support Engineer at Google. The photo was deleted at Google’s request to respect the privacy of Google’s corporate data and the personal privacy of Jayant Madhavan. — Kevin Heisler, Executive Editor, Search Engine Watch A few hours ago, Google announced to the world that the company has been crawling forms on “high-quality” Web sites to index “Invisible Web” content in the Google.com search engine. (Read the full post about ‘Google: A Clear & Present Danger to Corporate Data Privacy’…)
Technical Analysis: It’s a Bear’s Market
Autor admin | 12.04.2008 | Category SEO
Until 12,743.2 goes on the Dow (first chart below), it’s still technically a bear market, as we were reminded today. It would take a close at that level or higher to confirm the Transports’ (second chart) higher high and generate a Dow Theory bull signal, reversing November’s bear signal. Until then, Dow Theory reminds us, we are still in a bear market, and will have days like today to remind us. 12,300 and 12,160-12,200 are next supports on the Dow, and 12,527 is first resistance. 1310 is next support on the S&P (third chart), and 1340-1350 is first resistance. 2280 and 2250 are the next support levels on the Nasdaq (fourth chart), and 2300, 2311 and 2322 are the first hurdles to the upside. (Read the full post about ‘Technical Analysis: It’s a Bear’s Market’…)
IBM Aims To Take Complexity Out of Media Storage
Autor admin | 12.04.2008 | Category SEO
IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) rolling out a new assessment service geared to help enterprises get a better grip on storage using a propriety framework that evaluates everything from architecture complexity to future data growth. IBM said it’s specifically targeting film production, entertainment and other media companies.
Management Complexity Factor for Media (MCF for Media) includes a six to eight-week evaluation process that results in a customized program that lists out recommendations for two to three years of storage management.
Such niche service offerings are gaining ground as vertical markets, such as healthcare and entertainment, wrestle with demanding storage requirements and want better technology to improve data retrieval and more efficient data processes.
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Take Two on The Future of PC Graphics
Autor admin | 12.04.2008 | Category SEO
For 15 years, Nvidia has quietly grown from a maker of chips for videogame players into a significant presence among semiconductor makers. And the company has gained high profit margins unburdened with the huge capital expense of high volume manufacturing because it’s always contracted out its chip fabrication.
In that time, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has grown into a $4 billion company with no debt, and was dubbed 2007 Company of the Year by Forbes magazine. It owns around two thirds of the discrete graphics market and most of the high end market. The company is as popular with gamers as Wall Street.
So why would it go spoiling for a fight with Intel?
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Nvidia CEO Goes on The Offensive Versus Intel
Autor admin | 12.04.2008 | Category SEO
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - If there was any doubt Nvidia was spoiling for a fight with Intel, its colorful CEO dispensed with that thoroughly here at an analyst’s conference.
“The competition has been awfully preoccupied with our company lately,” Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told the gathering at Nvidia’s offices here just a few miles from Intel’s headquarters. “I can’t go to a conference or read an article where they don’t talk about our company, how we’re going to go out of business shortly. It seems there’s a belief that if you say something loud enough and often enough, people will believe it.
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GE Brings Bears to Life
Autor admin | 12.04.2008 | Category SEO
A surprising earnings miss from GE and the lowest consumer confidence reading in 26 years renewed recession fears on Friday and sent stocks plunging.
A host of technology stocks got hit on the news that credit market turmoil had hit GE’s financial services business, which led to the company’s biggest earnings and sales shortfall in memory.
Some of the Nasdaq’s biggest names will report their first-quarter results next week, including Intel, IBM, eBay, AMD and Nokia.
Stocks with losses of 2.5% or more included Google, Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Oracle, Applied Materials, Research in Motion, AMD and Amazon.
After leading the tech sector higher Thursday, chip stocks led the way lower, with Nvidia and AMAT among the sector’s 5% losers.
Intervoice tumbled 15% after missing Wall Street estimates.
The Nasdaq lost 61 to 2290, the S&P fell 27 to 1332, and the Dow plunged 256 to 12,325.
Why You’ll Hate Cell Phone Spam
Autor admin | 12.04.2008 | Category SEO
Advertisers are all atwitter over the prospect of bombarding your cell phone with advertising.
If you’re already annoyed by mobile spam, as I am, you’ll be disappointed to learn that the industry has barely even begun to exploit this amazing source of eyeballs.
One estimate suggests that your average consumer is already exposed to about 3,000 ads per day (New York City residents see about 5,000 per day). The problem with this figure, according to the advertising industry, is that it’s way too low. They intend to fix the problem by adding lots of ads to your cell phone.
Much of this advertising will be very sophisticated behinds the scenes. It will be targeted based on geography, for example.
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AMD CTO Heads For The Door
Autor admin | 12.04.2008 | Category SEO
It seems one of the 1,600 employees leaving Advanced Micro Devices will be Chief Technology Office Phil Hester, who resigned today as senior vice president and CTO of the embattled chipmaker.
An AMD (NYSE: AMD) spokesman confirmed Hester’s departure and told InternetNews.com that the move was unrelated to the company’s impending layoffs. Earlier this week, AMD announced lower-than-expected earnings and revenues, and said it would cut 10 percent of its 16,000-person workforce.
“He decided to leave,” AMD spokesman Rob Keosheyan said. “He leaves on good terms; it was his decision.” He added that Hester did not disclose his plans following the departure.