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SYS-CON Media's SEO/SEM Journal (search.sys-con.com), is the first and only global publication to present the hottest timely topics on the merging search engine optimization and search engine marketing industry. Facebook Wednesday upped the number of shares that will be sold when it IPOs Friday by almost 25% or 84 million shares to about 421.2 million shares of Class A common stock.
The overallotment has also been increased from 50.6 million to 63.2 million. If all 484.4 million shares move,...May. 16, 2012 09:50 AM EDT Reads: 453 |
 There was a time, not so very long ago, when IT directors and chief information officers dismissed the Internet as something of a passing fad. Somehow though, things took off pretty well with the whole web thing didn't they? Mobile telephony has also grown to a level of dominance that ...May. 16, 2012 09:21 AM EDT Reads: 424 |
 Oracle’s Java patent infringement case against Google and Android went to
the jury Tuesday afternoon.
The jury, which delivered only a partial verdict on copyright infringement
last week, deciding that Google infringed but unable to say whether that
infringement made “fair use” o...May. 16, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 501 |
 When it comes to building new cloud services, there is a large opportunity for new services built around Big Data.
So when you look at consulting firms that provide application development and integration services, are there opportunities for them to leverage Big Data in their servi...May. 16, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 802 |
 You knew this was gonna happen, right?
Facebook has repriced its IPO upwards from $28-$35 a share to $34-$38 a share giving it a valuation of $92 billion-$104 billion, a neighborhood more to its liking than the original $77 billion-$96 billion. The actual price won’t be set until Thur...May. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 601 |
 Early adopters have been evaluating TwitPolls for the last several weeks. I’ve tested it out with our @CTOvision account and see great promise for this easy to use engagement tool.
TwitPolls is powered by the technologies and leadership team of WayIn, so it is based on a great/scalab...May. 16, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 563 |
 As far as we have been able to determine, the phrase “Word-of-Mouth Advertising” was coined by Ernest Dichter who, in 1966, published an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled, “How Word-of-Mouth Advertising Works”
Dichter was a psychologist by training. His firm focused on ...May. 15, 2012 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 208 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Marvin Wheeler, Open Data Center Alliance Chairman, will discuss the success the organization has had in charting the requirements for broad-scale enterprise adoption of the cloud and how 2012 is forecast to be the tipping point for ...May. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 784 |
 Departed Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, 54, told the board before he resigned over the weekend that he was just diagnosed with thyroid cancer and was starting treatment, the Wall Street Journal said overnight.
It isn’t clear exactly where this piece is supposed to fit in the puzzle but if...May. 15, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,326 |
 The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market tren...May. 14, 2012 11:10 PM EDT Reads: 444 |
 Four CEOs in five years! Yahoo was a symbol of innovation and success in its first few years of life. Founded by two Stanford Ph.D. students (Yang and Filo), Yahoo defined the Internet era of communities and sharing. It still has an enviable community using various services like email,...May. 14, 2012 03:50 PM EDT Reads: 556 |
 As the role of cloud computing is growing around the globe, many CIOs and other senior IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure -- to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud. A new international study by Cisco Systems...May. 14, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,120 |
 Major changes have taken place in the network in the past 15 years. The type of data that users are passing across the pipes is significantly different in size and composition. And, the coming “data explosion” promises to put even the most robust networks to the test.
When you add in ...May. 14, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 841 |
 Like cloud two or three years ago, SDN and OpenFlow is dominating the discussions. During a show that’s (in theory at least) dedicated to networking, this should be no surprise.
Is it making networking sexy again? Yes, insomuch as we’re at least talking about networking again, which i...May. 14, 2012 07:07 AM EDT Reads: 670 |
 This sound familiar?
Mozilla is complaining that Microsoft is impeding its Firefox web browser from getting on the devices being designed to carry the unseen next-generation Windows for ARM chip, now officially called Windows RT.
RT, which has a Metro environment for tablets and pho...May. 14, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,008 |
 Yahoo’s so-called ResumeGate has reportedly claimed its short-lived CEO Scott Thompson.
In the midst of Mother’s Day – when, as she says, everybody’s at brunch
– All Things Digital’s ace reporter Kara Swisher, who seems to know
everything that goes on at Yahoo, said Sunday – based...May. 14, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 538 |
 When you first look at the list of mobility vendors that are attending SAPPHIRENOW 2012, it may seem like most of them compete with SAP mobility, but that would be to forget that SAP sells ERP software. Look at where SAP makes their money. They make their money selling and maintainin...May. 14, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 532 |
 Dissident shareholder Daniel Loeb, head of the Third Point hedge fund that uncovered Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s resume lie, sent the Yahoo board another letter Wednesday saying it was “farcical” for them to be spending more time deciding whether to fire him than it had deciding to hire...May. 10, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 912 |
 Want to save your business money? Of course you do. What if we could show you a way to use the cloud in and around your office, get your workforce mobile, make communication faster and easier, and reduce OPEX? We can.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jason Silverg...May. 10, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,625 |
 Google seems to be eking out a major new tweak to its search results. Reportedly spotted by several users, the search pages are now displaying semantic data nestled to the right of the regular results. Such information tries to tie in relevant facts related to the subject of your searc...May. 10, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 437 |
 The Yahoo board has until high noon today (Monday) to fired CEO Scott Thompson for cause and to can his confederate in the now infamous “ResumeGate,” board member Patti Hart, or else.
