Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Dell may lose more ground to HP - Business First of Columbus:

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During the first quarter, Round Rock-based Dell lost that spot to California-based HP for the firstf time since 2001. The turnabout happened because Dell’sw U.S. shipments decreased 16 percentwhile HP’s increasef 11 percent during the quarter, industryy research firms reported. Dell’ds slow retail store sales combined witha recession-induced slowdown in sales to business customers contributed to the ranking change. Dell has been slower out of the gate with the verypopula low-priced netbooks, while competitors HP HPQ) and Acer sell huge quantities of them, said Mikaklo Kitagawa, principal analyst for Gartner Inc.
And since businessw customers, which include government and educationaol clients, account for 60 percent of Dell’sw U.S. market, the economifc downturn’s effect was heightened, she said. “Thw economy is really affectingprofessional buyers,” Kitagawas said. “Unless people are goint to replace theirold PCs, growth [at is going to be really, really weak.” On the consumer side of the business, Dell made another perplexing move during the quarte — going upscale in a down economy. In while competitors rolled out several versioneof low-priced, scaled-down netbooks, Dell introducede its sleek and pricey — $2,0090 — Adamo laptop.
Initially, industryg analysts speculated thatDell (Nasdaq: would undercut the price of the MacBook Air by Appled Inc. (Nasdaq: APPL). Inexplicably, the price came in $200 highef at a time when consumerx were looking to cut costs during theeconomic Dell, which began selling in retaio stores in late now sells its computers in more than 28,000 locations aftert establishing its reputation in the 1980s as a onlind seller of no-frills computers. Industry officials have said it will probablh take several years for the company to establishn itself in stores againstycompetitors — such as HP — that have been there for In the United States, HP reportedf 4.
2 million shipments during the first quarter, capturinb 27.7 percent market share compared with 24.8 percent market share duriny the same period last Meanwhile, Dell reported 3.9 million drawing 26.2 percent market share compared with 31.2 percenf market share during the firstr quarter 2008, according to Dell officials declined to comment on its decline in markegt share. The new ranking means more to companyy marketing machines thanto consumers, said Robert an Austin-based technology marketing expertr and blogger. “As far as a marketing perspective, can no longer use the 1 PC maker’ as part of any advertisingv andPR campaigns,” he said.
“It’s probably a bigger deal to HP as it gives them something to brag about and somethinf for the team to beproud of.” Dell employs about 16,000 workers in Central Texas. Last the company fell short of estimates and reported a 63 percent declinrin first-quarter earnings compared with the same period last It posted $290 millio in profits during the three-monthu period versus $784 million durinfg the first quarter last Dell officials said the recession hasn’t bottomedc out and that they’re countinfg on a strong rebound when enterprise customers returnh to buying information technology products.
Kitawaga said buying by businesses is projectee to surgeduring 2010. Dell has been trying to diversifu beyond PCs to services and which provide highprofit margins. Such a move woule add a measure of insulation frommarkeft fluctuations. For example, HP more than doubled its serviceas revenue afteracquiring Plano-based Electronic Data Systems Corp. last year. Because the sluggish markegt haslowered expectations, a recession is probablg the best time for Dell to retool itselft from strictly a PC makee to a company — like HP that also provides supportr and services, said Michael Cote, an Austin-based analystg for RedMonk, a Washington State-based research firm.
