New Version of MySQL Enterprise Allows DBAs to Graphically Drill-Down into Database Bottlenecks to Improve Application Performance

New Version of MySQL Enterprise Allows DBAs to Graphically Drill-Down into Database Bottlenecks to Improve Application Performance

SINGAPORE – September 23, 2009 – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced an update to its MySQL Enterprise subscription, designed to assist corporate users improve the speed and uptime of their MySQL database applications. Thirty-day trial subscriptions of the new MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release are now available free-of-charge from http://www.mysql.com/trials.

Graphical enhancements to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor's Query Analyzer help DBAs and developers to better pinpoint database queries to avoid performance problems. With new visual correlation graphs, problem queries can now be filtered and analyzed by highlighting specific time-periods of interest with a few mouse-clicks - making it easier to quickly find spikes in key system resources, and fix problems rooted in inefficient SQL code.

MySQL Enterprise: Features & Benefits
A MySQL Enterprise subscription is a comprehensive set of software and services, consisting of:

• MySQL Enterprise Server Software -- the most reliable, secure and up-to-date version of the world's most popular open source database. MySQL Enterprise subscribers receive monthly software updates, quarterly service packs, and emergency hot fix builds.
• MySQL Enterprise Monitor -- A dynamically-delivered "Virtual DBA Assistant" which continuously monitors the health of a user's database servers, alerting them to -- and helping them solve -- potential problems before they can impact critical applications. In addition to the Query Analyzer, the MySQL Enterprise Monitor features a Replication Monitor; a set of proactive MySQL Advisors with over 130 best-practice rules; and a gallery of more than 30 graphs to help give IT departments greater insight into their distributed database environments.
• Enterprise-class Production Support -- Addressing the concerns of many IT organizations using open source technology, Sun provides 24x7 telephone, Knowledge Base, and Web support - directly from the developers of MySQL software. Users can also track open support issues using optional live feeds that are sent directly to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor.

"We've designed the MySQL Enterprise subscription to provide maximum peace-of-mind for MySQL database administrators," said Robin Schumacher, head of MySQL product management for Sun Microsystems. "MySQL Enterprise is a highly-affordable way to support the scalability, performance and uptime requirements of today's online applications."

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See The Video Launch Of The New Oracle Exadata V2 Database Machine

See The Video Launch Of The New Oracle Exadata V2 Database Machine

The new Oracle Exadata V2 combines Oracle software and Sun hardware - including Sun's innovative FlashFire technology - to provide the world's first database machine for online transaction processing (OLTP). Available in a range of configurations, the Oracle Exadata V2 offers a complete, integrated computing infrastructure that's designed to deliver massive speed increases for OLTP, data warehousing and mixed database workloads. ..

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How to find a better suggested users list for Twitter

How to find a better suggested users list for Twitter
By Partho

Are you one those who has been remonstrating against Twitter's suggested users list feature? You can have a sigh of relief now, as the microblogging giant has decided to hark back the feature. The list introduced newbies to the Twitterati's including celebrities, sports personalities and politicians. Why on earth would you follow what the co-founder Biz Stone suggests in the list. Choosing whom to follow on Twitter lies on your personal taste. This was only realized when Twitter poked into frisked through it's retention rates that has declined in past. Well, if you are looking for a better alternative just go through.

Initially, Twitter provided the list to help them. As the Biz Stone writes in the Twitter blog.

About a month or so ago we noticed a certain percentage of new users were signing up and then not following anyone. When you don't follow any other accounts on Twitter the product is not as relevant as it could be. To improve the user experience, we started suggesting some accounts to follow. ..

However, with time the suggestive feature flared up controversies. Evidently the list was personalized and seemed biased in certain instances. Clearly, if someone doesn't find John Hodgman interesting which Twitter thinks he/she is at complete loss. You might not enjoy the service that doesn't suggest people of your interest like what you get in Facebook. Simply you might find no reason to continue the service.

Now that Twitter is looking to better its suggestion list, in the meantime we can look for an alternative. Although not a front-runner Twellow seems a prospect, which offers suggested users for Twitter on more personalized level. This could be quite useful. It's designed to connect Twitterers with similar interests.

As for now, if you are waiting for Twitter's revamped suggested user list, you can rely on Biz Stone's words

in its stead will be something that is more programmatically chosen, something that actually delivers more relevant suggestions.

