Microsoft is all set to acquire DATAllegro Inc, provider of data warehousing appliances. This deal gives strong data warehousing portfolio to Microsoft.

Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of the Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft stated:

“Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers enterprise-class capabilities in business intelligence and data warehousing, and the addition of the DATAllegro team and its technology will take our data platform to the highest scale of data warehousing.“

“As soon as the acquisition closes, we’ll start the work of moving our technology from Ingres & Linux to SQL Server and Windows. Our feasibility studies over the last few months indicate that SQL Server is a significant improvement in terms of performance - especially in key areas such as star joins, I/O throughput and in-memory operations. The engineering team here at DATAllegro is excited about the next version of the product.“

Stuart Frost, CEO of DATAllegro

Normally data warehousing appliances vendors providing 1-25 terabytes and DATAllegro has large volume, high performance data warehouse and has largest capacity in the industry up-to 100 terabyte in one system.

After completing the acquisition, Microsoft is going to setup Center of Excellence of Data Warehousing in Aliso Viejo, California and DATAllegro team will retain in this Center. As Microsoft continuously enhancing their data warehousing capacity and SQL server’s scale, and now it is perception that they are very close to Oracle and IBM. So increasing data warehouse scaling, Microsoft want to help all size of customer and allow them to take benefits from next-generation of data-driven application.

More information at: Microsoft to acquire DATAllegro

Google has been knocked by click fraud suit again on its parked domain program. Google is serving ads on empty web pages through their paid advertisement program. This suit brought in the federal district court in San Jose, California and submitted by online retailer RK West, which operates the online store Malibu Wholesale. They have purchased Google ads program with noticed that their ads would come on parked domains.

Parked domain generally no contained any content and according to RK West there are many clicks came from parked domains and not valid. They said that they have charged for those clicks even these domains not having related content of their business.

According to Lawsuit alleges:

“Despite indication that some of the clicks from parked domains were invalid, Google failed to disclose to the plaintiff specific domain names in which these ads were clicked on, making detection of invalid clicks difficult and even worse concealing any evidence of invalid clicks.”

RK West has checked their server logs and found clicks sources. They have not define the “Invalid” but Torrijos stated that

“The company took the position that clicks made by users who don’t have a genuine interest in making a purchase are invalid.”

The company has alleged fake concealment, unfair enhancement and a violation of California’s business code, and is looking for class-action status.

Recently Chipmaker Intel Corporation plays the game against Advance Micro Devices (AMD) and paid retailer not to sell PCs using chip made by AMD. This new accusation made by European Union Antitrust Regulators.

The ’statement of objections’ from the European Commission is an expansion of the 2007 charges that Intel gave computer makers rebates to limit their use of AMD chips or avoid them altogether.

According to this, commission is now weighing charges Intel unlawfully swindled with both the wholesale and retail channels in an effort to contain its rivals

Intel lawyer Steve Rodgers stated that “he was disappointed by the new charges, which centered on whether it was lawful or not to issue price discounts. The result will be higher computer prices because it prevents Intel from offering discounts“

Intel was given eight weeks to respond to the charges. It would study them in detail before responding to the Commission in writing.

So it is very surprising that technology giant is following such kind of unethical marketing strategies. There must be a healthy competition in the marketing. I hope in future, we will not hear or read such kind of shameful things again.

London: Indian-trotters world can buy half of London in 2017. According to estimates by Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj (JLLM), a real estate company, Indians could spend as much as 128000 crore rupees (15 million pounds) in residential property in the United Kingdom, particularly London in the next decade, According to the Times of India.

The survey indicates that 1.9 million households in India are expected to have wealth of more than $ 500000 in the next 10 years, giving globally engaged the Indians money to buy assets abroad.
According to experts, research JLLM can be considered a reliable indicator of trends increasingly volatile property market. Companies belonging to cities like London are betting the Indians’ increasing purchasing power and greater engagement with the world, notably through education abroad.

Research indicates that London is increasingly international centre for higher education and the number of Indian students in the study; it has quadrupled since 2005 to nearly 20000. The report predicts that this trend can only continue, given to an increase cooperation programmers between India and London universities.

JLLM report of what is now the ideal time for other real estate companies to exploit opportunities in the Indian market, so that the product directly to them. On Monday, British-owned Company, Berkeley Group said that will soon launch two of its most interesting in exhibitions in Mumbai and Delhi next month.

Paul Vallone Berkeley Group, which has an annual turnover of over one billion pounds, said: “As the middle class in Asia is expanding, several of them are looking abroad for good investment opportunities. Parent’s apartment they can choose to send their children when they go to college, while business travelers often buy a “blockade and stop the aircraft may be used for travel in London.”

The level of perception of India’s purchasing power can be appreciated in the price of 235000 pounds (2006 crore rupees) and 399950 pounds (3424 crore rupees) for the city Berkeley Group India launch of two events just three weeks from now.

JLLM, is an east wing of the Indian multi-national property management company appointed by Forbes and Fortune as one of the world 100 magazines and 400 best big companies.

Intel Corporation celebrating its 40^th Anniversary at 18^th July and also unveils the World Mural Project publicly. It been a long journey of innovation and countless technology introduced by Intel Corporation. Intel has announced the World Mural Project on the day of the anniversary, which is a Web-based digital art piece that includes visual and written contents from the Intel Computer Clubhouses around the world. So many technologists have worked on this project all over the world and hundreds of Intel volunteers at 70 Clubhouses around the world helped the youth on the project.

Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini stated that “Intel has a 40-year history of serial technology breakthroughs and innovation. When we introduced the microprocessor no one could have predicted that the market for PCs would be greater than 350 million units a year. Over the next 40 years Intel technology will be at the heart of breakthroughs that solve the big problems of health and environment. For Intel this is just the beginning of its journey.“

Intel Corporation is a world leader in silicon innovation; continue developing advance technologies and products for people and future of digital live. For more information on Intel Co. Visit Following website:

Intel Celebrates 40 Years of Innovation

World Mural Project

9^th July 08, Yahoo has extend yahoo open strategy and launched Yahoo Search BOSS. BOSS is a web service platform that will give companies and developers to create same web scale search product by using same technology that Yahoo search has.

What is BOSS?

BOSS is a open platform that provide programmatic access to the complete Yahoo! Search index via an API. BOSS allows developers to take advantage of Yahoo!’s production search infrastructure and technology, combine that with their own unique assets, and create their own search experiences. While search APIs have been available for some time, BOSS removes many of the usage restrictions that have prevented other companies from using them to build innovative new search engines.

BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is simple innovation in the search market. Every Search marketers knows that it is very hard to building a high quality, web-scale search engine. Marketers need to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in engineering, sciences and core infrastructure — from crawling and indexing technology to relevancy and machine learning algorithms, to stuff as mundane as data centers, servers and power. Yahoo’s new invention “BOSS platform” may change the search industry.

For more information on BOSS visit Yahoo Search Blog.