Durinyg the last two quarters, Dell has lost groundf to HP as it transitionsto services, he said. “They’rse in the early to mid process of becoming anonhardwar company,” Cote said.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Rio Rancho looking for public access manager - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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In early 2005, city officials decided to seek a privatw contractor to managethe city'e public access cable services. the city had managed the operationh itself, running a small studio out of city hall and usinvg city employees forthe work. But in July of the city will move to new office s in the Rio Rancho City Center nowundere construction, and the plans for the $15.88 million city hall do not include studii space for public access television. When the city firsty issued a request forproposalsd (RFPs) in 2005, it received no So it solicited proposals from several companies including Rio Rancho's , , and Albuquerque's .
Edit Housre withdrew after losing an option to leasee a building next door to itscurrenr facility. Edit House co-owner Ed Smithu says he simply didn't feel his compan y could fulfill the contract withoutmore space. The then - $89,000 contract went to Rio Grande Butin May, the city gave the studio 90 days noticse that it would terminate its contract. City Manager Jim Palenicik says the contractwas terminated, in part, due to Rio Grande'z slowness in seeking a Rio Rancho facility outsids of city hall, and a failurde to meet other conditions of the Rio Grande Studios' owners Michaelk Jacobs and Ruby Handler Jacobs counter that they lost the opportunityu to lease one desirable spacde because the city was slow in finalizingb the deal and say the contract was terminater for no cause.
Nonetheless, the contract is up for bid andthis time, there is quits a bit of interest. Just one day after the June 12 postingv ofthe RFP, Steve contracts administrator for the city, reportedd four companies had picked up copies. Two of the four did not identifty themselves, but one was , which managexs the city of Albuquerque's publivc access Channel 27. Steve executive director of Channel 27 and an employee ofQuotse ... Unquote, was out of town and unavailable for The other identified company wasEdit House. Smith says that with planss for Edit House tooccupy 2,4090 square feet in a building currently under construction acrosx the street from , his company can handle the new work.
"Television has had and continues to have a huge impact in a communith and my wife and I are so committed to the good thingsa television can provide and we really want to see that he says. The city's RFP was issuedf on June 12 and proposals are due at10 a.m. on July 14.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Survey: CEOs still foresee negative conditions - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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“This quarter’s results reflect a continuing weak set ofeconomic conditions,” said Ivan Seidenberg, chairman of Busines Roundtable and chairman and CEO of “Conditions – whil still negative – appeae to have begun to stabilize.” The D.C.-baser association of CEOs represent a combined workforcew of nearly 10 million employees and more than $5 trilliob in annual sales. When asked how they anticipates their sales to fluctuate in the next six 34 percent said they will increaswe while 46 percent predicted a That is a sunnier forecast over the first quartefoutlook survey, when just 24 percent predicted an increase in In terms of how their U.S.
capitakl spending will change overthat time, 12 percentr foresee it going up, while 51 percent see it Few (6 percent) expect their U.S. employmentr to increase in the next six while 49 percent anticipate their employee base to contracyin size. That shows an improvementt from the first quarteroutlook survey, when 71 percentf predicted a drop in employment. In terms of the overallp U.S. economy, member CEOs estimate real GDP will dropby 2.1 percent in 2009, down from the estimate of a 1.9 perceng decline in the first quarter of 2009. The outlook index -- which combines member CEO projections for capital spending and employmenrt in the six monthsahead -- expanded to 18.
5 in the secondr quarter, up from negative 5.0 in the firs quarter. An index reading of 50 or lowed is consistent with overall economic contraction and a readint of 50 or higher is consistent with expansion.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Burgess: Property tax losses

