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First Semantic Web Programming Book to Include AllegroGraph RDFStore QuickStart
Market Wire, June, 2010
2010 Semantic Technology Conference — Franz, Inc ., the leading supplier of Graph Database technology for the Semantic Web , today announced that a QuickStart guide for building Semantic Web applications with its AllegroGraph RDFStore 4.0 is included in a new book entitled ‘ Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications .’ The book is written by Mark Watson , an experienced software development consultant who has published over a dozen books about technology.
Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications is a hands-on tutorial for professional programmers who are interested in building Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. The book is designed to provide knowledge of how to effectively use RDF data stores, such as AllegroGraph 4.0, with SPARQL queries through actual programming examples. Author Mark Watson has made the book available as free, open content that can be downloaded as a PDF file or ordered in printed format from Lulu at http://tinyurl.com/semanticprogrammingbook .
“I have been enthusiastic about the Semantic Web for almost a decade — but at the same time, I’ve been frustrated at the slow adoption of this technology, which offers unprecedented advantages for data integration, search and analytics,” said Mark Watson. “My hope is that my new book will provide a practical introduction to Semantic programming using interesting examples.”
“Mark brings Semantic technology down-to-earth by providing a step-by-step guide for working with RDF, building SPARQL queries and reasoning in triple stores,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz, Inc. “We hope this hands-on book will dispel some of the mystery around using Semantic technology and inspire more companies to experience the exciting benefits — such as real-time geolocation identification — that Semantic technology and AllegroGraph can uniquely deliver.”
“AllegroGraph was the obvious choice for the RDF store in this book,” added Watson. “It is easy to set up, simple to use and performs very well. I expect many readers will be surprised to experience the rare combination of innovation, power and ease-of-use that AllegroGraph brings to Semantic application development.”
About AllegroGraph
AllegroGraph RDFStore 4.0 is a modern high-performance database that continues to raise the bar in Web 3.0 database scalability. Disk-based storage allows the database to scale to billions of triples while maintaining superior performance. AllegroGraph provides users an event-based view of their datasets. Events are broadly defined as things that have particular type (i.e. financial transactions, events in time), a number of actors (payee, payer), a start time, an end time and a location. AllegroGraph can be used to reason about types of events; link to events, companies and people through social networking algorithms; and link to events and places through a user-friendly layer of temporal reasoning rules. Event analysis is further enhanced with a geospatial engine that is as fast as specialized spatial databases.
Franz CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will discuss the capabilities of AllegroGraph 4.0 during two speeches entitled Enterprise Requirements for Graph Databases – Your Best NoSQL Choices and Exploring Schema Spaces in Linked Open Data at the 2010 Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, California.
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Red Herring Selects Lumigent for Top 100
0 Comments | Manufacturing Close – Up, Jul 13, 2010
Lumigent Technologies, a GRC application controls monitoring company, announced that it has been chosen by Red Herring as one of the Red Herring Top 100 North America winners.
According to a release, Red Herring’s Top 100 North America list identifies promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube and eBay.
“Red Herring’s recognition further validates Lumigent’s vision to deliver the most comprehensive, multi-application compliance automation solution that can be deployed in only two weeks,” said Jay Muelhoefer, vice president of marketing at Lumigent. “We are at the forefront of empowering business owners to improve the integrity of key cross-ERP business processes such as financial reporting, order-to-cash, and procure-to-pay. Lumigent appreciates the recognition of the benefits our customers are achieving with continuous application controls monitoring, such as reductions in errors, fraud, and business risk as well as dramatic reductions in audit and compliance costs.”
“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring
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Top bid at real estate auctions no guarantee of a sale
0 Comments | Chattanooga Times Free Press, Sep 6, 2009
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CHICAGO — The atmosphere is electric, the deals can be dazzling, and the process can turn a bidder into a home buyer seemingly in a matter of minutes.
But as interest in real estate auctions grows, bidders are finding out it pays to read the fine print, be prepared and realize that it’s best not to hire the movers until the deal, not the auction, is sealed. Not everyone who “wins” at an auction walks away with a new home.
Consider Cicero, Ill., resident Karina Castaneda, who happily left an auction in late June thinking she’d just purchased her first home.
She had the winning bid on a four-bedroom, 21/2-bath town home at Enclave at Galewood Crossing on Chicago’s West Side. Her bid and the associated fees totaled about $120,000. She put up $5,000 of earnest money at the auction, signed the necessary documents and a few days later was e-mailed more forms to sign.
Then she received a phone call from auctioneer Rick Levin & Associates that the developer, Red Seal Homes, was not accepting her bid.
But language in the contract gave the developer the ability to reject her bid, even though it was the highest bid.
Now, Castaneda is back in the market for a home and hasn’t ruled out auctions, because of the price breaks they offer.
“I figure, what are my chances that it will happen twice?” she said.
Brian Hoffman, Red Seal Homes’ vice chairman and chief financial officer, did not return phone calls for comment.
Thursday’s auction of the former Chicago post office demonstrates the care that needs to be taken by bidders. Despite advertising that the building would be sold “absolute,” meaning to whoever made the highest bid, a potential bidder went to court to postpone the event, arguing that language in the contract was unclear and made it sound like the winning bid could be rejected. The auctioneer, Rick Levin & Associates, disagreed with the interpretation but agreed to remove the language, and the event proceeded as scheduled
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DON IMUS HOST: This is the “IMUS IN THE MORNING” program. Time now for a business update from the fox business network, here’s Connell McShane.
