Blog posts on 2004-02

$12.5 bln in online payments in 2005
$12.8 bln will be spent on Valentine Day gifts
$18 bln of venture investments in 2003
$2.2 bln of online ads sold in Q4 2003
10% of Americans use wireless networks
117K jobs lost in the US, India's economy grows 8%
12% of US households have home networks
13.8 mln savvy Internet users in UK
15.6 bln SMS messages sent in China in January 2004
17% of Americans tried Atkins diet, 4% still on it
19 mln digital radios will be sold in 2007
2-7% of Americans blog, 11% visit blogs
2.5 mln .NET developers, 70 mln systems running .NET
22 mln domain names registered in the US, 2.2 mln in Germany
22 tech IPOs in 2003, 12 priced above initial
3.8 mln Ukrainians are online
30 mln WiFi users by the end of 2004
34% of IT spending will go towards supplier-customer interaction
37% of laptop plan to buy a WLAN card, 30% have one
42% of Americans will have digital camera by the end of 2004
510 mln phones sold in 2003, 560 will be sold in 2004
53 mln digital cameras, 36 mln film cameras will sell in 2004
60% of Americans know what Wi-Fi is, 72% familiar with wireless networking
60% of flash cards are used in digital cameras
60,000 Americans cut landlines and use cell phones
62% of online purchases in Q4 were made by women
63% of NY residents want RFID wallets
64% of broadband lines are cable
65% of newsletters are used for personal, 40% for business reasons
69% of US papers offer Web-only job ads
7 mln MP3 players expected to be sold in 2004
70% of Americans know about DVRs, 48% know what TiVo is
70% of visitors think Web site complements offline paper
70% want media servers from consumer electronics, not PC manufacturers
77% of Americans heard of RFID, 42% like it
80% of online publishers plan to charge by the end of 2004
802.16 and 802.20 market to outpace $1 bln by 2007
83% of UK companies have been violated online
93% of IT workers concerned about offshoring
Apple's UK market share goes from 2.1% to 2.3% in Q4 2003
Asia Pacific printer sales up 16%
Australian PC market grew 16.2% in 2003
Australian PC shipments up 10% in Q4 2003
Average online buy takes 3.67 minutes and 4.6 clicks
Average software engineering pay is $67,670
Brightmail says 60% of e-mail is spam
Brits turn to search engines for business contacts
Broadband prices worldwide fell 22% in 3 years
Bush to spend $60 bln on IT
Cameraphone sales to double this year, triple next year
Canadian IT spending to decline second year in a row
China to lead EIP $29.4 mln industry
Chinese software piracy rate is at 96%
Chip equipment orders up 66% YTY in January
Chip sales rose 48.8% in December
Competition in telecom brings lower prices
Computer engineering and chemical engineering are the most lucrative jobs
Digital cable grew 22% in 2003
Digital projection TVs outsell plasma screens
Disposable cameras the only bright spot in film camera market
DVD recorder shipments increased 200% in 2003
E-commerce gets the highest consumer satisfaction rating
Ethernet shipments grow, revenues fall
EU IT market will grow 2.4% in 2004
EU online government presence reaches 43%
European telecom network market to grow 4% in 2004
Fastest sites for the past 6 months: Eddie Bauer, JC Penney
February 2004 Web server survey
Firewall and VPN market to reach $6 bln in 2007
Gambling and adult on mobile phones will generate $6.5 bln by 2006
Gartner lists 2003 server market leaders: IBM, HP, Sun, Dell
Gartner predicts PC shipments will grow 13.3% in Q1
Gartner predicts semiconductors will grow 23% in 2004
GBP 1.5 bln wasted on needless software
Global business process outsourcing market to reach $1 trillion by 2006
Global server sales up 11% in Q4 2003
Global TFT LCD supply to exceed demand by 3.8%
Google tops the list of global brands
Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Ask Jeeves are top search engines
Handhelds less popular in Asia Pacific
