Posted by: ADMIN on: January 30, 2008
Yahoo announced it would cut 1,000 jobs by February after the sales in the fourth quarter dropped 23 percent.
Yahoo reported that the net income for the last quarter ending December 31 dropped approximately 60 million dollars compared to the same period a year ago, while the operating income fell 38% compared to last year, to $191 million.
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 30, 2008
Canon Inc. reported a 1.8% rise in its fourth-quarter profit, helped by strong sales across most of its business and geographical divisions.
Canon’s consolidated net income for the fourth quarter rose 1.8% to 127.85 billion yen or $1.12 billion from 125.56 billion yen a year ago. Quarterly net sales increased 3.9% to 1.26 trillion yen or [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 30, 2008
AMD and Intel apparently have ended up in a much more stable CPU market position that what we have seen in the early parts of 2007. According to IDC, both companies saw their Q4 share in the CPU market remain almost flat over Q3.
The market research firm estimates that microprocessor shipments reached new record [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 30, 2008
IBM announced it is bringing its POWER6 microprocessor-based technology to small and medium-sized customers and delivering new virtualization offerings designed to help those customers consolidate server capacity, save energy and more effectively manage their IT costs.
IBM also introduced a new virtualization platform — PowerVM Express — specially made to enable customers to better manage [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 30, 2008
Greece signed an agreement with Microsoft as they aim to become a player in the IT development market.
Greece invited Microsoft to establish IT development centers in the country to boost their competitiveness in this market. The agreement was signed on between Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Greece’s finance minister.
Bill Gates said: “I am [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 30, 2008
Cisco announced an innovative family of data center-class switching platforms, the Cisco Nexus Series, to meet customer demands for next-generation mission-critical data centers. As the data center transitions to a more services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in orchestrating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 30, 2008
AMD announced the immediate availability of the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics processor, expanding the visual boundaries of PC entertainment well beyond the 1080P High Definition (HD) threshold. The industry’s first graphics processor to break the Teraflop (one trillion floating point operations per second) barrier, the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 nearly doubles [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 30, 2008
Mobile phone maker Nokia has announced that they are now acquiring Trolltech ASA. The deal would be conducted in a cash transaction and is worth around US$153 million.
Trolltech is based in Oslo and provide software and services used in popular web applications like Skype, Google Earth and Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2008
Sony Ericsson unveiled the next stage in the evolution of PlayNow arena, its popular over-the-air (OTA) download service. At the MIDEM conference in Cannes, Sony Ericsson announced deals with 10 major record labels, adding over 5 million new tracks to its extensive catalogue. Sony Ericsson also unveiled the design and URL for PlayNow arena [...]
Posted by: ADMIN on: January 28, 2008
The bidding in the US Federal Communications Commission’s auction for wireless spectrum licenses in the 700MHz band went over 3.7 billion dollars, after only four rounds.
The bidding topped the 2.78 billion dollars and the federal government hopes that it would raise 10 billion dollars until the end of the auction for the government- owned airwaves.
The [...]
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