<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from SEARCH JOURNAL</title><link>http://search.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from SEARCH JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>SEARCH JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:38:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from SEARCH JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/101/seosem-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://search.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>SYS-CON Media Distributes Collectible &quot;Virtualization Journal Mugs&quot; at JavaOne</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/561943.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/561943.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/561943_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Virtualization Journal now reaches more than 60,000 online readers with monthly digital editions and weekly newsletters. The premier issue of the magazine's print edition, which debuts on May 6, 2008, at JavaOne in San Francisco, as a media sponsor of this event, will be available on newsstands worldwide. Article submission inquiries can be directed by email to editorial(at)sys-con.com and the world's most targeted advertising opportunities can be explored by contacting advertising(at)sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802-3021.]]></description></item><item><title>Borland Finally Dumps CodeGear Tools Division</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/561924.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/561924.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/561924_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It's only taken Borland two years but it's finally dumped its CodeGear tools division, responsible for Borland's hereditary JBuilder, Delphi and C++ Builder lines as well as its new web ventures into PHP and Ruby, said to be used by 7.5 million developers. Embarcadero Technologies is buying it for about $23 million and the transaction's supposed to close in 30-60 days. Thomas Cressey Bravo the private equity house that bought Embarcadero and took it private last year, is fronting the money.]]></description></item><item><title>Unlocking the Power of Automation: Exclusive Q&amp;A with Dr Adam Kolawa, Co-founder &amp; CEO of Parasoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/473911.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/473911.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/473911_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Developers need to realize that Automated Defect Prevention benefits them,' says Parasoft co-founder & CEO Dr Adam Kolawa in this Exclusive Q&A with Java Developer's Journal. 'But they won't start recognizing this until they see that they have less work,' Kolawa continues. The key to success, he adds, is to have an infrastructure handle as much work as possible. 'This way, developers have time to focus on the creative tasks they enjoy most...the ones that truly require human intelligence.']]></description></item><item><title>Virtualization - AMD Unveils Business Class PCs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/558115.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/558115.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/558115_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[AMD, which hasn't penetrated the commercial space, is gonna try to pick up some share with a Business Class line of energy-efficient commercial desktops and notebooks targeted at SMBs, government and education. The desktops are based on seven AMD 'image stable' new triple-core and quad-core Phenom and dual-core Athlon chips good for the next two years; the laptops will use the company's upcoming Puma platform, due in the second half.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft-Yahoo! - Microsoft Fails To Make Up Its Mind What To Do Next</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/556891.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/556891.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 06:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/556891_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Despite meeting yesterday, the Microsoft Board of Directors - according to the Wall St. Journal - has not decided whether its $31 a share offer for Yahoo!, which has fallen in value to $29 a share in line with a fall in Microsoft's own stock value, should be hoisted to $33 a share in an attempt to keep alive Redmond's two-year pursuit of the Silicon Valley based search giant.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft-Yahoo! - Microsoft Threatens To Walk</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/551091.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/551091.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/551091_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Time is running out on Microsoft's deal-or-else ultimatum to Yahoo! Basically Yahoo! has to move off the dime by Saturday or else Microsoft could try taking the place by force, lowering its rejected $31-a-share bid in the process or - scarier still for Yahoo! - Microsoft could walk away completely, a move that will send Yahoo! stock back to the teens and could be the undoing of Yahoo!'s desperate CEO Jerry Yang.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo! Reportedly Getting Closer to Google Deal</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/546649.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/546649.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/546649_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Yahoo! is reportedly getting closer to that controversial deal that would outsource its search advertising to Google. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that the limited test of Google that Yahoo! set up went well. The Google strategy, which could potentially be worth a billion dollars a year to Yahoo! but is sure to catch antitrust flak, is part of a tripartite deal that would have Yahoo! merge with AOL and AOL's owner Time Warner take a 20% stake in the combined company for some cash to fend off Yahoo!'s unwanted acquisition by Microsoft.]]></description></item><item><title>Capital World Smell Money in Those Yahoo!s</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/540593.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540593.