Blog posts on 2003-12

$175 bln of chips will be sold in 2003
$250 mln in WiFi sales in China in 2005
1.8'' hard drives up due to high demand, iPods
10% of under-teenagers have their own Web site
100 M homes will have broadband in 2004
13% of voice is now VoIP
14% of companies spend ad money online
15% of mobile phones had removable card
15% of US adults plan to get HDTV
16% of government IT spending went towards e-government
26 M mobile users in India, up 100%
35 M e-mails will be sent out daily by 2005
3500 Itanium servers shipped in 2002
36% of personal calls are made from cellphones
4.1 mln Canadians are on broadband
4.7% of TV sets sold in US are US-made
40% of Americans buy computer games
40K hotspots globally in 2003
49% of PCs run Windows 95/98, 6.6% run Windows XP
5% respond to phishy e-mail
50% of Internet traffic passes through Virginia
56% of US companies buy online
60% of enterprises will migrate 80% of their Unix apps to Linux
78 mln Chinese online by the end of 2003
8.24 mln DVD recorders will sell in 2004
83% of Americans will register for 'do-not-spam' list
8x DVD+R/-R to appear in Q1 2004
90% of leaked movies leak from cinema camcorders
All I want for Christmas is a service plan
Asian IT will grow 11% in 2004
BizRate: Thanksgiving online sales up 30%
Black Friday shopping
BPO Market To Increase 15.2% To Reach $12 Billion by 2007
BrainBench: US IT salaries will grow 1-5% in 2004
Broadband growth in the US: +2M in Q3 2003
Broadband will explode in Asia/Pacific
BT: Everyone in UK will have broadband by 2005
Business process outsourcing will grow
Canalys: EMEA cameraphone sales up 29%
Cell phone sales booming
Cell phones: big in China and India
China PC market feels the price pressure
China will be the IT leader in 2010
China will spend $30 B on IT in 2004
Chinese online game market to bring $250 mil in 2003
ComScore: 25% of Internet users visited dating sites
ComScore: Online sales ring up $2.1 bln in 2003
Demand for HDTV tuners up
Digital TV set-top boxes grew 28% in 2003
DRAM market to reach $24.7 bln in 2007
E-commerce up 39% in UK
E-governement users numbers stay flat
Fiberoptic network market size is $264/$310 M in the US in 2003
Firewall market to grow 25% by 2005
Flat panel TV pricess will fall 30% in 2004
Forrester: 26% of IT jobs gone by 2015
Foundry high-voltage process prices up
Gartner on IT spending
Gartner on online fraud statistics
Gartner: 40% of IT businesses will explore outsourcing in 2004
Gartner: Half of software companies dead by 2008
Gartner: India's cell phone usage will grow 96% in 2004
Gartner: Spending in November still soft
Gartner: Virtualization software to triple in the next 5 years
Government can outsource 900,000 jobs, Bush requires 50% by September 2004
Hong Kong mobile penetration is 93%
Hot spots in Asia: good growth, little money
IBM leads India server market
IDC on Linux usage in Australia and New Zealand
IDC on messaging applications market
IDC on OS wars
IDC on PC gamers
IDC on storage market Q3 2003
IDC: 87% of software in Russia is pirated
IDC: Cameraphone shipments up, Bluetooth steady
IDC: Integration software market to grow to $5 bln by 2007
IDC: IT spending will go up 6-8%
IDC: Mobile user matrix
IDC: PC shipments to increase 11.4% in 2004
IDC: RFID growth not as good as expected
IDC: wireless games will bring $1 bln by 3006
India's outsourcing sector to grow
Indian IT will grow 19% in 2004
InStat/MDR optimistic on IVR market
InStat/MDR: VoIP revenue to reach $141 mln in 2007
Internet access devices up 30% in 2004
Internet ad revenues up 5% QTQ, up 20% YTY in Q3 2003
Internet advertising to grow 20-25% in 2004
Internet Fraud Complaint Center received 60% more complaints in 2003
IP VPN to grow in Australia
Is cell phone radiation real?
IT contributed $872 bln to US GDP in 2003
Laptop prices hitting a new low
Linux spreading among UK SMBs
Malaysian software revenues grew 5.5% in 2003
Mobile penetration in Eastern Europe
Mobile usage up in China, China Mobile has 140 mln subscribers
Moderate IT growth predicted in Europe
More digital than film cameras sold
Most popular IM terms in business
MPEG2 DVD-recorder chip prices to fall
Music players market share - WinAmp, Real, Windows Media, QuickTime
NCMEC: Child pornography on P2P is insignificant
NetCraft December 2003 results
Network security appliances sales surge
Nielsen/NetRatings October Stats
Nielsen/NetRatings on online dating profits
Nielsen: US ad spending up 5.7% in Q3 2003
Nomad: 3.8 M WiMax users in UK by 2006
Notebook sales grow in Q3 2003
Oftel: 3 mil broadband users in UK
Online ad spending down, paid search drastically up
Online advertising in Europe to reach $4.8 bil in 2008
Online banking will grow 14% in next 5 years
Online music doubles MP3 hardware sales
Online publishers' revenues up 38.2% in 2003
Online sales statistics and forecasts: compilation
Phishing up 400% over Christmas holidays
Prepaid Internet revenues to double next year
Secure Digital overtakes CompactFlash market share, CF is still the cheapest
SEMI: Orders for chipmaking equipment up
Seminconductor market to grow 18% in 2004
Service-Oriented Architectures to reach $43 bln by 2010
Single-bill telecom bundles popular in 2004
Sophos: Third of spam e-mail is sent through 0wned PCs
Startups go out of business more often in Korea
States will lose $44 bln from e-commerce in 2011
Storage software up 11.4% in Q1-Q3 2003
Sweden to lead the world in digital TV
Taiwanese double WLAN production
Taiwanese makers are dropping CD-RW/DVD combo drives
Top Lycos search term for 2003: KaZaa
Top ten semiconductor vendors
US ad spending up to $154 bln
US broadband connectivity up 18% in 1H 2003
US exported $110 bln of IT equipment in 2002
US hardware industry up 26%, software up 2% in 2003
US Internet usage growth levels off
US IT employment down 8% in 2003
US IT industry grew by 6.3% in 2003
US jobs up
US productivity up 9.4% in Q3 2003
US wireless portability awareness
Users Prefer Organic Search Results to Paid Listings
What do US buyers want in their PCs?
Windows Media Player top Internet non-browser app
Winter Corp. publishes the largest databases
Wireless security market $8.4 bln by 2008
World chip sales rise 23%
Worldwide mobile phone sales for 2003
£151.6 mln spent on online ads in UK in H1 2003