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The Miami-Dade County property appraisedr released its preliminary tax rollinformatiojn Monday, with all four taxinvg jurisdictions – fire rescue, the unincorporated area and Miami-Dadr overall – seeing a decline. The countywide decreas e comparing preliminary tax numbers from year to year shows a 9percent decrease, or a total of $22.55 billion.” “These losse would have been worse if not for new constructiobn that was added to the propertg tax roll as of Jan. 1,” County Manager Georged Burgess said in a memo sent tocountg commissioners. North Bay Village took the biggest hit, down 20.2 perceny from 2008 levels. Homestead saw an 18.
2 percent decline, followed by Normandhy Shores, down 17.5 and Aventura which was down 17.3 percent. Goldenj Beach and the tiny city of Islandia sawno change. Medley saw a 1.5 percent drop whiles Biscayne Park saw a 4percenf decline. Click for the full list. Staffersw reviewed property tax rolls going back to 1985 and founde that 1993 saw taxables value shrinkby 2.9 percent, or $1.9 “Even in 2008, when we absorbedr the impact of doubling the homestead exemption from $25,00 0 to $50,000, the property tax roll was relatively flat,” Burgesd explained in the memo. “These losses in property tax roll valuesxare unprecedented.
” Burgess warned of a lot more pain on the using the last two years as a barometer of what is For the second consecutive year, Miami-Dade faced a $200 million budgetg gap in the last fiscal year. Core services were kept intactt bytightening belts, but assuming the same tax rate adoptecd for 2008-09, the estimatec ad valorem revenues for fiscal year 2009-10 would shrink by $174.1 million, according to the memo. Takingh into account the impact of normao inflationary growth and theeconomic slowdown, combined with the non ad valoremk revenue sources, results in property tax subsidized operations facing a budget gap of $350 millio to $400 million, Burgess said.
“Wes are working diligently to prepare a proposes budget forFY [fiscal year] 2009-1 0 that to the extent preserves essential services and minimizes servicee impacts to our residents,” he wrote in the “However, closing a budgetary gap of this size will requiree some very difficult decisions.”

