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GeoCities is Shutdown, What’s Next Yahoo?

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:50:45 +0000

GeoCities shares a story which only early internet know about. Geocities started in 1995 as an exclusive free webhosting service with subdomains: yourname.geocities.com.

The service gained a lot of popularity and became the single largest free hosting service. In 1999, the beat of internet, Yahoo bought the company and continued the service flawlessly. But the popularity was on gradual decline because of better and more featureful options by other free service providers. But still, alot of users sticked to GeoCities.

During the last one year, Yahoo! has been continous decline. It started with the Microsoft’s interest to acquire the company. Though Yahoo declined the offer in interest of it’s investors and users.
Why is GeoCities shutting Down?
The reason specified on Yahoo’s site is pretty much unfair for the consumers and reverse for the company:

We have decided to focus on .. Read Further »
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Orange and T-Mobile Join Hands to Become UK’s Biggest Telecom Provider

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:37:08 +0000

The deals like this, brings new hopes for the customers and areas where Mobile usage isn’t as dense as US, Japan, China.

Today, as per the latest press release, Orange and T-Mobile, will join hands in a new joint venture, this fall.

At the moment, they are 3rd and 4th largest Telecom providers in UK. The merger will create the largest mobile company in the United Kingdom, with a subscriber base of more than 28.4 million which builds up roughly 37% of the market.

Currently the largest UK operator with a 27% share is Telefonica’s O2, which is the exclusive iPhone carrier. At the second place with 25% of the British market is Vodafone, the company which jointly owns a 48% stake of Verizon Wireless.

The merger of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK would be like Sprint and T-Mobile merging in the United States, breaking up the market into thirds.

The deal, which is due to be signed .. Read Further »

How to choose a Future proof Router

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:31:15 +0000

With Networking Technologies evolving at lightnign speed, the challenge is being faced by IT organizations as they rethink their approach to routing, they need to ensure that the routers that they deploy today can support the current requirements and the current enabling technologies. These routers should have the flexibility to provide support for the requirements and the enabling technologies that will emerge over the next several years. The bandwidth requirement based on ever growing traffic outbound/inbound from the company sites is bringing the best to the knees. This is highly complex because it is impossible to predict with certainty the specific new requirements and technologies that will impact a particular IT organization in the future. It is, however, possible to state with certainty that there will be new requirements and new technologies and that the organization’s routing infrastructure will have to support those requirements and technologies.

There are different approaches that can be followed for future proofing your investments. These methodologies can help IT orgs to .. Read Further »

How CIOs Control IT Costs

admin — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:44:45 +0000

Call it the CIO’s dilemma: As IT leaders cut budgets in response to rising economic pressures, some find they must also deal with a spike in demand for IT services by their end users. More on CIO.com Your Mission: Cut the Budget!

CIOs at top-performing companies are dealing with this issue in part by making quick and deep discretionary cuts across the board rather than through better IT cost-control initiatives, according to a new survey by The Hackett Group.

The survey shows IT budget growth at 1.3 percent for 2009 to 2011, compared to a historic average of 5.3 percent. At the same time, IT demand will grow at a rate of 8.6 percent. Reconciling greater demand with a smaller budget means IT must deliver higher levels of efficiency and productivity improvement, says Erik Dorr, senior research advisor for The Hackett Group.

CIOs .. Read Further »