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Covered Categories: M&A, Start-ups, Personnel Changes
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Consolidation? What Consolidation? - sandhill.com
Piece "Finally. The Oracle-Siebel deal is done and the industry can stop speculating about it. Interestingly however, the deal seems to have woken some observers from a deep sleep. Consolidation has been going on for years. The latest deals - specifically Oracle's aggressive buys - have simply made the trend front page news."
Microsoft's Alacris acquisition boosts ID management - searchwin2000.techtarget
Piece "For companies that make public key encryption and smart cards part of their security strategy, Microsoft's acquisition of Alacris Inc., and the subsequent integration of this technology into Windows, could potentially cut time and expenses out of otherwise costly projects."
HP's Latest Acquisition: Peregrine Systems, To Be Bought For $425M - HP Aim: To Create World-Beating Comprehensive Distributed Enterprise Management Software Solution - in.sys-con
Piece "Peregrine's capabilities include asset tracking, expense controls, process automation, service control, service alignment, enterprise discovery, IT executive dashboard as well as outsourcing, business continuity and consolidation management. Upon the close of the acquisition, said HP yesterday, Peregrine will be integrated into the HP OpenView business unit to create the industry's most comprehensive distributed enterprise management software solution."
Siebel buy puts Oracle in CRM top spot - computerworld.co.nz
Piece "Oracle stands to gain try-leading CRM functionality and extra clout as one of the handful of IT giants left standing in an increasingly consolidated industry — all as a result of its planned acquisition of Siebel Systems for US$5.85 billion (NZ$8.3 billion), say analysts.
Meanwhile, Siebel customers appear to be cautiously optimistic about the impact of the news on their technology investments.
“Where does this put Oracle? Right in IBM’s face,” says James Governor, principal with analyst firm RedMonk. “Nobody can argue with Oracle’s scale now.”
Technology's growing acquisition appetite - news.com
Piece "If technology companies ranging from software powerhouse Oracle to fast-growing Net hotshot Skype could share a motto, it would be that oft-ridiculed fast-food pitch. On Monday, Oracle announced it plans to acquire rival Siebel Systems for $5.8 billion. The same day, online auctioneer eBay announced plans to acquire Skype for $2.6 billion in cash and stock.
"We're seeing larger and larger deals come through," said Richard Peterson, a market strategist for Thomson Financial, a financial data provider. "The average deal size is over $35 million this year for tech companies big and small, and that's more than double the $17 million in 2002." Last year, the average deal size was nearly $25 million. "
Cisco's Chambers lectures on China - computerworld.com.au
Piece "Cisco CEO John Chambers described the need for his firm to develop the network market in China and the company's strategy on acquisitions at a lecture at MIT's campus.
In a wide-ranging talk in front of MIT students and faculty, Chambers said China poses great opportunity for Cisco, as the country has an increasingly higher-educated talent pool of engineers and is training ten times the number of workers in engineering, math and sciences as the U.S. The salary gap between engineers in China and parts of the world will also force Cisco to be more productive on a revenue-per-employee basis, with the potential of moving more research and engineering work overseas. "
New Google feature sorts through blogs - Test search engine likely to undercut smaller rival sites - unlvrebelyell
Piece "Google Inc. introduced a search engine Wednesday devoted to scanning blogs, the increasingly popular online journals that allow users to easily and frequently sound off about everything from politics to dating to natural disasters.
The new feature, released as a test at google.com/blogsearch, is expected to give the so-called blogosphere increased visibility. But Google's entry also poses a serious threat to the handful of small Web sites that have similar technology, such as Technorati, Feedster and IceRocket, according to analysts. "
Praise, skepticism greet Oracle-Siebel merger - zdnet
Piece ""This (Siebel) acquisition will be easier," said Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive, during a conference call with analysts. "PeopleSoft had just acquired J.D. Edwards, and that made it more complex. This deal is also friendly, so we know a lot more about Siebel than we did with PeopleSoft. It makes Siebel a much less risky transaction."
