Google Stock Raise Down
The beginning of the current year became for Google very hard. Their stocks has been raising down. For comparison the previous price was 750 USD, now it is 464 USD!!! The reason is that clicks on search advertisement were slowing down also. Now Google testing new algorithms of bringing ads to customers on their search page and analythics forecast the growth of stocks.
Microsoft launches virtualization software
Software giant Microsoft Corp. looks to overwhelm another competitor's nascent technology on Wednesday with the release of an enterprise server product that brings something called "virtualization" to the forefront of the IT industry.
In Toronto to announce Microsoft's largest enterprise software launch yet, chief operating officer Kevin Turner said the company developed its Windows Server 2008 software after witnessing how strong the demand was from the industry for virtualization tools.
Normally, chipsets residing in powerful computer servers only use 15% or less of their capacity, but virtualization software emulates the machine's hardware and makes it possible to run multiple operating systems without the need for additional equipment.
The benefits for IT departments are staggering. Instead of using eight machines to do one job, it can be done by only one, saving companies millions in IT expenditures, maintenance and energy costs.
"We want to help our customers save time and money," said Mr. Turner in an interview. "The ability to spend less time on maintenance and more time on creating innovative things to the marketplace ... the way to do that is to allow people to maximize their resources."
However, Microsoft is just getting in now and it does face established competition. The current virtualization market leader is Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware Inc., which already has about 85% of the market after popularizing the idea that you could efficiently use all your computers processing power.
While it's not first to the game, Microsoft's foray into the realm of virtualization is well timed. Only 10% of the potential market is already using the software and its value is expected to double from US$6.5-billion to US$11-billion by 2010, according to data from research firm Gartner Inc.
Yet Microsoft won't make an immediate splash on the market, said Drue Reeves, a vice-president research director with IT analyst firm Burton Group.
"In the short term, I don't think it's going to have an effect on VMware's [business]," said Mr. Reeves, "But long term, it's a different story.
"As Microsoft ties their applications to its operating system ... that allows them to capture a better portion of the market."
VMware is certainly not taking Microsoft's announcement lying down and is even taking a page from the software giant's playbook. The company announced agreements with Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., International Business Machines Corp. and Fujitsu Siemens Computers to distribute their servers with VMware software already installed -- a tactic that Microsoft has perfected in ensuring its operating system is run on most of the world's computers.
"Microsoft is a serious and powerful competitor, but we're doing a lot of things to level the playing field," said Bogomil Balkansky, senior director of product marketing at VMware in an interview. "We do have the better technology and product-wise, we're years ahead of Microsoft."
Microsoft plans to sell its latest Windows Server product for about one-third less than what VMware's software costs. But customers will still need to spend a bit of time testing both software offerings before deciding which to use for their IT needs, added Mr. Reeves.
CEBU’S EARNINGS FROM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Cebu is expected to generate $US255 million or 20 per cent of the $US1.275 billion in revenues in software development by 2010, as it continues to be a premier outsourcing destination in the country.
Bonifacio Belen, executive director of Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cebu-it), said this opened up job opportunities to 15,000 software developers in Cebu.
Cebu earned $US60 million and employed 3,500 software developers in 2006, he said.
The figures are based on studies conducted by the Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT) and Business Process Association of the Philippines (BPAP).
According to BPAP's five-year forecast, the country will get at least 10 per cent or $US1.2 billion of the total global business process outsourcing (BPO) earnings of $US110 billion to $US130 billion.
The BPO areas expected to fuel economic growth in BPO and information technology enabled services (ITES) in 2010 are customer care ($US5.296 million); back office services such as human resources ($US2.392 million); medical transcription ($US1.708 million); and animation ($US759 million), among others.
In his presentation during the launch of Cebu Business Month (CBM) 2008, Belen said this target put forward an enormous growth opportunity for Cebu.
The challenge for Cebu was to serve a substantial share or 20 per cent of the national target of $US1.2 billion in 2010, he said.
CBM 2008 featured the First Cebu Open Source Summit, which was one way of addressing challenges faced by the ICT sector.
For the very first time, the major stakeholders of Open Source Technology across the world would converge in Cebu to discuss how the Open Source movement was changing the rules of the game for ICT, he said.
The summit would have speakers from Cebu and other countries, who would discuss issues such as open source applications, infrastructure and technical success factor, challenges and risks of open source, and best practices for open source governance.
Filipino entrepreneur Winston Damarillo, who is chairman and co-founder of BPO company, Exist Global and software company, Morph Labs will be one of the speakers.
Belen said the summit would help Cebu to reach its revenue target in the BPO and ITES sectors in 2010.
He said the ICT sector in Cebu had been active in coming up with programs and establishing networks with different companies to ensure growth in the sector.
In 2006, the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CICC) also organized the 2nd Cebu ICT Strategy Summit in 2006, which launched a program that seeks to make Cebu and ICT hub by emulating the Silicon Valley (SV) model.
In the 2006 summit, the ICT sector in Cebu decided to address at least two ingredients that make the SV successfulinnovation ecosystem and technology entrepreneurship.
Innovation ecosystem promotes and enables research and development to find a way in the marketplace, while technology entrepreneurship creates an atmosphere where entrepreneurs are mentored and encouraged by business experts and venture capitalists.
‘Platform-as-a-service’ System
Boasting of a one-of-a-kind solution for the application development lifecycle, Bungee Labs is launching the public beta Tuesday of Bungee Connect, an on-demand platform for Web application development and deployment.
Featured is a full gamut of tools and services to build and host applications. "Bungee Connect is a single platform for the development, testing, deployment, and hosting of rich Web applications," said Lyle Ball, Bungee Labs' vice president of marketing.