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540593_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Well, at least somebody in the Yahoo spectacle is keeping their head. Capital World Investors, Yahoo!'s biggest institutional investor, has doubled its position to 10.1% figuring there must be some money to be made out of the fact that Rupert has abandoned Jerry to team up with Steve to gang bang Jerry, who's now sleeping with his worst enemy Eric, who - if the antitrust police catch them at it - can always claim he did it to help Steve out.]]></description></item><item><title>Cookies May Crumble</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/540698.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540698.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540698_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The European Commission may crack down on Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft et al and tell them they can't keep personal search data longer than six months - and even that may be pushing it. The EC's international advisory body, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, whose findings are usually adopted, delivered its 29-page opinion to the regulator last Friday and it ain't buying Google's dearly held arguments of better search results or custom tailored ads.]]></description></item><item><title>Latest Reports from the Microsoft-Yahoo! Front</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/541544.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/541544.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/541544_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When last seen Yahoo! was experimenting with letting Google deliver ads alongside Yahoo!'s search results and trying to cut a deal to fold AOL into Yahoo!, a possibility its own people reportedly abhor, while Microsoft, which delivered Yahoo! a ultimatum that expires April 26 to submit or be taken forcibly at a lower price than offered - a threat Yahoo! called 'counterproductive' - was talking to News Corp about a joint run at Yahoo!]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo! Plays Google Card</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/540123.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540123.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540123_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Yahoo! says it's going to try offloading some ad placement to Google, experimenting with using Google's AdSense for Search service to deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo's search results. Yahoo made the announcement after the stock market closed. It didn't take long for Microsoft's chief counsel Brad Smith to lob antitrust claims at the unholy alliance.]]></description></item><item><title>Now Yahoo&apos;s Doing a Deal with AOL as Microsoft-News Corp Plot Joint</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/540156.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540156.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540156_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft and News Corp are seriously considering pairing up for a joint run at Yahoo, according to both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. News Corp could kick in the Fox Interactive Media unit along with MySpace and some cash and Microsoft would throw in MSN. Such a deal would let Microsoft raise its bid for Yahoo, the Times said. The paper described the talks as being at 'a sensitive stage' and a ways away from anything definite. News Corp could of course always turn around and do a deal of its own with Yahoo.]]></description></item><item><title>Now Yahoo!&apos;s Doing a Deal with AOL &amp; Microsoft-News Corp Plot Joint Yahoo! Bid: WSJ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/540122.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540122.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/540122_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Yahoo! has managed to antagonize Microsoft into considering its options - like lowering its bid and girding for a hostile takeover - by sidling up to Google in a relationship that everyone knows can't go anywhere because of the antitrust issues. Now someone's whispered in the Wall Street Journal's ear that Yahoo and AOL are on the threshold of a deal that would fold AOL into Yahoo and see Time Warner make a cash investment in the combined entity in return for about 20% of the place. AOL, without its dwindling dial-up business, would be valued at about $10 billion and Google, of course, owns 5% of AOL.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Moving Offline</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/535309.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/535309.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/535309_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google is inching toward making Google Docs, its free, webby, Office-aspiring programs, work offline as well as on. It said Monday that it's started phasing the Google Gears browser plug-in-derived facility in, beginning with a small percentage of Docs word processor users. It can't do presentations or spreadsheets yet. The process will apparently take a few weeks.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo! Bets on AMP! To Counter Google and Microsoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/535776.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/535776.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/535776_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Just a month after Google closed its $3.4BN acquisition of ad sales management firm DoubleClick, Yahoo! has taken the wraps off its 'Apex' project and said that it will be called AMP! - described as 'a faster, easier, and more automated and integrated way to create, buy, and sell advertising and do so across a transparent global marketplace.']]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft&apos;s Weekend Bombshell to Yahoo! BoD: Off Come the Gloves!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/535689.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/535689.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/535689_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['It is unfortunate that by choosing not to enter into substantive negotiations with us, you have failed to give due consideration to a transaction that has tremendous benefits for Yahoo!'s shareholders and employees,' thundered Microsoft's Steve Ballmer yesterday in a letter to the Board of Directors of Yahoo! after a two-month lull in which Yahoo! has done nothing whatsoever to encourage Microsoft's $44.6BN uninvited takeover bid for it...and quite a bit to frustrate it.]]