Microsoft in merger talks with AOL - mcall.com
Piece "Humbled by the surging fortunes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., two titans of the Internet's early days — Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s America Online — might scrap their historic rivalry and join forces.
Microsoft's MSN and AOL are negotiating to combine some or all of their online operations — including their free e-mail and instant-messaging services as well as widely viewed portal pages, according to people familiar with the talks."
HP snaps up AppIQ - integratedmar
Piece "HP and AppIQ share a common culture of innovation around standards and a partner-centric business model, the companies said. The deal will see the merger of AppIQ's storage area network (SAN) management and storage resource management (SRM) software into HP's realm. "
Symantec hooks anti-phishing firm WholeSecurity - theregister.co.uk
Piece "WholeSecurity has developed software designed to black malware based on its behaviour rather than by the more traditional approach of pattern recognition through regular anti-virus signature updates. WholeSecurity's Confidence Online Phish Finder is included as the anti-phsihing component of eBay's toolbar. Symantec plans to use WholSecurity's technology to bolster its defences against fast spreading worms and so-called zero day attacks that target exploits for which a patch is yet to be issued."
Cognos: Big Step In BI - crn.com
Piece "That availability puts Cognos on the same schedule of other major business intelligence vendors, including Business Objects and Hyperion, which also are expected to unleash major upgrades in November. At issue, then, is which vendor can leapfrog the others in the highly lucrative BI market. One mark in Cognos’ favor: combining its ReportNet reporting software, PowerPlay analytic product, NoticeCast event manager, Metrics Manager scorecard software and DecisionStream ETL software on one server. "
Google Offering Raises $4.18B - redherring
Piece "Follow-on offering at $295 per share came as web giant introduced Blog Search. Google raised $4.18 billion in its much-anticipated follow-on offering late Wednesday, giving the company cash likely to be used for rapid expansion and new services."
Competitive Intelligence on a Shoestring - msnbc
Piece "Does the following scenario sound familiar to you? You have an idea for a product or service, and you're reasonably certain the market for the product exists, so now you want to check out the competition. But you're in startup mode or have very limited financial resources. So just how do you go about investigating your competitors and gathering information without spending a fortune?"
IBM Focuses on Wireless Technology - newsfactor
Piece "As IBM celebrated the 40th anniversary of its Research Triangle Park facility Thursday, officials announced plans to establish on the RTP campus the company's only center for wireless technology.
The center, which will occupy a quarter of a working 20,000-square-foot warehouse, will convert existing technology into wireless solutions, said Deidre Lenderking, who will lead the center's efforts."
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Covered Categories: M&A, Start-ups, Personnel Changes
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Covered Categories: M&A, Start-ups, Personnel Changes
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When Storage Meets Security - cxotoday
Piece "Security and the availability of information are the two growing concerns in the enterprise circle today. Following a rash of high-profile data security breaches, companies are demanding that implementing security be made more simple. This is driving the CIO community worldwide to go for solutions that bundle security with storage. "
WSJ: Skype, EBay in Merger Talks - tmcnet
Piece "Reuters is reporting on a WSJ story today that has online auction site EBay Inc. in talks to acquire Internet-telephone company Skype for between $2 billion and $3 billion."
Microsoft's Ballmer Speaks - line56
Piece "Line56: Do you believe that corporations will continue to see e-business as a key strategy for driving cost savings and sales growth?
Ballmer: A lot of what we know of as e-business today falls under the umbrella of integration: supply chain management and trade exchanges, for instance. The fundamental idea of automating integration points between systems and businesses is clearly sound.
As businesses begin to identify opportunities to create completely new offerings based on XML Web services, we'll see a tremendous invigoration of the e-business market. For instance, a manufacturing company might want to move beyond simple integration of their MRP ] system with their customers' procurement systems. They might offer an XML Web service delivering real-time production statistics to a customer's data warehouse or to mobile devices. These new services will help companies differentiate themselves from their competitors, and they will provide new sources of revenue."
