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ZTE Tops China Mobile 3G Contract

ZTE is reported to have picked up just over a third of the latest TD-SCDMA tender from China Mobile, reports the Interfax news agency.

China Mobile has unveiled the results for its third-phase TD-SCDMA network tender which covers 200 Chinese cities.

According to the results, ZTE, Huawei, and Datang Mobile gain a total market share of 72%, with ZTE gaining 34%, Huawei gaining 22% and Datang Mobile, 16%; and the remaining five companies, including New Postcom, FiberHome, Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson, and Potevio, gain market shares of about 5% to 6% each.

In March 2009, China Mobile launched its third-phase TD-SCDMA network tender that covers 200 Chinese cities, including Foshan, Wuxi, and Wenzhou. According to its former plan, this tender will involve purchase of 39,000 wireless base stations and total value of over CNY8.6 billion. On the completion of these base stations, China Mobile's TD-SCDMA network is expected to cover 70% of the areas in China.

However, according to reports in local media, the actual scale of this third-phase tender is larger than the original plan and the value involved is nearly double.

Older news; Chinese Market News - China Mobile Invests in Far EasTone - Bloomberg

In Drought-Ending IPO, LogMeIn Logs $107 Million

In the year’s first initial public offering by a venture-backed company from New England, Woburn, MA-based remote access software maker LogMeIn has raised $80 million, according to a report late Tuesday night in the Wall Street Journal. Through lead underwriters Barclays and JP Morgan Chase, the company sold 5 million shares at $16 per share—the high end of the price range it had hoped the offering would bring.

Altogether, 6.67 million shares were sold in the offering, raising $107.2 million. Of that, $27.2 million will go to individual shareholders who sold parts of their stakes, including LogMeIn CEO Michael Simon and chief technology officer Martin Anka. LogMeIn’s stock will begin trading today on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol LOGM.

It’s only the fourth time in 2009 a U.S. venture-backed company has gone public, after a four-month period at the beginning of the year with no venture-backed IPOs at all.

Whether or not the sale heralds the gradual restoration of the IPO as one of the traditional exit paths for venture investors, it’s bringing respectable returns to LogMeIn’s investors. Altogether, venture backers put $20 million into the company, in return for shares now worth a collective $155 million, according to the Journal.

Prism Venture Works, the company’s single largest shareholder, comes out of the IPO with an 18.2 percent share of the company that’s worth $62.3 million at the $16-per-share price. Polaris Venture Partners sold shares worth $7.4 million in the offering and is holding onto a 13.9 percent stake worth $47.6 million. Intel Capital’s 4.2 percent stake is now worth $14.2 million, and Integral Capital Partners sold shares worth $5 million and retained a 5.4 percent stake worth $18.4 million.

Medidata of New York, OpenTable of San Francisco, and SolarWinds of Austin, TX, are the other three venture-backed companies that risked IPOs this year.

Watch out, Oracle: Google tests cloud-based database

Google has released an early version of a new type of database whose approach to data management will be revolutionary, according to an analyst who has studied the technology behind it.

On Tuesday, Google quietly announced in its research team blog a new online database called Fusion Tables designed to sidestep the limitations of conventional relational databases.

Specifically, Fusion Tables has been built to simplify a number of operations that are notoriously difficult in relational databases, including the integration of data from multiple, heterogeneous sources and the ability to collaborate on large data sets, according to Google.

"Without an easy way to offer all the collaborators access to the same server, data sets get copied, emailed and ftp'd -- resulting in multiple versions that get out of sync very quickly," reads the Google announcement, which has been largely overlooked, probably because it was made on the same day the company held a high-profile press event to launch its Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook.

Under the hood of Fusion Tables is data-spaces technology, which will make conventional databases go the way of the rotary phone, according to Stephen E. Arnold, a technology and financial analyst who is president of Arnold Information Technology.

Data spaces as a concept has been around since the early 1990s, and Google, realizing its potential, has been developing it since it acquired Transformic, a pioneer of the technology, in 2005, Arnold said.

