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Cable firm Comcast buys Plaxo website
US cable company Comcast has bought the website Plaxo as part of a strategy to bring social networking into the mainstream.
The value of the deal was not disclosed, but industry blogs have been predicting a sale since January and estimate Plaxo was sold for between $150m and $170m.
Plaxo offers an extensive online address book as well as a sister social networking site called Pulse and claims 50 million user accounts and 1.5 million regular unique users each month.
Comcast,
the biggest cable firm in the US, plans to integrate Plaxo's online
social networking services with its own subscriber base of 24.2 million
customers through comcast.net, the film site Fandango and Fancast, an
entertainment site.
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US may push IT cos for 50% local hiring
Mumbai, May 13 The US operations of top Indian IT Companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies, Wipro, Satyam Computer Services and HCL Technologies are likely to take a hit, with the US keenly looking at introducing a “50:50” law, under which Indian IT Companies will have to employ 50% Americans in their US operations.
US Senator Chuck Grassley is expected to pursue the proposal and a final decision on this is largely dependent on the US presidential polls, according to senior industry sources.
Sources reveal that about 90% employees at the US offices of some top-rung Indian IT Companies are Indians. With the implementation of the “50:50” law, Indian IT Companies would have to shell out much more as salaries for foreign staff, which will have a bearing on the profitability of these Companies. Top-rung IT Companies, on an average, get 55%-60% of their revenues from the US. TCS derives 50% of its IT services revenues from the US (overall revenues of Rs 22,863 crore in FY 08), Infosys 62%, and Wipro 63%. TCS has about 14,000 employees in the US, Wipro has 8,100, Satyam 51,000 and Infosys has 91,000 employees globally, including the US.
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MYOB moves into domains, hosting
Accounting software vendor MYOB has launched an online services business offering domain registration and Web hosting services.
MYOB Business Web Hosting will offer its customers domain registration from A$35 (US$33) for two years, e-mail hosting from $14.95 per month, and Web hosting from $29.95 per month.
MYOB Australia's managing director, Tim Reed, said the new Web focus will give MYOB customers the opportunity to complete a range of business transactions online, including the ability to offer e-commerce services.
"Our customers are just starting to embrace the Web and are looking for a trusted provider to help them establish a professional online presence and then, in time, to integrate existing business processes, such as invoicing, into their Web site," Reed said.
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Mobile social networking space getting crowded
A few global web powerhouses, such as Google, Yahoo and eBay, are even turning their attention to this market. The majority of players, however, are smaller software companies that are developing applications or components designed to enable a mobile community feature. Many vendors in the sector - such as Gypsii (formerly Benefon) - have reinvented themselves as social-networking-technology providers after hitting dead ends in other areas.
The 200 companies focusing on mobile social networking do not include mobile network operators or companies focusing on the many social-networking opportunities on the fixed Internet exclusively.
Beginning this year and continuing for the rest of the decade, mobile operators and those with online communities will be expanding their investments and speaking more publicly about their participation in the mobile-social-networking ecosystem, analyst Christine Perey predicts in Mobile Social Networking: Communities and Content on the Move, a report recently released by MM publisher Informa Telecoms & Media.
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Bad Boys Computers
Managed hosting provider
DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, has been selected by Triad Computer Services Limited, to host their business critical IT infrastructure in DediPower’s Thames Valley Hosting Centre.
Thames Valley Hosting Centre is a co-location facility providing customers rack space in a secure and custom built environment. For Triad Computer Services, an ISP delivering a range of IT services in Britain, the data centre leverages economies of scale and reduces the risk for their IT investment. Businesses are increasingly turning to co-location because of the considerable advantages it offers over maintaining servers in-house. These include significant cost savings as it becomes unnecessary to build and maintain the in-house requirements that servers demand. Additionally the benefits of enhanced security, improved connectivity and hardware reliability and system flexibility makes co-location a very compelling proposition.