CONNELL MCSHANE, FBN CORRESPONDENT: Get you started with a live business alert on the markets that will run through our top stories. But, beginning with the European markets, we’ve been seeing gains overnight, 1.5 percent there in London, more in Paris. Nice boost in Germany as well and our futures have been higher, not by that much but still up by 24 points on Dow futures, and the NASDAQ futures up after Apple’s earnings last night and that stock is rebounding quite nicely.
After a strong earnings report, it’s able to overshadow some of the recent bad publicity surrounding the company. Apple earning $3.51 a share, $15.7 billion in sales and both of those numbers topped expectations. Now, the sales figures included 8.4 million iPhones, 3.3 million I-pads. The stock price up is about 3 percent or so this morning in pre-market action ahead of the open. There it is $260. After falling it’s as low as $240 during the session yesterday.
At Yahoo! In the meantime, profit jumped in the second quarter with earnings of 15 cents a share, topping expectations. However, search revenue and net sales fell short at Yahoo! So, the stock, there it is, down more than 5 percent in the after hours session, operating margins did increased sharply, and the company’s revenue forecast for the current quarter may top analysts estimates but again the stock was down.
Some other top stories for you here on this Wednesday morning, BP is selling assets to Apache for $7 billion. It includes assets in Texas as well as New Mexico, and Western Canada. Not the Alaskan assets. It should be pointed out that BP had been rumored to have been putting on the market. In the meanwhile, BP is shooting down rumors this morning saying the CEO, Tony Hayward will resign in a couple of months. Spokesman saying that quote, “he has the full support of the board and will remain in place.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke set to testify before congress today. The markets rebounding yesterday on reports that Bernanke will give a positive assessment of the economy, and there is also the hope that Bernanke will outline new steps that the fed can take to help speed up the economic recovery. One possibility, wiping out interest payments that have makes the banks parking their money with the fed, such a move could force the banks to lend the money out instead of having it sit with the fed for no interest at all.
And, President Obama will sign the financial regulation overhaul bill into law this morning. That signing set for 11:30 eastern time, but there is still a lot of work to be done to write the new rules that are required by the bill and then end up implementing those new rules.
All right, those are some of your top stories that we are following here for you this morning. Let’s tale a quick look at the commodities complex at $78 in crude oil, up a little bit there, down a dollar on the price of gold. Coming up in just a few moments here in the “IMUS IN THE MORNING” program, an interview the I-man did with the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney as “IMUS IN THE MORNING” continuing, right now.
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IMUS: I told you about running into him, right?
MCGUIRK: No.
IMUS: I had left my brief case at the hotel, which is about 45 minutes from the airport. So, the driver had to go back and get it because it was unlocked and it — You just don’t want to know it. Did I tell you the story, Charles?
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IMUS: Yes. It was just — anyway, but nothing was missing and they – - so, anyway I had to sit around the lounge there for about an hour or two and there in walks Newt Gingrich.
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Seaspan Declares Second Quarter 2010 Dividend of $0.125 per Share
Market Wire, July, 2010
Seaspan Corporation (“Seaspan”) (NYSE: SSW) today announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.125 per share for the three months ended June 30, 2010. The dividend will be paid on August 20, 2010 to all class A common shareholders of record as of August 9, 2010. This results in cumulative dividends of $6.715 per share declared since Seaspan’s IPO in August 2005.
Gerry Wang, Chief Executive Officer of Seaspan, stated, “We are pleased to increase our second quarter dividend by 25% due to our increasing cash flows generated through the strength of our business model and the significantly improved container shipping industry fundamentals. We continue our commitment to capitalize on additional growth opportunities that meet our overall strategic criteria as the long-term outlook for the industry is favorable
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0 Comments | Evening Times; Glasgow (UK), Jun 9, 2010
A New York couple got married in a shark tank.
April Pignataro and Michael Curry were lowered in a steel cage into the tank to exchange their wedding vows at Atlantis Marine World.
The experienced divers spoke their vows into radio headgear transmitted to a minister outside the tank. About 75 guests watched from behind glass.
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Baulderstone Slashes IT Infrastructure Costs With Riverbed
Market Wire, March, 2010
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT performance company, today announced that one of Australia’s premier construction companies, Baulderstone, is using Riverbed WAN optimization solutions , including Steelhead appliances , Steelhead Mobile and the Central Management Console (CMC) , to optimize its disaster recovery infrastructure performance and slash its bandwidth costs. Since the deployment of the Riverbed solution, Baulderstone has reduced its data replication time by two thirds, from 30 minutes to 10. At the same time, the company has enjoyed significant cost savings by reducing its WAN bandwidth usage by 50 percent.
Baulderstone is responsible for some of Australia’s most iconic structures, including the world-famous Sydney Opera House, Sydney’s Anzac Bridge and Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium. The company operates out of five permanent offices in Australia’s major cities, and a number of smaller regional offices around the country. In addition, as many as 50 temporary offices may be active at major construction sites across Australia at any given time.
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“Our biggest challenge was the time taken to replicate the contents of our operational data center in Adelaide to our disaster recovery facility, which is 1,400 km away in Sydney,” he says. “Upgrading our WAN bandwidth did not deliver the performance increase we needed. After doing some research, we realized that WAN optimization was the best technology to help us achieve our goals
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