Data-spaces technology seeks to solve the problem of the multiple data types and data formats that reside in organizations, which have to scrub the data and make it uniform, often at great cost and effort, in order to store and analyze it in conventional databases.

Data spaces envisions a system that creates an index that provides access to data in its disparate formats and types, solving what Arnold calls the "Tower of Babel" problem.

In the case of Fusion Tables, the technology should allow Google to add to the conventional two-dimensional database tables a third coordinate with elements like product reviews, blog posts, Twitter messages and the like, as well as a fourth dimension of real-time updates, he said.

"So now we have an n-cube, a four-dimensional space, and in that space we can now do new kinds of queries which create new kinds of products and new market opportunities," said Arnold, whose research about this topic includes a study done for IDC last August.

"If you're IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, your worst nightmare is now visible. Google is going to automatically construct data spaces and implement new types of queries," he said. "Those guys are going to be blindsided."

Fusion Tables is an early version of the product, as evidenced by its "Labs" label, which means Google considers it an experimental product. "As usual with first releases, we realize there is much missing, and we look forward to hearing your feedback," Google's blog post reads.

UPDATE 1-Intel-backed LogMeIn to price IPO July 1

NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - Technology company LogMeIn Inc (LOGM.O) has set the terms of its planned $100 million initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday.





Massachusetts-based LogMeIn, whose backers include Intel Corp (INTC.O), plans to sell 6.7 million shares for between $14 and $16, according to a prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The IPO, to be led by JP Morgan (JPM.N) and Barclays Capital (BARC.L), is scheduled to price July 1, with trading beginning the next day on Nasdaq. LogMeIn filed its original IPO registration in January 2008.

LogMeIn provides on-demand remote-connectivity services to small business and consumers, and derives most of its revenue from subscriptions, according to its prospectus.

LogMeIn has just begun to be profitable. The company's sales nearly doubled to $51.7 million in 2008, but LogMeIn still sustained losses for the year, the third in a row with losses. But for the first three months of 2009, LogMeIn made a profit of $2.1 million on revenue of $17.2 million.

LogMeIn will reap about 75 percent of the IPO's proceeds, with the rest going to existing shareholders, according to the filing.

Those owners include Intel Capital, which currently holds 5.4 percent of LogMeIn, and venture capital firms Prism Venture Partners with a 23.8 percent stake, and Polaris Venture Partners with a 21 percent share, Technologieholding Central and Eastern European Funds (15.83), Integral Capital Partners (8.91%).

The deal's underwriters have the option to purchase another 1 million shares to cover over-allotments.

Keep the Money flowing through Invoicing Tips

Small and medium sized businesses have always been troubled by late payers, debtors and defaulters. Considering that this particular sub-set of clients continue to make life difficult for entrepreneurs, here are some tips to keep the cash flowing.

Though there should be more stringent laws in dealing with such clients, this does not mean that small businesses are powerless in the face of the organizations they sell to.

Businesses are most likely to receive late payments from new customers; making them more vulnerable to new clients. Small businesses must be ready to negotiate terms when they receive an order, particularly from new customers.

Following are some tips:

* Send an estimate/quotation before sending the final invoice.

* Understanding and identifying the payment terms - where invoices should be sent, what references or order numbers should be quoted, and whether the customer only accepts online invoices.

* Have effective internal procedures in place: what level of credit checking is required and how frequently credit limits are reviewed.

* If there is a difference between your payment terms and theirs, don’t ignore the issue, negotiate.

* Make sure sales invoices meet the customer’s requirements, send invoices as soon as possible to the correct address and department, ensuring they comply with requirements for VAT invoices, and follow progress.

* Make notes of telephone calls regarding customer payments, including dates and times of conversations, to whom you spoke and the outcome, and take action quickly.

* Establish a policy on how long an invoice is allowed to be outstanding before resorting to debt collection and when supply of goods or services should be stopped.

* Regularly review the debtors’ ledger for customers behind with payment. Get sales staff to visit these customers to seek information and set targets for credit collection.