With the platform, developers can collaborate to build Web applications leveraging multiple Web services and databases. Applications are deployed on Bungee Labs' multi-tenant grid infrastructure and can be SaaS-based or offered as stand-alone Web destinations. They are accessed via popular browsers.
Rather than developers having to assemble disparate pieces such as IDE, an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) toolkit, and testing and collaboration tools, Bungee provides all these capabilities.
"Developers log onto Bungee Connect. It's in the cloud and it's a hosted environment," Ball said.
Bungee describes its product as a platform-as-a-service system, in which the entire software development lifecycle can be supported on the same computing environment to reduce costs, risks, and time to market.
Because Bungee Connect is entirely based on-demand, users can build and deploy applications without installing or configuring servers and can connect to multiple Web services from within a single environment, said Brad Hintze, Bungee director of product marketing.
"I think it's got some very interesting benefits because it's managing to integrate development and deployment but in a service environment, so it allows for a developer to [have] access to tools," said Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. "It also at the same time gives them a place to deploy their applications without having to worry," about run-time choices and operational issues," he said.
Bungee also provides a way to mash up with other Web services, Gardner said. Bungee is "on to something" that is a harbinger of things to come in creating a seamless relationship between development and deployment, he said.
As part of its launch, Bungee is offering reference applications, including a calendar application, WideLens, which integrates Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce.com, Google Calendar, and other sources. These applications serve as examples of integration offered on Bungee Connect; source code for the applications can be imported into any Bungee Connect account, modified, and used in commercial endeavors.
AJAX-enabled applications can be built and embedded within other Web applications, in SaaS solutions, or offered as a stand-alone Web destination.
Interactivity is delivered via AJAX but developers themselves do not write any AJAX. They use the Bungee Logic programming language for building application logic while the UI is built using a drag-and-drop metaphor. Bungee Logic features a C-style syntax and acts like Microsoft's Visual Studio development platform, Hintze said.
"We automate AJAX interactivity," while developers focus on creating applications and value, Ball said.
Development, collaboration and test deployment are free of charge on Bungee Connect; developers only pay when applications are used. Through a utility-based pricing model, businesses can expect to pay between $2 to $5 per user per month for a heavily used business productivity application or fractions of a cent per e-commerce transaction.
Bungee's grid infrastructure provides data on application usage patterns. Applications are hosted free during the Bungee Connect Public Beta program. The public beta program is expected to continue until the end of 2008, whereupon Bungee would launch the general release of its service.
"And then the world is a different place," Ball said. Some 40 developers worked to deliver Bungee Connect, according to Bungee Labs.
Google has started to place a contextual videoadvertising
Internet-giant Google has started to place in a test mode on page of results of search a contextual videoadvertising. While advertising rollers are shown in the limited volume therefore see them users of Google. "Luckies" can far not all will have an opportunity to see a roller having noticed the contextual reference with the small pictogram in the form of a sign "+", by pressing on which the small player will open.
According to vice-president Google on search services, for accommodation of videoclips from advertisers additional money will not be raised yet. To be paid, as well as earlier, should only cliques under the advertising reference. Thus paid will be even cliques on a videoclip, without transition to a site of the advertizer, informs eWeek.
So, according to analysts comScore, about 20 % of Internet serfers look through monthly the order of 841 minutes of video. Almost 30 % of users look through 77 minutes of video. 54 % of the users who are on a regular basis looking through video on the Internet are remarkable that visit site YouTube belonging Google.
Meanwhile according to data of analysts IDC volume of the American market the Internet-advertising the last quarter has reached 7,3 billion dollars. It approximately on 28 % above a similar parameter for the fourth quarter 2006. Search giant Google continues to keep in sector of on-line advertising in the lead positions.
Five News unveils new website design
A new is one of the changes implemented by the news programme in an attempt to increase accessibility, reports the The Press Gazette.
Natasha Kaplinsky, the new presenter of the show, features regularly on the website and has been the centre of much focus since her move from the BBC. A number of comments have been made about the sexy image she will bring to the channel.
David Kermode, the 35-year-old Five News editor, states: "What viewers are going to make their mind up on is content.
"Natasha's a key part of that in her presentation and style. That said, I don't think what she wears is of enormous significance to our viewers."
Ms Kaplinsky has been previewing the launch of the new look show via a blog on the Five News website. An "exclusive" first viewing of the new studio is also included on the programme's online portal from today.
Irish Web Technology Conference
This major four-day event includes 11 separate tracks and over 50 sessions in all covering everything from Business, Design, Development, SEO, Analytics, Marketing and Legal.
"The IWTC is the largest web conference ever held in Ireland and includes a number of renowned speakers from the web industry," said Barry Alistair, the conference project manager. " It is being held in the CineWorld complex because, with cinema-style seating and presentations on the BIG screens, it lends itself incredibly well to a superb audience experience which is second to none. In true IrishDev.com community style, we have involved the Ruby Ireland, Python Ireland, PHP, Microsoft and Dublin Java user groups in speaker selection and they have done a fantastic job getting a schedule together which will appeal to web industrialists, regardless of position, seniority and technology preferences."
Wireless access will be available for delegates to follow the presenters or even to keep in touch with important e-mails or work throughout their time at the conference.
The Irish Web Technology Conference will also provide an opportunity for delegates to participate in "Open Coffee and Bottle" sessions as well as user group meetings. Another major event will be Ireland's very first "Girl Geek Dinner". Organised by Martha Rotter, who is part of the IWTC committee, the "Girl Geek Dinner" is an informal event which is open to all women in technology. "It has been around in the UK for a couple of years now," Rotter explained. "We plan on rotating the event around Ireland and we're using IWTC 2008 to launch the first one. Of course, men may also join in the fun. However, they will need to be invited by a female attendee."
For more information, including a full list of speakers, go to www.iwtc.firstPort.ie.