The Los Angeles Times this week employer filed for bankruptcy protection

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"Chicago Tribune" and "Los Angeles Times," the club's Forum this week filed for bankruptcy protection.

The United States, "the Wall Street Journal" quoted sources reported on the news. It is reported that the Forum has hired Lazard as financial advisers and lawyers bankruptcy proceedings.
"The New York Times" reported that the forum has invited a long-term services of a lawyer's Sidley Austin.

It is reported that the end of last year, the United States Heng Sang Mu Zeer large real estate loan to buy the forum, and privatization, since the company began operating difficulties.

It is reported that as of this year, the Forum companies are required to pay interest on the debt as high as 10 billion U.S. dollars, the forum's cash income has been difficult to bear. In addition, the Forum to the company before June next year must also repay the debt of 512,000,000 U.S. dollars.

In addition, the forum's a concern that the debt due to violation of the agreement, the company can borrow at the end of the year in the number of no more than nine times the profit, which the company will run out of cash in risk-strand breaks.

In the third quarter of this year, the forum's loss of 124,000,000 U.S. dollars, and in the same period last year, also earned 84,000,000 U.S. dollars.

Prior to this, the Forum has assignment Long Island, New York, the local newspaper "Newsday", the other to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team.

50% of social network marketing activities will fail

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Oct. 7, according to foreign media reports, Gartner analyst Adam Sarner expected a few days ago, in the "Fortune 1000" companies which owns a Web site, 75% of all enterprises will use social networking technology in the marketing and customer relationship management, but 50 percent will end in failure.

Sana said: "The business community from establishing ties with rush, but the two sides do not have a common goal of these efforts will eventually end in failure." So-called "common goal" means that enterprises can achieve the purpose of publicity, but also to attract consumers .

And to find the balance point will not be easy. The most attractive and networking programs for business has no value, is often a flash in the pan; and marketing activities on the Internet does not give users a good impression, Sana also described Facebook as an example.

Facebook is a social networking Web site, rather than a tool to improve enterprise performance. The main ad to a friend in the inter-communication-based Web site to advertise success is not an easy task, Beacon advertising program is the best evidence of frustration.

Every business has its own differences, so there is no universal social advertising and marketing solutions. However, Sana believe that the enterprise must first clear why the use of social network marketing. Are clear about their purpose, companies can choose to implement the program.

Sana said that the most direct cause of the failure for social network marketing is that the enterprise is not clear about these goals. Sana also viewed that the economic downturn will not be cut the expenses on the corporate social network marketing and customer relationship management.

Ebay may announce large-scale layoffs as early as Monday

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Oct. 5, according to technology blog valleywag report thatafter market research firm Wedge Partner proposed eBay to cut 10% staff in September, the rumors on the layoff by eBay gathered greater, sources said, the company will hold Large-scale layoffs as early as next Monday.

The sources, ebay market and product sectors, such as layoffs will be hardest hit, "If the layoffs were not disclosed Monday, may be on October 15 of the financial conference call to announce."

So far this year, the eBay seller fees as well as the stagnant flow of complaints beyond the normal level. Many analysts have pointed out that so far, eBay's third quarter performance did not improve much. In September, Deutsche Bank analyst Gedir battle (Jeetil Patel) issued a report recommending the use of eBay means layoffs, to make up for fees, the average sales revenue overseas, as well as by factors such as the U.S. dollar appears to lower profits. Bateer eBay lowered the revenue expected, and in his report, eBay's core market "share continued to decline."

Bernstein Research senior analyst Jeffrey Lindsay is on eBay's stock to "buy" rating, noted Lindsay, eBay CEO John Donahoe is implementing a number of positive and Shan Shan arrived late to change the measures in an attempt to eBay users with a more secure shopping experience.

However Lindsay also said that in the near future eBay will be difficult to avoid layoffs, which will not only the strategy of eBay, but also be the upset of a number of large-scale.

Intel's first dual-core processor Atom began to sell

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Sept. 22, single-core Atom era is about to end, Intel announced that from Monday the first dual-core Atom processors was sold.

Atom 330 will start selling this week.

Intel in August at the IDF General Assembly, said this month from the sale of dual-core version of the Atom.

Atom power-saving feature, the main direction for the network notebook market. At present, sales of Intel Atom N230 for the single-core processor chip.

Dual-core version of the Atom is the power of 8 watts, N230, only 4 watts, while the ASUS easy for PC and Acer Aspire, and other portable version of the Atom lowest power consumption of only 2 watts.

Atom dual-core clock frequency of 1.6GHz, 2M cache, and support for DDR2 667MHz memory.

Intel said it would chip in the Intel 945GC Express Group Board as well as the Little Falls2 suite of products with sales of dual-core version of the Atom.

