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Computer maker Dell said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 17 percent, hurt in part by PC price cuts. Both earnings and margins fell short of Wall Street estimates, and Dell shares plunged. For the three-month period that ended Aug. 1, Dell’s earnings dropped to $616 million, or 31 cents per share, from $746 million, or 32 cents per share in the same period last year.
“Smart” shopping carts have been around for a while, but until recently, they haven’t managed to gain much traction. Now, some momentum is building, according to proponents of the computer-rigged market baskets that can flash an alert that a customer’s favorite brand of ice cream is on sale, display nutritional values of products, and even point out the aisles where items are located.
Aberdeen’s benchmark report, “Optimizing WAN for Application Acceleration,” found that Best-in-Class organizations are 69 percent more likely to outsource optimization of their WANs to third parties as compared to Laggards. This research also reveals that these organizations realize that the effectiveness of different WAN optimization initiatives varies based on the types of applications being managed.
RedTag.com, a discount online retail site, launches today with a $1.95 shipping charge on all orders, one of the lowest such rates in the industry. RedTag.com joins the likes of discount retail sites such as Overstock.com, which sells retailers’ excess inventory at a fraction of the price that other sites do.
No one can say what 27-year-old Kevin Cogill expected when he apparently posted nine songs from an unreleased and long-awaited Guns N’ Roses album called “Chinese Democracy” to his Web site earlier this summer. It could have been anything from monetary gain to a desire to be the first to distribute the long-anticipated songs. However, he likely didn’t expect to find the FBI at his door with an arrest warrant.