Sun Stock Dims on Weak Fiscal Q3
Autor admin | 03.05.2008 | Category SEO
This was not the way to build momentum heading into JavaOne next week.
Sun Microsystems took a big hit on Friday, losing 23 percent of its market value (down $3.85 in mid-morning trading to $12.48) on the news of a loss of $34 million, or 4 cents a share, on weaker sales.
For its third fiscal quarter ended March 30, sales were $3.266 billion, down slightly from $3.38 billion in the same quarter in 2007. Michael Lehman, chief financial officer for Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA), had predicted a 5 percent rise in sales.
Sun became one of the first firms to blame the U.S. economic conditions on its poor performance. Lehman told a conference call with financial analysts that the company began to notice in March that only U.S.
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Web-Based IT Management Spec Gets Official Nod
Autor admin | 03.05.2008 | Category SEO
Two years after first launching its Web Services for Management standard, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has ratified it as final.
The DMTF, with more than 4,000 participants from 44 countries and nearly 200 organizations, leads the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management standards and initiatives. Board members include representatives from IBM, Intel, AMD, Novell, Microsoft, HP, Broadcom and EMC.
Its new standard, known colloquially as WS-Management or WS-MAN, uses Web services to remotely manage IT systems — a typically done today by specifications like the venerable Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
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EMC Backs Up Macs
Autor admin | 03.05.2008 | Category SEO
EMC is now offering its Mozy online backup service to Mac users.
MozyHome for Mac has already been downloaded more than 43,000 times by beta users and is the clearest sign yet that the high-end enterprise storage giant sees consumers as a big growth market.
“This is a real clear signal that this is a real big part of the EMC (NYSE: EMC) business moving forward,” said Mozy COO Vance Checketts.
It also may well be the fastest-growing part of EMC’s business. With more than 700,000 users and 20,000 business signed up, Mozy has grown 40 percent just since January.
When Is International ‘Shut Up Day’?
Autor admin | 03.05.2008 | Category SEO
Saturday is International Shutdown Day, a worldwide event put together by a Canadian organization of the same name (Shutdown Day) to get as many people as possible to ignore their computers for 24 hours. According to the organizer’s Web site:
“The idea of Shutdown Day project is simple — just shutdown your computer for one whole day of the year and involve yourself in some other activities: outdoors, nature, sports, fun stuff with friends and family — whatever, just to remind yourself that there still exists a world outside your monitor screen.”
Here’s an idea. Why don’t we all make Saturday “International Shut Up Day” — a day where we all just leave each other alone and not try to get each other to do something.
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More Losses for Nortel but Telecom Hopeful for Year
Autor admin | 03.05.2008 | Category SEO
Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT) posted a bigger first-quarter loss on Friday as a series of charges weighed on results, but the telecommunications equipment maker reassured investors that it still expects to meet its full-year targets, which sent its shares higher. Nortel reported a loss of $138 million, or 28 cents a share, compared with a loss of $103 million, or 23 cents a share, a year earlier. The latest results included a number of one-time items, including special charges of $88 million for restructuring, a charge of $12 million related to a patent lawsuit settlement and a loss of $19 million due to changes in foreign exchange rates.
Source: Nortel Networks
Ballmer: Yahoo Announcement on Its Way
Autor admin | 03.05.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday that walking away from a deal with Yahoo remained one of “three big options” the company is weighing and that an announcement will come shortly. Neither side would comment on whether they were seeking a last-minute deal before Microsoft makes good on its threat to turn its unsolicited bid, currently worth $42.4 billion, into a hostile takeover battle. The Wall Street Journal reported late on Thursday that Microsoft appeared to be leaning toward going hostile in its pursuit of the Internet company, citing people familiar with the matter. An announcement could come on Friday, the Journal said. A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment. (Read the full post about ‘Ballmer: Yahoo Announcement on Its Way’…)
Getting Cozy with Online Ad Formats
Autor admin | 03.05.2008 | Category SEO
Getting Cozy with Online Ad Formats
The SEO community has been a-buzz lately about standards. There’s the epic conversation going on about SEO standards. And then there’s the new mobile image ad guidelines that immediately outdated Google’s new mobile ads.
Today, Google’s Adwords blog got in on the action by talking about general online ad formats. Specifically, the Adwords team has published an online ad format guide. The one-page PDF guide is super simple to read and comprehend.
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