Intel spokesman cautioned that: "Atom dual-core notebook product is not for the network."

But computer makers will prefer to use their own dual-core Atom, because the 8-watt power consumption compared with the general book network processor or 35 watts of power, many small. Another reason is price, the dual-core Atom 1000 the wholesale price of only 40 U.S. dollars, other than the Intel dual-core processor a lot cheaper.

It is reported that Britain Tranquil PC vendors have booked dual-core Atom, to prepare its application server among the family.

3G has great potential in Asian-African market

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September 17 news, the latest research report by market research firm Strategy Analytics showed 3 G will be able to meet the urgent need of emerging market for voice and data services. However, as most of the market operators are under tremendous price pressure, the technology was widely used, then they will have to design a new 3 G business model to meet the user's ability to afford the cost.

According to foreign media reports, Strategy Analytics believes, 3 G service providers to the African and Asian emerging markets on both the commercial and high-end users of broadband fees should be charged with a considerable competitive edge.

Strategy Analytics emerging markets communications strategy manager Rahul Gupta pointed out that, because of ZTE and equipment suppliers such as Qualcomm's efforts, 3 G equipment in emerging markets on the price point will not be a problem. 3G key to the success of the service provider pricing and innovation. Strategy Analytics that, 3 G in the Asian-African region's development potential is very great.

Vice President of Strategy Analytics David Kerr said, the key battlefield of 3 G in 2009 are India and China, especially the prospect for India which has 9 million new users each month is very broad.

NBC and Apple cooperated again

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September 10, According to foreign media reports, Tuesday, Apple and NBC Universal company announced cooperation again, NBC drama will return to iTunes.

Last year in August, NBC and Apple began contradictions, NBC can not complain to a more flexible pricing model in the TV series on iTunes sales, Apple's refusal to make concessions.

Subsequently, NBC withdrawal from all the TV content. At that time, NBC television drama occupy 40 percent of iTunes sales.

Tuesday, Apple said, NBC television will start again available for download at iTunes, prices and other television dramas like. This time, NBC increased high-definition TV downloads, the price series for three U.S. dollars, the price of standard-definition TV is two dollars, some old TV series is the price of one dollar.

The two sides in the conflict at its peak, Apple has responsibilities NBC Mantianyaojia. Apple said, NBC will be asked to double the wholesale price of drama, this drama series will become a retail price of 5 U.S. dollars. And NBC argue that they do not require double the price hikes, but requested a more flexible pricing model. NBC believes that price, Apple has monopolized the right to speak.
　
Tuesday, Apple chief Steve Jobs also revealed that, iTunes users have reached 65 million

Last August, NBC began to have contradiction with Apple, complainting that it NBC aren’t able to sell TV dramas with a more flexible price models, Apple confused to give in.

U.S. ads. groups opposed the cooperation between Google and Yahoo

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September 8, according to foreign media reports, the U.S. national advertising groupsThe Association of National Advertisers said on Sunday that they have submitted the letters about their opposition to the cooperation of Google and Yahoo in search advertising to the U.S. government regulatory departments.

The Chief Counsel Thomas - Barnett (Thomas Barnett) in the letter that: "Google and Yahoo's cooperation will control 90 percent of search advertising, may reduce competition, increase the concentration of market forces, reduce the existing option, May be increased to advertisers do high-quality advertising prices. "

Yahoo said Sunday: "remains firmly believe that this agreement will strengthen the competitive position of Yahoo, the agreement on the price advertisers demand from the auction decided not to depend on Google and Yahoo's collusion. Yahoo will help advertisers get more powerful, The higher quality market. "

Some advertisers to support the agreement that it can improve the efficiency of online advertising market. Google and Yahoo had said in June to reach an agreement before the implementation of the agreement can not passed regulatory approval, but a voluntary agreement to postpone the implementation of up to three and a half months. This non-exclusive agreement covers the United States and Canada Web search market, but does not include other markets, the two sides said that the two companies will in other areas of fierce competition.

Currently, several states Minister of Justice is reviewing the agreement, including the Florida Attorney General Bill - Bill McCollum, his spokesmanSandi Copes said: "It is hard to say when the review is completed. "

The tenders of CDMA phones were finished

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"The tenders Samsung and ZTE Corporation got were more than 100 million units and about 900,000." Internal related manufacturers yesterday told "First Financial Daily" that 5 million tender of China Telecom's CDMA terminals has been ended, Samsung and ZTE ranked the first two positions, more than 10 vendors such as LG, Hisense, Yulong Kupai and Huawei are in the list of the successful bidders.

The 5 million tender a total of more than 30 vendors participated, including Samsung, ZTE, Hisense, Yulong Kupai, LG, Huawei and other traditional power companies still holds most of the successful bidder for the whole pattern of CDMA terminals Basically remained stable.

