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http://www.Guide2MarketingSuccess.com Microsoft Corp. will make the first mass layoffs in its 34-year history, cutting 5,000 jobs as demand for personal computers falls and even one of the world’s richest companies gets burned by the recession.
The company announced the cuts Thursday as it reported an 11 percent drop in second-quarter profit, which fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. Microsoft shares plunged more than 11 percent.
“We’re certainly in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime set of economic conditions,” Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said during a conference call. With less access to credit, businesses and consumers are spending less and stretching the life span of their existing computers.
The biggest names in the technology sector have been no stranger to layoffs lately. Giants such as chip maker Intel Corp. and even Google Inc. are among the companies that have pulled back on jobs to hunker down in the recession.
Google also reported earnings Thursday and said its quarterly net profit fell 68 percent, its first such drop ever. The results were better than analysts had expected, however.
At Microsoft, the cuts appeared to reflect uncertainty about when times will get better. The company said it could not issue a forecast for earnings and profits for the rest of the year.
The software maker was already facing tough problems, among them its inability to snag a significant share of the lucrative Web search advertising market from leader Google Inc. It tried to fix this by buying Yahoo Inc. and pouring money into its own technology, all the while relying on Office programs such as Word and Excel, and on Windows to keep bringing home huge profits. Now, with the recession pinching software earnings, Microsoft’s problems seem even harder to fix.
Microsoft, which has $20.7 billion in cash on hand, said its business prospects were hurt by the deteriorating global economy and lower revenue from software for PCs. The holiday quarter of 2008 was the worst for the PC market since 2002, with computer shipments declining about a half of 1 percent, according to IDC, a technology research group.
Microsoft shares fell $2.27, or 11.7 percent, to close at a 52-week low of $17.11
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The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24.
Apple Chow and Santiago Etchebere: Building a flexible and reusable framework around Selenium
Apple Chow
Apple Chow currently works at Google’s Checkout group where she is developing back-end automation frameworks. She has also worked at Google’s CRM group leading functional testing, load & performance testing, and designing web automation frameworks. Before joining Google, she worked at eBay where she developed general testing tools for the QA organization and tools for testing the kernel and database applications. Prior to eBay, she has also held software developer and test automation lead roles in various companies including Sun Microsystems, Trend Micro, Kovair Software, National Semiconductors and AMD. Apple Chow received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Davis and M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.
Santiago Etchebehere
I’m 27, from Argentina, I’ve studied at the Engineering College of “Universidad de Buenos Aires” (Argentina) where I’ve also been a teacher istant, I’m currently working on my grade thesis (Testing Automation based on Open Source Tools) to get my degree as IT Engineer. I really enjoy my life at home, hanging out with my friends, and I like learning languages and different cultures, which is not difficult in a city like Buenos Aires, where I live. I’ve worked for different software development companies in Buenos Aires, as a software engineer, developing with a variety of languages and tools (mostly Java and C++). Currently, I’m working for Globant (www.globant.com), an Argentinian software company since Jan 2006, and providing services to Google since Aug 2006 in the CRM QA project where I’ve worked with the team (Googlers and Globant employees) to create an automation framework based on Selenium and other tools for testing web applications. The framework grew and it’s now being used by some other projects at Google too.
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Google Tech Talks
June, 4 2008
ABSTRACT
Various data mining techniques have been applied to mine source code repositories. However, relying only on one or several local source code repositories may not provide sufficient, relevant data samples (e.g., usage of a certain API call) for mining tasks such as code reuse and defect detection. The recent availability of code search engines allows the mining scope to be scaled to billions of lines of open source code available from the Web, and thus increases the chance of getting sufficient, relevant data samples for mining. This talk will discuss the mining opportunities and challenges based on searching open source code from the Web and present new approaches that mine open source code searched from the Web to ist code reuse and defect detection
Speaker: Tao Xie
Tao Xie is an istant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2005. He leads the Automated Software Engineering Research Group at North Carolina State University. His research centers around two major themes: automated software testing and mining software engineering data. He has served on a number of conference program committees including ISSTA 2008/2009, ASE 2006/2007(Expert-Review Panel)/2008, ICST 2008, AOSD 2007, and ICSM 2007/2008. Besides doing research, he has contributed to understanding the software engineering research community by building community webs such as Software Engineering Academic Genealogy and Software Engineering Conference Map.
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Microsoft has unveiled a cloud computing service, in which data and applications will not be stored on individuals’ computers.
The new platform, dubbed Windows Azure, was announced at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
The platform was described by Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie as “Windows for the cloud”.
The framework will be offered alongside the next Windows release, Windows 7.
The move sees Microsoft taking on established players like Google and Amazon in the rapidly growing business of online software.
The aim is to allow developers to build new applications which will live on the internet, rather than on their own computers.
Microsoft believes consumers will also want to store far more of their data – from letters to photos to videos – on the servers in its “cloud” of giant data centres around the world, so that it can be accessed anywhere, from any device.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7693993.stm
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