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Bing Generates Bling For Microsoft | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] According to Efficient Frontier's analysis, in its second week Bing expanded Microsoft's share of paid clicks by 13 percent in its second week of release when compared with the company's share in the immediate prelaunch period. In turn, this 13 percent represents a five-point rise over the 8 percent click increase of Bing's first week. [...] As we mentioned in our last post, if Bing's click share gains hold we expect advertisers to allocate additional budget to Microsoft, Efficient Frontier's blog post said, cautioning. However & two weeks does not make a trend. The company also noted that Microsoft continues to lag behind Yahoo and Google in overall paid clicks. [...] Microsoft's share of paid clicks has been expanding in the two weeks following the release of Bing, its new search engine, according to an analysis conducted by search engine marketing company Efficient Frontier. [...]
» Print Microsoft Rolls Out Bing In The UK | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] A study in October found that [3] Bing has indeed been making headway against its rival Google in the US. According to digital performance marketing company Efficient Frontier, Bing's share of search spending grew to 5.3 percent in the third quarter, up from 4. [...] 3 percent in the second quarter, while Google spending fell from 75.5 percent to 73.7 percent during the same period.However, Bing has not been doing so well in the UK, according to [4] analysis from Statcounter, with a market share of just 2.75 percent compared to Google's 92. [...] In spite of rumours that [1] Microsoft Bing 's UK page would remain in beta until the beginning of 2010, the company today announced its full UK roll-out of the search engine, complete with a localised homepage. [...]
Microsoft Rolls Out Bing In The UK | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] A study in October found that Bing has indeed been making headway against its rival Google in the US. According to digital performance marketing company Efficient Frontier, Bing's share of search spending grew to 5.3 percent in the third quarter, up from 4. [...] 3 percent in the second quarter, while Google spending fell from 75.5 percent to 73.7 percent during the same period.However, Bing has not been doing so well in the UK, according to analysis from Statcounter, with a market share of just 2.75 percent compared to Google's 92. [...] Highfield acknowledged that tempting users away from Google will be a tough challenge. My objective is to get Bing up to a 10 percent share of the search market, he told the Telegraph, I'm not expecting to take Google's pre-eminent position overnight, though obviously, that's a long-term ambition & this is trench warfare. [...]
Microsoft Builds Energy-Saving Data Centre | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] He explained that traditionally a product group self-manages their own lab in an office building but the new facility is a centrally managed and more energy-efficient alternative. The opening of Redmond Ridge is a big milestone and represents a real transition point in the company's culture, said Bernard. [...] The company announced this week that the new site, dubbed Redmond Ridge 1, is designed to move servers used for software development and testing out of the Redmond campus into a more energy efficient facility which it says will help it cut its carbon emissions by up to 12,000 metric tons a year. [...] Moving servers to a new more efficient site will change how development teams work, the company says. [...]
Bing Gains at Google’s Expense, Report Finds | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] Efficient Frontier President and CEO David Karnstedt, who worked as senior vice president of Yahoo's North American sales, told the New York Times that Bing's share of spending grew to 5.3 percent in the third quarter, up from 4.3 percent in the second quarter. [...] Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been telling anyone who asks that the impact of the recession seems to be fading from search a bit. Similarly, Efficient Frontier's Karnstedt said the results from his company's third-quarter report underline a stabilisation in search marketing, with some encouraging signs for the fourth quarter. [...] Microsoft's search engine, Bing, is slowly gaining ground in the battle against Google, after it posted gains in paid clicks and spending share. So says Efficient Frontier, which published its search engine performance report for the third quarter on Tuesday. [...]
Microsoft Set To Reveal IE 9 Secrets | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] Microsoft is slated to share some information about Internet Explorer 9 at the company's Professional Developers Conference. [...] Microsoft is slated to share some information on Internet Explorer 9 at the company's Professional Developers Conference here. [...] A post on Neowin.net said. According to sources close to Neowin, Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is set to unveil the software giant's plans for Internet Explorer 9 tomorrow. Neowin understands that the company is planning a technical preview of Internet Explorer 9 for developers and customers, but that the bits and preview may not be available immediately. . [...]
Intel Takes Larger Slice Of Chip Market | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] Intel's 80.6 percent share was a bump up from 79.2 percent share it held during the same period in 2008, and a jump up from the 79.1 percent the company had in the first quarter. [...] Aided by a small uptick in demand for PCs, Intel saw its share of the microprocessor market grow to 80.6 percent in the second quarter, a level that the chip maker hadn't seen in almost four years, according to research company iSuppli. [...] Intel, fueled by a slight upswing in demand for PCs, saw its share of the global chip market grow to 80.6 percent in the second quarter, the highest level in almost four years, according to research company iSuppli. [...]
Enterprise Networks Can Cut Emissions, Too | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] From Energy Efficient Ethernet to a company's own supply network, there's a lot that networks can do to reduce a company's environmental footprint, says 3Com's Matt Walmsley. [...] Sustainability is not just about getting the company's ICT equipment to use less energy - IT also has a role to play in making the whole company more efficient and effective. Is that right. [...] There's plenty happening in networks to make companies more efficient, from new Ethernet standards, to better management. We spoke to 3Com's UK marketing manager, Matt Walmsley. [...]
Platform Computing Launches Cloud-Building Software | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] What sets Platform ISF apart from standard virtualized systems is that it creates a shared computing infrastructure from physical and virtual heterogeneous resources to deliver broad application environments with efficient workload-smart and resource-aware policy capabilities, the company said. [...] The company claims 2,000 customers and five million CPUs under management. It has strategic relationships with Cray, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat and SAS, and employs about 530 professionals working in 10 global locations. [...] Platform Computing has launched a new software package called Platform ISF, which creates a shared computing infrastructure from heterogeneous resources. [...]
Microsoft’s Ballmer Fails To Back Optimism With Numbers | eWEEK Europe UK
[...] Apple's share, globally, cost us nothing, Ballmer said, echoing Microsoft's increased competitive position toward the Cupertino, Calif., company. You can't be high-priced. That doesn't get us to the high volume that we aspire to. . [...] Ballmer also suggested that, despite media attention that made it seem as if Apple and Google were rapidly storming the walls of Microsoft's market share, his company still holds a dominant position within the market. [...] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called himself optimistic about Microsoft's marketplace prospects over the next 12 months, but declined to give the audience at the company's Financial Analyst Meeting any specific numbers to back his public enthusiasm. [...]
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