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Bebo introduces onscreen panic button to report abuse instantly

Bebo introduces onscreen panic button to report abuse instantly

By ANI

November 22nd, 2009

LONDON - Social networking site Bebo has set up a special onscreen panic button for users to report abuse without delay.
The pressing of the button will alert specially trained officers at the Government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
The centre's chief executive has advocated other sites like Facebook and MySpace to start a similar facility.
"This service is totally free so there's no legitimate reason for these sites NOT to do it. They have a duty of care to the young," the News of the World quoted him as saying.
Bebo has total number of 21 million users. (ANI)

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Twitter’s New Headquarters As Shown Off By Employees (Pictures)

Twitter’s New Headquarters As Shown Off By Employees (Pictures)
by MG Siegler
on November 16, 2009

Today, Twitter moved into a new, much larger office in San Francisco. The space, which was previously Bebo’s SF office, is right around the corner from their old one.

A few members of the Twitter team spent much of the weekend decorating the new digs with a number of Twitter-themed elements like birds and @ symbols. Check out some of the pictures being posted to the web by Twitter employees below. And yes, there is a DJ booth — and apparently vanity mirrors in the toilet stalls.

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AP Sources: MySpace in talks to buy imeem - BusinessWeek

AP Sources: MySpace in talks to buy imeem - BusinessWeek
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
LOS ANGELES

Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

The people spoke on condition of anonymity because talks are confidential.

An announcement could be weeks away, and terms are still being negotiated, but MySpace is trying to revamp itself and its MySpace Music joint venture with the major recording companies.

An acquisition could bolster the unit of News Corp. by adding imeem's approximately 4.5 million users, its technology and its executives, including founder and CEO Dalton Caldwell.

MySpace recently bought music recommendation service iLike for $20 million and gave the founding Partovi brothers new executive roles.

News of the talks was reported earlier by the blog TechCrunch.

San Francisco-based imeem launched its advertising-supported free music business in 2007, but the company is having trouble making ends meet. Users create profiles and can recommend music to others or find out what they're listening to, similar to users of MySpace Music.

As a unit of media giant News Corp., MySpace would be better able to support any losses at the company stemming from royalties owed to recording companies than it could on its own. It's unclear what price MySpace would pay for the service, but one person said it was unlikely to be as much as MySpace paid for iLike. .....

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Early Market Testing Can Benefit Health Care - BusinessWeek

Early Market Testing Can Benefit Health Care - BusinessWeek

Before seeking FDA approval, drug and medical device companies could avoid costly mistakes by seeing if their ideas will fly with patients
By Stephen Wunker and Joe Sinfield

Health-care companies often think experimentation is for the lab bench. Drug discovery and development requires remorseless trial-and-error—and only about 1 in every 10,000 compounds created will eventually make it to market. But once a molecule emerges from that process, experimentation tends to cease.

With tight regulatory supervision and a product pipeline that typically yields only a small handful of new launches each year, pharmaceutical companies invest heavily in the few products that do emerge. A typical drug launch can easily cost tens of millions of dollars or more. With patent expiration dates dictating the product life cycle literally to the day, firms want to maximize sales while they can. ..

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Facebook Marketing Tactics

Facebook Marketing Tactics
by Lisa Barone

How is Facebook different than Google? You’re targeting who people are instead of targeting keywords. You have a viral multiplier because friends will see it in their feed and be able to become a fan. Pricing is different. The sophisticated of targeting is different. Google is like driving a car. Facebook is like flying a plane because you’re getting the back end of who people are based on their interests.

He asks who’s used Facebook Lexicon – a FB keyword research tool. Not that many people raise their hands...

more topics including ..
Profile Attributes as a Keyword
Facebook Local Ads
Ad Multiplication
Interest Targeting

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Facebook Marketing 101 - Search Engine Watch (SEW)

Facebook Marketing 101 - Search Engine Watch (SEW)

By Ron Jones, Search Engine

After you've mastered the basics of Facebook and set up Facebook fan pages for your business, it's time to promote your fan pages and identify ways to be found in real time search results.

Is customer loyalty important to you? Have you ever wondered about which sources provide loyal visitors who will repeatedly return to your site?

Chitika analyzed the browsing habits of 33 million unique visitors during September. They found that Facebook provides the most loyal visitors, with 20 percent of those who originate from the social network in turn visiting the site they landed on four or more times in a week. Other notable social media sites include Digg at 16 percent and Twitter at 11 percent.

This should help you feel better about the time you invest marketing on Facebook. Now let's look at some ways to promote your Facebook fan page.

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How Oakley Takes Aim at the Luxury Market - BusinessWeek

How Oakley Takes Aim at the Luxury Market - BusinessWeek

The company's high-end sunglasses lead the way in bold design for new products at Italian parent Luxottica
By Damian Joseph

Neil Ferrier, 25, had graduated from the Scotland's University of Strathclyde in Glasgow only six months earlier when he was asked in 2007 to work on the kind of project that even senior design engineers dream about. His assignment: to create the most technologically advanced line of products possible—no matter what the cost. "Sadly, it's not normal, but it's something every engineer wants," he says. "It's far too common for designers to be stifled."