Why VoIP telephony is quickly coming of age - ft.com
Piece "Also exploring VoIP are some of the internet world’s biggest names, such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. This month Microsoft bought Teleo, a company with technology that will allow anyone who uses Microsoft's MSN instant messaging service to make internet phone calls. A week earlier Google, Microsoft’s arch-rival, introduced Google Talk, a service that lets users of its web-based e-mail service talk to one another using a microphone and speaker. Yahoo’s purchase in June of Dialpad Communications, a VoIP provider, will enable it to offer an internet telephony service. Meanwhile Skype is understood to be in early talks with eBay.
Uptake of broadband, which most VoIP services require, has been a bottleneck for VoIP. But the global broadband internet market is forecast to pass 190m subscribers by the end of next year and will approach 440m by the end of 2010, according to Informa Telecoms & Media, a market research firm and consultancy. Niklas Zennstrom, the founder and chief executive of Skype, says broadband growth drives take-up of VoIP. “Over the next five to 10 years all traffic will migrate to VoIP. This is a function of internet penetration with broadband becoming ubiquitous,” he says. "
Starting Your Own Blog: How to Choose the Right Blogging Tool for You - informit
Piece "There are so many blogging options these days, so I'll describe just a representative handful. In my mind, the best way to go about this is to describe blogging utilities based on type. The following types of blogging solutions are available:
Managed solutions. This category of blogging involves a user signing up for a free or low-cost service that provides you with blogging tools. In many cases, the server hosting can be provided for you as well, such as with TypePad, which also offers a range of pricing and features. Or, you have the option to place your blog on your own server, but manage it through the service's interface, as is commonly done with Blogger. The benefits of these types of solutions are their low barriers to entry and their low (or free) cost. I often recommend choosing a solution like this when you're first starting out because you can quickly determine whether blogging is for you.
Community solutions. Many online communities offer some blogging features, as can be found with MSN, Yahoo!, LiveJournal, and others. Also an excellent option for those new to blogging, community solutions tend to be more restrictive in both the options offered and the terms of service allowed.
Server solutions. Server solutions answer the need for strong yet modifiable software. Server-based solutions require more technical experience to install, customize, and extend. However, it's the server-based solutions that are the most feature-rich. Due to the community nature of most blogging software, many plug-ins, add-ons, and modifications are developed by the community to be used freely. What's more, server solutions offer better support. Movable Type is a good example of this—because of its licensing structure, technical support is part of the package. With WordPress, its open-source nature lends itself to many resources online where people with a passion for the product and for blogging help each other out with technical concerns. "
Big names in tech change companies - usatoday
Piece "• Business software maker SAP (SAP) hired nine executives this summer from competitors, including Oracle (ORCL), Siebel Systems (SEBL) and BEA Systems (BEAS).
• Computer maker Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) recently wooed Randall Mott from rival Dell(DELL), where he was chief information officer. Thursday, HP said it hired former Palm chief marketing officer Satjiv Chahil.
• Microsoft (MSFT) acquired collaboration software maker Groove Networks and elevated Groove's founder, renowned programmer Ray Ozzie, to chief technical officer.
• Yahoo (YHOO) recently plucked executives from Amazon.com (AMZN) and IBM (IBM) .
Companies in the cutthroat tech industry are known for poaching talent from one another. But the sudden rash of recruits has its controversy"
Q&A: Plumtree’s John Kunze - Fresh from its acquisition by BEA Systems, the enterprise portal company gets a chance to target a larger worldwide market for enterprise portals. - redherring
Piece "Q: How do you think the combination of Plumtree and BEA will affect the industry?
A: The combined entity will be the single largest pure play that’s dedicated to the openness business. [This simplifies the integration of structured and unstructured information, as well as interoperability between existing systems.] They will use the openness advantage to compete against the stack vendors [such as IBM, SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft]. Because they are acquiring us and instantly filling the product gaps that they have in the AquaLogic [a product that allows multiple technologies and platforms to share information] line, they are going to be able to compete more effectively and sooner toward the mission of having software that is committed to openness. "
Salesforce plans online software exchange | News.blog | CNET News.com - sapventures
Piece "AppExchange will let Salesforce.com customers buy and sell applications and components that run on the company's hosted platform. The idea builds on the company's Multiforce tools that let developers build new applications that expand the capabilities of Salesforce's existing products."
