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Winterflood Deploys Expand for Round-the-Clock Connectivity to Global Financial Markets

Winterflood Securities is a top provider of liquidity to stockbrokers servicing retail domestic and foreign markets. Winterflood needed to find a way to cost-effectively boost its bandwidth requirements, while ensuring seamless business continuity operations in the remote office that also serves as its software development facility. Upon the recommendation of...

Tags: Financial, Financial Market, Expand Networks Inc., Winterflood, Winterflood Securities, WANs, Software Development, It Services, Networking, Development Tools, Network Technology, Software/Web Development

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Government, markets and regulation

Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...

Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

McAfee fined $18 million for patent infringement

A federal jury in Texas has ordered McAfee to pay $18 million in past and future damages for infringing on a patent held by DeepNines Inc., according to Barron's Tech Trader Daily blog. The court decision, revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, was handed down last week. ...

Tags: McAfee Inc., SEC Filing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Brocade to acquire Foundry in $3 Billion deal

Brocade has said it will acquire Foundry Networks, a company that does enterprise and service provider switching and routing, in a deal valued at $3 billion. The acquisition, which still needs final approval, comes on the heels of corporate problems for Brocade, notably the criminal misconduct sentence...

Tags: Stock Option, Foundry Networks Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Backdating, Stock Options, Benefits, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Dear OEM: Ditch the crapware, you'll make up the revenue elsewhere

Ed Bott is the picture of PC bliss. He got a crapware free Sony laptop and you'd think the guy is in heaven. Ed writes: For the past two months, I've been using an astonishingly light and agile Sony VAIO notebook and loving every minute of...

Tags: Revenue, Sony Corp., PC, PC Company, Manufacturer, Ed, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-21

VMWare employees to receive new pricing on underwater stock options

The last thing any employee wants is stock options that are "under water." But that's exactly what some VMWare employees who were issued options after the August IPO are stuck with. After the IPO, VMWare's stock climbed and climbed - from $57.71 on its first day to about $125 in...

Tags: Stock Option, Employee, Stock, VMware Inc., Pricing Strategy, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Microhoo mudslinging: Icahn says Yahoo distorts facts of offer; Microsoft agrees

The Microhoo saga gets messier by the minute and will probably get worse as we near the Aug. 1 shareholder meeting where Carl Icahn tries to boot Yahoo's board and CEO Jerry Yang. We're back to dueling letters again and the saga is very messy Techmeme. On...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Search, Yahoo! Press Release, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-14

First MISO, then GISMO, next GOAT?

Awhile back my Irregular chums came up with MISO as the acronym to describe the main enterprise players of the time: Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle. We also quipped that could change to include Google and so with a little creative thought we ended up with GISMO. Last week's Apple...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Steve Gillmor, Apple Inc., 3G, Operational Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-14

DownloaderXL (exe)

Stock quotes downloading software for Microsoft Excel. It downloads free historical end-of-day stocks, indexes and mutual funds data, 15-minutes delayed and real-time quotes for stocks, options, indexes, futures and other securities for more than 50 markets worldwide. DownloaderXL package allows monitoring of current market situation, performing real-time charting and tracking...

Tags: Stock, Index, OLSOFT, Mutual Funds, Investment, Retirement Plans, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance

Software downloads 2008-07-10

MBA Calculator (msi)

Our MBA's have created what we believe are the most necessary and common financial calculators used by finance professionals. Our calculator employs both a Windows based application and Excel spreadsheets to performs these complex calculations. Our software and spreadsheets are tools that are indispensable for investors, traders, persons engaged in...

Tags: Trader, Financial, MBA, Investor, High Tech Logic, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-07-09

300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers

A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack was detected last week with active discussions around Russian forums greatly reminding us of the Russia vs Estonia cyberattack sparkled due to the removal...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Hacking, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Yahoo posts Icahn scoreboard; Touts Google pact to shareholders

Yahoo on Monday filed its shareholder pitch with the Securities and Exchange Commission as its proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn gathers steam. Much of the presentation was designed to "correct the record" on everything from the company's compensation plan to how the Microsoft bid went down. But Yahoo...

Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Reorg, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-30

The Steve Jobs Standard

Ever since the black turtlenecked one appeared at the Worldwide Developers Conference, there has been no shortage of discussion about the health of Steve Jobs, the worry that he is mortal and who might succeed him.There's the photo by photo rundown of the increasingly thin Jobs. There's the discussion...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Digital Music, Benefits, Healthcare, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Playing a video game? No, it's health therapy

Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but now they're being used to help someone quit smoking or lose weight. Raleigh, North Carolina--Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight? Hot on the heels...

Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Health Care, Video Game, Video, Therapy, Nintendo Wii, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, video games, health, Nintendo, Wii

News items 2008-06-26

Personal Financial Statement Software (exe)

Finally, a comprehensive personal financial statement software application used to calculate net worth with ease by utilizing a financial statement wizard. You will be able to input your assets (cash, securities, real estate, etc.), liabilities (notes payable, mortgages, other liabilities), annual expenditures, and annual income to calculate your net worth....

Tags: Financial, Financial Statement, Interactive Software Solutions, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2008-06-25

Plagiarism detection style software identify authors of terrorist propaganda

Plagiarism detection style software identify authors of terrorist propaganda..."[B]allowing the [U]submitterto [/U]electronically hand in their work,[/B]"Another edit for you... See the underlined. ]:)Don't the source databases violate copyrights?If they are comparing to millions of pre-input texts, they probably are violating the copyrights of the authors of those texts. Storing...

Tags: software

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

iPhone 3G - questions still remain ...

I don't know about you, but after closely following Steve Jobs' keynote speech at WWDC 08, I'm still left with a lot of questions about the iPhone 3G. Also: iPhone 3G - Apple's reality distortion field redefines the phrase "half the price" Hardware 2.0 WWDC "blogging the blogs"...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Carrier, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Apple: 35 percent of Fortune 500 in iPhone beta

Apple CEO Steve Jobs went a little enterprise in his Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC keynote and put some numbers behind iPhone's traction. As most of the world has known, the iPhone 2.0 software as three parts: Enterprise support, the software development kit SDK and new features. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Beta, Ed, Corporate Communications, 3G, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-09

WWDC keynote highlights: iPhone 2.0, MobileMe

Steve Jobs has taken the stage at WWDC and here's what we know so far: The next version of Mac OS X is indeed called "Snow Leopard" In the first 95 days of the SDK being available, over 250k people have downloaded it. iPhone 2...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Corporate Communications, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Michael Dell's 2008 compensation almost halved, but security tab remains

Dell CEO Michael Dell saw his total compensation in fiscal 2008 fall to $2.33 million from $4.5 million in 2007 as his stock option awards fell. However, Dell's security bill topped $1 million for the second year in a row. According to Dell's proxy statement filed with the SEC...

Tags: Security, Compensation, Dell Computer Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02