Intel Brands 'Nehalem' Processors as Intel Core
At the 2008 Intel Developer Forum, the IT community and PC enthusiasts will get a first look at the Intel Nehalem processor, which represents a whole new microarchitecture. Intel is also planning to brand its first Nehalem chips as Intel Core, and the first of these chips will appear in gaming PCs and high-end desktops. - Intel is planning to devote most of its energy at IDF on detailing
the features behind its processor microarchitecture dubbed quot;Nehalem, quot;
including a new brand name for this upcoming family of desktop chips.
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Google, Yahoo Search Ad Pact Comes to Light
Google and Yahoo reveal some of the details about their search advertising agreement in an SEC filing filed Friday. No financial terms were disclosed and the filing is heavily redacted in an area that covers other business opportunities. -
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc and Yahoo Inc released on Friday excerpts of a pact covering their search advertising
partnership that keeps secret financial terms and the extent of other
ties between the two.
In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the
companies take the unus...
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LinuxWorld 2008: Enthusiam Up, Attendance Down
Shakiness of macroeconomy plus general problems with travel arrangements caused many usual attendees to sit out this year's LinuxWorld Conference Expo in San Francisco. More than 7,500 people signed up, but about half that actually showed up, some estimates said. But there was no lack of enthusiam for new product releases especially in the data center, mobile and cloud computing sectors. Those who stayed home missed a lot of good new products and plenty of good networking opportunities. - by Chris Preimesberger
It was apparent early on that this was not going to be a sold-out LinuxWorld Conference amp; Expo at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Malaise in the macro-economy and general travel difficulties were generally thought the culprits. Only 7,500 people registered, and perhap...
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LinuxWorld 2008: Enthusiasm Up, Attendance Down
The shakiness of the macroeconomy plus general problems with travel arrangements caused many usual attendees to sit out this year's LinuxWorld Conference Expo in San Francisco. More than 7,500 people signed up, but about half that actually showed up, some estimates said. But there was no lack of enthusiasm for new product releases especially in the data center, mobile and cloud computing sectors. Those who stayed home missed a lot of good new products and plenty of good networking opportunities. -
It was apparent early on that this was not going to be a sold-out LinuxWorld Conference amp; Expo at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Malaise in the macroeconomy and general travel difficulties were generally thought to be the culprits. Only 7,500 people registered, and perhaps half that numb...
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Yahoo AMP Targets Google, Microsoft in Online Ad Market
Yahoo executive Mike Walrath says accuracy, flexibility and the ability to easily search for online ad inventory and book a campaign within minutes instead of hours or days is what will separate Yahoo's AMP platform from the pack, which includes Google and Microsoft. Yahoo further expects Yahoo AMP will grow its lead in display and mobile ads. - While Yahoo's management team may be stinging from shareholders' criticisms in the wake of some questionable vote counting at its board meeting, its lieutenants are preparing the company to combat Google and Microsoft on the online advertising battlefield.
Yahoo in April unveiled its chief weapo...
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Yahoo Platform Targets Google, Microsoft in Online Ad Market
Yahoo executive Mike Walrath says accuracy, flexibility and the ability to easily search for online ad inventory and book a campaign within minutes instead of hours or days is what will separate Yahoo's ad management platform from the pack, which includes Google and Microsoft. Yahoo further expects the platform to help grow its lead in display ads. - While Yahoo's management team may be stinging from shareholders' criticisms in the wake of some questionable vote
counting at its board meeting, its lieutenants are preparing the company to
combat Google and Microsoft on the online advertising battlefield.
Yahoo in April unveiled its chief wea...
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Shed No Tiers for Broadband Pricing
OMG! Some claim that the FCC's recent ruling that Comcast violated the FCC's network neutrality principles will inevitably lead to metering, caps, tiered Internet service and higher prices for consumers. Not so fast says FreePress, which the led the fight in bringing Comcast's decision to block P2P applications like BitTorrent to the FCC. - It's been one week since the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) bopped Comcast's ears for blocking the P2P (peer-to-per) application BitTorrent, ruling the broadband provider violated the agency's network neutrality principles.
After the predictable celebrations by network neutrality advocates...
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Rackspace IPO: Cloud Computing Goes Public
Rackspace Hosting became one of the first full-time cloud hosting and data storage companies to go public when it announced its IPO of 15 million shares Aug. 7. Rackspace provides IT systems and computing as a service to about 33,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace's offerings include managed hosting, e-mail hosting, cloud hosting and platform hosting. Rackspace launched a cloud storage service called CloudFS. - Wall Street, meet quot;cloud computing. quot;
Rackspace Hosting on Aug. 7 became one of the
first full-time cloud hosting and data storage companies to go public when it
announced its IPO (initial public offering) of 15 million shares of its common
stock at a price of $12.50 per share. Rackspac...
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Microsoft Site CodePlex Turns 2
Microsoft's CodePlex celebrates its second year of helping .Net developers dabble in open source. The Microsoft open-source site enables developers to contribute to and share code for such projects as IronPython. - The Microsoft community development site, CodePlex, celebrated its second anniversary in early August.
On Aug. 6, S. quot;Soma quot; Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, blogged that CodePlex had reached its second year of operation as a Microsoft-run hosting site. T...
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Google Says $1B Investment in AOL May Be Impaired
Google says its $1 billion stake in AOL is threatened by AOL's recent swoon. The problem? Google's investment from 2006 is based on a then-valuation of AOL of $20 billion. Analysts currently peg AOL at only $10 billion, so Google is concerned its investment is degrading. - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc's AOL unit may be worth less than the $1 billion the Web company paid for it in 2006, Google warned in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
quot;We believe our investment in AOL may be impaired, quot; Google said in its latest q...
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