KM in call centers - blog.jackvinson
Piece "A client sent an article about knowledge management in call centers from Call Center Magazine, Find the Needle. Organize the Haystack by Joe Fleischer:
Knowledge management is more than a way for customers to locate information about a company by themselves. We reveal how knowledge management enables customers to get the most out of your company by learning from one another. "
The RSS Space defined - readwriteweb
Piece "Table 1: RSS Sectors
CATEGORY (--> means sub-category)
EXAMPLES
Publisher Services
--> Content
--> Analytics
--> Feed Mgmt
--> Advertising
Feedburner
Nooked
Pheedo
SimpleFeed
Syndicate IQ
Reader Services (including RSS Aggregators and Consumer services/tools)
--> Web-based
--> Desktop
--> Mobile
--> Enterprise
--> White Label
Bloglines
Del.icio.us
Moreover
Newsgator
PubSub
CMS/Blogging
--> Hosted
--> Standalone
--> Enterprise
Blogger
MSN Spaces
Six Apart
Wordpress
Yahoo 360
Content (including Podcasting, blog networks, news directories)
--> Proprietary
--> User-Generated
Gawker
iPodder
Odeo
Topix.net
Weblogsinc
Search
--> Index
--> White Label / Microsites (e.g. Technorati Live8 promotion)
--> Embedded (e.g. Google network and Technorati partnership with Newsweek)
--> Market Research
Bloglines
Feedster
Google
Ice Rocket
Technorati
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IBM's Innovative Electronic Workplace - dealarchitect
Piece "I first saw an IBM presentation in 1996 on how they had re-engineered their employee travel expense processing. They had taken a very manual, paper based process around approvals, receipts, audits, reimbursements and automated it using fax, workflow, digital imaging and archiving and neural networks (for exception analysis). While those technologies seem ancient today and there are many packaged solutions today, 10 years ago, the innovative use of technology had helped reduce their travel accounting staff 80% from 1993 to 1995. "Innovation" used to squeeze their "utility" spend."
Microsoft Eyes a Business Niche - nytimes
Piece "In the new suite of programs, called Microsoft Dynamics, the company will include features for some 50 business tasks and incorporate new technology, which has been in development for the last few years under the code-name Project Green.
A new version of the company's accounting program, Great Plains, expected this fall, will automate the processes of jobs like accounting clerk, sales manager, controller and finance manager. The software will be renamed Microsoft Dynamics GP when it is released.
As existing programs incorporate the new technology, they will also be renamed, the company said. For example, the new version of Microsoft's Axapta, a human resource management program, will become Microsoft Dynamics AX. "
Web Development Trends for 2006 - dashes
Piece "Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors here at dashes.com (that is to say, me) have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on. Call it vocational education for people building Web 2.0. - Dampening, E4X, JSON, XHTML, CSS, Ajax , Atom API and Ruby on Rails"
Microsoft targets Google with developer platform - computerworld
Piece "Analyst surveys put Microsoft a distant third behind Google and Yahoo in the Web search market, and the MSN business unit has been working intently and releasing new Web-based products and services to catch up to those companies. Google, in particular, has been in Microsoft's sights with its online search, mapping and other services.
A recent MSN release in this area was a beta of Virtual Earth, a new mapping tool similar to Google Maps. Both Virtual Earth and Google Maps allow users to find locations or businesses by address and other search criteria, and both use both street-map and satellite-map views. Microsoft also made a major revamp of its MSN Search engine last June in an effort to take on the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant, but the tool has not yet caught on widely with users. "
Symbol, Intermec Settle Suit on RFID Patent - crmbuyer
Piece "Competitors Symbol Technologies and Intermec Technologies have agreed to place dueling intellectual property lawsuits on hold after settling a dispute over radio frequency identification patents. Symbol has joined a program Intermec launched for other companies that want to buy access to its RFID patents. Conversely, Intermec will receive access to Symbol's RFID technology. "
Apple, Motorola & Cingular Launch World’s First Mobile Phone with iTunes - gizmosforgeeks
Piece "In the latest step in convergence, iTunes has made it's way to your mobile phone. Motorola, along with Apple and Cingular, have brought iTunes to your phone with the new Motorola ROKR for a retail price of $249.99 available earlier this week at Cingular retail stores. "
Microsoft Hawks Its IPTV Platform - informationweek
Piece "Microsoft came to this week's International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) with a novel media processor co-designed with Sigma Designs and targeted at IPTV applications, as well as a host of set top box offerings.
