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With our economy in the crapper more and more people will be turning to web conferencing to reduce the need to travel for meetings. Imagine being able to look at a sample of a product you are producing half way around the world in China. Now, web communication is nothing new. You can chat with your friends or business vendors over AIM or Google Talk, but he only problem is that this is a one-on-one conversation unless everyone is in the room with you.
In July, Microsoft and Yahoo finally announced a long awaited deal that will give Microsoft a better footing to take on Google’s dominance in Internet search and help Yahoo return to profitably. In the 10 year deal, Microsoft will handle all of Yahoo’s search inquiries, while Yahoo will sell the ads associated with the search results.
Although Yahoo investors seem to be disappointed that they didn’t get a
“boat load of money” on the deal, the resulting cost savings are hard to ignore. If and when the deal goes through, Yahoo is expecting to save $500M in annual operating expenses and $200M in capital expenses. They also expect to add $275M to its annual operating cash flow.
Prior to the deal being announced, Barron’s magazine had highlighted Yahoo on their main cover of the June 22nd issue. Even though the new deal is a big game changer, I still believe some of the arguments presented in the article holds true. For one, Carol Bartz, who is the new CEO and was credited with increasing the annual revenues at Autodesk fivefold at her previous tenure.
Yahoo generates 88% of it’s $7.2 billion dollar revenue from marketing services. Does it really matter who is providing the search technology…
I’m sure you’ve heard it before how people made the switch to Vista and end up hating it. Well I’m one of those people. I was never a real big fan of Windows, but it was there and it worked… until Vista came along that is.
Some of the problems that I had with Vista included but not limited to the computer lags, network connection problems and just being a big resource hog. Keep in mind that my computer is isn’t too shabby: 3.4 GHZ Pentium D with 3 GB of memory.
Rather than run the risk of downgrading by to XP and not be supported by Microsoft in the future, I went out looking for alternatives. I have noticed that Dell had been offering Ubuntu with some of their systems. So I decided to give it a try with Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop. Read the rest of this entry »
Rarely is change easy for anybody, especially for the age old newspaper industry. Yet even while bankrupcies of local printings scatter accross the country they are quick to put the blame on the likes of Google for their failures.
The new age of information has been making their way to the center stage for some time now. The next phase of this migration will come in the form of news being delivered straight to millions of hand-held mobile devices.
Now it would seem kind of silly to to blame your woes on a service that lists your articles to millions of potential viewers. The complaint of the publishers is that the snippets and headlines give away too much of the story and should be illegal to reproduce without some sort of monetization. Read the rest of this entry »