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Oracle Shares Gain After 3Q Results Beat Forecasts

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

By the close Wednesday, shares of the Redwood Shores, Calif.company fell 69 cents to $29.41, a 2.3 percent drop. Overall markets fell as well. Oracle shares had already gained 17 percent in 2012, a recovery after their tumble in December when the company’s second quarter results missed estimates.

Oracle’s net income rose 18 percent to $2.5 billion, or 49 cents a share, as revenue rose a more modest 3 percent, to $9 billion. The results reflected higher license sales as well as internal improvements ordered by CEO Larry Ellison, 67, who founded the company.

Oracle, a bitter rival of Germany’s SAP (NYSE: SAP), whose American Depositary Receipts fell about 1 percent to $71.65, expects better results in the fourth quarter, which could range between 76 and 81 cents a share, ahead of the prior estimates of 76 cents, co-President Safra Catz said on an investor call Tuesday.

Oracle and SAP are locked in bitter battles over database as well as new software intended for the cloud, or Internet-based computing for enterprises and consumers.

Ellison criticized SAP’s new Hana software, which has had fast acceptance, saying Oracle’s TimesTen application, which came  through acquisition, was a better product. "I don’t believe SAP is equipped to compete with us in a database business when we’ve been working on it for 10 years," he told investors.

Analyst Ross MacMillan of Jefferies, who’d downgraded Oracle shares to "hold" from "buy" on March 11, noted the net income benefited from lower tax rates, share buybacks and lower operating expenses, but noted that wasn’t sufficient to change his rating.

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/317348/20120321/oracle-shares-earnings-larry-ellison-sap-hana.htm

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HP Intel Xeon E5 Workstations Set for Reveal

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

HP has become the first company to announce their plans for the Intel based Xeon E5 workstations. The company has unveiled a trio of new Z workstations: Z420, Z620 and Z820 all built on the Xeon E5 architecture.

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The E5 sporting an optimized I/O infrastructure has been developed on the basis of Sandy Bridge-E architecture from gaming-friendly Core i7 processors. Most of the E5 chips support Hyperthreading to double the task handling per core, thereby leading to even 32 simultaneous program threads.

The high-end Z820 workstation is equipped with two processors supported by 16 cores, 14TB of memory, and 512GB of error-correcting memory. Meanwhile, the mid-range Z620 workstation which can support 16 cores comes with only 11TB of disk space and 96GB of error-correcting memory. However, the normal Z420 packed with the economical E5-1600 chips and optional 11TB disk memory do not feature the dual-core choice.

All the HP workstations are structured using the new E5-2600 chip line that comes with eight cores balancing in one chip and new spaces for memory. The devices are integrated with NVIDIA’s Quadro graphics for pro 3D support.

The Z420 comes with Quadro 2000 boards whereas the Z620 and Z820 consist of the Quadro 5000 and 6000 models correspondingly. Both the Z620 and Z820 come with choices for adding respective dual Quadro 5000s and 6000s chips too.

Source: http://www.gizmocrave.com/11269-hp-intel-xeon-e5-workstations-set-for-reveal/

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The number one mobile Web browser: Google’s native Android browser

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

On the PC, Internet Explorer (IE), while declining for years, is still the top Web browser. On mobile devices, though, IE has never mattered, and Opera has long been the top dog. But, that’s no longer the case. According to StatCounter, Android’s built-in Web browser is now number one.

Android’s browser appears to have taken first place for the same reason that IE still dominates PCs-it’s what built into the most popular systems. True, the iPhone is the world’s single most popular smartphone, but taken all together Google’s Android devices accounted for over 50 percent of all smartphone sales, up by 30 percent only a year ago.

True, some vendors, such as Samsung, have long pre-loaded Opera on its feature phones. But, on the higher-end smartphones, Opera has had to reply on individual users downloading it. For years, this was enough, but no longer.

In February 2012, StatCounter reports that Android has 22.67% of the market, Opera comes in second with 21.7%, and the iPhone native browser, which has also been growing in popularity takes third with 21.06%. Nokia’s native Symbian browser comes in a distant fourth with 11.24%.

However, I suspect that Opera may yet become the king of the hill in mobile Web browsers. That’s because Google is bringing the Chrome Web browser to Android. True, it’s only available on Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), but as more smartphone and tablets appear running ICS, Chrome will start to grow at the Android native browser’s expenses. This should lead to a point where these two browsers will cut into each other’s market-share leaving Opera once more on top.

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/the-number-one-mobile-web-browser-googles-native-android-browser/2091?tag=content;search-results-river

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Web 2.0 Technologies Allow You to Create Ideas

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

What are Web 2.0 technologies?

They are what digital natives – think grandchildren – will probably do first when they need help in the future; i.e. summon their electronic social networks to assist them, collaborate together in online environments to solve problems, participate in discussion and share resources.

