E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation Announces First Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call NEW YORK, Apr 03, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation (ETFC) this day announced it will report its first quarter 2008 financial results after the close of the U.S. financial markets on Thursday, April 17, 2008. The Company will host a conference call to discuss the results beginning at 5:00 […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

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If you’ve made any attempt at all to go green at home then you’ve probably come across the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star site, an indispensible resource for anyone making smart shopping decisions for household appliances and learning how to use them the right way.

It’s good to know there’s at least one government agency that’s really on the green bandwagon, even if some of its attempts fall flat. GreenDaily hates the EPA’s new green site designed specifically for teens, calling it badly designed, “painfully boring,” “unfinished,” and “poorly thought out.”

As for the games that children can play at the site, they’re “dull” and “good for a five-year old… but definitely not a teenager.” Oh, well. Maybe you should show it to your teen anyway.

Still, the EPA is trying. Its site has a great climate change section that includes 30 steps you can take to live a greener life at home. Sure, we’d all like to see the government do better, but at least it’s doing something, and for that I’m at least a tiny bit grateful. For more visit Source:[green.yahoo]

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Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Constellation Brands Inc. (STZ), Clear Channel Communications Inc. (CCU) and Schering-Plough Corp. (SGP). Research In Motion ($115.79, -$1.69, -1.4%) stated its fourth-quarter profit and revenue more than doubled even as the economy showed signs of a […] For more visit Source:www.investment-blog.net

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Vioce technology is Yahoo’s big news of the day. While vocal search is one aspect of an enhanced version of Yahoo’s oneSearch tool for mobile phones, it’s the only aspect of the service that has been made available as a preview this day. And the implementation has only been rolled out for BlackBerry phones.

Luckily, I happen to have one of those here at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, where I met with Yahoo’s director of mobile product marketing, Adam Taggart to discuss oneSearch 2.0.

Like Yahoo Go 3.0, oneSearch 2.0 opens with a slick interface. The idea is to make vocal input as good as manual input, Taggart stated, but to remove the pain points of having to type a search when you could just as easily talk it.

In the cacophonous conference hall, not each request came out clearly, but it’s simple to see how this feature will form the basis of hands-free search. Additionally, the recognition technology is adaptive, Taggart explained, interpreting from a range of accents and inflections, and learning your vocal patterns after a few sessions.

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That’s not all oneSearch will learn. With a little use, it’s also meant to interpret your search patterns, which will help the app return more customized results. The vocal recognition isn’t perfect each time, so Yahoo has embedded drop-down boxes to fill in the unclear search terms.

Going forward, phones will also receive relevant proximity-based search results, which will offer suggestions for listings close to your current location. GPS is the most precise, but mass market phones should also be able to take advantage of cell tower triangulation, which is effectively put to use in the My Location feature of the latest iteration of Google Maps. When in doubt, there’s always adding your city or zip code manually.

Windows Live Search with voice announced something similar last November at CTIA’s fall show in San Francisco. The big difference here, Yahoo emphasizes, is that oneSearch isn’t just about dishing out local listings. You can also search for flights, Web sites, zip codes, videos, and so on, by pressing and holding the green speak key for as long as you talk your query. No need to shout or slow your speech. The app works ideal when you present your normal cadence and tones.

Currently the talk feature of oneSearch 2.0 is available for BlackBerry, with predictive search features and all the rest coming in a few months. Get the link by pointing your BlackBerry browser to m.yahoo.com/voice.

>>Catch the latest news in cell phones and mobile software from CTIA 2008 in Las Vegas.

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For the first time, iStockphoto has revealed how much money it pulled in by licensing big numbers of photos, videos, and other imagery for relatively small fees, and how much it paid out to the producers of that content.

In a forum posting Tuesday, iStockphoto head honcho Bruce Livingstone stated the Getty Images subsidiary had 2007 revenue of $71.9 million, and it paid $20.9 million to those who contributed the imagery it licenses.

That’s a pretty interesting illustration of what user-generated content can sell for, at least in one context.

“We are now selling an image every 1.4 seconds through this industry-changing marketplace,” Livingstone stated in the posting.

Getty is in the process of going private in a $2.4 billion deal announced in February.

“One thing we’ve always had to keep close to our chest is our financials. Maybe it’s our Canadian background, but we’ve always found it a bit cheeky and rude to discuss money,” Livingstone said. “With the current announcement that Getty Images is going to be a private company owned by management, employees, and Hellman & Friedman, you’ll see lots of numbers floating around about iStock’s financials.”

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Creative Commons, the nonprofit dedicated to reforming copyright in the digital age, stated Tuesday it has received a $4 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

The money will bolster Creative Commons’ five-year financial plan, which has also seen support or pledges of support from Google, Mozilla, Red …

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