Sun Also Rises on SSD
Autor admin | 04.06.2008 | Category SEO
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA), EMC (NYSE: EMC) and Seagate (NYSE: STX) are all headed down the path to solid state disk (SSD) flash technologies, but unlike its competitors, Sun believes it’s not enough to just swap out storage disks to gain the benefits of SSD.
The company aims to integrate SSD flash into Solaris and other open source storage technologies.
Sun’s the third major storage player to go SSD. Its effort follows EMC’s initial splash into enterprise SSD earlier this year, when it announced it was adding the drives to its Symmetrix DMX-4 storage system. Sun, however, says it’s the first to cement end-to-end flash-based storage into its portfolio.
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Techs Rise as Blue Chips Falter
Autor admin | 04.06.2008 | Category SEO
Tech stocks rose on deal speculation Wednesday, but blue chips ended the day modestly lower on the latest trouble in the financial sector.
In deal news, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) slipped 1% on reports that it could buy Alltel for about $27 billion. And Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) gained 2.7% after the company said it is still in talks with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).
A stronger than expected ADP employment report raised hopes that the government’s jobs report on Friday could come in better than expected, and strong productivity growth was another good sign for the economy.
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Yahoo Talks Up Display Ads as Sharks Circle
Autor admin | 04.06.2008 | Category SEO
Source: Reuters Embattled Web pioneer Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) placed a big stack of chips behind its future as a display advertising platform today, offering details of a string of new ad partnerships that it hopes will be enough to convince investors that the company’s turnaround strategy is working. Speaking this morning at an advertising conference in New York, Yahoo President Sue Decker laid out a vision of Yahoo taking a position at the nexus of online advertising. “Yahoo is helping to accelerate the transformation of how display advertising is both bought and sold,” Decker said. She described how Yahoo’s role as a technology provider meshes with the deals it is pursuing with buyers and sellers of online display ads. (Read the full post about ‘Yahoo Talks Up Display Ads as Sharks Circle’…)
Informatica Focuses on Data Value, Unification
Autor admin | 04.06.2008 | Category SEO
Informatica has unveiled version 8.6 of its eponymous flagship data integration package at Informatica World 2008 in Las Vegas.
This is a comprehensive, unified platform for data integration, which lets enterprises squeeze the maximum value out of their data by accessing, transforming, integrating and cleansing all their data so it can be trusted.
It has four components: PowerCenter RealTime Edition for real-time data integration, On-Demand Data Loader for integrating data from Salesforce.com with on-premise data, B2B Data Exchange for data transformation and exchange; and Proactive Data Quality with Identity Resolution to enable searching, matching and resolution of identities across multiple systems and in more than 60 languages.
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Acxiom Partners with Moon Valley for Comprehensive Local Search Results
Autor admin | 04.06.2008 | Category SEO
Acxiom Partners with Moon Valley for Comprehensive Local Search Results
Axciom, developer of online telephone directories, has announced a partnership with Moon Valley to provide comprehensive listings for local search. Moon Valley is the developer of software that searches the web for in-depth business information.
Together, the two hope to provide more substance to local search results. Listings will have more than just an address and a phone number. They will have additional company information to empower buying decisions.
“Say you’re searching for a pet-friendly hotel,” said Jonathan Cohn, Acxiom InfoBase_X™ data products leader.
Growing Pains For Web 2.0
Autor admin | 04.06.2008 | Category SEO
NEW YORK — It seems a safe bet to say that traditional publishers and advertisers are still learning the ropes of new media. The process of transitioning from a top-down, one-way communications model to the pluralistic Internet world where everyone can create or comment on anything, and no one wants to pay for anything, has gone in fits and starts, and is far from complete.
Here at Columbia University on the first day of New York City’s Internet Week, a panel of academics and media executives offered a few glimpses of what’s working and what isn’t.
“It’s very exciting,” said Lisa Hsia, senior vice president of new media and digital strategy at Bravo.
Microsoft to Work on Live Search Reputation
Autor admin | 04.06.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft to Work on Live Search Reputation
Kevin Johnson, Microsoft’s president of platforms and services division, has said that the company will work to fix their search brand image, according to USA Today. Microsoft has a history of holding the third largest search market share. But with Google dominating roughly 60% of the market and Yahoo holding onto 20-ish%, third place is not exactly competitive.
So far in 2008, Microsoft has tarnished their brand image. Their failed Yahoo acquisition attempt brought attention to their lackluster search product. Still, Microsoft has made no secret of their desire to catch Google.
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CondeNast Portfolio: Google Baffles Us
Autor admin | 04.06.2008 | Category SEO
CondeNast Portfolio: Google Baffles Us Understanding search engines and natural search may be the most important skill of the 21st century. At the very least, search engine knowledge will save you from an embarrassing faux pas. For example, Felix Salmon of Conde Nast Portfolio posted this morning on “Google’s Top 10 Universities.” The only problem? He doesn’t understand how the Google search engine works. Vanity Fair quotes Google’s Larry Page on the logic behind the Google search engine: “Even in the very early days when we were at Stanford, you could type “university” into Google, and you actually got the top 10 universities. (Read the full post about ‘CondeNast Portfolio: Google Baffles Us’…)
Microsoft Unveils AdCenter Desktop Beta
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Microsoft Unveils AdCenter Desktop Beta
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off a new application for webmasters: the AdCenter Desktop Beta.
The tool extends the capabilities of Microsoft online tools for adCenter, especially in the areas of bulk campaign management, research tools, and “Creation Wizard” functionality for creating new campaigns through a simple interface.
“From a platform standpoint, we’ve taken leaps in what we offer. A lot of what we’re doing on the ad platform side gets lost in the question of volume.
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Google, Amazon Survive Rest Fade Away, Analyst Claims!
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Google, Amazon Survive Rest Fade Away, Analyst Claims!
There is a 310-page report that basically sees only two major internet companies surviving in the future, “U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning” will be available to buy Tuesday - am guessing Amazon will have it. Amazon and Google were singled out to continue dominance, Reuters reported.
Read it but think how all industries offline have a group of competitors of varying sizes. The report was written before MicroHoo split, talks of IAC and Ebay being broken up - one happening when written, the other a suggestion by the Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay.
I don’t think I will be the only one thinking many of his arguments will not come to pass.
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