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- Things you've probably done this summer instead of work
- Those deeply ingrained school year patterns of summers off aren't easily forgotten once you work all year round. Fact is, everyone slacks off a little in the summer, and this one had more distractions than ever. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Hour, Worker, Odds, July, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Visualising the Semantic Web with Parallax
- July's episode of the Semantic Web Gang discussed some of the work being done to ensure that data made addressable by the Semantic Web is actually usable via intelligible interfaces. Subsequently, David Huynh released a video showing 'a novel browsing interface' designed to sit on top of...
- Tags: July, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Cool Tools - Plan a festive Fourth of July with social apps
- The Cool Tools feature is taking a long weekend with the rest of us so it's making its holiday splash today. This week in Cool Tools I explore ways that we can leverage the social Web to plan for a fun and festive Fourth of July celebration. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Barbecue, Festival, Friend, Tool, July, Cool Tools Feature, BrightKite, Social Networking Site, Social Networking, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
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- Symantec buys MessageLabs for $695 million; Bolsters SaaS lineup
- Somebody is finding some values out there in techland. Symantec on Wednesday said it is acquiring MessageLabs for $695 million in cash. MessageLabs, which offers messaging and Web security services, had about $145 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending July 31. Symantec...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Ask revamps for faster Web search, more relevance
- Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market leader Google. NEW YORK--IAC Corp's Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Ask.com, Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search, Channel Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Reuters, search, Google
- News items 2008-10-07
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...
- Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing
- SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- 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
- 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
- HP to jump into smartphones. Why?
- Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false
- updated: A citizen journalist's report this morning that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a severe heart attack and been hospitalized is not true, Apple spokespeople told ZDNet this morning. The initial report cited an unnamed "reliable" source saying that Jobs was suffering chest pains and shortness of breath. ...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CNN, Attack, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!
- Apple's iPhone is beating the Amazon Kindle at its own game -- what a shame. It doesn't have to be that way, though. Amazon could put the iPhone to shame if they'd make the Linux-based Kindle open to developers. According to Wired: Since the launch of...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, Sales Strategy, Games, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Semiconductor sales up 5.5% in August 2008
- Worldwide sales of semiconductors grew by 5.5% to $22.7 bln in August 2008 from August 2007 sales of $21.5 bln. Sales grew by 2.4% from July when sales were $22.2 bln, SIA says. Year-to-date sales through August were $170.2 bln, an increase of 4.5% from the same period of 2007...
- Tags: Semiconductor, PC Unit Sale, Unit Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- A great reason to jailbreak: tethering
- Everyone probably remembers the mythical NetShare iPhone tethering app that was released briefly by NullRiver. It vanished from the App Store at the end of July when Apple pulled it without explanation. Apple and AT&T are rumored to be discussing tethering, but as of yet no plans have been announced....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, PDAnet, Engineering, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Is Apple out of ideas?
- In an interesting BusinessWeek story, Arik Hesseldahl asks: "Where does Apple go from here?" For a company who has made a reputation of surprising consumers and resetting the bar, it's a good question. Of course, this question is asked on the heels of a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- What's really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank
- Concerns about IBM's third quarter are popping up almost daily. The standard set of concerns revolves around technology spending and the willingness to pay IBM's army of consultants fees for big bang projects as well as a stronger dollar. But underneath the surface there's a bigger worry that isn't being...
- Tags: Asset, Bank, Financial, Financing, IBM Corp., Finance Unit, Financing Unit, Global Financing, Commercial Financing, Participation Rate, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Top media sites in Brazil in July 2008
- Sites Audience, 000 Minutes per Visit Visits per Visitor Total Brazilian Internet Audience 25,288 34.9 49.3 Multimedia 16,720 7.9 9.3 YOUTUBE.COM 11,549 12.9 6.5 Globo Videos 8,293 2.5 6.2 WindowsMedia 3,580 2.3 2.8 MSN Music 2,053 3.6 1.8...
- Tags: MSN, Music, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Top search engines in Asia-Pacific in July 2008
- Top 10 Properties Searches, mln. Share of Searches Total Internet 27,059 100.0 Google Sites 9,073 33.5 Baidu.com Inc. 7,406 27.4 Yahoo! Sites 5,342 19.7 NHN Corporation 1,239 4.6 Alibaba.com Corporation 823 3.0 TENCENT Inc. 513 1.9...
- Tags: Search Engine, ComScore Networks Inc., Asia-Pacific, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Was RIM's Wall Street beating unjustified?
- Shares of Research In Motion got hammered to the tune of more than 27 percent to close the week - this despite a quarterly earnings report yesterday that included a 72 percent jump in profit from a year ago. That just goes to show that, especially in the quick-growth, suddenly-crowded...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Apple won't face lawsuit over iPhone battery life
- Bloomberg is reporting that Apple won't face a lawsuit claiming that the company didn't immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone or their $86 replacement cost including delivery. A U.S. District Judge in Chicago granted Apple's request that he dismiss the lawsuit on the evidence...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Lawsuit, Battery, Apple Inc., Engineering, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
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