by Admin on April 28, 2009
Hewlett-Packard Co, the world’s top PC maker, is launching a new line of inexpensive business laptops with fresh features targeting users at small and medium-size companies.
The HP ProBook s-series, which starts shipping globally on Tuesday, is the company’s new mainstream business notebook, following the release of its higher-end, lightweight EliteBook line last year.
The ProBook replaces the HP Compaq line, although the Compaq name will continue to be used as a master brand name in other PCs.
The ProBook offers users a number of new features, including an optional Linux-based operating system pre-installed — Novell Inc’s SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 — for those seeking an alternative to the dominant Microsoft Corp Windows platform.
It is HP’s first-ever Linux pre-install on a standard business laptop, the company said. The PC maker does offer some netbooks with Linux.
“It’s pretty much a natural evolution,” said Carol Hess- Nickels, HP’s director of marketing for worldwide business notebooks.
“We want to provide a different option … it’s probably a little time yet before we’ll know exactly what the demand is, but we did think it was something worth trying.”
The ProBooks come with 14-inch, 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch screen sizes, with prices starting at $529. In another first for an HP business notebook, buyers will be able to add a color finish — “merlot” — if they choose.
Some models will also feature Qualcomm Inc’s Gobi technology, allowing them to use a single module to access different mobile broadband network technologies and mobile operators.
HP will also bring higher-end durability features, like its 3D DriveGuard — which protects the hard drive if a laptop is dropped — and a spill-resistant keyboard to the ProBook.
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by Admin on April 27, 2009
Microsoft Corp said on Friday a version of its long awaited Windows 7 operating system will be made available from next week.
The version, known as a ‘release candidate‘, or RC, essentially means the world’s largest software company is in the final stages of completing the operating system, the successor to the unpopular Windows Vista.
Microsoft said the RC will be available for download by program developers and IT professionals subscribing to the MSDN and TechNet networks on April 30 and available more broadly on May 5.
The company has still not said when the finished version would begin to be installed on PCs or available to buy in shops, but the company’s chief financial officer said on Thursday it could be as early as July.
That would allow Microsoft to capitalize on back-to-school sales and set it up for a strong holiday shopping season.
Windows 7, which has been getting good reviews in limited public tests over the last few months, is much cleaner looking and features an array of new touch-screen functions. Microsoft says it will also interact better with digital cameras and music players.
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by Admin on April 27, 2009
Internet social media company Facebook plans to allow outside developers access to core parts of the website so they can build new services, a person familiar with the situation said.
The person said the company is expected to announce the plans on Monday. The new capabilities would let third-party developers build services that access content uploaded by Facebook users such as pictures and videos with the users’ permission.
Facebook, which has more than 200 million active users worldwide, does not plan to charge for the service.
The company is expected to brief developers on the plan, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, at an event it is hosting for developers at its Palo Alto, California headquarters on Monday.
Facebook would not comment on the plans to open its service to outside developers, but the company said it was preparing an announcement on Monday related to developer opportunities.
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by Admin on April 25, 2009
With MySpace falling behind Facebook as the world’s largest online social network, MySpace tapped a former Facebook executive Friday as its new chief executive.
Owen Van Natta, 39, replaces Chris DeWolfe, a co-founder of MySpace, who stepped down as chief executive Wednesday. News Corp., which owns MySpace, said Van Natta’s new role begins immediately.
Van Natta faces the lofty task of reinvigorating MySpace at a time when Facebook is growing at a faster clip and Twitter, the short messaging site, is grabbing scores of headlines and celebrity attention. While MySpace is still the largest social network in the United States, it has only 130 million users worldwide, compared with more than 200 million for Facebook.
Even so, MySpace may be making more money, at least for now. Research firm eMarketer estimates that the company brought in $585 million in U.S. ad revenue last year, nearly three times that of Facebook. A big chunk of that, however, comes from an ad-sharing deal with Google Inc. that expires next year. Neither Beverly Hills, Calif.-based MySpace nor Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook discloses how much money they make.
The executive change could be energizing for MySpace, said Charlene Li, an industry analyst and founder of Altimeter Group.
“MySpace has a very interesting product and a loyal user base,” Li said. But from a technology perspective, they’ve been stagnant, she added.
Facebook, meanwhile, continues to redesign and update the site, even if doing so often leads to user rumblings.