GoogleDocs

A familiar desktop environment that enables you to create, store and access word processing, spreadsheet and presentations from any computer anywhere, anytime there is Internet access. You can also edit and share documents to work on collaboratively in real time.

Image Generators

Image generators give us new methods for expressing ourselves – a further creative edge to traditional communication formats. You can create a new image, add text to a picture, or design text into a picture. However be warned, exploring image generators results in serious time consuming fun.

Glogster

Glogster enables anyone with a computer, Internet provider or library card to create online posters. Possibilities for use are broad. School project, garage sale, charity announcement, lost dog, etc.

Details and creative liberties in one nice neat electronic location. With a simple drag and drop interface, text, videos, images, audio, graphics data and drawing can be placed in your original work. Make a mistake on the poster paper – simply resize.

Source: http://lakeforest.patch.com/articles/web-2-0-technologies

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A Winning Framework for SEO Reporting

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Inspired by an awesome talk by Vanessa Fox, Max Thomas and Marty Weintraub at SMX East (the one that took the Internet by storm), we’d like to continue the SEO reporting topic and investigate into what makes a solid modern-day SEO report.

Gone are the days when rankings were the only report filed by SEO’s. The industry has matured and clients have gotten much more SEO-savvy, which calls for some new standards in SEO reporting.

In this respect, what’s important to understand is that whether running an online or an offline business, marketing executives and business owners always keep track of at least one financial indicator – profit. In a very simplistic decision-making model, a manager would make decisions based on what impact they have on the profit. Thus, there should be proper reporting mechanisms in place that help one determine if certain steps are going to generate loss or yield extra revenue.

In economics, profit is revenue minus cost. For an online business this basically means:

Getting more quality traffic →
at lower cost, and →
converting this traffic into sales.

This can be applied to any traffic channel: paid advertising, email marketing, SEO, etc. Tracking paid ad channels is simple: for every dollar you spend you get N visits and a pretty stable amount of conversions. However, when it comes to SEO, things get tricky, because:

  1. It’s a complex Internet marketing technique that includes many activities. Each activity has its own set of key performance indicators (KPIs).
  2. SEO is not an exact science. Apart from some “best practices” articulated by search evangelists, there are no uniform proven manuals or “how to” guides.
  3. As a result, there are a lot of SEO myths. SEO marketers will always use these myths to their advantage. When they underperform, they blame the “Google dance”, “Panda update”, etc.

Source: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2011/12/a-winning-framework-for-seo-reporting.html

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Content Management Surprises in 2011?

Monday, December 19th, 2011

Marketing Drives the IT Agenda & Re-Emergence of Web CMS

Back in 1999, marketing drove business to the web and fostered the emergence of a new class of software, Web Content Management. Web CMS went on to become mission critical infrastructure owned and managed by IT to support both external and internal Web initiatives.

Now, in 2011, with the imperative to differentiate in multi-channel digital experiences to build brand and drive demand, marketers are again at the forefront of pushing the IT agenda, driving new innovation and new demand in Web CMS. In the age of the social and mobile consumer, all roads now lead back to Web CMSs and their core publishing, working and dynamic delivery services.

DAM Becomes the Topic du Jour for Digital Marketers

Originally focused on internal production efficiencies and governance, secure storage, archival and retrieval of brand assets was a core departmental initiative in the early 2000s for many enterprises to lower costs associated with digital asset production and distribution. Now, in 2011, DAM has become the centerpiece of an enterprise’s brand strategy and multi-channel brand experience.

Context Marries Data & Content for 1:1 Personalization

1:1 personalization was always the vision. Executing against that vision was the central challenge of CMSs. In 2011, we suddenly saw organizations and vendors rally around the notion of context and how to track and personalize experiences as users interact and hop between channels like the web, mobile and social. 2011 became the year of context: marrying deep customer insights and analytics to content for delivering an optimized experience.

Social Becomes Central to Marketing Agenda

Social has been the playground of marketing for a number of years: starting first with blogs, then various Facebook pages and then forays into Twitter. In 2011, social became front and center to CMOs for how they understand customer sentiment and drive engagement. Today’s marketing organizations now take a "social first" attitude, directly correlating social media campaign performance to real business results.

Convergence of Marketing Technologies into Emergent Digital Marketing Platform

In 2011, with the added demands on marketing organizations as they transition from more traditional offline brand marketing to new online demand marketing, enterprises around the globe "woke up" to the fact that they were relying on dozens of different systems for specific elements of the demand-generation function across brands and across regions.

Source: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/content-management-surprises-in-2011-here-are-a-few-of-mine-013857.php

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Twitter, Google oppose US online piracy bills

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

QQ截图20111215141444 The founders of Craigslist, eBay, Google, Twitter, Yahoo! and other Internet giants expressed concern to the United States Congress on Wednesday over legislation intended to crack down on online piracy.