Ferrier's offer came from Oakley's Advance Product Development Team, a group responsible for many of the cutting-edge sunglasses, watches, boots, and apparel that the Foothill Ranch (Calif.) company has sold over the past decade. The team of five designers and engineers is given complete financial and creative freedom to pursue breakthroughs in materials and manufacturing processes that could propel sales of luxury items, shape the design of less expensive product lines, and most important, reinforce the brand's progressive image. "This is the foundation of our success," declares Oakley Chief Executive Colin Baden.

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SEO For Yahoo! | SEO Articles by Beanstalk

SEO For Yahoo! | SEO Articles by Beanstalk

This article is part two of a four part series on optimizing your website for the the three major search engines. Part one, titled "SEO For MSN" covered optimizing your website to rank highly on MSN. In this article we will cover optimizing your website for Yahoo!

Yahoo! is the second biggest of the three major engines and includes an enormous network of websites. The algorithm is based on that of Inktomi which Yahoo! purchased back in 2002 as part of their plan to stop serving Google results to search queries. The algorithm itself can pose a problem for some SEO's as we optimize client website to rank highly on multiple search engines due to the way that it deffers from Google and MSN. That said, any issue can be addressed provided that the right attention is given to the right details. ...

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SEO Asia - SEO in Asia - SEO Philippines - SEO Outsourcing

SEO Asia - SEO in Asia - SEO Philippines - SEO Outsourcing

A business solution for all
by jamesbaldonaza

Business and trading has been ever changing and evolving. Modern business concepts and strategies are very different from the early ways and concept of early trading days. Evolving from barter, free trade, and now to modern that involve unique business concepts with much more documentary and scientific approaches like market potential, feasibility studies, sales reports, expenditure tracking and financial analysis, surely business is a very complex and complicated thing to think of. And it’s a fact that most business people nowadays are craving for a solution to lessen the burdens of handling their businesses especially those who have multiple outlets or branches scattered around the world. And another thing is marketing ads that cost a hefty sum for companies that would need to advertize them either in print or in media, a true make or break move for companies that are either striving because off the economic meltdown and the ones that are just beginning to make it big in the business world. It is crucial to handle both management and marketing problems such as this to drive your business to success.
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Map Asia 2010

Map Asia 2010

The Map Asia 2010 will be held on 20 - 22 July at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference is jointly organised with ISG 2010. More information will be uploaded soon.

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Dell Stock Gains May Slacken - BusinessWeek

Dell Stock Gains May Slacken - BusinessWeek

The rally that's lifted the computer maker's shares 55% this year may lose steam after a report indicated corporate demand for PCs isn't as robust as hoped
By Aaron Ricadela

An eight-month climb in Dell's stock price may slacken after the computer maker tempered a previously upbeat forecast of business demand for PCs.

Dell (DELL) reported on Nov. 19 that sales sank 15% and net income tumbled 54% in its fiscal third quarter, which ended Oct. 30. What's more, Chief Executive Michael Dell suggested during a conference call after the results that businesses would take more time than previously expected to replace old computers with newer models running Microsoft's (MSFT) new Windows 7 operating system. "It won't all occur at once," he said.

The remarks contrasted with the CEO's contention in August that the PC industry would enter a "powerful product cycle" in 2010 that would benefit Dell. Wall Street "is going to feel like Michael Dell backed off a little bit on his comments on the replacement cycle," says one securities analyst, who asked not to be named since he hadn't yet published a research report on the quarter. "People are not going to like that." Dell's results look especially disappointing in light of a positive earnings report issued by rival Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) on Nov. 11.

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Vodafone's Indian Dilemma - BusinessWeek

Vodafone's Indian Dilemma - BusinessWeek

It's signing up plenty of new customers, but price wars are putting a serious crimp in the carrier's margins

by Mehul Srivastava and Mark Scott

Delhi - Ruchira Sharma should be any mobile-phone company's dream. She has two cell-phone numbers and endless gossip to share with friends and family across the country. Problem is, she's in India, where calling rates are less than a penny a minute, by far the lowest in the world. So her carrier—Vodafone Essar, a unit of Britain's Vodafone Group (VOD)—isn't making much from her gabbing. "It's fantastic," says the 19-year-old student. "I spent 330 rupees [about $7] in October, and I talk for hours."..

Fantastic for her, but less so for a key Vodafone strategy. In May 2007 the company paid $11.2 billion for 67% of what would become Vodafone Essar. The Indian operation was the centerpiece of an ambitious expansion in emerging markets to make up for slowing sales in Europe. Vodafone, though, didn't factor in a price war that in October culminated in 50% cuts in rates and a switch to per-second billing (instead of one-minute increments—a big saving for people who make short calls). "Emerging markets can no longer offset problems at home," says Emeka Obiodu, an analyst at Ovum, a telecom advisory firm in London. "There's now too much competition for easy growth."

