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Eyore (exe)

Eyore provides a simple interface that allows you to quickly and easily view your true profits from eBay, Overstock, and Yahoo listings. Knowing how small changes in your listing strategy can affect your net profits on your preferred auction listing site can make a big difference in your net profits....

Tags: Net Profit, Cyber Sprocket Labs, Eyore

Software downloads 2007-12-28

Yahoo net profit falls; Wall Street awaits action

Yahoo net profit falls; Wall Street awaits actionNot that big of a surprise.The problem with Yahoo is that they have lost their originality that brought their initial success. They are providing some free products but they never feel free with their obnoxious advertisers and annoying fad-based emoticons and imagery....

Tags: Yahoo net profit, Yahoo! Inc., net profit

Discussion threads 2007-10-16

Symantec posts higher quarterly net profit

Symantec posts higher quarterly net profitUmfear-mongering for profit . . .

Tags: net profit, Symantec Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-29

Aided by chip sales, AMD posts net profit

Aided by chip sales, AMD posts net profitGood news and Bad news..I guess the good news is that AMD can make a buck and things like their TURDion on selling well.The bad news is, as the article states, is that this does contradict their bellyaching that they can't get...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Network technology, sales, net profit, chip, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-13

Additional Resources

Amazon's "Remembers" feature needs to go further

Several of my ZD Net colleagues noted the launch to Amazon's iPhone app this week. The feature that is most interesting, in my opinion, is the Amazon Remembers, which lets users snap a photo of a product with their iPhone and upload it refer to later, when shopping, and so...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Remembers, Scanners, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Intel maintains commitment to education

Despite dismal economic times, Intel, creator of the Classmate PC, an associated software stack, and a pedagogical model for its use in schools, has reaffirmed its commitment to education. Today, the company announced that it had achieved its goal of 1 million volunteer hours from its employees. According...

Tags: Education, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Support.com: We'll kill your crapware for free

Support.com on Monday will roll out a free service designed to remove crapware from your PC. This public service has a bit of a motive: Support.com--essentially the Jiffy Lube of the PC industry--wants your future business. Here's how this will work: Folks call 1-800-PC-Support or log on...

Tags: Software, PC, Support.com, Netbooks, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?

It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...

Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-12-04

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...

Tags: Consumer, U.S., Cost, Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04

IBM launches first Linux-OpenOffice desktop with virtualization features

IBM has added a Linux desktop with new virtualization capabilities to its portfolio. The Virtual Desktop, which bundles Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, Virtual Bridges' KVM-based desktop virtualization software and IBM's Open Collaboration Client Solution, is available now, Big Blue announced on Thursday. None of the...

Tags: IBM Corp., Virtual Bridges, IBM Lotus Symphony, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Comcast to launch meter to track Web usage

It only seemed fair that Comcast would give its customers a way to track their Web usage, seeing how the company imposed a a 250 GB limit on the Web data that its customers use in a month. But when the company announced that limit earlier this year, there was...

Tags: Web, Comcast Corp., Usage, Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-03

ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains

ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domainsThey will just come backunder a different nameThe backlash is probably coming in 2009I applaud the anti-spamming and anti-phishing measures that many registrars are taking, but there is going to be some backlash. There are still many governments and NGOs around the world...

Tags: ICANN, DirectI, Estdomains, backlash

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Creative Commons needs help with "non-commercial use"

One of the things you learn pretty quickly in the open source community is that "non-commercial use" is not a well-defined term. This is why the Open Source Definition doesn't allow for clauses to restrict commercial use. The same can't be said for Creative Commons, and they're looking for some...

Tags: Creative Commons, Marketing Research, Open Source, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Slicing up Sun

Slicing up SunDell seems a better fit.If any company could make money on Sun's current products, Sun itself is the most likely to do so. That Sun cannot produce profits means that the buyers would not be interested in continuing what Sun is now doing.Sun's most important assets are...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, OPEN SOURCE, Manufacturing hardware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Cyber Monday spending jumps 15 percent. What happened to bah humbug economy?

Cyber Monday spending jumps 15 percent. What happened to bah humbug economy?More businesses reporting?Might be a good reason for change? Maybe the news intentionally scaring retailers to drop prices? Maybe the deep discounts allowed more to buy the stuff they coudnt afford this year? But as the...

Tags: Cyber Monday

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Slicing up Sun

Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls -- one of which is from a disclosure perspective, I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-12-03

RIM warns for the third quarter; Blames Bold, Storm slippage, weak Loonie

Research in Motion said its third quarter sales and earnings will be lower than expected primarily due to "shifts in product launch dates" and a weak economy. In a statement late Tuesday, RIM said that revenue for the third quarter will be $2.75 billion to $2.78 billion....

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Quarter, Storm, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-03

AV on my Macs? Say it ain't so!

As fellow ZDNet blogger, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, notes, Apple now recommends the use of antivirus software on your Mac. UGH. Really? The relative immunity of Macs to the plethora of malware floating about the Net has always been a selling point for the machines, especially in schools. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Malware, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Sage results show impact on SMB market

  Earlier today, Sage, the UK's largest software vendor announced its full year results to 30th September and provided an update on how it sees the market going forward. Both the UK and US markets are the most affected by the economic downturn. In his review, CEO...

Tags: Revenue, Growth, Health Care, U.K., Small And Medium Business, Sage, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-03