Microsoft Serves Up SQL 2008
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft today announced it’s releasing to manufacturing SQL Server 2008, its enterprise database and business intelligence platform.
Originally planned for earlier this year to coincide with Windows Server 2008, SQL Server was delayed to insure the code was solid.
The release comes three years after SQL Server 2005, which is better than the five-year gap between it and SQL Server 2000. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) got an earful from customers and promised greater expedience with the release cycles.
“Customers clearly told us [the gap between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005] was too long,” said Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s data platform and storage division.
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For Search Engine Use, Glass Almost Half Full
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
For Internet-savvy folks, a day without a search engine might seem about as sensible as trying to drive a car with no gas. But according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, not quite half of all Internet users even touch a search engine on a typical day. Yet the 49 percent of U.S. Internet users who routinely make search a part of their online activities is a dramatic upswing from a Pew finding of 30 percent in June 2004, on the eve of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) initial public offering. The study points to both the rapid growth of search engines and the relative immaturity of the industry, suggesting that a market dominated by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is still poised for considerable expansion. (Read the full post about ‘For Search Engine Use, Glass Almost Half Full’…)
Google Sells Performics to Publicis Groupe
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
Google Sells Performics to Publicis Groupe Google has sold its Performics search marketing business to the Publicis Groupe. Chicago-based Performics has about 200 employees in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, London, Hamburg, Sydney, Singapore and Beijing. The business will report into Curt Hecht, president of Paris-based Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center. Hecht is the former EVP Chief Digital Officer, GM Planworks, a unit of Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) “Publicis Groupe has been a leader in the advertising industry for decades, and we believe Performics’ growing business will benefit from being part of it,” said Google Chairman and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt in a statement. (Read the full post about ‘Google Sells Performics to Publicis Groupe’…)
U.S. Charges 11 in TJX Data Theft
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
BOSTON — The U.S. government charged 11 people on Tuesday with stealing tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major retailers including TJX Cos (NYSE: TJX), in one of the largest reported identity-theft incidents on record.
The U.S. Attorney in Boston said those charged were involved in the theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from retailers that included: BJ’s Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW Inc.
Framingham, Massachusetts-based TJX, which owns the Marshall’s and TJ Maxx chains, was the hardest hit by the ring, acknowledging in March 2007 that information from 45.7 million credit cards was stolen from its computers.
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New News Search Engine: Newsflashr
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
New News Search Engine: Newsflashr Newsflashr.com launched a new type of search engine for news stories today. Users are prompted to enter keywords and the search results are polled and displayed in real-time from many of the leading news services such as MSN Live, Ask Big News, Google News, Yahoo News, MSNBC, Digg and Twitter to name a few. Newsflashr will also feature the Techmeme Leaderboard. The site is the first to add a social twist to news reporting, in an attempt to leverage contributions of citizen journalists and the collective intelligence. For the first time, we’ll be able to determine whether Twitter is actually a news source. Plus, Digg - one of the key drivers of searches on Google Hot Trends - will be featured as a news source. The sites is shooting for a hip, ironic image. The front page graphic is no Google Doodle. It’s a pic of The Joker superimposed on nuclear missiles, with the caption the Joker’s line from The Dark Knight, “Why so serious?” (see below) “As a small company, we think that we can challenge the big guns with our new approach that pulls from all their results and pushes them on to a single results page. Say someone is really thirsty for any news updates on a given person or company, using Newsflashr, they’ll never miss a beat,” said Gal Arav, founder of Newsflashr.com, in a statement. The new service complements Newsflashr’s existing free news portal launched in February 2008. The existing portal is a news interface that highlights keywords (topics) representing the “collective intelligence” of hundreds of the top news editors as it updates throughout the day for a wide variety of mainstream news and blog categories. (Read the full post about ‘New News Search Engine: Newsflashr’…)
Google Updates Search Appliance, Now Holds 10 Million Documents
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
Google Updates Search Appliance, Now Holds 10 Million Documents
Google has released a new version of their hardware product, Search Appliance. The new version can hold up to 10 million documents in a single box, as much as a previouis version held in a 5 box rack.
The box holds Google software that powers search services and runs on Dell storage hardware.
Other new features in the updated version include greater encryption powers and notifications of new documents stored by colleagues.
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Yahoo Confirms Vote Error, Yang and Bostock Not Liked So Much After All
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo Confirms Vote Error, Yang and Bostock Not Liked So Much After All Yahoo has confirmed that a ‘tabulation error’ occurred in the shareholder vote count conducted by Broadridge Financial Solutions, the independent firm hired to do the job. Turns out, just over half of the shareholders felt the need to vote Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang. It’s probably a good thing (for them) that they reached that settlement with Carl Icahn, or else the vote may have turned a worse outcome for the two. (Read the full post about ‘Yahoo Confirms Vote Error, Yang and Bostock Not Liked So Much After All’…)
Networks: The Crux of Tomorrow’s Datacenter
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
Source: LinuxWorld SAN FRANCISCO — As enterprises virtualize their environments and move toward the next-generation datacenter, the network will enable this move, Rajiv Ramaswami, vice president and general manager of Cisco, said yesterday. In his keynote speech yesterday at the Next Generation Data Center and LinuxWorld conferences, held concurrently at San Francisco’s Moscone Center this week through Thursday, Ramaswami told his audience that the network will have increased bandwidth and capabilities to meet the needs of virtualization. He predicted that Ethernet will win out over other networking technologies, and that enterprises will consolidate their networks to meet their evolving datacenter requirements. (Read the full post about ‘Networks: The Crux of Tomorrow’s Datacenter’…)
Comcast Picks up DailyCandy
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
NEW YORK — Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), the largest U.S. cable operator, said on Tuesday it is buying DailyCandy, a women’s fashion and lifestyle e-mail newsletter for an undisclosed amount.
Comcast paid around $125 million for the closely held New York-based company, according to people familiar with the talks. DailyCandy employs 55 people and sends out daily e-mails to readers in 12 U.S. cities and London, England.
Comcast said DailyCandy, which started in 2000, runs a successful premium ad-supported e-mail business and has kept a loyal base of fashion-conscious women in their 20s to 40s. It said this has attracted major advertisers like American Express, Target and Procter & Gamble.
Google: 10 Million Docs in a Box
Autor admin | 06.08.2008 | Category SEO
Source: Google Google announced a major upgrade to its Search Appliance hardware and many more features to the related software that current owners of the system can get for free. The current Search Appliance (Model GB-1001) can search up to 3 million documents. Google said the latest version (Model GB-7007), available next month, can handle up to ten million documents. “This compares to having to manage a dozen or more servers in the more traditional approach to enterprise search,” Ninton Mahntani, Google’s lead product manager for enterprise search, told InternetNews.com. “We have brand new hardware and software to search 10 million documents in a single box.” RELATED ARTICLES Did Google Bend to Rivals on Mini? (Read the full post about ‘Google: 10 Million Docs in a Box’…)