3rd August 2005 Archive

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Real finds another profitable quarter

Revenues up 26pc

Real Networks reported a profit of $4.7m on income of $82.6m in the quarter ending June 30, Q2 2005. That's up 26 per cent year on year. It was helped along by the $7.59m sale of its investment in MusicNet, but even without the gain, it's close to break even. The company noted that long running antitrust litigation expenses …

IT Channel 3 Aug 2005, 08:09
Tailwind blows over Microsoft sales shake-up

Think vertical, not horizontal

Microsoft has re-organized its US sales force to increase the focus on specific industries while recruiting individuals with specialized knowledge of vertical sectors. Under a project called Tailwind, Microsoft has reduced the number of sales districts from 17 to 12 whilst enlarging the size of five districts. Microsoft is also …

IT Channel 3 Aug 2005, 08:15
Search pioneers join Yahoo! - but is the web beyond search?

Clever move - too late?

Few visitors to IBM's Almaden research lab in 1999 and 2000 can fail to have been impressed by its lead in web search. IBM's Clever project both predated and informed what became Google: Brin and Page cited the Almaden work in their 1998 paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine [pdf, 124kb]. Google drew …

Software & Security 3 Aug 2005, 08:34
Sage Ireland snaffles Delta Systems

Shopping spree continues

Software company Sage Ireland has continued its shopping spree with the acquisition of Delta Systems, a customer relationship management (CRM) software firm. The firm is remaining tight-lipped about the asking price, and has yet to specify the terms of the deal. However, weekend media reports have indicated that Delta sold for …

IT Channel 3 Aug 2005, 09:43
Intel 'to exit' low-end desktop chipset biz

Pacifying other chipset makers?

Intel is to depart the low-end desktop chipset market later this year, unnamed sources from within Taiwan's motherboard-maker community have alleged. The claim was reported by DigiTimes today, which also noted Intel's unwillingness to comment on the matter, either now or in the form of a formal public announcement. It has, …

PC Builder 3 Aug 2005, 09:53
ONS sends all our identities to India

Digitising births, marriages and deaths

The Office of National Statistics has announced that it is to digitise 250m records of births, marriages and deaths dating back as far as 1837. The department has signed a three-year contract with Siemens Business Services to create a database of the documents, and says that part of the work will be carried out offshore, to …

IT Channel 3 Aug 2005, 09:59
AMD ups Opteron 1xx prices by up to 91%

In the name of supporting cheaper memory

AMD yesterday raised the prices of its Opteron 1xx series by up to 91.6 per cent, saying the hikes were justified by the addition of support for cheap unbuffered ECC memory to the chips. On Monday, after AMD had cut prices across a number of its processor families, including the Opteron 2xx and 8xx series, the Opteron 152 chip …

PC Builder 3 Aug 2005, 10:26
Europe hurts Tech Data

Margins not gross enough

Tech Data’s second quarter earnings could be almost 50 per cent lower than expected because of continued problems at its EMEA operation, the distribution giant confirmed yesterday. Preliminary results released Tuesday show net sales for the quarter ending 31 July will come in between $4.8bn and $4.82bn, while net earnings will …

IT Channel 3 Aug 2005, 11:23
Appeal court reverses RIM patent infringement findings

Not all NTP patent claims violated after all

The battle between Research in Motion (RIM) and NTP is far from over. Yesterday, the US Court of Appeal overturned a lower court verdict that RIM had infringed NTP's patent-protected email-by-radio method. However, the appeals court reaffirmed a lower court judgement that RIM had infringed NTP's patent for a wireless email …

PC Builder 3 Aug 2005, 11:31
Government IT spend to top private sector: IDC

Looking ahead to 2009

Public sector investment in IT will continue to outpace that from the private sector and retail, according to figures from analyst house IDC. The company says spending by governments in Western Europe will reach $49bn annually, growing at nearly six per cent a year, and up from $38bn in 2004. Meanwhile the retail and wholesale …

IT Channel 3 Aug 2005, 13:45
MS IPTV is lovely, says MS IPTV chap

Check the 150ms channel change on that...

There are two ways to view the Microsoft IPTV system. Microsoft’s way and the wrong way. For those of us that have dealt with Microsoft in the past, this is not an abnormal positioning. “Ours is the only end to end IPTV solution which includes all aspects of IPTV from content ingestion to the consumer device,” is the boast of …

Software & Security 3 Aug 2005, 15:30
BMC bedazzles investors with rosy 2006 outlook

Smaller staff, more revenue

Shares of BMC surged Wednesday on the back of decent first quarter results and a rosy outlook for the current quarter and coming year. The software maker handed investors all the right information, pointing to solid revenue growth and effective expense controls over the past few months. That's great news for close BMC watchers …

IT Channel 3 Aug 2005, 15:43
Hippie Mozilla goes corporate

Shrugs off IPO nonsense

Open source browser daddy Mozilla Foundation is donning a suit and going back to work for the man. Mozilla Foundation has announced the formation of the Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit organization that will handle relations with commercial companies and continue development, distribution and marketing of Firefox and …

Software & Security 3 Aug 2005, 19:28
Bizgres gets down to business with open source BI stack

Making PostgreSQL better

A project building an open source business intelligence architecture for the PostgreSQL database has released core elements of its development stack. The Bizgres Project said on Wednesday that its stack consists of the open source extract-transform-load (ETL) technologies from Kinetic Networks, open source operational reporting …

Software & Security 3 Aug 2005, 19:44