Samsung won the tender for more than 20 percent, still dominate the CDMA phone market in China's traditional dominant position. And ZTE Corporation, the successful bidder will cover high school low-end models.

Motorola's bid to participate in only one of the models, the successful bidder market share of about 3 percent. And Hisense have access to more than 10 percent of the share. In fact, the previous Unicom's CDMA procurement, Hisense CDMA phones in Zhongdi Dang occupy a considerable share of the market.

The new entrants into the CDMA handset manufacturers have Jicai had the edge in the GSM more Bird, Jin, IAC, and other manufacturers, some of the other CDMA manufacturers have to rely on some special features of the phone, such as CMMB mobile TV features, GPS navigation function and the successful bidder, such as Amoi rely on its built-in GPS function of smart phones successful in the new manufacturers to enter the top.

In fact, the tender is for China Telecom in preparation for the CDMA mobile services since the first phase of the tender. China Unicom responsible for the procurement of customized terminal Unicom Huasheng some high-level terminal in China's telecommunications service company, China Telecom and the procurement of the team to form a new management team, responsible for China Telecom's CDMA terminal customization and procurement.

And the successful continuation of the previous vendors Unicom Huasheng the procurement list of areas. Related to informed sources, the tender terminal in the mainly concentrated in low-end, mainly used to PHS users to switch to other networks.

At present, China Telecom has about 220 million fixed-line users, additional about 40 million CDMA users and security of about 60 million PHS users, according to 60 percent of the network operator rate, there will be more than 36 million PHS users into a network C Users.

China Telecom's goal is that in 2009 will double the number of CDMA users, for more than 100 million mark. CDMA users and 40 million from the scale of growth to 100 million, only add to the end user demand reached about 50 million.

Telecom experts Fuliang, the PHS users are mostly low-end users, the value of low-cost terminals and voice services to low rates, to switch to other networks in the process of needs of low-cost options.
　
In addition, although the terminal tender was published but the tender results of China Telecom's CDMA network equipment which was expected to be announced in August this year are still confidential.

Windows 7 improved six major areas to replace Vista

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Microsoft disclosed its company blog to repair the old version of Windows client operating system and the problems existed in IE browser, which are also the key objects of the new version of its products.

IE 7 and Windows Vista because of serious performance issues and to discourage users, the product reputation adverse effects. IE 7 browser because of frequent failures而使some IE users to switch to Mozilla's Firefox browser; Vista because of compatibility issues and other issues have been rejected by the user.

Microsoft in its internal blog, were to "Engineering Windows 7" and "IEblog" for the title, revealed in the development of Windows 7 and IE 8 when the two products be extra attention to performance issues. Microsoft blog, wrote: "We want to re-focus on Windows 7 and IE8 performance, this is our team each member of the main guiding spirit, our team is the fundamental task of each member."

Microsoft Research, an analyst at Maike Qie in the direction that Microsoft improve performance in the face daunting challenges. He said: "I am concerned about Microsoft's performance not surprised. I have Microsoft can improve performance in the number of scepticism."

Because of the "many elements" pose. According to blog instructions, Windows 7 team in the six areas of concern Windows 7 product improvements. This six areas were occupied memory, CPU utilization, disk input output, the start-up - shut down - standby - restore function, the basic systems and disk space occupied.

CPU utilization in Vista is a very serious problem, should be improved in the Windows 7. Cut, that he run 32-bit versions of Vista the computer is configured to 64 processors and 2 GB of memory. When he started at the Outlook e-mail client, CPU utilization rate of 100%, and this situation continued for one minute half. He talked about the issue complained: "I played it to the Meng."

According to "Engineering Windows 7" that, Windows 7 as a key design goal is to reduce CPU utilization and power consumption.

According to "IEblog", the improving focus of IE8 is how to increase the loading speed of Web page and pictures, which requires improving the scripting language, rendering engine and networking capabilities.

Digg founder exposed the new iPod nano

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Digg founder Kevin Rose, exposed the newiPod nano’s photos and new features in a personal blog which is to be marketed by Apple.

Rose published the photos show, the new iPod nano look more slender, and with a certain arc. He also said that the Apple iPod product line will be carried out substantial price cuts, to avoid low-priced iPod sales by 3 G version of the iPhone impact.

Apart from outside the iPod nano, iPod Touch the appearance will also change slightly, Apple also introduced for the iPod Touch version 2.1 firmware. In supporting software, Apple will launch 8.0 version of iTunes. This version of iTunes will conduct a comprehensive upgrade and add many new features.
Rose said, Apple will be in the next 2-3 weeks to announce these actions.

Rose also revealed that Apple's OS X 10.5.6 version operating system will join the support of Blu-ray, Apple's future Mac computers is likely to introduce Blu-ray optical drive.