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3Com leads in 'green' networking
3Com has announced that the independent research firm In-Stat has found that 3Com's local area network (LAN) switches are up to 60 percent more energy-efficient, or 'green', than competitors' products. By deploying an industry-leading switching solution from 3Com, customers can save money -- and help the environment -- by using significantly less electricity to power their high-performance networks.
The report, 'Green Networking Equipment: Who Leads and Who Lags,' says there are 'significant differences in the energy efficiency of similarly equipped switch equipment' and that 'as many businesses develop 'green' initiatives... IT managers will be forced to absorb some degree of responsibility for their organization's power usage.'
The report confirms the success of 3Com's
program to reduce energy consumption while increasing network
functionality. "Businesses worldwide are looking for effective ways to
reduce energy use, both to save money and to conserve resources," said
Scott Hilton, vice president of enterprise products for 3Com. "Through
innovative design, 3Com's newest products use up to 78 percent less
power than previous switches. It's gratifying that In-Stat recognizes
3Com's industry leadership in this important area."
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Telstra goes networking at the highest level
VODAFONE might have won the rights to Apple's coveted iPhone, but Telstra has an even higher power working for it.
Telstra is the mobile network of choice for the Pope.
The Catholic Church has struck a deal with Australia's telco giant for Pope Benedict XVI to text daily messages of "inspiration and hope" to the mobile phones of thousands of young Catholics during World Youth Day 08 in Sydney in July.
The Catholic Church will plunge into the digital era during the six-day event, with the help of Telstra, in the hope that text messaging will help the Pope connect with a younger audience.
Telstra has pulled out all the stops for the event — it will even erect "digital prayer walls" at locations across Sydney. Young Catholics will be able to text inspirational messages that will appear on the wall — after some careful vetting by WYD08 organisers.
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Brinkman joins Park Region Telephone
The opportunity to work for a company on the leading edge of new technology and be employed for one that’s customer and community oriented led Tim Brinkman to Park Region Mutual Telephone Company and Otter Tail Telcom. On March 28 he began work as business operations manager.
Brinkman came to Fergus Falls from Washington, D.C., where he worked for Comcast as marketing product manager. He previously served as marketing manager for Diversicom in Sauk Centre and Melrose.
“It doesn’t take one long to realize that Park Region and Otter Tail Telcom are far ahead of larger companies when it comes to emphasis on knowing customers on a personal level and being involved in their communities,” Brinkman said. “I’m appreciative of the opportunity to work in this environment.”
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Alcatel-Lucent Strengthens Leadership in Global Services According to Technology Business Research
PARIS, May 05, 2008 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX News Network) ----Analyst Firm Ranks Alcatel-Lucent No. 2 in Fast-Growing Services Market
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that a major industry analyst research firm has ranked Alcatel-Lucent's Services business No. 2 in market share in critical segments of its market. Technology Business Research (TBR) ranked Alcatel-Lucent No. 2 in 2007 global telecommunications services market share.
"In the emerging post-merger market, Alcatel-Lucent has steadily increased its share of revenue derived from services, tightening the competition among telecom and IT suppliers," said Michael Sullivan-Trainor, Executive Analyst, Network Business Quarterly, Technology Business Research.
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Appreciating rupee hits software industry’s turnover, margins
New Delhi’s decision to extend the tax concessions to software companies under the software technology parks of India scheme for another year could not have come at a better time. The industry that topped the list in terms of most corporate track records for nearly a decade now, has witnessed sharp deceleration in its business growth in 2007-08.
Appreciation of rupee against dollar, rising wage bills and
economic slowdown in the US, where a majority of India’s outsourcing
clients are located, have affected the performance of the industry badly. An ET
survey of 50 large software companies finds that their aggregate net sales have
grown 25% in 2007-08 against 40% in 2006-07 over the previous year. Aggregate
net profit of the sample companies has grown 19% last year compared to 47% in
the previous year.
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