Reuters - Ford Motor Co posted a $8.7
billion quarterly loss on Thursday as it wrote down the value
of truck and SUV operations and cautioned that it did not
expect to see a U.S. economic turnaround until 2010.
Reuters - Dow Chemical Co posted
second-quarter earnings that fell short of market expectations
as its price increases did not completely offset a sharp spike
in energy and raw material costs.
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's top
cellphone maker, has ended three years of legal battles with
wireless chip developer Qualcomm and signed a patent
agreement that boosted both companies' shares.
Reuters - Stock extended losses on Thursday
following a report that showed a steeper-than-expected drop in
existing-home sales in June, heightening concern about the
impact of the housing slump on economic growth.
Reuters - A majority of members of the Federal
Communications Commission have reached an agreement to
conditionally approve Sirius Satellite Radio Inc's
purchase of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc , a source
familiar with the agency review said on Thursday.
AP - The number of newly laid off people filing claims for unemployment benefits bolted past 400,000 last week as companies trimmed their work forces to cope with a slowing economy and fallout from a collapsed housing market.
NetGong is a sophisticated network monitoring solution that allows network administrators, webmasters, and Internet service providers to monitor any networked device on the Internet, corporate intranet, or TCP/IP LAN and receive alerts immediately via audible alarm, message, e-mail, or third-party software when a connection fails.
Features:
System tray application - Runs as a system tray application automatically on startup.
Comprehensive monitoring - Monitors up to 500 network devices or services simultaneously.
Global settings - Allows quick network resource configuration.
Independent parameters - Allows all parameters to be set independently for each network resource.
Maintenance mode - Permits you to temporarily disable monitoring of certain resources.
Robust alerting - Alerts you to failures using a variety of techniques ranging from audible alarms to third-party software.
Alert schedule - Allows you "fine tune" the alerting functions to avoid unnecessary alerting during an extended failure.
Failure and recovery alerts - Alerts can be enabled for any combination of failure and recovery notices.
Custom alerts - Allows custom alerts to be created for each monitored resource.
Test alert configuration - Each alert type can be tested in order to verify that the alert is configured correctly prior to going live.
E-mail notification - Allows e-mail notification via SMTP with the server of your choice.
Custom messages - Supports keyword values and customized message information.
Integrated reporting - Offers real-time and historical reporting capabilities to assist you in tracking network resources availability.
HTML report output - Provides reports in HTML format to help keep track of network resources availability in an easy to view list.
Remote access - Provides remote access to the monitoring results using a Web browser.
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AP - Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.
AFP - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference..
Microsoft exec who led Yahoo bid leaving company
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday that Kevin Johnson, who as president of Microsoft's
largest business division spearheaded the company's pursuit of
Yahoo Inc , is leaving the software maker.