Blog posts on 2004-08

$1.1 bln of mobile games sold worldwide in 2003
'Open source doesn't turn a frog into a prince,' says analyst
1 bln PC users by 2010
1 exabyte of e-mail sent in 2003
1 mln US VOIP subscribers by year-end 2004
1 mln Zigbee devices will be shipped in 2005, 80 mln in 2006
1 part Blueooth. 1 part digital wallet: Recipe for disaster?
1.2 mln European jobs to go offshore
1.3 mln Blackberry subscribers in the US
10% of all UK credit card payments are made online
100 mln books published in human history, 200K movies, 50K CD-ROMs
11.2% of tech workers were laid off, 8.9% left their jobs themselves in 2003
155 mln mobile phones sold in Q2 2004
16% global broadband penetration in 2008
16% of IT executives clueless about grid computing
16% of teenagers received SMS threats
18% of Brits have digital cameras
2.5 bln mobile subscribers by 2009
20% of IT costs is software
21% of IT executives plan to switch some Windows desktops to Linux
22% of science and engineering workers never finished college
26% of gamers cut TV watching, 20% plan to do so
29% of Web users send as many instant messages as e-mails
30 mln Koreans online
400K Tablet PCs shipped in 2004
47% of enterprise customers will not move from Windows to Linux
5 mln broadband gateways shipped in 2004
51% of Americans use broadband
55 mln DTT households in EU by 2009
57% of travelers prefer third-party sites to hotel sites
6.2% of US IT budgets, 8.5% of European IT budgets are spent on R&D
60% of those who can play online do
80% of companies to outsource at least one IT function
802.11g access point prices declined 10.3% in June 2004
88% of Americans say internet plays a major role in their life
90% of college students own a PC, 77% - a cell phone
90% of eBay's users are buyers
95% of SMBs plan PC upgrades in Q2 2004
A closer look at IBM's 2004 hiring plans
A Java PDA? From Sun? Could be.
Additional vulnerabilities surface in SP2
Akonix gets IM under control
Amazon and eBay Web services usage statistics
Amazon searches inside 120,000 books, 20 TB of data
AMD desktop chips score grand slam against Intel in tests
AMD kicks gift horse in the mouth
AMR offers tips for negotiating with SAP
An ode to Steve Jobs and the iPod
Analyst says financial analysts don’t "get" IT
Analyst sheds (little) light on wireless implementations
Apple and Dell get the top customer satisfaction rating
Apple iMac G5 first impressions
Apple: "For our next trick, we're going to make your system disappear."
Ask (for SenderID), and you shall recieve? Not.
AT&T CEO doesnt's see the money in VOIP
AT&T CEO Dorman banks on VoIP, collapse of competitors
ATI expects PCI express in 50% of PCs sold in 2004
Australian printer market grew 9% QTQ, 12% YTY in Q2 2004
Automatic identification shop-floor software to generate $135 mln by 2007
B2B magazine spending stabilized in 2003
Bad news for Palm: Sony plotting PDA comeback
Beleaguered Google IPO cut down to size
BOB on board
BofA VC seeks "polite" adware investments
Brits purchase 1.5 mln digital tracks in the last 2 months
Bush in 30 seconds. Your privacy in 2.
Business motivation and self-improvement market generates $5,7 bln a year
By 2007 more than half of Australian businesses will be using VOIP
Cameraphones to outpace digital camera sales in 2004
Can the FBI scale as well as a DDoS?
CDMA penetrates Europe while surging in 3G race against GSM
China digital camera sales up 280% in Q2 2004
CIOs, IT execs not rushing to SP2
Connected dots: Was Dell's gain HP's loss?
Consolidation radar: Anti-spyware outfit in security land grab
Could the GPL be Linux's ball and chain?
Critical XP SP2 Alert: Cancel all non-AMD system buys
CRM software market will generate $11.4 bln by 2008
Debate erupts after self-proclaimed PC neophyte criticizes Microsoft
Defining IP Telephony Quality Metrics
Desperately seeking: Widespread adoption of SenderID
Does my computer have a virus? Hey, it IS a virus
DVD player profit margins hit $1
E-book sales up 28% in Q1 2004
E-commerce to reach $316 bln by 2010
Embedded WiFi market to grow at 66.2% CAGR till 2008
Enterprise WLAN access point market to grow 75% in 2004
Envelope please. And the real winners in e-commerce are...
