Michael Dell (Dell) thinks the future of his company lies in reducing IT complexity for customers. “We’re simplifying your client infrastructure, we’re simplifying your data center,” he told attendees at the Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) OpenWorld conference in San Francisco two weeks ago. “And we’re launching services to assess complexity and simplify your environment.” Dell said he plans to triple the size of the company’s services business within three years.

Acquisitions are one way he plans to get there. In a turnaround from its historical organic-growth strategy, Dell has acquired five companies in the past four months, topped off with the Nov. 15 agreement to acquire Everdream, a provider of on-demand software services for managing business PCs. Dell sees Everdream complementing its August acquisition of ASAP, a provider of software and services for IT asset management, and its July acquisition of SilverBack Technologies, whose technology helps service providers manage and monitor their customers’ servers, storage systems, networks, and desktops. Dell offers SilverBack to Dell resellers and integrators, and will use it to build out its own IT infrastructure services, a spokesman says.

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UK teen mag Sugar has launched a new social boomarking tool for teenage girls called Sugarscape. Sitting alongside its already existing sugarmagazine.co.uk, the new site, currently in beta, is aiming to be an aggregator of cool gossip, music, quizzes and ‘stuff’ linked to by the sugar team and the readers themselves.

Users can register and download the sugarscape toolbar, then customise their personal page or ‘scape’, and add anything they find on the web by ‘sugaring’ things with comments and opinions. Involving more of a networking aspect than other bookmarking tools, ‘scapers’ can enhance their status by earning points for their actions – where they can either ‘sugar’ things they like, ‘shove’ things they hate, or ‘share’ things with their friends, and in a kinder version of the facebook poke can ‘squeeze’ their friends- sending a virtual hug that comes with the added bonus of 10 extra points. The site also encourages users to import all existing Bebo, MySpace and YouTube profiles to sugarscape, aiming to create a one-stop social networking experience.

In the dwindling sales of teen mags, Sugar is still standing strong as market leader (average circulation during the January-June 2007 period of 187,059 copies, which is down 6.6% on 2006, versus the 43.5% sales drop of the nearest competitor, Panini’s Bliss which fell to 120,506 copies) and with this site clearly hopes to enhance its identity as a brand that understands teenage girls.

by Amanda Gore
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Initial use cases include automatic backup and restore from the cloud, using Firefox from with your personalizations (such as bookmarks, RSS feeds) from different computers and collaborative bookmarking.

Weave, which requires Firefox 3.0 beta is in it early stages (0.1) with the following features:

* Basic framework and server-side in place for testing and experimentation
* Authentication with a single online service provider (e.g. labs.mozilla.com)
* Bookmark and history synchronization to the server from multiple clients
* Default encryption of all user data with a placeholder algorithm

Weave 0.2, due at the beginning of next year will include:

* Initial Web service APIs for developers to build on
* User controls and ability to delegate (and revoke) access rights to specific bits of browser metadata
* UI to enable sharing on applicable interfaces

Mozilla has 15 to 20 percent share of the browser market, enough to make Weave relevant if it succeeds with the project. And, Mozilla.org has projects ranging from instant messenging and email to calendaring and Web page editing to fill out its platform. It’s not going to replace the incumbents, but it will add a strong voice in the mix. Importantly, Mozilla could help establish industry standards that make the Web as an operating system more friction free.

Source: blogs.zdnet.com

A blog is an online diary. You can easily post entries and edit it, even if you do not have any technical expertise (depending on the platform where it is written on). You can use it for anything like properties, products, reviews, news, etc. They are managed daily ideally to increase the number of pages or keywords on the site, which will ultimately lead to more chances of being visited through search engines.
The only downside is that you have to invest a lot of time and commit to frequent uploads if you want to have a successful blog. Of course it will take some time to grow, but it all depends on you.

• An automatic evaluation of well-known market indicators is important – these are stochastic, moving average, and Fibonacci series. These indicators should be very well designed and must be capable of being easily switched from one to the other. For instance, immediately going from a 5-day stochastic to 9-day stochastic.
• Lastly, you have to be able to track your losses and profits via regular updates of the closing prices in the market.

So whether you are a stockholder or a broker – you trade assets and securities. Therefore, you are also interested in how much losses you incurred, or how you have gained in profit. All of these is difficult to do manually, but not with the advent of the new trading software in the internet.

The web has revolutionized our world in many, many ways. The latest internet technology that is available today is in the field of trading. If you want to avail of trading software, you should make sure that it has the following features:
• There should be a facility that allows simultaneous opening of different windows. Then, you can compare various markets online or exchanges. In fact, you have to be able to work on all the windows at the same time.
• It should be capable of examination of all kinds of data and comparing these items all at once.

Mobile web is already a big part of Europe, Asia, and the US market, beginning with the release of the Apple iPhone. Companies like Nokia, Blackberry, and Sony-Ericsson have been working on mobile web for several years now. And this is only the beginning. Over the next decade, there will be more location aware services available to consumers through mobile devices, like getting map directions while driving or sale alerts and recommendations wihle shopping in the mall. Big internet companies like Google will become key mobile portals and work in conjunction with mobile operators.

One of the issues faced by mobile web is usability, but the iPhone made it easier for users to go online, making this phone the benchmark of mobile devices.

The Internet is becoming both a database and a platform, with major websites becoming web services that will expose their information an dproducts to the world. Although these transformations are not smooth and will encounter legal bumps and sociability issues along the way, the metamorphosis of websites into web services is only a matter of time.

It will probably happen in two ways. First, sites can follow the example of Flickr and Amazon and offer their services through a REST API. Other websites will keep their information proprietary but will open them through services like Yahoo! Pipes. Unstructured information will make room for more structured information and pave the way for more intellegent surfing.