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- Offshore outsourcers turn cautious
- The three primary publicly traded offshore outsourcing companies have turned cautious about the future even as their financial results remain strong. Among the worries--a weak dollar that's hurting revenue and margins, economic uncertainty, murky IT budgets and a concentration of financial services and retail customers. Meanwhile, CIOs...
- Tags: Revenue, Wipro Technologies, Financial Service, Outsourcing Company, Net Income, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Total BlackBerry user base passes 12 million
- The number of BlackBerry users worldwide has now passed 12 million. That's according to BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, which reported its latest quarterly earnings today. This report encompasses the period from September 1-December 1. The company said revenue for the third quarter of fiscal...
- Tags: Tax, Net Income, Quarter, RIM BlackBerry, Taxes, Free Trade, Handhelds, Financial Planning, Finance, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Salesforce.com third-quarter net income jumps
- Salesforce.com third-quarter net income jumpsAnd who are all those people claiming that nobody will use onlineapplications?
- Tags: Sales force management, net income jump, net income, Salesforce.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- Dell's mis-statements are not trivial
- Dell's mis-statements for the years 2003-6 are being downplayed as 'trivial.' Rubbish. As Larry Dignan notes:While the restatements were small, Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner notes that Dell would have missed estimates during its first fiscal quarter of 2003, second quarter of 2003 and fourth quarter of 2005 without the accounting...
- Tags: KPMG Consulting Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Audit, Net Income, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- BlackBerry-maker announces FY 2008 1Q numbers: 9 mil+ users
- BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion starts their Fiscal Year at the end of the first quarter of each calendar year. Because we are coming up to July 1, that means the end of 1Q FY'2008.Here are the numbers RIM thinks you should know:Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2008...
- Tags: News, Corporate Stuff
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- aQuantive: Who are these guys?
- The instant messages and emails about Microsoft's $6 billion purchase of aQuantive go something like this: "Whoa that's a big deal." "I'd hate to be short aQuantive." "If Microsoft was going to spend that much why didn't it just buy Doubleclick?" "Who is aQuantive and where'd they come from?"Most of the messages coalesce around...
- Tags: Microsoft, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Adobe third-quarter net income falls
- Adobe third-quarter net income fallsOh well, maybe the software has achieved thegood enuff as is, no need to keep on the upgrade/buy treadmill.
- Tags: net income fall, net income, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-15
- Seagate net income crashes after Maxtor buy
- Seagate net income crashes after Maxtor buyWow, that was the act of someone with a Mental HandicapSo... Seagate, I have one question for you... What the #@#% were you thinking again?What was the point to purchase Maxtor,apart from whining that their net profit intake was so low?Also, why Maxtor?...
- Tags: Branding, net income, Western Digital Corp., income, Seagate Technology LLC, Maxtor Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-08-09
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- Online, hard to avoid debate
- Tonight's presidential debate is spring up all over the Net. NBC's Hulu has launched a new Election 08 hub, which PaidContent describes as "an odd mix of debates, speeches, political humor, soundbites and commentary." Hulu is also showing Crawford, a film about the effects of...
- Tags: Debate, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
- There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...
- Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Mono 2.0...why not Microsoft?
- The release of Mono version 2.0, the open source implementation of .NET that is available for use on Mac, Linux and Windows platforms, is an achievement in itself. I often wonder, however, why Microsoft has no interest in releasing a cross-platform, fully-supported version of the .NET framework themselves. by...
- Tags: Mono, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu
- October is promising to be a big month for open source releases. As the page on the calendar turned, Acquia launched of its commercially supported version of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. And over the weekend, Novell-sponsored Mono project announced the...
- Tags: Mono, Ubuntu, Drupal, October, Linux, OpenOffice, .Net, Open Source, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Netflix: Outage, economy ding subscriber growth
- Netflix on Monday detailed its outlook for the third and fourth quarters, projected fewer subscribers than before and said its August outage cost it $6.5 million. The company said in a statement that its third quarter earnings will be "comfortably" within its targets, but said a one-time...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Outage, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come -- the move is another symbolic nail in Vista's coffin....
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IT Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- More on wikipedia abuse
- More on wikipedia abuseThanks!That's an interesting report - if the research stands up, the method used could form the basis for a more general approach. Thanks for pointing it out.RE: More on wikipedia abuseReaders might be interested in seeing a study on vandalism of US senator's WP articles here :...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies
- New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform's CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times' Executive Editor John Solomon, there's an interesting story to tell of...
- Tags: Story, Editorial Staff, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Hitwise: Microsoft's cash for search program working (sort of)
- Microsoft made a splash this week by adding new perks to its "hey we'll pay you to use our search" program and may actually be making some progress--sort of--with it. Hitwise has some interesting research on the topic. In a blog post Hitwise director of research Heather...
- Tags: Hitwise, MSN, Microsoft Corp., Blogging, Operational Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
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