></description></item><item><title>Is Microsoft Re-evaluating Its $44.6BN Yahoo! Offer?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/535672.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/535672.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/535672_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The $31 a share offer for Yahoo! that Microsoft made on Jan. 31 was 62% higher than Yahoo!'s closing price the day before the offer was disclosed. So with the Fed Chairman saying the U.S. may be in a recession after losses tied to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, it would hardly be surprising if the world's largest software company didn't revisit the offer terms and begin to wonder whether $31 a share is too much. And now Bloomberg.com is reporting that this is exactly what's happening.]]></description></item><item><title>Spam-Free Search: Social Blog Search Engine Launched by Twingly</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/534074.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/534074.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/534074_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['We will have worldwide coverage but are concentrating on being number one in European blog search, both by controlling spam and working with all different languages,' said Martin Källström, CEO at Twingly, the European Internet start-up, as Twingly announced today that it is launching its spam free blog search engine.]]></description></item><item><title>Google&apos;s Going Through Its First Rough Patch</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/529265.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/529265.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/529265_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Ya know, maybe it's not the economic slowdown. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said January 31 that the company was feeling no pain from any macroeconomic softening. Maybe the novelty of Google search is wearing thin because it doesn't return what people are looking for. Maybe Google should go work on its algorithms some more because comScore says US growth in Google?s click-through rate, up 25%-40% last year, which was only a few weeks ago, is now non-existent.]]></description></item><item><title>When Yahoo! Says Cloud, It Means a Freakin&apos; Big Cloud</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/529197.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/529197.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/529197_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Yahoo has tied up with Tata subsidiary Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to do cloud computing research. Financial terms were not disclosed. What CRL brings to the party is the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world, a beast that Yahoo figures has 'substantially more processors than any other supercomputer currently available for cloud research' - 14,400 of them to be precise along with 28TB of memory, 140TB of disk space, a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations a second and sustained computation capacity of 120 teraflops.]]></description></item><item><title>Viewpoint: Is Google Growing Too Fast?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/529602.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/529602.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/529602_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Is Google growing too fast to continue to produce innovative software while maintaining the quality that has become expected of it? I've had some problems with their alerts and sent in comments and, excluding the automated email replies, have received no response nor has the problem been corrected.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo&apos;s China Partner Messes Up Yahoo&apos;s Pretty Valuation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/523482.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/523482.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/523482_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Yahoo's not the only company scrambling to avoid getting sucked up by Microsoft. Yahoo owns 39% of Alibaba Group, which in turn owns China's biggest B2B portal, and that interest would pass to Microsoft if Microsoft buys Yahoo. So now Alibaba, reportedly spooked by the specter of Microsoft's hands-on management and apparently convinced Microsoft will win the day, is in advanced talks with potential investors to buy back those shares, according to Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, both citing unnamed sources.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo Explains Why Microsoft Should Pay More or Better Yet Go Away</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/522740.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/522740.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/522740_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A reported tête-à-tête between Microsoft and Yahoo on March 10 at which Microsoft is supposed to have painted its picture of what a combined company would look like apparently hasn't advanced Microsoft's suit any - at least not at the price it's offering to pay. Yahoo Tuesday offered its rationale for rejecting Microsoft's $31-a-share bid as undervalued.]]></description></item><item><title>New National Rental Search Engine Launched in Beta</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/517698.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/517698.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/517698_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['While at Google, we learned to develop products that were simple to use, free for users, and clean of annoying advertising,' says Dan Daugherty, President and CEO of rentBits, a new nationwide search engine for rentals. 'rentBits has all of these qualities and this beta release is just the beginning. We will continue to innovate so we can provide the best rental search experience for our users,' Daugherty added.]]></description></item><item><title>Google-DoubleClick Acquisition Approved; Job Cuts To Come!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/517240.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/517240.