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Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Larry Page, Google - Eric Schmidt, Google - Globalization: Google and Asia-Pacific

Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Larry Page, Google - Eric Schmidt, Google - Globalization: Google and Asia-Pacific

Globalization: Google and Asia-Pacific
Google increasingly has a global focus; as of 2002, traffic is now around 60% outside of the United States and growing. The search supports 74 languages, including many Asian languages, says CEO Eric Schmidt. There is tremendous growth in Japan, where the majority of portals and online services now use Google. ...

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Facebook Grows in Asia, Tops Google in Most Visited List in 5 Countries

Facebook Grows in Asia, Tops Google in Most Visited List in 5 Countries

by:bhupendra

Facebook has found a new base, Asia, where it is growing the fastest. Not to any surprise, it has topped the Most Visited List in 5 Asian emerging nations. It has surpassed Yahoo and Google, the two companies believed to be irreplaceable by many analysts.

Here are the nations where Facebook performs best.

Barring the three main Asian Countries – India, China and Japan – Facebook has outperformed better than Google and Yahoo in most populous countries. ....

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Google partners Singapore's LTA for Maps - CNET Asia

Google partners Singapore's LTA for Maps - CNET Asia
By Damian Koh, CNET Asia

SINGAPORE--Google and Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) have entered into a partnership that aims to help commuters in Singapore get to their destinations faster.

Speaking at a press event held at the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station this morning, LTA chief executive Yam Ah Mee said the transport authority collaborates with "as many partners as possible with the sole aim of making sure that the commuters benefit the most". He also said the statutory board is working toward a "people-centered transport system". ...

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Google Top Search Engine In The Asia-Pacific Region | WebProNews

Google Top Search Engine In The Asia-Pacific Region | WebProNews

Google Top Search Engine In The Asia-Pacific Region

Google has 44% of the search market in Asia-Pacific region

By Mike Sachoff

Internet users in the Asia-Pacific region conducted a record 38.6 billion searches in September, with searchers averaging nearly 88 queries per person, according to a new report from comScore.

Google sites ranked as the top search destination with nearly 17 billion searches on its sites during the month, representing a 44.1 percent share of all searches in the region. Baidu landed in the second spot with 8.2 billion searches (21.3% share), while Yahoo sites ranked third with 5.3 billion searches (13.8% share).......

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LDK Solar completes sale of 15 pct stake in Chinese plant for $219 million

LDK Solar completes sale of 15 pct stake in Chinese plant for $219 million

NEW YORK — LDK Solar Co. Ltd., a Chinese maker of parts for solar cells, on Friday said it completed the sale of a 15 percent ownership stake in a polysilicon plant in China for about $219 million.

LDK Solar said that it has received unspecified proceeds from the sale.

Earlier this week LDK Solar, which sold its interest in the Xinyu City, China, plant to Jiangxi International Trust and Investment Co., said the deal will strengthen its financial position and increase its operating flexibility in the short term.

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Chromium OS Now Open Sourced

Chromium OS Now Open Sourced

In July we announced that we were working on a project called Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system based on the Google Chrome browser and built for today's web. For the past few months we have been working hard on developing a solid foundation and today we are excited to announce the Chromium OS open source project. ..

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Steel of West Virginia to lay off 53 workers, cites economy, winter construction slowdown

Steel of West Virginia to lay off 53 workers, cites economy, winter construction slowdown

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — More than 50 Steel of West Virginia Inc. workers will be out of work by the end of November.

President Tim Duke said the layoffs of 53 workers will leave the company with about 300 employees.

Duke attributed the layoffs to a weak economy and a slowdown of construction and highway projects during the winter...

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Boracay Tour Top 5 On Google

Boracay Tour Top 5 On Google

Boracay Tour Top 5 On Google. Boracay Island - Hot Spots, Virtual Boracay tourVirtual Boracay Island of the Philippines
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Manny Pacquiao win gives Philippines reason to celebrate

Manny Pacquiao win gives Philippines reason to celebrate

sportsillustrated.cnn.com — MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Filipinos erupted into deafening cheers in bars, gymnasiums and army camps Sunday as Manny Pacquiao -- their boxing hero -- relentlessly pounded Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto to win his seventh title in as many weight classes... || shared via AsiaClassifiedToday.com / GeeSparks.com / PhilippinesMarketplace.com

Govt raises bar for migrant kids -nzherald.co.nz

Govt raises bar for migrant kids -nzherald.co.nz

nzherald.co.nz — Work-permit-holders in the lower income bracket will find it a lot tougher to put their children in New Zealand schools from next month. Immigration policy changes taking effect on November 30 will mean.. || shared via AsiaClassifiedToday.com / GeeSparks.com / PhilippinesMarketPlace.com