Ericsson shutters Bluetooth group in response to tech's commoditization
Ethernet switch market will grow 14% in 2004, then decline for 3 years
European server market up 27.9% in Q2 2004
European venture investments up 21% in Q2 2004
Feds will spend $5.6 bln on ERP in 2004
First MS SP2 errata reveals compatibility, usability issues
First-tier motherboard shipments up 8.5% in July, to grow 10% in August
Ford dumps Oracle e-commerce system
Gartner : Holding off on non-NX systems buys is "right thing to do"
Gartner bashes Windows XPSE
Gartner predicts PC market will rise 12.6% in 2004, not 13.4%
German PC market grew 15.6% in Q2 2004
Global server market leaders - Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, Fujitsu
Global WLAN hardware sales up 3% QTQ in Q2 2004
Google Mail cheats for e-mail marketers offer rare glimpse at junk mailer tactics
Google, XML, and RSS: a Bermuda Triangle that could sink Microsoft?
GPL could get its day in court. Finally.
Grand Central's service model leaves the station
Grist mill: Microsoft warming up pre-Longhorn Windows?
Groklaw on IBM motion v. SCO: "It's the jugular"
GSM subscriber growth was at 123% in June 2004
Have you posted to your blog today?
Have your chip call my chip and we'll do lunch
Highest paying IT jobs
History repeats itself: Nokia plucks Coke exec
Home Improvement
HP user org releases sobering Itanium adoption data
IBM banking on iSCSI
IBM outfoxes competitors with Venetica acquisition
IBM pledges no patent attacks on Linux kernel
IDC forecasts 5% IT spending growth, surveyed customers tell it will be 12.9%
IE flaw under SP2: User's problem or Microsoft's?
IETF puts SenderID on the fast track
India to lose outsourcing market share by 2007
India's mobile services market to grow at 28.3% CAGR through 2009
Indian IT services to grow at 17.3% CAGR
Industry tight-lipped over VoIP project slip
Integrated voice/data servers grew 10% in 2003
Intel, Nvidia, ATI lead the graphic chip market
Internal IBM Memo: "Don't install SP2 yet"
Internet advertising market generated $30.7 bln in 2003
Internet gaming market to generate $1 bln in 2004
Internet gets a stay of execution. But for how long?
Internet political spending up 853.8%, but still non-significant
Internet2 shapes up, but not exactly shipping out
Inverted Jenny, eat your heart out
Irish IT spending to increase in 2004
Is Bluetooth showing signs of cavities?
Is Microsoft responding to more open source heat?
Is Schwartz pulling IBM's chain?
IT executive salary increased 1.9% in 2003
IT myths dispelled
IT optimism up, unemployment down
IT spending to increase 5% in 2004, 6% in 2005
It's 10pm. Have you hacked your router's firmware lately?
It's official: Microsoft overhauls Longhorn plan
Justice launches P2P probe. Don't think it's your problem? Think again.
Keeping up with SOX compliance
Kerry's real tech agenda
Knowing when to structure collaboration
LAN switch market down 2%
Latest buffer overflow highlights criticality of SP2's DEP tech
Less than 10% of Internet shoppers consider customer reviews valuable
Linux potentially infringes 283 patents
Linux server revenues grew 54.6% in Q2 2004
LinuxWorld MVPs
Macromedia Flash market penetration
Main reason for PC gaming is fun
Message archiving market to double this year
Messaging in the rain
Microsoft music store: Is this what McNealy warned us about?
Microsoft recommends uninstalling SP2 to some AMD users
Microsoft to grow through battle, uh innovation
Microsoft veep goes on SP2 hotseat in audio Q&A
Microsoft's Anti-OpenOffice guide
Microsoft's Small Business Server enjoys 85% market share among small businesses
Microsoft, Time Warner and Yahoo! are July top sites from home
Mobile data to generate $189 bln in 2009
Mobile SAP not ready for prime time
Mr. Spammer, meet Bubba your new cell mate
MyDoom's defense attorney: "Your honor, we have an alibi."
Nanostorage to generate $65.7 bln in 2011
Nanotech funding to reach $8.6 bln in 2004
Nascar.com visitors buy the most charcoal
New SAN director all the rage in storage
News of first SP2 snafus start to trickle in
Newsweek Luddite decries use of cell phones
Next-Generation CIOs
No 'leaders' in outsourcing says Forrester
Off again. On again. SP2 goes gold.
Offering more payment types increases sales by 20%
Online sales up 23% in Q2 2004
Only 16% of US software projects are on time within budget
Only 7% of consumers will definitely purchase Portable Media Center
Open source stack wars
Opera not exactly the safe alternative
Optical networking to grow 12.9% till 2009
Outsourcing: how low can you go?