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/517240_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The final hurdle in the completion of its deal to buy Doubleclick has now been overcome by Google: European regulators have today cleared its $3.1BN bid. Eric Schmidt, writing in the Official Google Blog, admitted 'As with most mergers, there may be reductions in headcount' - and Google's stock rose nearly 5% as a result, up from near its 52-week low of $413 per share on Monday.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Swallows DoubleClick</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/517079.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/517079.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/517079_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google closed on its $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick this morning a couple of hours after the European Commission, as expected, waved the hackles-raising merger through. US authorities blessed the merger in December. The EC said the merger was 'unlikely' to harm consumers either in ad serving or the intermediation of online advertising markets and so wasn't anticompetitive.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo! Reportedly Sizing Up AOL as its Knight in Shining Armor</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/513190.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/513190.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/513190_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In its desperate backstroke away from Microsoft's clutches - and in case Microsoft starts its threatened proxy fight for control of the company - Yahoo! has extended its deadline for board nominations to 10 days after it announces a date for its annual shareholders meeting. Whenever that might be. The original date was March 14, just around the corner.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Takes Out After SharePoint with Google Sites!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/509498.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/509498.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/509498_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google has blown a new cloud over Redmond's way to rain on Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server - even if it has a ways to go before being recognized as a thunderhead. The cloud is called Google Sites. It's a googlized version of the JotSpot start-up's wiki widgetry that Google bought 16 months ago on undisclosed terms.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Becomes the Default Search Engine in Opera Mini</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/507737.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/507737.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/507737_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['Google and Opera have established a valuable relationship over the years and we look forward to continued collaboration on mobile products,' said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera, as Opera today made Google the default search engine in its mobile Web browsers. 'We're excited to extend this productive relationship and we hope that the nearly 100 million people using our mobile products will agree,' he added.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Giant Has Feet of Clay</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/507447.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/507447.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/507447_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google's stock dropped 7% this morning - down to the $450s - after comScore sprung the lever on the trapdoor under its feet and reported that US paid-click growth in January was flat year-over-year and down 7.5% sequentially. Google derives most of its revenue from paid-clicks. ComScore said Yahoo's paid-clicks were up 15% and cut 8 points off of Google's market share.]]></description></item><item><title>Google vs Microsoft: Sergey Brin Implies Microsoft OS Dominance Is &quot;Unnerving&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/505768.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/505768.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/505768_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['When you start to have companies that control the operating system, control the browsers, they really tie up the top Web sites, and can be used to manipulate stuff in various ways. I think that's unnerving.' That, according to Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin, is what might face the Internet, which has evolved from open standards, having a diversity of companies, if Microsoft is allowed to acquire Yahoo!]]></description></item><item><title>Gates: Yahoo! &quot;Should Take a Hard Look&quot; at the Microsoft Offer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/503054.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/503054.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/503054_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['We sent them a letter and said we think that's a fair offer,' Bill Gates has been telling an Associated Press reporter, referring of course to the February 1 proposal Microsoft made to the Yahoo! board of directors to acquire the company for $44.6BN. Gates made the comments during a conference call to announce free access to Microsoft developer tools for students.]]></description></item><item><title>Deploying Business Intelligence: Five Steps To Success</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/503018.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/503018.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/503018_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Business intelligence now sits at the top of most IT budgets, yet most deployments are still far from complete. This is costing companies thousands of pounds everyday, and some are considering abandoning projects altogether. Here Paul Harris outlines his top five ways for ensuring successful deployment.]]></description></item><item><title>Hurd Joins Murdoch&apos;s Board with a Nice View of Yahoo! from Both Sides</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/502725.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/502725.