IBM mainframe revenues increased 30%
In 2 months NASA site received 6.5 bln hits
India's software industry to grow 23% this year
Indian PC market grew 19.5% in 2003
Instant messaging market shares
Investing in socially responsible companies generates higher returns
IP telephone prices decline 7%
IT employment expected to pick up 3%
IT firms are the biggest pirates in UK
IT salaries up 2% in 2003, average IT salary is $69.4K
IT spending will focus on revenue growth
Japan's PC shipments to grow 11% this year
Jewelry and watches gain in St Valentine sales
Last mile wireless solutions market to reach $3 bln by 2009
LCD driver prices to go up 10% in Q2 2004
LCDs to outsell CRTs in 2005
Linux desktop market share to reach 6% in 2007
Linux distributions market shares: RedHat, Debian, SuSE
Linux has 25% share in servers, 2.8% in desktops
Linux server sales up 63% in Q4 2003
Linux servers hacked more frequently than Windows
Malware damage for February estimated at $50 bln
Manufacturing and banking to spend heavily on IT
Merchant Traffic Manager market to grow at 42% yearly
Merchants more concerned with online fraud
Merrill Lynch predicts PC market will grow 13% in 2004
More Americans cut their landlines
More than 1 bln GSM subscribers globally
More than 25% of Web searches are local
Most organizations will increase IT spending to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley
Most popular sites: Yahoo, Google, MSN, AOL
Napster sold its 5,000,000th song
NetCraft says 1&1 Internet is the leader in hosting business
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia are commuter's nightmare
NPU market to outpace other silicon markets in the next 5 years
NTT to have 2 million FTTH subscribers by March 2005
Outsourcing deals to nurture small firms
Paid search to reach $3 bln by the end of 2005
PDA market in hopes of 6.5% growth
Personal bankruptcy all-time high in UK
Personal firewall software market to grow 21.7% annually
Phishing attacks up 50% in January
Professional VoIP market to top $2.2 bln by 2007
Rich media ads enjoy highest conversion
Ringtone market generated over $1 bln in 2003
Router and swtich revenue up 13%
Sales of laptops and desktops are even in dollar terms
SANs to grow 7.5% by 2007, NASs to grow 5.4%
Saudi Arabian telecom market to enjoy growth this year
Server market grew 2.2% in 2003
Silicon Valley will add 17K new jobs
Small and medium business lose $11K a year due to IT problems
Sub-$800 PCs make up 23% of the PC market
Successful CRMs yield 16-1000% ROI
Taiwan might overtake South Korea on LCD market
Taiwan ships 8.2 mln notebooks in Q4 2003
Taiwanese motherboard shipments down 4% in January
Telecoms will increase ad spending in 2004
The most addicted Internet gamers: females over 40
There are 2.35 mln software engineers in the US
Top selling software products in 2003
Top US wireless companies
Two thirds of US businesses have broadband
UK digital TV penetration is 38.79% in 2003
UK hourly IT contractor rates are at GBP 45
UK IT spending rose 5.2% in Q4 2003
UK unemployment hits 30-year-low
UK women outspend men online
US consumer electronics sales data
US IT spending to reach $291 bln in 2004
US January retail sales up 5.8%
US manufacturing activity hits 20-year-high
US online sales reached $50 bln
US service industry grows
US technology grew at annual rate of 36% in January 2004
US unemployment rate is 5.6%
US worker productivity increased 2.7% in Q4 2003
VCs have $70 bln in cash ready for investments
Venture capital losses amounted to 17.8% in 2003
VoIP market to reach $288 mln in Australia
VoIP sales up 31% in Q4 2003
WCDMA grew 33% in Q4 2003
WiFi revenues up 55% for 2003, consumer market up 66%
Wireless e-mail pushes worker productivity
Wireless security to bring in $8.4 bln by 2008
Wireless shipments increased 214% in 2003
Worldwide chip sales grew 18.3% in 2003
Worldwide telecom spending to go above $1 trillion in 2004