Yahoo’s biggest shareholder Third Point, which is also engaged in a proxy fight with the company ove...May. 7, 2012 11:33 AM EDT Reads: 903 |
 The US Department of the Interior has moved its e-mail business to Google, which sued when the agency gave Microsoft a five-year $59.3 million cloud-based e-mail contract in 2010 claiming the department’s research was “stale” and Microsoft’s security wasn’t certified for government use...May. 7, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,334 |
| If you have recently checked your category’s Google search results, you may well have been as surprised as was when I recently checked our first page placement in the ‘content marketing’ topic. May. 6, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,087 |
 Over the past decade, we’ve become much more robust in our approach to information security. We recognize that our company’s largest vulnerabilities have to do with its computer systems, and that data security is at the core of loss prevention, disaster recovery, and even normal operat...May. 5, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,125 |
 Ah, it seems that Yahoo’s new master Scott Thompson fudged his resume and claimed that his bachelors’ degree from Stonehill College was in accounting and computer science when it was really only in accounting.
The college didn’t even offer a computer science degree when he was there....May. 4, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,028 |
 In 2008 Microsoft acquired enterprise search software company FAST, and have been integrating the software into the Sharepoint suite. While Sharepoint is an excellent document and collaboration tool, the reality of a busy corporate life is that over 80% of corporate information is spre...Apr. 30, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 925 |
 The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future?
Join us as we bring Google’s highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together to hear:
Industry e...Apr. 23, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,427 |
 According to the PCI SSC, there are 12 PCI DSS requirements that satisfy a variety of security goals. Areas of focus include building and maintaining a secure network, protecting stored cardholder data, maintaining a vulnerability management program, implementing strong access control...Apr. 20, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,273 |
 With the dint of the patent wars in its ears Twitter has turned pacifist.
It figures engineers and designers should control the decision to use their work in infringement suits.
It’s put together a draft Innovators Patent Agreement (IPA) that commits it to using patents only for de...Apr. 20, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 972 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Schahram Dustdar, Advisory Board member at Pacific Controls, will discuss how smart systems and machine-to-machine communications will evolve in the era of cloud computing and the critical role analytics will play in value creation. ...Apr. 14, 2012 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,178 |
 In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Glen Allmendinger, Advisory Board member at Pacific Controls, will discuss the new business models and profit models that the convergence of cloud computing and smart systems are informing.
Glen Allmendinger is Advisory Board member...Apr. 14, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,074 |
 The Amazon cloud now has a beta Amazon CloudSearch and it’s notably not Google or anybody else’s search.
It leverages the A9 technology that powers search for Amazon.com so it’s described as fast, fully managed and highly scalable.
Amazon says businesses can integrate it into their ...Apr. 14, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,403 |
 Rather than pay a cash dividend, which is culturally repugnant to so-called growth stocks, Google said late Thursday, after posting better-than-expected results, that it would repay its stockholders, who must be dizzy from all its up and down movement, by giving them more non-voting st...Apr. 13, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,215 |
 Yahoo’s still wet-behind-the-ears CEO Scott Thompson, who just laid off 2,000 Yahoos to save $375 million a year, has laid out the gist of the expected reorg he has in mind for the joint, and naturally his internal memo escaped into the wild.
Whether there’s a redemptive strategy in ...Apr. 11, 2012 08:20 AM EDT Reads: 1,167 |
 Any Web browser has local cache, and everyone knows that its goal is to minimize the number of network requests by caching locally some resources like images or even the program code. The google.com home page opens blazing fast? Sure, because the browser loads it from your disk cache, ...Apr. 11, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,439 |
 Yahoo said Wednesday morning that its restructuring would cost an initial 2,000 Yahoos their jobs. That's ~14% of its workforce. The pink slips are just going out and further cuts are thought to be in store for the company.
In a statement CEO Scott Thompson said, "Today's actions are ...Apr. 5, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,052 |
 IT departments are experiencing storage capacity needs doubling every 12-18 months, 50x the amount of information and 75x the number of files.** IT managers are dealing with growing constraints on space, power and costs to manage their data center infrastructure. Intel is helping busin...Apr. 4, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,127 |
 Hmm, that’s curious. Fortune noticed that Vertica, the analytic database management software that HP bought early last year for ~$350 million, has been quietly shifted out from under Autonomy and its boss Mike Lynch, who was given information management to run when HP closed on the $10...Apr. 3, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,586 |
 Yahoo said late Sunday that it has named three independent board members in an attempt to foil Third Point, its largest stockholder, from staging a proxy fight at the next stockholders meeting whenever that is.
Third Point said it offered “several significant compromises to strike a ...Apr. 2, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,235 |
 Our next upcoming best practices white paper is going to be called ‘Cloud Computing and the Drummond Report‘ – A special feature on how Cloud might be employed to help realize many of the cost-saving goals recommended.Mar. 30, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,849 |
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