Microsoft said it is working with many other semiconductor suppliers to introduce a range of SOC products to support its efforts in IPTV. "
Ex Libris to raise $50m on London’s AIM - globes.co.il
Piece "The company develops automated systems for libraries, information centers and research institutes"
Google Recruits Father of the Internet - newsfactor
Piece "Google has appointed Vinton Cerf as its Chief Internet Evangelist. "Vint Cerf is clearly one of the great technology leaders of our time," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt."
Gates Q&A: What's Ahead For Microsoft - smallbizpipeline
Piece "Microsoft's ambition in the market for software that runs companies' finance, sales, and operations is large, but so far results in Microsoft's 5-year-old Business Solutions division have been lukewarm. The company has had to manage expensive research-and-development teams it inherited through two acquisitions, respond to customer requirements without the benefit of a direct sales force, and iron out overlap in its network of resellers. On Sept. 7, Microsoft rolled out a new plan for its business-apps group that revolves around personalized products tailored for PC users' jobs."
Ingram Micro Is 'Out-Executing' Competition, Says CEO Spierkel - varbusiness
Piece "During his keynote address, Spierkel gave reseller customers a summary of his first 100 days as CEO of the world's largest IT distributor. Spierkel, who took over at Ingram Micro in June, first touted Ingram Micro's sales gains overseas, particularly in Europe where the company "is kicking ass," he told the audience. In fact, he said all four geographic regions for Ingram Micro earned more than 1 percent in operating income, which was the first time in the company's history that had happened. "
Intel Eyes Wi-Fi Security - wirelessnewsfactor
Piece "Intel is developing a way to locate a Wi-Fi user by timing how long it takes for packets to travel to and from a wireless access point, which could block rogue access to Wi-Fi networks."
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Covered Categories: M&A, Start-ups, Personnel Changes
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New Search Engines Help Users Find Blogs - wsj
Piece "Web logs, online diaries written and published by everyone from college students to big media companies, are being created and updated at an astonishing rate -- and established search companies such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. don't always catch them fast enough. Now, a handful of closely held upstarts such as Technorati Inc., Feedster Inc. and IceRocket.com LLC see an opportunity: Build a search engine that can track the information zipping through blogs, nearly in real time."
DRM in ERM: Know Your Rights Provider - rednova
Piece "Surely, though, over the next few years, enterprises will continue to deploy ERM software at a rapid pace to enable secure communication between business partners and customers and to protect their vital information, wherever it may reside.
Companies Featured in This Article
Adobe
AirZip
Authentica
ContentGuard, Inc.
ECM/Documentum
DigitalContainers.LLC
GigaMedia Access Corp.
Informative Graphics Corporation
Liquid Machines
Microsoft
Pinion Software
SealedMedia "
The Secret to Saas Success - sandhill
Piece "Innovation is still the key to growth in the high tech business, but it has broader implications than in the past. Today some of the most important innovations are about the business model - how technology is being sold and delivered.
In fact, nearly 80 percent of software CEOs surveyed at the Enterprise 2005 conference stated that business model innovation is equal to or more important than technological innovation to business success today. Software as a service (Saas), on demand, hosted, and subscription models are all reshaping key customer relationships for high tech companies.
In the long run, these new models smooth out the revenue curve for vendors. But the transition can be tough. Many strategies - sales, marketing and development, for example - must be in place in order to execute the transition successfully.