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/502725_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[HP CEO Mark Hurd has joined the board of directors at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media conglomerate, which should give him a nice view of any possible Microsoft-avoiding tie-up between News Corp. and Yahoo considering HP's printer chief Vyomesh Joshi sits on Yahoo's board. Reuters notes that Hurd will get to see a bit of Tom Perkins now.]]></description></item><item><title>Is Yahoo! Too Large a Company to Force into Microsoft&apos;s Ways?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/502772.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/502772.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/502772_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Is Yahoo! too large a company to force into Microsoft's ways? That's the question asked this morning by The New York Times, whose correspondents John Markoff and Matt Richtel report a Silicon Valley executive as declaring that, when it comes to overall technology mindsets, Microsoft and Yahoo! 'are completely at odds with one another.']]></description></item><item><title>A Thousand Yahoo!s Gone</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/502726.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/502726.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/502726_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Whistling past the graveyard, Yahoo! went ahead Tuesday with its thin, pre-Microsoft plans of canning a thousand non-core people worldwide in an attempt to get the firm growing in the right direction. The number actually turned out to be more like 1,100 but far from what it would take to puncture its 14,300-man bloat.]]></description></item><item><title>Red Hat Gooses JBoss</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/502705.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/502705.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/502705_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[So it's kicking off an 'Enterprise Acceleration' initiative. It means to add products to its middleware portfolio, sponsor new open source projects, grow its partner ecosystem, and offer new enterprise-class performance and interoperability resources. It also means to buck up sales and marketing. It said it would set up facilities for performance tuning. testing applications, live certification and migration. JBoss, which cost Red Hat around $325 million a couple of years ago, runs on Red Hat, Windows and other Linuxes.]]></description></item><item><title>Is Rupert Murdoch Yahoo!&apos;s White Knight?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/501667.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/501667.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/501667_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The media is all atwitter at the news that Yahoo! is now seeking a rabbit hole in Rupert Murdoch's patch rather than get bought by Microsoft - at least not for the ungodly sum of $44.6 billion currently on the table. What started on the Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch blogs has now been picked up by leak central, er, the Wall Street Journal, which, since it's now owned by News Corp, is fortuitously positioned. Anyway, Yahoo! and News Corp. are supposedly talking about a joint venture that would see Rupert fold MySpace and some other News Corp. Internet properties into Yahoo - as well as infuse cash - in exchange for a better-than-20% stake in Yahoo, an idea that's at least as old as last year.]]></description></item><item><title>A Geek&apos;s Bookshelf: An Investment Strategy for the Long Term</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/485005.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/485005.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/485005_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[There are 8,909 books listed on Amazon.com with the word 'Investing' in the title; there are(!) 27,146 books with the word investment in the title. Without having looked at a representative sample, I can be confident that Sturgeon's Law applies - I suspect if I sampled enough of them I would find that 90% greatly underestimates the amount of junk in this particular area.]]></description></item><item><title>Might It Now Be &quot;Yahoo!Space&quot; Instead of &quot;Microhoo!&quot;...?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/501556.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/501556.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/501556_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[On Monday Rupert Murdoch was reported as assuring the financial press that News Corporation would not be making a counter-bid for Yahoo! but yesterday came new reports that discussions are taking place about integrating Yahoo! with News Corp's Internet assets. The idea, according to TechCrunch, would be to fold Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, into Yahoo! along with a cash investment by News Corp. and a private equity fund, to create an entity with nearly 150 billion monthly page views.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo! Edges Out Google With Major Mobile Search Win in Europe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/500835.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/500835.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/500835_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[T-Mobile has announced that it is likely to make Yahoo! oneSearch the exclusive search engine in all eleven of its European markets. The company is the twenty-sixth mobile carrier to sign a major deal with Yahoo! and displaces arch-rival Google as T-Mobile's preferred search engine.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Slashes Postini Prices</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/499204.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/499204.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/499204_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google, which looks like it will be teaching rivals like Symantec to mutter words like 'predatory pricing,' has slashed prices on the widgetry it got from its $625 million Postini acquisition last July and is using the new price points like a billy club to force users on to the 'cloud.']]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo! Remains Undecided Over the Weekend</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/498557.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/498557.