Stocks Rocket as Greenback Gains
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
A big jump in the U.S.
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IBM Sees Enterprise Appeal in Wireless Net Boom
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
IBM (NYSE: IBM) continues sounding the charge on bringing its enterprise software to mobile users, today introducing several new offerings as well as partnerships with carriers AT&T (NYSE: T) and Sprint (NYSE: S) to extend its Rational, Lotus and Domino applications to wireless devices.
Products include Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), an application that allows mobile devices users to access mainframe applications. The new WebSphere Business Monitor software, which enables enterprises to measure business processes and performance, is now available for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices, and will be provided for the Apple iPhone in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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A Health Care App to Tackle Disasters
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and Childrens’ Hospital Los Angeles have been working together to build a software tool. Dubbed Pediatric Emergency Decision Support System, or PEDSS, the tool is designed to help medical service providers more effectively plan for, train for, and respond to serious incidents and disasters involving kids.
The project, a part of the Pediatric Disaster Resource and Training Center (PDRTC), has been going on for about eight months.
Dr. Tatyana Ryutov, a research scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute, is working on the system.
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Oil and Water? SEOs vs. Content Owners
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
SEO is more than making technical and content changes to a Web site and helping to better its chances of drawing authority links. Larger organizations and brands in particular should carefully account for politics and the review process when planning SEO projects.
The classic tête-à-tête that most people think of when considering SEO consultants’ clashes with internal directors and teams is the meeting of the designers and developers. Today, we’ll focus on the possibly uncomfortable meetings that can occur when SEO meets content creator.
Eric Enge’s column, “Large Enterprise SEO: Content Development” makes several great, accurate points and notes many important considerations.
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What If China’s Orwellian Olympics Succeeds?
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
By the end of the Olympic games, we’ll know whether the Chinese government’s unprecedented application of state-of-the-art digital technology to Orwellian social control can actually work.
Call it Orwellian IT. If you’re attending the Olympics: Oh, boy, is Big Brother watching you. According to Chinese authorities, the government has installed:
• 300,000 surveillance cameras
• Remotely controlled microphones, GPS devices and kill switches in all 70,000 Beijing taxicabs
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• Microphones in many or most hotel rooms and offices
• Equipment to tap all landline and cell phone calls in China
The government is also fielding all kinds of “advanced” security technologies.
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Rackspace’s Painful IPO Signals Industry Worries
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) shares fell by 12 percent in the Web hosting company’s market debut Friday, a day after its initial public offering priced at the lower end of the forecast range.
The San Antonio-based company’s shares traded at $10.92, down 12.6 percent, in mid-morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Its shares opened today at $10, or 20 percent below the price set for the IPO.
Rackspace’s IPO priced for $12.50 per share, at the lower end of the estimated range of $12 to $16 a share.
The news points to further signs of weakness in the Web hosting business, said Renaissance Capital analyst Matt Therian.
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blinkx Seeks to Acquire MIVA for $1.20 Per Share
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
blinkx Seeks to Acquire MIVA for $1.20 Per Share
Online video search engine blinkx has sent a letter to digital advertising company MIVA, seeking to acquire it for $1.20 per share. Yesterday’s closing price for MIVA stock, which trades on the NASDAQ, was $0.78.
MIVA has certainly had its share of trouble of recent years. The company has gone through reorganizations and a management shakeup in the hopes of stabilizing the business, which includes a pay-per-click offering.
Here’s the full text of the letter for your consumption.
August 8, 2008
MIVA, Inc.
5220 Summerlin Commons Boulevard
Suite 500
Fort Myers, FL 33907
Attention: Peter Corrao, CEO
Larry Weber, Chairman
Members of the Board of DirectorsDear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Re: blinkx and MIVA CombinationI am writing on behalf of the board of directors of blinkx Plc to make a proposal for the business combination of blinkx and MIVA.
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Could an AOL Sale Hurt Google?
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
Google’s 5 percent stake in Time Warner’s AOL unit may be worth less than the $1 billion the Web company paid for it in 2006, Google warned in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
“We believe our investment in AOL may be impaired,” Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said in its latest quarterly financial filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Google said it would continue to review its investment for impairment, and financial write-downs could be required in the future.
In a deal announced in December 2005 and which closed the following year, Google paid $1 billion in cash for a 5 percent indirect equity stake in AOL.
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The View Beyond Vista
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
Why use an operating system other organizations have rejected? That’s a question many enterprises will be asking themselves when considering moving some or all of their Windows desktops to Microsoft Vista.
A small minority of organizations run Linux or Mac OS X on the desktop and have no interest in Vista for that reason. But most others will at least consider migrating. And these businesses are overwhelmingly rejecting Vista, according to a report called “Enterprise Trends: Vista Is Rejected; Mozilla and Apple Make Small Gains,” which Forrester Research published in late July.
“Eighteen months after the release of Windows Vista, enterprise adoption is still in the single digits, and the majority of that seems to have come from upgrades of legacy Windows versions, not XP,” the report says.
It’s not surprising that enterprises running Windows 98 or the despised Windows ME (surely they can’t have been running anything older) are upgrading to Vista.
Citrix CTO Eyes the Future of Virtualization
Autor admin | 08.08.2008 | Category SEO
SAN FRANCISCO — Vendors of virtual machines must ensure their products are interoperable, or they will lock customers into yet another proprietary stack, nullifying the promise of anytime, anywhere computing on any platform offered by virtualization.
This was the major theme of Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) chief technology officer Simon Crosby’s keynote speech Thursday at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco.
“Users want to go to any server working with any platform at any time, and want any virtual machine (VM) on any platform at any time,” said Crosby. “The power of virtualization is achievable if and only if that happens.”
VM vendors still face several issues in getting to interoperability and an industry standard architecture, Crosby said.
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