“Owen is coming from Facebook and the history they have with being much more technologically innovative than MySpace,” Li said. Shaking things up, she added, is the “whole purpose of a change in management.”
At Facebook, Van Natta was chief operating officer and helped negotiate a $240 million investment from Microsoft Corp. that valued the company at $15 billion — though it later emerged that Facebook placed its value well below that.
With Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ensconced as the site’s CEO, Van Natta left in February 2008 in hopes of landing the top job at another company. Later in the year he became CEO of Playlist.com, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based online music company.
On Friday, Playlist named John Sykes, a board member, as the company’s CEO and said Van Natta will be adviser to the company. Sykes is a co-founder of MTV and has been president of VH1.
MySpace’s other co-founder, Tom Anderson, had been president of the company and has been in talks about taking on a new role. News Corp. did not give an update on that Friday. Van Natta will report to Jonathan Miller, News Corp.’s chief digital officer, who was named to the post April 1.
Facebook, where Van Natta spend about three years as chief operating officer and then as chief revenue officer, declined to comment on the appointment.
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by Admin on April 24, 2009
Mac video tutorial company, MacProVideo, on Friday released its iPhone app, allowing customers to transfer and watch video tutorials on the iPhone. The company also released a new set of tutorials for users of Adobe’s professional video software, Premiere.
N.E.D.i (Nonlinear Educating Device for iPhone) features detailed menus that let you quickly find topics and videos that you are looking for. The app also gives you access to the company’s forums, so you can get help from fellow users if you need it.
In addition to the iPhone app, DesignProVideo (MacProVideo’s sister site) released a new set of videos called Premiere CS4 101: Core Premiere CS4. The videos give you an overview of the Premiere workspace, as well as video editing theory like aspect ratios, keyframes and codecs. You’ll also learn about using transitions to achieve effects, manipulating time, and how to create titles to display extra information for your videos.
In its final piece of news, MacProVideo said it will no longer sell DVD copies of its training videos, opting instead to offer only downloadable versions. The company considers the move as a way to help the environment.
N.E.D.i is available free from the App Store. The Premiere tutorial costs $39.50 and is available for immediate download.
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by Admin on April 24, 2009
Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it plans to close GeoCities, a Web site publishing and hosting service it bought in May 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom for around $3 billion in stock.
The service will be shut down later this year. Visitors to the site now see a message that says new GeoCities accounts will not be available and gives them the option to sign up for Yahoo’s Web hosting service for $5.98 a month.
It is not clear when Yahoo made the move, but a spokesman said in an e-mailed statement that the decision was recent.
GeoCities is not the only Yahoo service to get the ax — Yahoo Briefcase, Farechase, My Web, RSS ads, Yahoo Pets, Yahoo Live, Kickstart and Yahoo For Teachers all are being eliminated as well. The search giant also recently outsourced Launchcast radio to CBS Corp.
“As part of Yahoo’s ongoing effort to build products and services that deliver the best possible experiences for consumers and results for advertisers, we are increasing investment in some areas while scaling back in others,” the statement said.
The trimming is part of a process that started in 2007 while Jerry Yang was still chief executive, to close down services that aren’t profitable or don’t fit into company’s long-term vision.
The revamp has accelerated under new CEO Carol Bartz, who was hired in January.
In a sign of its ongoing troubles, Yahoo said Tuesday that it will lay off nearly 700 workers, the company’s third round of job cuts during the past 14 months.
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by Admin on April 24, 2009
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by Admin on April 20, 2009
Oracle Corp. pounced on Sun Microsystems Inc. in a $7.4 billion deal Monday after rival IBM Corp. abandoned its bid to buy Sun, a server and software maker that had a 27-year run as Silicon Valley’s brash independent.
Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle said it will pay $9.50 in cash for each Sun share. The price represents a 42 percent premium to Sun’s closing stock price of $6.69 on Friday, and is nearly twice what Sun was trading for in March, before word leaked that IBM and Sun were in buyout negotiations. Net of Sun’s cash and debt, the transaction is valued at $5.6 billion, Oracle said.
IBM had offered to buy Sun for $9.40 per share, but acquisition talks fell apart this month in a disagreement over price and the extent to which IBM was willing to see the deal through an antitrust review.