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/498557_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Officially Yahoo! won't even confirm the phone call but according to what has leaked to the press, the board is supposed to meet again face-to-face all day Wednesday, ironically - and perhaps prophetically - the day before Valentine's Day. Meanwhile, indulging perhaps in a bit of 'rabbi shopping,' Yahoo! is supposed to have whistled up some more financial advice. The Financial Times says it has hired Moelis & Company, which advised billionaire Yahoo! director Ron Burkle last year in his failed attempt to acquire the Tribune newspaper group.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Itching To Play Spoiler on Microsoft&apos;s Yahoo! Dinner</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/498356.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/498356.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/498356_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It's unlikely, however, that Google, the target of the proposed merger, can do much of anything other than raise dust - like its move over the weekend to raise the specter of Microsoft's possible monopolization of the Internet and its illegal leverage into 'new, adjacent markets.' As the Journal observes, Google would have a tough time making a bid for Yahoo itself because its owns too much of search and Internet advertising to clear the regulators, and even the alternatives - underwriting another white knight or helping Yahoo stay independent by guaranteeing 'revenue in return for a Yahoo advertising outsourcing pact' - would probably meet with regulatory headwinds.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo! Still Undecided</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/498355.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/498355.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/498355_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent out his second company-wide e-mail since Microsoft made its unsolicited $44.5 billion bid for Yahoo, a message that made it into an SEC filing Wednesday. He said the same thing he said before: 'No decisions have been made about Microsoft's proposal.' 'The board, he said, 'is focused on maximizing the value of Yahoo!'s tremendous assets for our shareholders. And it is going to take the time it needs to do it right.' Clinging to the pre-tsunami past of a few days ago, he said, 'We won't let it distract us from pursuing our transformation strategy.' Right.]]></description></item><item><title>Yahoo Board Reportedly Set To Meet &amp; Decide</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/498392.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/498392.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/498392_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Yahoo Board is supposed to convene today to thrash out whether or not to accept Microsoft?s $44.6 billion acquisition offer, try to get Microsoft to sweeten the pot, or resist and hammer out an outsourcing deal with Google, according to TechCrunch.]]></description></item><item><title>Google&apos;s Competitive Advantage: It Leverages &quot;The Power of Free&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/494856.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/494856.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/494856_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Would Microsoft be able to use its acquisition of Yahoo! to 'shake its obsession with catching Google and instead look to the next generation of the Internet,' asked John Markoff in The New York Times yesterday. Writing in his popular 'Silicon Valley Memo,' Markoff nailed the one thing that Google 'gets' that Microsoft doesn't (yet): how to leverage 'The Power of Free.']]></description></item><item><title>Mighty Google Misses</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/494324.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/494324.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/494324_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google, which does not give guidance, missed both Wall Street's top and bottom expectations for its December quarter by a hair and the punters turned vicious pounding it down around 50 bucks after-hours. Consensus demanded non-GAAP earnings of $4.44 on revenues of $3.45 billion. Google came in with $4.43 on revenues $3.39 billion. Those revenues figures are net of what's called TAC, Google's traffic acquisition costs, the money it pays its partners, which it this case amounted $1.44 billion or 30% of its ad revenues.]]></description></item><item><title>Dynamic Software&apos;s Portal Promoter</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/494683.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/494683.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/494683_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Portal Promoter is a completed search engine submission, optimization and search engine marketing platform will guarantee your success online it is truly a Dynamic SEO solution. Portal Promoter web interface combines all the powerful search engine optimization and submission tools in one system to help you promote your business online without hire and search engine optimization professional. With this award winning web site optimization and search engine marketing tool, Portal Promoter provides an All-In-One solution to help you to understand, manage and improve your web site online, it is a secret weapon for your search engine success.]]></description></item><item><title>Although Yahoo! Looks Pretty Boxed In by Microsoft, It Could Try For More Money</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://search.sys-con.com/read/494547.htm</guid><link>http://search.sys-con.com/read/494547.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://search.sys-con.com/read/494547_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft this morning made a $44.6 billion hostile bid for the floundering Yahoo, striking at a point when it has become evident to all and sundry that Yahoo doesn't have a pray of turning things around on its own let alone getting competitive. Yahoo's first official reaction was basically to say it'll think about it. It said it would evaluate the offer 'carefully and promptly in the context of Yahoo's strategic plans.' It did not give a timeframe for a response. Although it looks pretty boxed in, it could of course try for more money.]]></description></item></channel></rss>