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IBM Sees Green IT Pastures in Emerging Markets

November 5th, 2009 | No Comments

IBM is announcing three new green data center wins in emerging markets, which officials said are adopting energy-efficient IT solutions more quickly than their more developed counterparts. IBM sees about half of its green data center revenue coming in from outside the United States. Driving the demand is the high cost of power and the limited access in many of these regions, as well as their tendency to embrace new technologies.
– IBM recently inked three large-scale deals to help companies overseas design and build energy-efficient data centers, the latest examples of the hunger for green IT in emerging markets.
IBM Nov. 5 is announcing a $5.4 million deal with Cosan, a sugar-energy group in Brazil, to redesign its IT infra…

IBM Sees Green IT Pastures in Emerging Markets

November 5th, 2009 | No Comments

IBM announces three new green data center deals in emerging markets, which officials say are adopting energy-efficient IT solutions more quickly than their more developed counterparts. IBM says about half of its green data center revenue is coming in from outside the United States. Driving the demand is the high cost of power and the limited access in many of these regions, as well as their tendency to embrace new technologies.
– IBM recently inked three large-scale
deals to help companies overseas design and build energy-efficient data
centers, the latest examples of the hunger for green IT in emerging markets.
IBM Nov. 5 announced a $5.4 million deal
with Cosan, a sugar-energy group based in Sao Paulo,
to redesign its…

Putin sees problems emerging with Ukraine

October 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Ukraine is again having difficulty paying for Russian natural gas supplies, Vladimir Putin said. The EU is not going to lend Kiev money to solve the problems, the Russian prime minister state on Friday according to RIA Novosti.

Microsoft Sees Stronger Earnings than Expected, Believes in Tech Refresh

October 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft announces another quarter of revenue declines, but results were still stronger than expected, thanks to what Microsoft executives referred to as cost discipline and a streamlining of business divisions. With the release of Windows 7 on Oct. 22, consumers and businesses may be in the mood to buy new PCs and Microsoft products.
– Microsoft
reported another quarter of declining revenue for the first quarter of fiscal
2010. Nonetheless, Wall Street analysts and Microsoft executives both seemed
satisfied with the results, which were stronger than earlier estimates. The Oct.
23 announcement came a day after Microsoft launche…

AMD Posts Financial Loss but Sees PC Demand Increasing

October 16th, 2009 | No Comments

AMD posts another financial loss for the third quarter of 2009, but the company’s executives offer an optimistic outlook for the next few months and into 2010. Specifically, the company says it believes consumers are ready to start buying desktops and notebooks again. AMD’s results follow a solid quarterly report from Intel.
– Advanced Micro Devices posted a financial loss in the third quarter, but the
company’s executives said they believe that the chip maker is poised for a
turnaround in the coming months.
During an Oct. 15 conference call to discuss AMD’s
third-quarter results, CEO Dirk Meyer
offered a positive ou…

Intel Sees Strong Notebook Growth in Q3

October 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Intel earned a $1.9 billion profit on $9.39 billion in revenue for the third quarter, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini noted the particularly strong demand for consumer notebooks, a trend he said will continue into the fourth quarter. Consumers will continue driving the recovery of the PC market into early next year as businesses continue to hold back on spending. However, Otellini said he expects to see corporate PC spending grow as the need to refresh aging systems grows and Microsofts Windows 7 OS hits the market.
– Intels third-quarter financial numbers indicate that consumer technology purchasing is continuing to grow, particularly in the notebook space.
The worlds largest chip maker earned almost $1.9 billion in profit just below the $2 billion earned during the same period last year on $9.39 billion in rev…

Facebook Sees Nearly 200% Visit Boost, While Twitter Traffic Also Soars

October 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Facebook logged 58.6 percent of all U.S. visits among 155 social networking Websites in September 2009, a 194 percent increase over the site’s market share from September 2008. HitWise gauged the online traffic of 10 million U.S. Web users across 1 million Websites. Twitter boasted astronomical growth, up 1,170 percent from its negligible .15 percent market share from September 2008. As far as social sites go, Twitter is positioned to be Facebook’s biggest challenger.
– It’s fitting that the world’s largest social network would also receive the most traffic.
Facebook netted 58.6 percent of all U.S. visits among a HitWise survey of 155 social networking Websites in September 2009, a 194 percent increase over the site’s market share from September 2008. HitWise gau…

