by Cooee on October 26, 2008

Andy Bechtolsheim, a revered technologist who cofounded Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) and has been instrumental in designing the company’s servers, is stepping down from his day-to-day role to help build a new networking startup.
Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to found a networking company that was acquired by Cisco the next year.
In a separate announcement Thursday, Arista said it has recruited as its chief executive officer Jayshree Ullal, who in May left Cisco after working at the company 15 years.
technewsworld.com
by Cooee on October 23, 2008
Universal, local and mobile search are fast turning from concept into reality and are tipped to be the main pillars of search marketing strategies over the next two years, writes Adam Woods.
As search engines change and mobile becomes more prominent, the way companies appear in results pages and buy advertising is also going to change.
What is missing in the UK, and what inevitably must arrive if this vision of 2010 is to be realised, is geo-targeting technology robust enough to sit on top of the mapping and directory data and give life to genuine local search via mobile.
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