The Stop Online Piracy Act has received some bipartisan support in the House of Representatives and is the House version of a bill introduced in the Senate known as the Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or Protect IP Act.

The legislation has received the backing of Hollywood, the music industry, the Business Software Alliance, the National Association of Manufacturers, the US Chamber of Commerce and other groups.

But it has come under fire from digital rights and free speech organisations for allegedly paving the way for US authorities to shut down websites, including foreign sites, without due process and threatening the architecture of the Web.

Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_745165.html

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Top Web Developer Tools of 2011

Friday, December 9th, 2011

To be clear, this isn’t exclusively a list of tools that debuted in 2011. Instead, I wanted to look at some of the most popular and best tools for Web developers through 2011. Some debuted in 2011 and look destined to be popular and dependable tools for Web developers for some time to come. Others were already on the scene at the beginning of the year, but have obviously become or remained popular in 2011.

Basically, we’re looking to highlight tools that are innovative, widely used and/or wildly useful for Web developers.

jQuery and jQuery Mobile

No list of Web developer tools would be complete without jQuery, the ever-popular JavaScript library that we’ve covered extensively on ReadWriteHack.

Even Microsoft has made the case for jQuery and technology surveys show jQuery well in the lead for 2011, moving from 27% of sites surveyed in December 2010, to 42% in December 2011.

Modernize IE with CSS3 PIE

CSS3 PIE ("Progressive Internet Explorer") is meant to bring some of the spiffy CSS3 features to Internet Explorer. Want to see how it works? There’s a full list of demos and plenty of documentation for getting started. Naturally, the project is on GitHub, and it’s available under the GPLv2 and Apache 2 licenses.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is pretty simple, it’s just CSS that provides a standard set of solutions for things developers need for Web sites and Web apps. Developers can use Bootstrap for prototyping, or organizations can standardize on Bootstrap (as Twitter has) to provide a uniform design across a set of sites/applications.

LESS

LESS is a dynamic stylesheet language that extends CSS to be much more expressive and easy to use. Standard CSS doesn’t support variables, functions, operators, and so on. LESS gives you the ability to do things that CSS ought to let you do.

Chrome Developer Tools

Chrome’s Developer Tools are based on WebKit’s Web Inspector but include a number of enhancements. The developer tools in Chrome are just a click or keystroke away, and give you the ability to do everything from edit HTML to view breakpoints in your script, perform remote debugging, and much more. The devtools also have an experimental API for those who’d like to extend the developer tools even farther.

Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_web_developer_tools_of_2011.php

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Internet Explorer & Web Standards

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Over the many years that have passed since I was first introduced to the “Internet”, a.k.a. AOL at the time, there have been many web browsers that have been created. Some are still around today while others have long since been abandoned. There is, however, one that everyone has had the pleasure, or should I say displeasure, of using, Internet Explorer. As a web developer, Internet Explorer has got to be the single most frustrating web browser to develop around. Why, you might ask? Because Microsoft has seemingly made it a mission to completely ignore well established web standards. These web standards were developed in order to help control the fragmented rendering methods of the numerous browsers that existed in the earlier years of the Internet. Every other major web browser that has any significant market share complies with official web standards. While some of these browsers do render things slightly differently than the others, they are much easier to develop around.

Internet Explorer however is the exception that wastes countless hours of valuable development time for developers all around the world. When one develops a site that works great in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari it should render the same in Internet Explorer, especially if the code is validated as being flawless and conforming to web standards 100%. In order to get around this seemingly constant problem, we as web developers have to use numerous tweaks and hacks to get Internet Explorer to render properly.

Source: http://thecatapultproject.com/internet-explorer-web-standards

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25 Worst Internet Passwords

Monday, November 21st, 2011

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If  “password” is your password, chances are you’ve been the victim of a hack attack.

“Password” is the least successful, according to SplashData’s annual list of worst Internet passwords.

The list, notes Mashable.com, is somewhat predictable. Sequences of adjacent numbers or letters on the keyboard, such as “qwerty” and “123456,” and popular names, such as “ashley” and “michael,” all are common choices. Other common choices, such as “monkey” and “shadow,” are harder to explain.

SplashData created the rankings based on millions of stolen passwords posted online by hackers. Here is the complete list:

  • 1. password
  • 2. 123456
  • 3.12345678
  • 4. qwerty
  • 5. abc123
  • 6. monkey
  • 7. 1234567
  • 8. letmein
  • 9. trustno1
  • 10. dragon
  • 11. baseball
  • 12. 111111
  • 13. iloveyou
  • 14. master
  • 15. sunshine
  • 16. ashley
  • 17. bailey
  • 18. passw0rd
  • 19. shadow
  • 20. 123123
  • 21. 654321
  • 22. superman
  • 23. qazwsx
  • 24. michael
  • 25. football

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/20/25-worst-internet-passwords/

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