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Barclays Capital analyst Tim Luke says microprocessor revenue was down 53.6% in October compared to September and 40.1% less than the industry average in October for the last 10 years. They were down 23% year-over-year and up 2.1% quarter-over-quarter. Units were down 40% MoM and down ...Dec. 5, 2008 10:22 AM EST Reads: 1,057
After spending a year in private beta, Amazon's SimpleDB has been pushed into what the company calls "unlimited public beta." Any developer or business can now sign up and start using the web service. As a come-on, for the next six months or so Amazon will be offering a free monthly us...
The job of running Microsoft’s flagging Google counter-offensive – which has lain like a fallow field since Kevin Johnson left the company in July to become CEO of Juniper Networks, having been foiled in buying Yahoo – has been filled. As widely suspected lately, Microsoft is bringing ...
Newsweek – which apparently sees the Obama cabinet amounting to a lot of big names with little experience – is floating the idea that the president-elect might make Dan Reicher, Google's director of climate change and energy initiatives, energy secretary. Reicher was assistant energy s...
Good OS, who’s tight with Google and whose gOS Linux powered a $199 Everex PC that Wal-Mart sold last year, is wheeling out Cloud, a new browser operating system that reportedly boots up the Internet in seconds and can be used to toggle between Windows and a Linux OS on the same box. G...
W3C has got a new standard to make it easier to author interactive multimedia presentations. Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 3.0 lets video, audio, images, text and hypertext links be combined into interactive presentations, with fine-grain control of layout and tim...
In the future, you will be able to surf the Internet, hands-free, by using your voice, according to the third annual "IBM Next Five in Five" - a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The list predicts that new...
According to the Times of London, Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's search business. The Wall Street Journal says the story is utter hokum. The British paper puts the price at $20 billion – although all of Yahoo was only worth $15.96 billion as of Friday. However, it says "senio...
Google is significantly reducing the number of contract workers it uses but says it won't cut its staff of 21,123 people, according to the Wall Street Journal. It remains unclear how many of its 10,000 contractors Google will be cut. Apparently layoffs have been going on since the summ...
Contrary to some industry observers, antivirus software is not dead. It is, however, undergoing a game-changing transformation. It has to. After all, the current model of detecting viruses through blacklisting simply cannot keep pace with the unprecedented volume of malware released ev...
Amazon has launched an HTTP content delivery service (CDN) called CloudFront that works with its S3 cloud storage widgetry and EC2. It's now a public beta, having been privately tested the last couple few months. It's the stuff Amazon promised in September and may someday give the like...
While cloud computing reporting has recently been focused on Microsoft's Azure announcement and Amazon's upgrade to EC2, there's an elephant in the cloud: Google. According to a well-researched article in SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, Google filed as long ago as February 2006 a pr...
Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down at a moment's notice, notes Amazon.com's VP & CTO Dr Werner Vogels, can be a complicated and expensive task. "But it's essential in today's business landscape," adds Vogels, who is the distinguished Keynote Speaker at SYS-CON'...
Cassatt, the company started by BEA founder Bill Coleman, is redirecting its data center widgetry into creating internal clouds comparable to Amazon or Google out of infrastructure customers already have in-house. Coleman observed that most IT professionals aren’t comfortable outsourci...
Google, whose stock was worth $741 a share a year ago – and was touted as inevitably seeing $1,000 – hasn't been able to hold its head above $300 because of widespread fears of advertising collapsing. The stock slipped to a multi-year low today below $290, down ~7% in the midst of anot...
The toxic virus of soft consumer spending has hit Best Buy forcing it to axe its earnings guidance for the year and take it from $3.25-$3.40 a share to somewhere between $2.30 and $2.90. The retailer’s eroding outlook will of course boomerang back on its suppliers as it tries to adjust...
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s signal distinction right now is being the only man in the industry to have both Microsoft and Google, both potential partners, walk out on him – and in the space of only six months. That’s gotta be some kind of record. Jerry blames the United States Department of...
“We made an offer… We made another offer. It was clear that Yahoo didn’t want to sell the business to us and we moved on. We tried at one point to do a partnership around search, not an acquisition. And that didn’t work either, and we moved on… and they moved on… We are not interested ...
One gets a bit suspicious when an operation like OpenOffice.com reports that its servers were swamped and knocked offline for days by the pressing demand for the first formal release of its native open source application suite for Mac OS X. It had no idea how many people would want to ...
The Justice Department made it crystal clear this morning that if Google hadn’t abandoned its controversial ad deal with Yahoo the companies would have found themselves in court. The agency put out a statement from the head of its antitrust unit Thomas Barnett saying that Yahoo and Goo...
Yahoo and Google have reportedly revised their controversial advertising agreement to overcome Justice Department objections to the original deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, which got it from unidentified sources, over the weekend the pair agreed to cap the amount of revenue...
You've always heard that you "get what you pay for," but that does not seem to be the case with the new cloud computing movement, specifically with Web APIs. Some of the best services out there don’t need a credit card number, and I suspect that trend will continue until greater number...
The Wall Street Journal – which has big ears on the ground – said that Yahoo and Google could walk away from their revenue-sharing pact by the middle of next week unless a miracle happens and they come to terms with the Justice Department. The Deal reported last week that the deal was ...
"All in all, it was a tough quarter for Sun and our customers," wrote Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz yesterday, in a determined attempt via the blogosphere to pour oil on the troubled waters of Sun's dramatic net loss for its first fiscal quarter of 9 cents a share. Among other things he co...
Platform Computing is a pioneer and the global leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) management software. The company delivers integrated software solutions that enable organizations to improve time-to-results and reduce computing costs. Many of the world’s largest companies rely ...
Yesterday Microsoft launched its Azure cloud platform, so it is time for another spreadsheet. To properly compare Microsoft, Google and Amazon, I am using the gross profit (instead of revenue) and net profit numbers. Gross profit is, in some sense, the real revenue of a company after p...
It remains to be seen whether the U.S. Justice Department puts the kibosh on Google's Yahoo deal, but Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) has nixed its plans to buy the AdSense-like ZAO Begun online contextual ad network from the Russian company Rambler Media Ltd for $140 mill...
Google's Android widgetry was put online and open sourced when the first of the Android phones appeared Tuesday. Google is calling it an "end-to-end software platform" and has challenged the open source community to use it for other purposes. "Even if you're not planning to ship a mobi...
Zimbra co-founder and CEO Satish Dharmaraj, the guy who sold Zimbra and its AJAX-based groupware to Yahoo, has put some of his own money – how much is unclear – into open source web conferencer Dimdim. For what it's worth he gets to join the Dimdim advisory board. In a minute or two Zi...
The Deal has been talking to lawyers close to Google and Yahoo and says that the companies are likely to pull out of their controversial revenue-sharing pact ahead of the Justice Department challenging them on antitrust grounds, a move that others say could come in the next 24 hours. T...
In an effort to avoid its Yahoo deal being scotched, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday from the stump with Barack Obama – his candidate of choice – that Google would keep talking to the U.S. Justice Department. Since cutting the deal in June Google's position has moved from it doesn...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Oracle named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jo...
Yahoo's self-inflicted agony is supposed to result in a terminations announcement tomorrow when the company posts its presumably weak Q3 results, according to multiple reports. It's got around 14,300 employees. Expectations are that it will lose at least 1,000-1,500 of them before the ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider Isomorphic Software named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valle...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who missed out on being in Al Gore’s cabinet when Gore lost to Bush eight years ago, will campaign for Barack Obama starting with a panel on the economy Tuesday in Florida at which both will appear. Schmidt’s been an Obama advisor on technology and energy and d...