The most important operational issues by far occur in the finance department. Billing, renewals, cash flow, and revenue management practices must change dramatically from the traditional product licensing days in order to ensure success. "
Reactivity Looks to Add Security to RSS - globelogger
Piece "Security is obviously a high-priority requirement for enterprise RSS applications and this offering should help address that requirement. The article says that Reactivity will be partnering with SimpleFeed and FeedBurner, but there's no mention of the deal yet on those companies' sites."
Piece "I've spent a bit of time looking at all of them and here is my assesment of each of them.
Technorati - Used to be great. I believe they invented the concept of link tracking fro blogs. But it is now is unusable for link tracking. It does a lot of other things now and maybe link tracking is no longer strategic to them. But it still is for me.
PubSub - They do an amazing job of tracking all the links and compiling a huge amount of information on the links. But I find it very hard to decipher all the data and get to the one thing I really want to know, which is who has linked to me in the past 24 hours? While I recognize the quality of the data, I can't deal with the presentation.
IceRocket - The newcomer and fast follower of the crowd. They picked up the ball from Technorati and ran with it. I like their UI the best and the data is pretty good. I don't think they are comprehensive becuase Feedster finds links they don't. But they are a pretty decent solution for link tracking and I like them a lot.
Feedster - They have been the number two after Technorati in link tracking and I have always checked them out from time to time, but never made a habit of it. I think they may be more comprehensive than IceRocket. But I don't like the UI as much. One thing I do like a lot about Feedster is their link tracking goes back a lot farther in time, so they have 2,867 links to my blog whereas IceRocket only has 735."
Q&A: Security Wonk Dan Verton - redherring
Piece "Data theft is rapidly becoming one of Corporate America’s biggest problems. And corporate fraudsters have had a banner year in 2005, with at least 46 incidents of data loss reported so far, according to estimates from Forrester analyst, Noel Yuhanna. For the consumers, meanwhile, the trend is harrowing as a growing number of high-profile data leaks have resulted in the theft or violation of their information like credit card details and social security numbers."
Microsoft, Google Rumble - Redmond and Google switch competitive venues from the Internet to a Seattle courtroom.- redherring
Piece "Microsoft and Google compete in a number of arenas, but on Tuesday the companies faced off in a courtroom to challenge a court order barring a former Microsoft employee from working for Google.
In July, Microsoft sued Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, its former employee, to prevent him from taking a job at Google. Microsoft claimed that by taking the job, Dr. Lee would be violating a non-compete agreement he signed with Microsoft back in 2000 (see Microsoft Sues Google). "
Microsoft and Google - emergic
Piece "Here's a sampling of reasons why Microsoft is history:
* Microsoft wants everyone to have a rich desktop experience, Google wants everyone to have a rich Internet experience.
* Microsoft's business model depends on everyone upgrading their computing environment every two to three years. Google's depends on everyone exploring what's new in their computing environment every day.
* Microsoft looks at the world from a perspective of desktop+Internet. Google looks at the world from a perspective of Internet+any device.
* Microsoft wants computers to help individuals do more unaided. Google wants computers to help individuals do more in collaboration. In the Internet age, who wants to work alone any more, when all the unexplored opportunity is in collaborative endeavor?
* In a few year's time, who's going to still be working at a desk anyway?"
Consolidation vs. federation - infoworld
Piece "You have dozens, maybe hundreds, of operational data sources spread among multiple business groups and locations. If only you could get a clear, consolidated view across all this information at once, you would gain a better understanding of what’s working and what’s not -- in sales, customer service, manufacturing, you name it. The cure to this common problem involves a fundamental decision: Should you consolidate all your data onto a single database platform, or implement a federation solution that allows you to query all your data right where it is now? "
Business intelligence software up 12% in 2004 - blogs.zdnet
Piece "Business intelligence software up 12% in 2004 by ZDNet's ZDNet Research -- New license sales for business intelligence software grew 12% from 2003 to 2004. Microsoft led with 53% growth for its BI platform offering in the composite BI market, Gartner says. "
Google testing the print advertising market - editorsweblog
Piece "Google has now started to expand its advertising business to print. As the New York Times reports, Google, in what resembles "ad brokering", started buying ad space in technology magazines and resells the space in smaller parts to advertisers of its online system. Jason Young, president of Internet and consumer technology publications for Ziff-Davis, the publisher of PC Magazine, said in the New York Times: "We're thrilled for PC Magazine in print to be presented to Google's fantastic base of hundreds of thousands of smaller advertisers."
