ooVoo vooms past Typical Video Conferencing
Autor admin | 10.05.2008 | Category SEO
Videoconference communications provider ooVoo has pushed out a Mac version to complement its PC software that provides telephony, video messaging, instant messaging and files sharing capabilities.
Currently a free desktop application, the provider has also enhanced its tool to include a conversation recording feature, which lets enterprises record create video “notes” of an online meeting. The New York-based privately-held company is prepping both business and consumer service packages to deploy in the next few months.
“In the future we’re looking to provide application sharing services as well as additional security encryption features as we realize those are capabilities the enterprise environment are looking for,” Phillipe Schwartz, CEO, told InternetNews.com during a four-person video chat conference via ooVoo.
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Will Vista in the Enterprise Ever Take Off?
Autor admin | 10.05.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft’s retiring co-founder Bill Gates has been talking up Windows Vista this week. Specifically, he’s been touting the company’s claims that it has now sold 140 million Vista licenses since it first shipped on January 30, 2007.
In fact, the number is not new. Company executives have bandied it around lately, most recently during Microsoft’s third fiscal quarterly earnings call with financial analysts on April 24.
Microsoft declines to break out that figure, although much of it could be attributed to sales of new PCs at retail. It also does not break out overall sales of operating systems between legacy Windows XP and Vista sales.
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Techs Dodge Financial Fallout
Autor admin | 10.05.2008 | Category SEO
Massive losses at insurance giant AIG and plans by Citigroup to shed half a trillion dollars in assets sent blue chip shares tumbling on Friday, but the tech sector managed to escape much of the sell-off on some strong earnings reports.
Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN), RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK), Activision (NASDAQ: ATVI) and Sonus Networks (NASDAQ: SONS) jumped 10% or more each on better than expected results, and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) and Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT) also rose on their earnings reports.
Together, the stocks helped limit the Nasdaq’s loss to 0.2% on a day when the Dow fell by 1%.
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) also edged higher as it appeared to abandon its Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) proxy battle.
Can Motorola Fix its ‘Warring Tribes’?
Autor admin | 10.05.2008 | Category SEO
Andy*, a 30-year-old engineer, will never forget the experience of joining Motorola (NYSE: MOT) after college eight years ago.
Recruiters had spirited him to Schaumburg, Illinois, for a long weekend at company headquarters where he met executives and got a big taste of the company’s culture. He remembers traipsing through the company’s campus museum and dining with talented engineers. He was nothing short of giddy at the thought of a global technology innovator such as Motorola wooing him to come aboard.
After all, this was the venerable company that built the first car radio back in 1930, introduced the first FM portable two-way radio in 1943 and brought the world DynaTac, the first commercial portable cell phone in 1983.
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Facebook, 49 States in Web Safety Pact
Autor admin | 10.05.2008 | Category SEO
SAN FRANCISCO — Social networking site Facebook announced an agreement on Thursday with 49 U.S. state attorneys general and the District of Columbia to increase efforts to protect its youngest members from sexual predators.
The additional safety measures follow a similar agreement in January struck by larger rival MySpace, which also included every state apart from Texas.
Facebook said it would focus on improving the technology it employs to weed out inappropriate online behavior, and to make it tougher for adults to make friends with minors.
The agreement reflects its commitment to “keeping kids safe online,” said Chris Kelly, Facebook’s chief privacy officer.
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Google Adwords Launches Landing Page Load Time on Keyword Analysis Page
Autor admin | 10.05.2008 | Category SEO
Google Adwords Launches Landing Page Load Time on Keyword Analysis Page
Recently, Google announced that landing page load time will become a factor in determining quality score for Adwords. Today, they have launched a landing page load time metric for Adwords users.
The metric can be found on the Keyword Analysis page.
The load time factor will begin affecting Quality Score in mid-June. Need help improving your landing page load time? Google helps you out with, “How does load time affect my landing page quality?”
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Centralized Security Reporting for Open Source
Autor admin | 10.05.2008 | Category SEO
In a community as widespread and decentralized as open source, how do you coordinate information about software vulnerabilities?
For years, such efforts largely have been piecemeal: There are bug-tracking systems, security mailing lists and the U.S. government’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) efforts for disclosing major security vulnerabilities.
Now, major open source industry players like Novell and Google are lining up behind a new option: open source CERT, or oCERT.
While not related to US-CERT or its international offshoots — aside from licensing the CERT name and occasionally passing along information — oCERT shares a similar goal in working to consolidate open source security reporting.
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