Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- EDITORIAL: The name of your number.(Editorial)
- Booyah Breakdown: Tech Stocks
- NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, REDMOND, WASHINGTON

EDITORIAL: The name of your number.(Editorial)
Free with registration – Baltimore Sun – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 28, 2007
| Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) (July, 2007). 28–If you want to reach Dan Shanahan at Hampden Moving & Storage, and no one is free to answer the phone there, you get the usual automated response, which asks you to type in his last name t.

Booyah Breakdown: Tech Stocks
thestreet.com – Jul 28, 2007
But you feel free to break the technology universe any way you want. Just be sure to break it down because all tech stocks are not the same. “Just because the hands on a watch are moving in one direction doesn’t mean the gears inside aren’t moving all different ways,” says Mowrey, who helped me splice the sector. So here are the different subsectors of tech:1. Communication Equipment. Stocks like Cisco Tellabs , Ayaya , Juniper and Motorola would fall here…
Electronic components and equipment. That’s for all the companies that make the little bits and pieces that go into your machines, so include stocks like Frequency Electronics and Network Equipment Technologies here. Technology services. This is for all the companies that directly consult technology companies. These days, IBM should probably be here.

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, REDMOND, WASHINGTON
Taipei Times – Jul 28, 2007
While the strategy insured Microsoft’s dominance over Netscape, it also embroiled Microsoft in a legal battle with the Department of Justice, which Microsoft eventually lost. Now, however, Microsoft’s executives appear to be increasingly confident that in addition to giving away some free services, they will be able to sell Web-based services to consumers and businesses. “We’re not moving toward a world of thin computing,” said Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer, referring to systems in which simple processing takes place on a PC, but more complex processing is moved to a centralized computer through a network connection. “We’re moving toward a world of software plus services. Nearly every Microsoft software application will be transformed with the addition of a Web-services component within three to 10 years, he said. He rejected the notion that in the future all software would be based in what computer industry executives refer to as “the cloud” — computer hardware and software reachable over the Internet. “People tend to get weird and extreme about this,” he said…
“People tend to get weird and extreme about this,” he said. “Does everything move to the cloud? I think that is wrong-minded. The company has already begun charging a subscription fee for a set of computer security services and this fall it intends to introduce a set of consumer services like photo sharing under the Windows Live brand. The strategy did not immediately ignite enthusiasm among the more than 100 financial analysts who follow the company. Microsoft’s stock fell US$0. 73 on Thursday, or 2. 4 percent, to US$29.