SPJA Opens Anime Expo Con Chair Search (Anime News Network)
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA), the parent organization of Anime Expo (AX), North America's largest anime convention, is now soliciting applications for the combined position of AX 2008 convention chair and SPJA Vice President, Program Administration....more...Microsoft releases Popfly mashup tool in public beta (InfoWorld)
Microsoft's Popfly technology for building mashups is now available in a public beta that allows users to publish applications built on it directly to the popular Facebook social-networking site. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to announce the beta during his talk at the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday in San Francisco . Popfly, which is built on Microsoft's Silverlight ......more... Nokia profit leaps on higher phone sales (InfoWorld)
Nokia's net profit jumped in the third quarter as the company made up for the falling average selling price of its phones by shipping more of them, the company said Thursday. For the three months ending Sept. 30, net profit increased 85 percent over the third quarter of 2006, to ?1.6 billion ($2.3 billion). Net sales rose 28 percent to ?12.9 billion. Earnings per share rose 90 percent to ......more... Sony, Toshiba to form Cell processor joint venture (InfoWorld)
Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Toshiba have decided to pool their resources into a joint venture that will take over manufacturing of the Cell processor and possibly other high-performance chips, they said Thursday. Although they are still negotiating details of the venture, they expect it to begin operations on April 1 next year. Toshiba will own 60 percent of the shares with ......more... Backing up clogs enterprise systems (InfoWorld)
Backup volumes in many organizations have grown so large that they are causing business disruption by tying up systems, storage, and network capacity and hogging valuable IT resources, according to a recent survey commissioned by storage management software vendor BridgeHead Software. More than half (59 percent) of IT executives said that the volume of data they are forced to backup is ......more... Novartis delivers record earnings in first nine months of 2007 thanks to strong operational performance and divestment ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
* Strong operational performance for Group continuing operations:...more... Help Save the Environment With Your Computer (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program estimates that you can save up to $75 per year by activating the power management functions on your desktop computer(1). support.com, a remote tech support service which helps consumers get relief from frustrating computer problems, offers tips to consumers to help them save both energy and money by reducing the power consumption of ......more... Microsoft reveals more Office 2008 for Mac features (InfoWorld)
Microsoft has exposed a little more information as to what's inside Office 2008 for Mac, this time looking at user-focused Excel Ledger Sheets. Ledger Sheets use Excel but are designed to make it simple to handle common budget management tasks using pre-formulated cells. Ledger Sheets are accessible from the Elements Gallery and are designed to be useful for people who don't necessarily ......more... Clearswift Releases New MIMEsweeper for SMTP Edge Server as Part of MIMEsweeper Re-Architecture (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Clearswift today introduced the new MIMEsweeper for SMTP Edge Server, an email firewall that protects business critical infrastructures from spam, viruses and malware....more... |