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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