P2P networks not best source for SP2
Paid search engine ads account for 40% of UK Internet ad spending
Paid search to generate $2.6 bln in 2004, $5.5 bln in 2009
PC virtualization: next big thing?
PDA OS market shares: Palm - 40%, Microsoft - 36.6%, RIM - 18.6%
Plasma TV sales up 169% YTY in Q1 2004
PocketPC Trojan: Layered security meets layered threat?
Point-of-sale OS market shares: Windows - 43%, in-house - 19%, IBM - 17%
Pre-emptive option strike by Cisco?
Presence to revolutionize the workplace
Programming by design
Push version of SP2 pushes back -- 9 days back
Q2 2004 mobile phone market shares
Q2 CPU marketshares: Intel - 82.7%, AMD - 15.5%
Real Networks sells 1 million digital tracks in 1 week
Red Hat app server brings open-source economics to Web services
Red Hat's Szulik on patents, competition, and his company's growing power
Regulatory compliance touches databases
Reminder: Wi-Fi ≠ Centrino
Responsible computing tips
Router market to grow 14% each year till 2008
RSS: It slices. It dices. It even makes julienne potatoes
Russian mobile PC market shares
SAP CRM customers would do it all over again
Schw-oap opera: "Hey, don't take my word for it. Take Red Hat's."
Schwartz watch: 'The dog is getting wagged. Bigtime.'
Schwartz Watch: Solaris now open-source, HP-UX is dead
SCO leaving customers alone?
SCO's McBride strikes back
Secure content management to reach $7.5 bln in 2008
Security expert shows how hackers can bypass Active Directory controls
Security outsourcing to reach $2.4 bln in 2004
Seltzer: Shoot the messenger (or yourself), not MS
Semiconductor bookings increase 128% YTY in July 2004
Semiconductor revenues to grow 27% this year
SenderID anti-spam scheme picks up steam
Server revenues up 7.7%, unit shipments up 24.5% in Q2 2004
Service provider router and switches market yp 31% YTY in Q2 2004
Set top box software to generate $800 mln in 2008
Smartphone market to experience explosive growth and grow at 44% CAGR
So, when is a Longhorn no longer a Longhorn?
Sony and Lite-On most popular DVD recorder brands
SOX compliance: the big picture
SP2 breaks L2TP/NAT configs (but hey, it's fixable)
SP2 delayed. Advantage Intel.
Sprint in Wi-Fi roaming pact with SBC
Spyware as a service
Strom's Web Maxims
Sun learns tough lesson on how branding non-Java techs as "Java" can backfire
Sun prepping Solaris 10 for Linux
Sun's corporate priorities
Sun's Schwartz bluffs. Will IBM bite?
Sun's Schwartz takes the "open" horse for a ride
Sun’s would-be acquisition creates gravity, but has no merit.
Supply Chain Management mature; but not vendors
Teamware to wear down IT management
TFT LCD market to generate $7 bln in 2008, $3.7 bln in 2004
The blame game
The true cost of upgrading ERP
Tide turning on boutique gear as Intel/AMD score wins in teraflops war
Time to get serious about identity management
Top 10 software programs
Top crypto algorithms "fully broken"?
Top Microsoft certifications: MCP, MCSE for NT, MCSE for Windows Server 2003
Travel, health, entertainment and news are top Internet searches
Trend toward centralized IT is slowing says analyst
True confessions: NetSky/Sasser author speaks
Two-thirds of small business prefer online banking to offline
Ukrainian PC market shares
United Arab Emirates PC market shares: HP - 27%, Dell - 15%, Acer - 14%
US broadband growth slows
US color printer market shares: HP - 47.1%, Xerox - 14.5%, Konica Minolta - 13.2%
US e-commerce grew 23% in Q2 2004
US IT spending to rise 7% in 2004
US IT venture unvestments up 11% in Q2 2004
US PC sales to rise 14% in 2004
US to lose 6% of call centers by 2008
Vendors including IBM, MS, Sun seek W3C imprimatur to speed Web services adoption. Will it work?
Videogame market to grow 0% in 2004
Web services now serving the mid-market
What exactly is this new DNS "hack" you keep hearing about?
Who outsources security?
Wi-Fi news top 10
Wide-area file services (WAFS) hot in remote storage
Wiretap costs will not kill VoIP
Yet another BEA exec clears out his desk
Your PC has 20 minutes before infection sets in