Yahoo Sees Standards as Key to Open Web

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Among the key issues in the Internet space today is the ongoing struggle between openness and stability in terms of standard Web technology, said a Yahoo Web technology expert. Doug Crockford, a JavaScript expert at Yahoo, calls on his company and others to not Â“break the WebÂ” as they each vie for developer hearts and minds.
– NEW YORK — Among the key issues in the Internet space today is the
ongoing struggle between openness and stability in terms of standard
Web technology, said a Yahoo Web technology expert.
Doug Crockford, Chief JavaScript Architect at Yahoo and creator of the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
sa…

U.S. sees advance in Iran nuclear cooperation

October 5th, 2009 | No Comments

U.S. President Barack Obama’s top security adviser has dismissed a report that Iran was closer to making an atomic bomb. He said Iranian cooperation in the last few weeks was good for nuclear non-proliferation.

Google Chrome 3.0 Sees Stable Release

September 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Google’s Chrome team releases a stable build of the Web browser that incorporates the speed bumps and features introduced in August’s Chrome 3.0.195.4 beta release. Chrome has been through 51 developer, 21 beta and 15 stable updates and 3,505 bug fixes in the past year. Greater expectations await Chrome now that Sony is bundling the browser alongside Internet Explorer on Vaio laptops.
– In a belated celebration of Google Chrome’s first birthday, Google on Sept.
15 released a stable build of its Web browser that boasts the speed bumps and
features introduced in the Chrome 3.0.195.4 beta release in August.
A year ago, Google Chrome marked the search engine giant’s entry into the c…

DinkiÄ‡ sees elections in 2012

August 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Ruling G17 Plus leader MlaÄ‘an DinkiÄ‡ says he is convinced that changes to the Law on Information will be adopted and that Serbia is “very far from elections”. “It seems that we are very far from elections. I’m convinced that soon gradual recovery of the economy will start, we except big investments in the coming years, visa cancelling for travel to the EU. The worst is behind us. If the government manages the next couple of months, we will have elections in the regular slot in 2012,” he told daily VeÄenje Novosti.

MoD sees Iraq jobs for Serbian firms

August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Minister of Defense Dragan Å utanovac said that he is certain Serbian companies will be hired to work on reconstruction projects in Iraq. â€œIf the government and ministries react in an adequate way, I am convinced that there will be jobs for a large number of Serbian construction companies. We are putting in a lot of efforts to open ourselves up to that market,â€ Å utanovac said.

Microsoft Sees Financial Benefits, Tech Challenges in Yahoo Deal

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft could benefit financially in the long run from its July 29 partnership agreement with Yahoo, but CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledges that a collaboration between the two companies will bring technological challenges. Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, could also benefit immensely from access to extra data from Yahoo’s sites. A number of analysts suggest the deal will ultimately prove beneficial to Microsoft’s long-term operations.
– Microsoft
has painted its newly minted Yahoo partnership as the perfect vehicle for
driving search and advertising revenue, while saving the company cash in the
long term. However, Microsoft has also indicated that the transition will
present challenges from a technical perspective.
During a J…

Blaise Zerega: WATCH: Michael Pollan Sees Healthcare Reform Leading to Food System Changes

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Michael Pollan wades into the issue of health care reform by looking, not surprisingly, at food.

British economy sees record contraction

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Britain’s recession-battered economy shrank in the second quarter of 2009 at its fastest yearly pace since records began, official data showed Friday. Gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 5.6 per cent in the three months to the end of June, compared with the same period of last year,

Microsoft CEO Ballmer Sees Tech Refresh Happening Despite Economy

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested that even the worst economy in decades won’t prevent IT administrators and the enterprise from executing a tech refresh, in comments seemingly aimed at those reluctant to embrace Microsoft’s upcoming operating system, Windows 7. Despite the recession, Microsoft plans to invest more than $9.5 billion in R D in the coming year.
– Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer suggested during a July 14
speech in New Orleans that the
economic recession wont necessarily remain an impediment to enterprises
refreshing their IT infrastructure.
quot;This is not an economic prediction, just a thought exercise, quot;
Ballmer told a large audie…