Q&A: Jobster.com CEO on targeting employed job candidates. Jason Goldberg says his firm helps employers as much as job seekers - computerworld
Piece "On Tuesday, the Seattle-based online job advertising service announced that it had received $19.5 million in second-round financing. Computerworld's Thomas Hoffman spoke yesterday with Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg about how the company plans to invest the funds and why the service appeals to IT workers."
MSN Purchases VoIP Capabilities - webpronews
Piece "MSN, a company that has embraced the advertising campaign method of news distribution, seems to be relying on the viral method of advertising for their latest endeavor. Without a great deal of fanfare, MSN has purchased the rights to Teleo, an Internet start-up focusing on VoIP services and pay-per-call technology. According to MarketingVOX, users can expect to see Skype-like capabilities on MSN Messenger before long, a move made to match the services of Yahoo Messenger's VoIP feature and Google's newly launched VoIP-capable Google Talk client. "
SAS Ranks Near Top Of Gartner List For Enterprise BI Software - tmcnet
Piece "It is SAS's Enterprise BI Server, a primary component of its SAS 9 Intelligence Platform, that is the key push behind SAS' growth in the BI space. SAS has an impressive adoption record: 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500 are SAS customers. The goal of the SAS solution is to help companies develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. Business intelligence helps companies take what is essentially large piles of junk data and turn them into valuable company capital."
Google’s Bold Step Towards Internet Domination - theepochtimes
Piece "Once known strictly as a search engine company, Google Inc. has once again made waves by launching its own version of an instant messaging (IM) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service called Google Talk.
The new service is a late entry into a field dominated by established IM programs from AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft, and VoIP services such as Skype, Vonage, and Lingo. Nonetheless, the industry takes notice with even the slightest manoeuvre from Google. The Internet “blogosphere” and newspapers were therefore filled with rumours, critiques, and praise for the initial beta version of Talk released by the Mountain View, California company."
Adobe, Macromedia CEOs Speak Out - forbes
Piece "Bruce Chizen and Stephen Elop engineered the friendly $3.4 billion acquisition of Elop's company, Macromedia, by Chizen's company, Adobe Systems, in April of this year. But the deal still isn't complete, and the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the merged companies will pose any antitrust concerns. "
Cisco Preparing Management Play - newsfactor
Piece "Cisco is looking to expand its proprietary network-monitoring tools into enterprise-scale management products that can tackle multivendor networks, advanced IP applications and business services .
"We have been investing much more heavily in management technologies, through internal developments, OEM agreements and acquisitions," says Cliff Meltzer, senior vice president of Cisco's Network Management Technology Group. "We believe we should be providing a robust and broad set of tools that address the network, as well as systems, applications and other elements critical to customers' businesses. We are working on an open, standardized way to help customers see and ensure all those elements interact properly across the infrastructure."
Piece "On Tuesday of last week XBRL-US sponsored a set of presentations in Washington, D.C. focused on "XBRL in Government and Industry." The conference was hosted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which was appropriate since it was the FDIC that was the source of some of the most significant XBRL activity announced at the conference. "
Developing the Skype ecosystem: Q&A with CEO Niklas Zennstrom - digitimes
Piece "Taiwan companies, which boast a strong capability in the manufacture of IT hardware products, are likely to become important partners for Skype Technologies as the company looks to broaden its application software to IT products other than PCs, company CEO Niklas Zennstrom said in a recent interview with DigiTimes. Zennstrom also asserted that, due to the proliferation of Skype-enabled devices, an ecosystem based on Skype technology is developing. The following includes more excerpts from the interview."
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