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Telcos warned: Join Google's cloud
News Telcos looking to offer cloud services to their customers would do well to get into bed with Google, analyst house Gartner has warned.
Tags: Web services, Analyst reports, Google Inc., TV, Wireless Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless, Gartner Inc., Broadband, industry
Analyst changes tune on a Microsoft-Yahoo deal
News Microsoft's poor online-services results undermine its bargaining position with Yahoo, so Cowen's Jim Friedland now deems a deal between the companies unlikely.
Tags: Acquisitions, Analyst reports, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., operating loss, Advertisement, CEO, financial, asset, data center
Bing's first month produces small share gain
News New data has Microsoft's Bing search engine showing a small rise in market share during the month of June, as novelty wears off but interest remains.
Tags: Market research, Strategic analysis, Business Strategies & Functions, Analyst reports, Investments, Investments, Business Strategies & Functions, Analyst reports, Strategic analysis, Market research
Mozilla's crowdsourcing mystique
News For-profit companies such as Google and LinkedIn, strain to copy the Firefox Web browser maker's model of relying on volunteer developers.
Tags: Linux, Directory services, Web browsers, Employee communications, Asset/resource/knowledge management, Web services, Analyst reports, Outsourcing, Google Inc., Web Browser
Analyst: Google's favorable foreign exchange rate to hit bump
News After 10 consecutive quarters of healthy foreign exchange rates, the search giant could encounter a reversal of fortune in the third quarter, according to an analyst report.
Tags: Analyst reports, Earning reports/forecasts, Internet advertising, Search, Google Inc., Exchange Rate, foreign-exchange, Japan, Wall Street, CPC
Analyst cuts growth projections for Web companies
News A Wall Street analyst says investors should brace themselves for companies lowering their forecasts for future quarters.
Tags: Analyst reports, Earning reports/forecasts, E-commerce, Advertising, Marketing, E-business, Google Inc., Internet Advertising, Verse, Advertisement
Unisys puts stealth into the cloud
News The IT services company's new Secure Cloud managed service aims to shield sensitive information from other users of a cloud by scattering the data across different storage sites.
Tags: Network security, Federal Government, Cloud computing, Infrastructure/architecture management, Analyst reports, Security, Datamonitor, Workday, Storage, Cloud computing
Symantec 'under pressure' despite strong results
News The security giant has posted strong end-of-year results but faces competition from high-performing rivals, says analyst firm Canalys.
Tags: Security, Analyst reports, Trend Micro Inc., GAAP, international business, Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc., financial, revenue, principal analyst
Analyst: Apple cutting iPhone production
News One analyst thinks Apple is reducing iPhone production by up to 40 percent as it works through inventory and prepares for an economic slump.
Tags: Smart phones, Mac OS, Analyst reports, Apple Inc., COO, Apple iPhone 3G, Stock Market, Sales, 3G, News.com
Analysts: Apple sold 5 million iPhone 3Gs in quarter
News The financial analysts at Piper Jaffray are predicting that Apple will have sold 5 million iPhone 3Gs during its fourth fiscal quarter, which ends this week.
Tags: Smart phones, Mac OS, 3G (Third Generation), Analyst reports, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, phone, software, 3G, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc.
Gartner: Global mobile phone sales up
News Asia is main driver of growth, while the only region worldwide showing a dip in year-over-year handset sales was Western Europe, says research firm.
Tags: Cellular phones, Analyst reports, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile, Cell Phone, Mobile-phone Sale, Gartner Inc., Sales, research company, food
Smartphone sales reflect weak global economy
News The devices are still growing at a strong pace around the world, but they are not immune to economic conditions that have slowed that increase compared to earlier in the year.
Tags: Smart phones, Analyst reports, Mobile, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Gartner Inc., Sales, operating system, Microsoft Windows Mobile, phone
Oracle's second quarter to be a mixed bag
News Analysts expect the company, which reports its Q2 results this week, to announce a mixed bag including healthy maintenance subscriptions, potential earnings miss and some belt tightening on deck.
Tags: Financial statements, Analyst reports, ORCL, Sales, Reback, Brendan Barnicle, business intelligence, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., Oracle Corp., license revenue
Gartner: 85 percent of firms use open source
News The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software.
Tags: Open source, Analyst reports, Software, Open-source Software, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Gartner Inc., intellectual property, barrier
VMware, IDC play virtualization hardball
News VMware disputes recent findings by IDC about the growth of a competitive product from Microsoft. IDC says "confusion and misinformation being sown" by VMware.
Tags: Virtualization, Analyst reports, Microsoft Corp., International Data Corp., VMware Inc., Server, server virtualization, Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, blog
