Blog posts on 2004-07

$5.1 bln of venture investments in Q2 2004
'You've got mail' (from John Kerry)
.NET developer statistics - a word from Microsoft
1 bln Windows users by 2010
1.5 bln mobile subscribers in June 2004, 2 bln by July 2006
10 mln Americans purchased digital content
10-17% of Americans buy drugs from foreign and rogue sites
11,000 computer jobs added in June
12.7% of all books in 2003 were sold over the Web
14% of business users think e-mail will become obsolete
19% of US Internet users consider switching to VoIP
2.3 mln banking jobs offshored by 2010
21% of blog readers are bloggers
24% US Internet users went online for photos newspapers wouldn't print
28% of digital camera owners share the photos over the Internet
300 mln Bluetotth products to ship in 2004
31% of toddlers under 3 years old can use a PC
36% of businesses provide wireless access to back-end
36% of employees spend at least 30 minutes a week on tech support
37% of European software is pirated
43% of open-source database users use them for mission-critical tasks
44 mln telecommuting today, 51 mln by 2008
45% of Web sites use a .com address
48.6% of shared files is music, 27% is video
49% of American homes have broadband
5 countries generate 99% of spam
5% of all PCs in 2004 shipped with Linux
50% of consumers fear to shop online because of spam
52% of application developers use .NET
58% of broadband Koreans and 24% of broadband Americans download movies
60%, $29 bln of global software is pirated
75% think e-government initiatives are a waste of money
78% of executives worry about network security, but still open e-mail attachments
78% of Linux users have never had their machines hacked
79% of successful CRM launches took timing into account
80% of companies employing BPM get 15% ROI
80% would rather give up console than TV
9.5 mln use P2P daily
90% of clicks on pop-up ads are made by mistake
90% of Web apps are vulnerable
94% of IT companies will be hiring next quarter
A good sign from VeriSign
A union that carriers could grow to like?
African and Middle Eastern mobile sales grew 26% in 2003
All source code, all the time
Almost half of large companies monitor outgoing e-mail
Amazon, eBay, Google: service providers of the future?
Analyst finds jewels in Oracle's infrastructure strategy
Analyst firm singles out best Wi-Fi chips
Apple to Real: "This means war!" Expect collateral damage.
Asia-Pacific Linux server market to grow 7.1%, software market to grow 96.6%
Asian Fibre Channel market grew 43.3% in 2003
ASP.NET development saves 25% of resources compared to J2EE
At least $75 mln of US government contracts goes offshore
AT&T goes strictly business
Aussie CIOs delivering on IT value, alignment
Autonomic installation
Average IT worker supports 120.3 users
Average network executive salary is $111K
Back-up storage on the moon
Bagle is back...
Bicentennial software
BitTorrent beats Kazaa, accounts for 53% of P2P traffic
Bluetooth luggage tags
Bosworth, BEA and Google
Bush to sign anti-phishing law but will history repeat itself?
Calling Harry Potter: MS patch management needs help
Canada loses IT jobs through offshore outsourcing, gains through US contracts
Canadian e-government usage increases
Cell phones in flight--please, no
China sold $5 bln of mobile phones in 5 months
Chip-making kits sales to rise 50.9% in 2004, 13.4% in 2005
CNN and Technorati: Unconventional wisdom
Commoditization: a double-edged sword
Commoditized software: fact or fiction?
Consumer electronics prices fell 3.1% in May
Consumer goods companies spend less than 2% of ad budget on Internet ads
Continental gets it right where Starbucks doesn't
Cost of leasing storage-based software can be twice that of a purchase, analyst warns
Crippling innovation -- and intelligence
David Berlind comments on 'Microsoft ahead in security?'
Democracy and salesforce.com
Digital convergence, RSS and rights management
Digital music is the most wanted feature by US mobile subscribers
Digital music sales to generate $270 mln in 2004
Digitizing the health care world
Direct server sales up 40% in Q1 2004
DOD: $19 billion and still going
Don’t jump the gun on ERP go-live
DRM market to generate $274 mln by 2008
DVD recorder prices to fall down 50%
E-mail monitoring performed by live humans!?
E-voting critic to hackers: Bring it on. Pretty please.
Ellison: It's about survival
EMEA mobile market up 52% in Q2 2004, voice market up 57%
EMEA PC sales up 15.5% in Q2 2004
EMEA PC shipments grow 20% for 4th consecutive quarter
Enterprise IM detente
European mobile device shipments up 20% in Q2 2004
European notebook growth slows - only 9.9% estimated for June
Experts dispute U.N. claim that spam can be curbed in two years
Father of Java Gosling says Java is open source
FCC's Michael Powell at AO2004
Feds left and right put their paws on VoIP
Financial firms will lose $400 mln to phishing in 2004
First IE. Then Mozilla. Does this spell Opera-tunity?
First MyDoom. Then Microsoft. No breaks for Google.
French MS exec slips with Redmond's anti-virus plans
Gaps in Microsoft's patch process
Gates to Asia: Open source bad for jobs
Gillmor Gang
Global PC market growth in 2004: Gartner predicts 13%, IDC - 13.5%
Global sales of pirated music generated $4.5 bln in 2003
Good news, bad news: Office '03 update ready for download, but not from Windows Update
Google spin doctors: "Site not significantly impaired." Umm...