* Employ professional credit staff.

* Carefully consider potential orders with longer payment terms. Consider the implications for profitability, cash flow, financing and bad debts.

* Consider factoring or invoice discounting to help manage cash flow.

* Use business invoices as an instrument to retain customers by way of mentioning discounts, offers and other schemes at the footer.

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GoToMeeting

GoToMeeting is a Web conferencing tool that allows you to meet online rather than in a conference room. It’s the easiest and most cost-effective way to organize and attend online meetings. Patented technology enables co-workers, customers and prospects to view any application running on your PC in real time. With the flexibility to meet in person or online, you’ll be able to do more and travel less.

How It Works
Whether your meeting is scheduled in advance or started in one click, GoToMeeting makes it easy for you to meet online with anyone anywhere – on either a PC or Mac® computer.

Start or schedule a meeting from the GoToMeeting PC system tray or Mac dock.

Choose between VoIP and phone conferencing or allow both options for audio.




Invite up to 15 people via email or phone.

Attendees don’t need to sign up to join your meeting – they just click an email link or enter the meeting ID online.




Click "Show My Screen" to start secure screen sharing.

Give presentations, demo software, collaborate on projects or provide training – right from your desktop.




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How It’s Easy

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Attendees don’t even have to register for an account.

Simple Features: Easily share keyboard and mouse control or switch presenters.

Share just a certain program or your whole screen.

Even record your meetings.

Integrated Audio: Phone conferencing numbers are included in email invitations and on the Control Panel, and VoIP begins instantly when you start the session.

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HP Unveils Scale-Out Computing Hardware For Data Centers

The ProLiant SL server line is a lightweight, power-efficient modular computing system for companies with large data centers that support cloud computing environments.













Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) on Wednesday introduced a lightweight, power-efficient modular computing system for companies with large data centers that support cloud computing environments.

The new HP ProLiant SL server line, the latest addition to the HP ExSO portfolio for scale-out computing, comprises an open 2U chassis, which holds fans and power supplies, and task-specific server nodes that slip into the hardware's rail-and-tray design. The ProLiant SL chassis fits into any standard rack from HP or third parties.

Next is the SL160z, which is designed for large memory-cache apps. The server has 18 dual in-line memory module slots and up to two PCI slots. Finally, the SL170z is built for large storage applications such as Web search and database apps. The server has up to six large form-factor Serial ATA or serial-attached SCSI hard drives.

The new systems are scheduled to be available in July. Pricing will vary according to configuration and order volume. HP also offers management software and services as options for the ProLiant SL product line.

Cloud computing is a type of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Companies operating such environments include Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM).com. Small and midmarket companies are particularly interested in running applications on vendors' cloud computing environments in order to avoid building large IT infrastructures.

HP, Intel, and Yahoo last year launched the Open Cirrus cloud computing test bed with a goal of promoting collaboration among businesses, government agencies, and colleges and universities. More than 50 research projects are plugged into Open Cirrus.

T-Mobile gaat het nieuwste model iPhone vanaf 26 juni via een select groepje partners leveren.

Het toestel zal verkrijgbaar zijn in alle 80 T-Mobile Shops . Daarnaast is iPhone3G S onder andere verkrijgbaar bij de Apple Premium Resellers, Belcompany, Mediamarkt, Saturn, The Phone House, GSMWEB.NL, belnu.nl, studentmobiel.nl en Typhone.nl.

Ook deze iPhone3G S, de snelste en krachtigste iPhone op dit moment, zal alleen verkrijgbaar zijn in combinatie met een abonnement van T-Mobile.

Voor bestaande iPhones is de Software Update 3.0 vanaf 17 juni via iTunes beschikbaar. Hiermee kunnen ook iPhones die al in de markt zijn, worden voorzien van veel van de nieuwe functionaliteiten.

T-Mobile opent vandaag een Twitter kanaal speciaal gericht op het verspreiden van nieuwtjes over T-Mobile en de iPhone. Dit is te volgen via: http://twitter.com/tmobile_iphone.