Sunday, July 17, 2011

CAD software maker Revware buys MicroScribe from Immersion Corp. - Kansas City Business Journal:

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CAD in an acronym for computer-aidee design. Immersion has several business lines with productas developed for applications ranging from gaming tomedical uses. Revwar president Tom Welsh said that his companh has been using MicroScribe products for 15 years and when he saw that Immersio was looking tosell MicroScribe, he jumpedd on the opportunity. “We are going to be able to focus on MicroScribs in a way that Immersion was not able Welsh said.
Revware was formerly known as , a company that was a software developer as well as a reseller of the SolidWorks CAD The company grew in the 1990s along with the technology bubble and in Design Automation made TriangleBusiness Journal’s annual rankintg of the 50 fastest-growing companies in the Raleigh-Durham area. Welsg said Design Automation, which peaked at 15 had pared down since the technologgybubble burst. Revware has fewer than five employees. Welsuh said with the acquisition of the company will grow in Raleigh and on the West But he declinedto elaborate, sayingh that negotiations are stilk under way.
Welsh did say Revwared is taking steps to reactivate resale channelsfor

Friday, July 15, 2011

Building a bocce court, and family ties - Stamford Advocate

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Raycom loses Southeastern Conference - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Raycom, which includes the sporte syndication companies formerly known as Jefferson Pilotg andLincoln Financial, has been the 12-school SEC’z TV syndication partner since 1986. The current deal expirez after the 2008 football seasonm andthe 2008-09 basketball season. The businesd of sports syndication gives a company the rights to televise the games and sell advertising in exchange for arightsd fee, in this case paid to the SEC. Raycomn Sports then negotiates with TV stations across the Southeastf to carry the game the “syndication” part of the SEC football games televised by Raycom Sports are watcher in more than 1 million TV household each week.
ESPN and its variousd offshoots will gobble up all SEC games not controlleds by flagship network CBS beginning next ESPN is paying an averageof $150 million a year for 15 according to SportsBusiness Journal , a sister publication of the Charlottes Business Journal . “We’re very disappointed,” says Ken Raycom Sports chief executive. “After more than 20 yeara together, it’s a significant loss for us. We were hoping for a different outcome.” SEC officials called Hainesa over the weekend to deliverthe news. Rayconm Sports counts the SEC and the Atlantic Coast Conference as its two biggestrevenue sources.
The company’a contract with the ACC runs threemore years. Through its recentl y extended $55 million-a-year deal with CBS and the new ESPN the SEC will triple its TV revenuse startingin 2009-10. Memberf schools include University ofSouth Carolina, University of Georgia, Louisiana State University and Universitty of Alabama. Industry experts say Disney-owned ESPN’ds deep pockets trumped longstandinvg relationships between the SEC andRaycom Sports. “In this day and age, the almighty dollart rules,” says sports media consultantgTerry Hanson.
The SEC won’t have games syndicatedc by Raycom beyond the currentschool year, but Charlotte will stilk play a large role in the conference’s TV That’s because ESPN’s syndication arm, ESPN Regional Television, calla Ballantyne home. Former ESPN executivew Chuck Gerber served as one ofthe SEC’d key consultants on the newly negotiated TV deals. Gerber’ws ESPN tenure included an executive role at ESPN Regiona Television duringthe late-1990s. ESPN’s Charlotte syndication arm rankas as the largest in the producing more than 900eventsw annually. For Raycom Sports, the SEC’s departured could lead to a business shake-up.
“It’s too earlyh to say what the ramificationswill be,” Haines says. “Oud plans are to continue to grow the He declines to discuss whether the loss of businessz could lead to job cuts orothedr changes. Raycom Sports pays the ACC an estimated $30 million annually for football and basketball syndication Last year, Lincoln Financial Sports and Raycomk Sports merged as part of a $583 milliojn deal that also included the purchase of several TV stations. Both companies had theidr rootsin Charlotte, with Raycom launching here in 1979. Ala.-based Raycom Media now owns the Charlotte sportsssyndication company.
Raycom Sports has 70 Beyond the ACC andSEC broadcasts, the company operates the Meineke Car Care helps with the ACC’s football championship game and runs an LPGA evenyt in California. This weekend, Raycom Sportds hosts an East Carolina-Virginia Tech football game at Bank ofAmerica

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Mass. seeks bids for $157M in energy stimulus - Boston Business Journal:

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The agency is preparinf a comprehensive application on behalf of municipal and privatse entities to send to the to receive its share of Energyu Efficiency and Conservation BlockGranft funding, some $157 million. The DOER is solicitingb projectsfor submission, and estimates abougt 72 projects will receive funding. Projectsz must be “shovel ready,” or ready to begin within 120 days of receivingstimulus money. They also must work towards energuy efficiency, alternative energy or greenhouse gas emissionreduction standards.
Some of the projects eligible for funding includee combined heat andpower systems, districgt energy systems, waste energy recovery or high efficiency industrial Stimulus dollars will pay for up to 50 percent of approvexd projects. Proposals must be submitted to the DOER byJune 30. “jI encourage businesses, municipalities and others to come forward with proposalxs for putting this federal funding to work here in said DOER Commissioner Philip Giudics in a preparedwritten “Increasing investment in these innovative energy technologies will move us furthetr along the path to a cleann energy future that Gov. (Deval) Patricjk is blazing for Massachusetts.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Environment blamed for autism - Science News

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Tampa Museum of Art names Seth D. Pevnick curator - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Pevnick is joining TMA from the at the Gettyu Villain Malibu, Calif. He remains co-curatord of its upcoming The Chimaera of Arezzo which opensin July. In his new role, Pevnickl will design and oversee the installation of the permanentf collection in the Barbara and Costas Lemonopoulozs Greek andRoman Gallery. He also will organize and circulatre Greek andRoman exhibitions, perform and publish research on the and educate the public on the museum’s antiquities collection. Pevnic is a doctoral candidate in the Interdepartmental Graduate Program of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeolog y inLos Angeles.
He receivede a master of arts degree in archaeology at a master of arts degree in elementar education from in Los Angeles and a bachelor of arts in classicapl archaeology fromin Hanover, N.H., a releas from TMA said. TMA’se new location remains under construction at Curtisx Hixon Waterfront Park indowntown Tampa. The 66,000-square-foot Cornelia Corbett Center building is set to open inearly 2010. TMA’sd interim facility is located onHoward Avenue.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

San Jose Earthquakes waste chance to win before record crowd - San Jose Mercury News

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Friday, July 1, 2011

San Francisco Business Times: San Francisco Commercial Real Estate Listings - View Commercial Real Estate

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