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Monday is upon us, and thoughts on Wall Street turn away from turkey and football to key companies issuing quarterly earnigns statements this week.
It's a particularly crucial period for computer makers, video game companies, digital camera companies - in short - - any company with a potential...
Read More | Nov 25th, 2007
The holiday shopping season seems to have started out with more of a bang than a whimper - - especially online.
That wasn’t the scenario painted by the ever-negative mainstream media, who published wave after wave of articles bemoaning the lousy economic climate and predicting a disastrous...
Read More | Nov 24th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Nov 25th, 2007
Scary reading from the pages of Fortune magazine this week.
In the business weekly's November 19 edition, an article entitled "The End of the Tech Stock Party" goes down like a tofu turkey on Thanksgiving night.
Before I get into what Fortune has to say, it's pretty clear that technology stocks...
Read More | Nov 21st, 2007
A quiet holiday week so far in the technology side of the stock market. Most of the action will take place in the retail sector, with both Best Buy and Comp USA opening on Thanksgiving night - - well ahead of Black Friday.
Early holiday shoppers can expect to find computers, digital cameras, and...
Read More | Nov 20th, 2007
We've all heard of search engine optimization, or "SEO".
That's the online search engine mechanism that allows online businesses to seed their web landing pages with key code words to entice visitors and shoppers.
One big SEO term this week is "Black Friday" -- the day-after-Thanksgiving shopfest...
Read More | Nov 16th, 2007
Kind of a quiet day in the technology stocks world, which might be considered good news considering the drubbing the sector has taken this week.
Sun Microsystems was in the news, signing off on a Solaris 10 distribution agreement with Dell to make the Solaris Operating System and Solaris support...
Read More | Nov 14th, 2007
I'm starting to think that technology stocks are at a breaking point. A few more sessions of significant losses and you have to wonder when tech stocks will be back in the black.
You can't really blame the bad news on anything tech companies are doing -- unfortunately, it's the "wrong place at the...
Read More | Nov 13th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Nov 14th, 2007
Investors are in survival mode right now, just trying to hang on in a market that has given away much of this year's gains. Key culprits are the ongoing credit crisis, which has banks and lenders reeling under the weight of billion dollar losses (hello, Wachovia) and from a weak dollar, which...
Read More | Nov 11th, 2007
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newsguy in a Nutshell
I live and breathe technology news, it is what turns me on. Sad, but hey I am a news nerd, what can I say? (Read Blog)
Matthew Finnie is Chief Technology Officer at Interoute, the company which owns and operates the most densely connected voice and data network in Europe with more than 54,000 kilometres of lit fibre. So when he voices his concern that the Internet is facing some kind of meltdown, caused by the...
Read More | Nov 22nd, 2007
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happygeek in a Nutshell
I am an English geek with the perfect job: I write about technology for a living. Something I've been doing for a couple of decades now.
For the past 14 years I have been a Contributing Editor at PC Pro magazine, the biggest selling monthly IT publication in the UK, as well as a contributor to... (Read Blog)
The University of Miami in the US has got together with the University of Dundee in Scotland to work with IBM on a project to develop open source software designed specifically to address the needs of older people, and help them to adapt to and remain productive in the 21st century...
Read More | Nov 19th, 2007
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