Has Google exposed your left flank?
How does Sun profit from Java?
How many companies are in the Fortune 1000?
HP memo forecasts Microsoft attacks on free software
HP n' friends on a road trip
IBM's storage tank running into problems
IBM: a leader, but at what cost to you?
IDC reports server market shares for Q1 2004, Linux up 56.9% in dollar sales
IM peacefest a small step
Implantable RFID? No thanks
In 28% of the cases consumers fall for phishing e-mail
Internet marketers beware of click fraud
Intriguing debate on open sourced Java
IT Conversations: JavaOne wrap up
IT EasyPass
IT management salaries slide
Japanese government says it has the cheapest broadband
Java's baby steps toward open source
June online sales up 33% YTY
Key to server management: eliminate humans
Keyboards of the future?
Labs look beyond today's hard drives
Largest US Web design firms
LCD prices decline in July
LCD semiconductor market to reach $6 bln by 2008
Let’s dance…no fight, to the music
Linux server market share: 28.3% in 2004, 37.6% by 2008
Macromedia to Flash Europe
Male Internet users 18-34 are ok with pop-ups
May chip sales rose 37% YTY
Meta mail: a medium for meaning
Michigan, Washington and Virginia have the best e-government programs
Microsoft ahead in security?
Microsoft delays SP2. Again.
Microsoft dials the psychic hotline
Microsoft's mixed report card
Mobile devices: Newest threat to IT, says IDC
More than a third of service jobs can be outsourced
Move over "Friends" and "Seinfeld." Here comes Java, the series.
MP3 player sales to grow 100% in 2004
MyDoom variant slams mailboxes
New sleeper worm may have al-Qaida link
New world for journalism, PR and marketing
Next for SCOTTeVEST: on board fire extinguisher
No real competitive advantage comes from having a well-run e-mail system
Note to state Governors: Ahem, eat your own dog food please
Now if only they could freeze things in a millisecond
O'Reilly: Time to think differently about open source
Office 2004 on the Mac: Hint of things to come?
Online ads tor each $8.4 bln in 2004, $16.1 bln in 2009
Online gaming to generate $1.1 bln by 2008
Online media sales to generate $7 bln in 2008
Online sales for first half of 2004 reached $27.8 bln, up 25.3%
Only 7 of top 20 news domains belong to newspapers
Open source about vendor choice?
Opera sings the blues on my system
Oracle's post-trial brief
Oracle/DOJ trial shows the tech version of inside the Beltway
Paid Wi-Fi: Is Starbucks coffee really that good?
PC gaming market declines 14.3% in 2003
PC graphics device market grows 12.9% YTY in Q1 2004
Pentium 3 a weapon?
Peoplesoft's ingestion of J.D. Edwards now giving customers indigestion
Pooches, kids and watches prove RFID is for real
Priorities for IT spending
Product data management market to increase 1% in 2004
Productivity is the top reason for installing WLAN
Read the mind of your pet monkey
Real estate sites experience double-digit growth
Records management: just do it
Red Hat does Java, but can it play the standards game?
RFID baggage claim
RSS and DoS
salesforce.com upgrade on tap
Search engine ads increase brand awareness by 27%
Search engine keyword advertising grew 175% in 2003
Security industry to more than double by 2008
Semiconductor spending to jump 51% in 2004
Small business employment grows 2.28%
SMB wireless market to grow 93% in 2004
Stating the obvious: Strategic evaluation criteria
Telecommunications data rates as predictable as Moore's Law
Ten Principles of IT governance
The domestication of biotech
The end of the mass e-mailer worm era?
Top down, bottom up security management
Top EMEA PC vendors: HP, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens
Top global PC vendors in Q2 2004
Top global PC vendors in Q2: Dell, HP, IBM, Fujitsu/Siemens, Acer
Top US broadband cities: San Diego, Boston, New York
Top US PC vendors in Q2 2004
Traffic to career sites up 30% in June
Trustworthy Computing? You're not serious Microsoft, are you?
Trustworthy yet?
UK's Ministry of Defense forbids iPods. Should you?
Unionized IT "strikes" back in the UK
Up close: SAP's CEO
US PC shipments and market shares for Q2 2004
US states lose $15.5 bln in sales tax to e-commerce in 2003
Veritas' Bloom Unplugged: We can go it alone.
Video game sales up 1% in units, down 2.5% in revenues
Virus message teases with pictures of bin Laden's death
Visitor stickiness: AOL - 340 minutes, Yahoo - 260, MSN - 147
Web Services tipping towards more hype
What's up with SCO?
Wireless gear sales to grow 1% in 2004
Wireless sensor networks to generate $7 bln in 2010
ZDNetUK's Goodwins: "SP2's just a bump in the road for malware"
“At present, the per-user TCO of a WLAN is higher than for a wired LAN”
“Some level of operations and security event correlation is possible”
“The technology is a tippy-toes minefield challenge of Indiana Jones proportions”