Blog posts on 2004-04

$2 bln of mobile phones sold in Russia in 2003
10% of phone customers are interested in cutting the landline
1000 songs is just enough for 90% of the music lovers
11 mln DVD burners will sell over the next 18 months
13 mln Hispanic Internet users by the end of 2004
17% have used wireless Internet, 23% participated in an online auction, 65% bought online
23 mln Americans have broadband, 55 mln - dial-up
30% of executives engaged in workplace dating, 1% prohibit dating co-workers
32.1 mln small PC to be shipped by 2008
34% Americans have broadband, 24% have broadband at home
37% offline retailers are using Internet
40% of Americans own a digital camera
45 mln European households to have broadband by 2008
50% of UK parents supervise kids on the Net, 39% rely on software
53% of medium businesses use ASPs
68% of companies track sales referred by search engines
73.7% of Australian businesses choose DSL
750K XBox'ers, 2.4M PlayStation owners are gaiming online
83% of business executives do something else while reading a paper
83.4% US households connected by 2007
90% of IT directors consider Linux switch too costly
92% of end-user software companies had security issues
ASP.NET overtakes JSP and Servlets
Autralian printer sales down 12% in 2003, expected to fall 13% in 2004
Average Australian broadband bill for business is $3500/month
Average PC is home to 28 spyware programs
Broadband increases demand for Web hosting
Chip-making tools will gain 48% in 2004, 28% in 2005 and -5% in 2006
Christian kids downloading music at the same rate as non-Christian
Computer book sales by operating system: Windows - 56%, Mac - 23%
Countdown of security vulnerabilities and fixes
Data backup software sales grow 7.9% in 2003
Dell is leading PC vendor for Q1 2004
Denmark is top e-commerce country
European handheld market grew 25.6% in 2003
European mobile device market grew 25.6% in Q1 2004
Financial sector to outsource at 34% annually
For streaming media, 33% stream music, 28% - online news
Gartner compiles top 10 technologies for 2005
Gartner EMEA PC shipments report
Global PDA sales declined 11.7% in Q1 2004
Global semiconductor sales up 31% YTY, 0.2% MTM
Google is 40% of all referrals, Yahoo is 27%
Grid computing to attract $12 bln by 2007
Home networking reaches 49% awareness in Asia Pacific
IDC expects 10% IT spending growth in Asia-Pacific
Internet audience breakdown by household income
Kids get spam and porn spam
Local online ads to generate $2.7 bln
More than a third of all Web searches have 2 words
Most popular sports sites
Music sales up 9.1% in Q1 2004, CD sales up 10.6%
Number of online music buyers triples
Number portability to lose AT&T Wireless 150,000 customers
Online retail spending is growing
Online travel to reach $71 bln by 2006
PC chip sales to grow 18% in 2004
Phishing e-mails increase thousandfold
Q1 2004 PDA shipments: Windows almost overtakes PalmOS
Q1 PC growth: IDC - 16.5%, Gartner - 13.4%
Reasons for mobile service dissatisfaction
Search Engine Marketing Firm iProspect Survey Confirms Search Engine Loyalty Exists
Security spending was $42 bln in 2003, just below printers
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales grew 10.3% in 2003
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales to grow 40% in 2004
Taiwan motherboard sales point to flat PC sales in 1H 2004
Tech and Internet companies political donations: 54% Republican, 46% Democrat
Telecom spending to reach $99 bln in 2004, $121 bln in 2007
The most hated cell phone operator - T-Mobile
Top pages by load time
Top US PC vendors: Dell, HP, IBM, eMachines, Gateway
US to add 8.5 mln broadband households by the end of 2004, most of them broadband
Users without anti-spam spend 43 minutes checking e-mails
Video gaming to attain $29 bln in 2007
What do people use on IM?
Windows market share to drop to 58% by 2007
Wireless will only take up 3.6% of broadband, WiMax the most popular standard
Worldwide PC top vendors: Dell, HP, IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens, Acer