Oracle expects the purchase to add at least 15 cents per share to its adjusted earnings in the first year after the deal closes. The company estimated Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun will contribute more than $1.5 billion to Oracle’s adjusted profit in the first year and more than $2 billion in the second year.
Sun, which invented the Java programming language used to develop applications for Web sites and mobile phones, had been reluctant to sacrifice its independence, even as it reported big losses. Despite billions in sales — $13.3 billion over the last four quarters — the company has not been able to turn a consistent profit, losing $1.9 billion in the same period.
Analysts have long said the company can not stand on its own and many were skeptical the company would be able to find another buyer after talks with IBM broke down.
A deal with Oracle might not be plagued by the same antitrust issues, since there is significantly less overlap between the two companies. Still, Oracle could be able to use Sun’s products to enhance its own software.
Oracle’s main business is database software. Sun’s Solaris operating system is a leading platform for that software. The company also makes “middleware,” which allows business computing applications to work together. Oracle’s middleware is built on Sun’s Java language and software.
Shares of Sun jumped $2.46, or 36.8 percent, to $9.15 in premarket activity while shares of Oracle fell 68 cents, or 3.6 percent, to $18.38.
Sun’s takeover is a reminder that a few missteps and bad timing can cause a star to come crashing down.
Sun was founded in 1982 by men who would become legendary Silicon Valley figures: Andy Bechtolsheim, a graduate student whose computer “workstation” for the Stanford University Network (SUN) led to the company’s first product; Bill Joy, whose work formed the basis for Sun’s Unix-based operating system; and Stanford MBAs Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy.
Sun was a pioneer in the concept of networked computing, the idea that computers could do more when lots of them were linked together. Sun’s computers took off at universities and in the government, and became part of the backbone of the early Internet. Then the 1990s boom made Sun a star. It claimed to put “the dot in dot-com,” considered buying a struggling Apple Computer Inc. and saw its market value peak around $200 billion.
But Sun was slow to react when the bottom fell out in 2001. Its high-end products, built on Sun’s proprietary systems and its own microprocessors, suffered against less-expensive rivals that used industry-standard technologies such as chips from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and software from Microsoft. Sun lost more than $5 billion in the first five years after the bubble burst.
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by Admin on April 18, 2009
Without links, we would not have the internet with websites, as we do today. Links can be linked and traded with websites many different ways.
Links are able to be optimized to help establish relevancy of a website for selected keywords. Optimizing keywords and keyword phases using links is an important part of Search Engine Optimization that is often under estimated and frequently overlooked.
Linking to other websites and trading links with other websites is a very important part of SEO, but how links are linked makes all of the difference in the world. Not only does the contact on the website matter, but how links are linked to other pages and other websites matters too.
The way that webmasters and SEO experts link web pages internally and externally with other websites and/or web pages, determines Google PageRank and the search engine placement for all sites on the internet. Of course, every search engine has a different algorithm, which is the method that they use to determine that which web site is ranked in 1st place, top 10, top 20, and so on. Just because a website is 1st place at Google.com today does not mean it will be 1st place at Google.com tomorrow.
All search engine algorithms have differences, but one thing that all search engines do have in common is; they are attempting to establish relevancy for search engine users. Which basically means; it is trying to give you what it thinks you want based on what you search for and how you search for it.
When someone wants to find something on the internet, typically they use a search engine to attempt to find it. Search engines do not know what we want when we search for something, but by using a complex algorithm, the search engine attempts to make a calculated guess.
Google keeps their algorithm a closely guarded secret. Knowing this formula would be the key to success for any search engine optimization expert and/or anyone that wants have a website listed at the top of Google.com
I personally think how links are linked matters more than the website or websites that they are linked to.
The most effective way to create links when trying to establish relevancy of keywords for to placement at search engines, is by using anchor text with relevant keywords and/or keyword phrases to link to pages with relevant content.
1st place at Google.com is best place to have a website listed when performing search engine optimization, so that is what everyone seems to “aim for.”
Top 10 at Google is not bad, but just not as nice as first place. However, if a web site is not within the top 20 results for the keywords that you have selected, then the chance of a potential customer or new visitors finding that site not very high. Experts say that most people do not look beyond the top 20 results of a search engine when performing a search to attempt to find something. Search engines often update their algorithms in an attempt to improve the logic that it uses to help people find what they want on the internet.
If you have any advice, questions, or comments about Links and SEO, feel free to post it or add to this information.
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