IBM (NYSE: IBM) previewed today the industry’s first blade computing system designed to help smaller firms simplify the management of technology needed to operate a small business – from servers, to phone systems and antivirus applications – in a single system. IBM’s new BladeCenter “S” can help reduce the 25 to 45 servers used by an average mid-size company by up to 80 percent, eliminating the need for these businesses to own and operate their own “data centers”. Read more
Copal Partners, the leading financial services analytics and research provider to investment banks, hedge funds and private equity funds, today announced that Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) has made an $11 million investment in the company. Merrill Lynch joins two other major investment banks, Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) and Citigroup (NYSE: C) as investors in Copal Partners. Read more
Copal Partners, the leading financial services analytics and research provider to investment banks, hedge funds and private equity funds, today announced that Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) has made an $11 million investment in the company. Merrill Lynch joins two other major investment banks, Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) and Citigroup (NYSE: C) as investors in Copal Partners. Read more
IBM and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced the first “Service Science, Management, and Engineering - SSME Meet 2007″ in India to help representatives from the academia, industry and government to brainstorm on the emerging trends in an increasingly services-based economy and the “interdisciplinary curriculum” necessary for technical talent to succeed in the marketplace. The conference will be held on 21st June, 2007 at Hotel Taj West End, Bangalore. Read more
Looking for an attorney in Dallas in cases ranging from criminal law, including DUI, DWI, to white collar crimes, to assault, to burglary and more Richard Charles maybe just the right Read more
There maybe be tens and hundreds of stock option trading sites but few can claim to be really user friendly and good. Moreover even fewer can claim to really help you make money in the stock market. And yet even fewer sites can claim to have all the elements i.e. help you make money, be user friendly and be really good. Read more
Has bad credit or bad auto loans been bothering you? Have you wanted to buy that dream machine but bad credit rating not letting you get it? All this has changed know thanks to Pierre Money Mart. Pierre Money Mart has a solution in which it guarantees credit for people with auto loans bad credit . In other words it helps make you get a fresh start from bad credit and bad credit ratings for auto loans. The company also has over 3,000 cars and trucks to choose from every day. Read more
Once upon a time there were three businesses. They sold the same types of products in the same geographic area. But there were big differences in the way they presented themselves to their prospects.
One positioned himself as the “high price / high quality / high personal service” vendor. His company became known as the expert in the selected market niche of satisfying customers who liked feeling extra-special and were willing to pay for it. He dominated that portion of the marketplace while repelling the customer who was looking for bargains.
The second business was positioned as the “low price supplier” offering limited service, limited selection, and “Low, Low, One-Time-Only-Discount-Pricing.” The company specialized in the highly promotional end of the market and they dominated it. If you wanted first-class service and amenities you went elsewhere. If you wanted “cheap” or even the perception of “cheap” this is the place you went.
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Qualcomm 3G Chips Barred from U.S.
On Thursday, the International Trade Commission barred Qualcomm from importing certain high-end chips and chipsets designed for use in 3G cell phones and other mobile devices.
Seagate Puts 250 GB on One 3.5-Inch Platter
Seagate announced it has begun shipping a 250-GB drive that stores its data on a single platter — a key stepping-stone for Seagate’s planned line of terabyte drives for the enterprise.
SanDisk Introduces 64-GB Flash Drives
On Thursday, SanDisk introduced 64-GB solid state drives (SSDs) that the company plans to have ready for shipment to manufacturers and to retail outlets by the end of this year
Right Here Right Now
Good things come in small packages. Sounds clichéd. Ok I agree. How about fitting life in a 2 by 2 inches device in your pocket? No jokes, seriously, that’s true. Our life as it steps into the electronic civilization is itself becoming a cell of information in a yet bigger cell of an information universe. On second thoughts we have always been a huge conglomerate of billions of cells in which information has been fed in at the time we were born. Let’s make this simpler. The point I am trying to make is the cell phone is becoming a part of our own selves; it stays close to us more than anybody else in the world including our parents, spouse, friends. I won’t be surprised if our soul also finds residence in our cell phones soon! The entire cell phone and the information technology is actually imitating life now. The cell phone is first screen most of my countrymen would use as their first screen ever. The cell phone is also the most visible screen in the world now. Life in this century is lived 24/7 and life is LIVE now showing in a screen in your hand, right here right now. Read more
