Palm’s Thin Treo Pro Unleashed
Autor admin | 20.08.2008 | Category SEO
Source: Palm What’s thinner than the traditional Palm Treo but bigger than the Palm Centro and has no wireless carrier subsidy tied to its $549 price point? The answer is Palm’s (Nasdaq:PALM) latest smartphone, the Treo Pro, which debuted today. While getting good reviews for new features, the device is also sparking speculation about why the third-place handset maker went to market without a carrier partner in tow. “Palm usually partners to launch a new handset, then after months the exclusive deal becomes available to all carriers,” Jeff Kagan, telecom analyst, explained to InternetNews.com. “We saw that with the most recent Centro. (Read the full post about ‘Palm’s Thin Treo Pro Unleashed’…)
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A Merger in Wireless Chips for Ericsson, STMicro
Autor admin | 20.08.2008 | Category SEO
Ericsson and STMicroelectronics have agreed to join their wireless chip and software businesses to create a joint venture that will supply four of the world’s top five mobile phone makers.
The new company, announced on Wednesday, will bring together the Mobile Platforms unit of Ericsson, the world’s biggest mobile telecoms equipment maker, and ST-NXP wireless, the third-largest maker of wireless chips globally.
With pro-forma 2007 revenues or $3.6 billion, the venture will present a tougher challenge to wireless chip market leader Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) and No. 2 Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN). Ericsson and ST-NXP Wireless already cooperate with one another.
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eBay Revamps Fees as Amazon Muscles In
Autor admin | 20.08.2008 | Category SEO
eBay is cutting the fees U.S. sellers on its site pay for fixed-price items, in one of the company’s boldest moves this year to boost merchandise for sale, lure new buyers and take on competitors. Total sellers’ fees will decrease in most cases under eBay’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) plan to improve the balance between buyers and sellers on the world’s largest online auction site, and thereby reduce customer defections to rivals such as Amazon.com. “I’d say this is the most fundamental change we’ve made, ever, to the marketplace,” Lorrie Norrington, president of eBay marketplace operations, told Reuters. “It’s a huge shift from where we’ve been.” Instead of charging sellers to list each item separately, eBay will charge 35 cents to list any number of the same types of fixed-price items. (Read the full post about ‘eBay Revamps Fees as Amazon Muscles In’…)
Funding, Followed by New Focus For Panasas
Autor admin | 20.08.2008 | Category SEO
Hoping to find new markets for its high-performance parallel storage technology, Panasas is moving into the secondary storage market, and it has added $24 million in new funding to aid in that effort.
Panasas, which launched with great fanfare five years ago and whose technology forms the basis of the next-generation pNFS protocol, is now making a more affordable version of its high-end ActiveStor 6000 and 4000 storage clusters for secondary storage in response to customer demand, said Panasas product marketing director Matt Reid.
“Parallel computer architectures will need parallel storage,” said Reid.
Parallel storage boosts performance by removing the file server from the data path, thus eliminating a bottleneck.
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The Coming Big Search is Next Door
Autor admin | 20.08.2008 | Category SEO
SAN JOSE, Calif. – There’s no such thing as a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) killer and companies (from startups to mighty Microsoft) are crazy to think they can dethrone the search king. And one more thing, according to search experts: local search the real king
Second, Internet startups are, or should, be scrambling over each other to mine the next the big opportunity: providing local services enabled by the new generation of GPS-enabled phones and Web services like Twitter that track where you are and what you’re doing.
These are some insights and nuggets of advice search experts brought to the Search Engine Strategies conference here.
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Website Optimizer Enables Pruning and Offline Validation
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Website Optimizer Enables Pruning and Offline Validation
Google has released a major update to Website Optimizer, which contains new features that will have users breathing a sigh of relief.
First up, you can now disable combinations that just aren’t working out for you. Dubbed “Experiment Pruning,” the feature allows users to eliminate combinations that are poorly performing or just don’t make sense for your campaign. This can help you achieve faster results as well as set up a reasonable number of combinations relative to the traffic you expect to receive.
Next, offline validation is now available for pages that aren’t accessible to Website Optimizer.
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Surprise, VMware in Microsoft Validation Program
Autor admin | 20.08.2008 | Category SEO
There are no permanent enemies in politics, just permanent interests, the truism goes; and this is apparently true in business as well. InternetNews.com has learned that VMware has joined arch-rival Microsoft’s third-party server virtualization validation program (SVVP).
“VMware is proud to be a part of SVVP,” Carl Eschenbach, executive vice president of worldwide field operations, said in an email sent to InternetNews.com. “VMware is looking forward to working closely with Microsoft to complete the certification of VMware ESX under the SVVP program to provide customers the support they need to gain the flexibility and benefits of working in virtualized environments.”
ESX is one of VMware’s hypervisors(define), and Microsoft’s certification is necessary if customers using VMware (Read the full post about ‘Surprise, VMware in Microsoft Validation Program’…)
Intel’s Nehalem Takes Center Stage at IDF
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SAN FRANCISCO – Intel today offered a look inside its next generation of processors, the Nehalem family, with new details and demos during the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Nehalem was the code name for the processor, which Intel recently dubbed officially as the Core i7.
The Penryn family of processors fades into the sunset with Dunnington, the six-core Xeon server processor that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) began shipping to OEM partners in July. It will appear in systems in September. The official product name is Xeon 7400.
Penryn is certainly going out in a big way. Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise group, showed some record high benchmarks, including the first TPCC benchmark to break the one million mark for transaction processing.
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SEC Jumps Into 21st Century With New IDEA
Autor admin | 20.08.2008 | Category SEO
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today unveiled a sweeping new architecture for its repository of financial disclosures, promising that the new system will give investors far greater insight into the filings of mutual funds and public companies.
Called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications, the new database will gradually replace EDGAR, the agency’s current filing-retrieval system.
“EDGAR dates back to the era of mainframe computing, it’s time for the SEC to take the next step,” SEC Commissioner Christopher Cox told reporters at a press conference Tuesday morning.
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PCI Standard Widened for Better Security
Autor admin | 20.08.2008 | Category SEO
In the wake of heavily publicized breaches such as the one at TJX that are reported to have been the result of inadequate wireless transmission security, the credit card industry has broadened its security standards.
The PCI Security Standards Council, which governs the standard, yesterday unveiled version 1.2 of PCI Data Security Standards, or PCI-DSS (define). This security for credit card transactions will be available for merchant use on Oct. 1, the organization reported.
Although the Council says version 1.2 will “not introduce any major new requirements” and will only “introduce clarifying items,” it has introduced important changes.
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