Blog posts on 2004-09

"NX" by any other name is, well, NX
$1 bln worth of digital music will be sold in Europe in 2009
$10 bln online ads bought in 2004
$3.23 bln of RAID systems sold in Q2 2004
$41 bln will be spent on spam defense in 2004
$60 mln will be spent on hosted VOIP in 2004
$81 mln spent in the US on mobile services buildup
10% of travelers bring in 44% of revenues
10% of Web searchers also search for images, 5.7% search for news
11.5 mln will get their telephone via cable Internet in 2010
120 mln credit cards compromised in 2004
130K VOIP subscribers in 2003, 17.5 mln by 2008
14.5 mln credit and debit cards issued in Ukraine
15% of Americans to cut the telephone cord by 2009
15.6 mln people will watch TV over IP in 2007
156.4 mln wireless phones shipped in Q2 2004
156.4 mobile phones shipped in Q2 2004
16% of all online attacks are targeting e-commerce sites
17-inch LCD panels to drop 15% in price before year-end 2004
18% of F500 use instant messaging
182 mln people to use instant messaging in 2007
185K of blade servers sold in 2003
20% of DVR owners use the word "love", when referring to DVR
20.8 mln DLC ports shipped in 2003
2004 salaries out of college: $52K for chemical engineering, $51K for engineering, $49K for computer science
200K IT jobs lost since Nov 2001
230K IT jobs waiting to be filled by the end of 2004
24% of all games sold in Japan are for mobile devices
24% of Nordic companies are planning to implement WLAN
275 petabytes of external disk storage sold in Q2 2004
287K Australians to have wireless broadband by 2008
29 mln users are running Claria adware
3.6% of mobile revenues are data revenues in Brazil
30% of companies plan to offshore their IT
30-40% of Internet use at work is not work-related
300-303 mln hard drives will be sold in 2004
31% of all infections belonged to Sasser virus
31% of PDA owners use paid location-aware services
33% of Irish businesses do not have business continuity process
38% of all North American e-mails are spam
38.8% of Internet users generate 73% of page views
39 mln WLAN users by the end of 2004
40% of semiconductor vendors will die within the next 10 years
40% of US households will own an HDTV-ready TV set
40% of wireless application developers use J2ME
43% of companies to use VOIP within the next two years
45 mln 3G subscribers in 2004, 85 mln by 2005
48 vulnerabilities discovered in Windows software weekly
5.4 mln Americans switched their wireless carriers
5.6 mln rear-projection TVs will be sold in 2004
50 mln cellular music decks sold by 2009
50 mln Flash-based music players will be sold in 2008
52% of Web services are deployed in the US, 39% in Europe, 6% in Asia Pacific
53 mln Americans use instant messaging
60% of North American users are using some anti-spam solution
61% of e-mail marketers don't report bounced e-mails
61% of US Internet users research their car purchases online
66% find targeted ads less annoying
66% of P2P music searches include only song name
7% of IT departments use grid computing
75% of companies plan to invest into service-oriented architectures in 2005
78 mln DSL lines, 45 mln cable Internet hookups by June 2004
8.2 mln broadband subscribers in UK by year-end 2005
8.6 mln digital TV sets will be sold in 2004
80% of PCs sold with Linux will run pirated Windows
802.11a: Goes where no b/g signal has gone before
802.11n to take 55% of consumer market in 2008
82% of companies need business skills, only 56% offer training
84% of corporate WLAN deployments have never had a break-in
85% of Canadians conduct a Web search at least once a month
86% of enterprise instant messenger buyers are not affected by AOL and Yahoo! exit
89 mln European households to use digital TV in 2007
92% of music listeners list CD as preferred format
A beaut of an AMD64-based desktop killer -- but it lacks a business SKU
AMD desktops outsell Intel desktops 54% to 45%
Americans lost $500 mln to phishing
An *ix standard? Where have we heard this before?
Analyst Scoreboard: Oracle vs. PeopleSoft
Apache says no to Sender ID
Arab Gulf storage software market grew 32% in 2004
Asia-Pacific content management software market to grow at 14.9% till 2008
Asia-Pacific Web hosting market to grow at 15% a year
Australian monitor market grew 12.8% in Q2 2004
Australian smart handheld market up 21.5% in Q2 2004
Australian thin client market will grow 28% in 2004
Average number of TV channels receivable by US household drops in 2004
Average user to need 14.7 MB for messaging
Ballmer spins "opportunity" to software association
Belarus PC market to grow 15% a year
Berners-Lee, Metcalfe kick off MIT tech conference
Best articulation of the "Barrett Syndrome"
Blade server market shares: IBM - 44%, HP - 32%
Bluetooth shipments reach 3 mln devices a week
Brazilian SMB telecom spending to increase 10-30% in 2005
Browser-based industrial interfaces to grow at 15.5% a year
Bush Guard records: Back to the future?
Business process outsourcing will top $100 bln in 2004
By 2008 44% of corporate phone lines will be VOIP
By 2009 Microsoft will win the wireless OS war over Symbian
By way of gov't edict, Sun gets monopoly in South Korea
CA cuts deal with DOJ...next up a new CEO
CA interim CEO steps up to the plate
Cap'tn...she can't take it (RSS) anymore!!
Capital spending in the semiconductor industry to grow 51% in 2004
Cellular base station market to fall 14.4% in 2004
CEOs unnecessarily risk averse, say Wharton experts
Chinese WLAN market to grow 33% a year
Chip sales to grow 25% in 2004 and 7% in 2005
Comcast has 6 mln broadband cable subscribers
Current technology book market trends
Danger CEO talks big
Demand for LCd to overtake demand for CRT only in 2008
Did Sun sell out OpenOffice?
DRAM revenues to rise 56% in 2004
DVR penetration to reach 41% by 2009
E-mail electronic payments to generate $326 mln in 2005
Each large retailer will spend $7 mln on RFID in 2004
eDonkey becomes the leading P2P network
Embedded systems market to grow at 6.27% a year
EMEA WLAN equipment market up 188% in Q2 2004
Energy and utility industries to up IT spending by 5%
Ericsson's move to drop Bluetooth is misunderstood says analyst
Europe, Middle East and Africa bought 720 000 GPS devices in first half of 2004
External disk storage systems grew 8% in Q2 2004
FCC Chairman sees the future, but can he regulate it?
Federal IT spending to reach $75 bln in 2009
Ferrari's high-tech tune-up
Fiber to the premises to grow 54% a year till 2009
Firefox 1.0 puts MS on notice
Firefox gaining browser market share
Firewall/VPN security appliance market up 27% in 2003
First spammers. Now slammers? Registrar says new ICANN rules makes domains easier to hijack
Flash memory revenue to reach $16.6 bln in 2004
Fly eating robot
Forbes: Linux, now an asset for Microsoft
Forrester CEO: Sun's plan is bold but has potholes
French PC market grows 23% in units, 13% in revenues
From .Net to the mainframe
Gadget Watch: Cat-shaped LCD monitors and flower speakers
Gallium arsenide circuitboard market to generate $2.9 bln in 2004
Gamer PC configurations surveyed
Gartner debunks six information security myths
Gartner publishes Christensen interview on disruptive innovation
Gartner releases interview with Intel CIO
Gartner ups semiconductor sales forecast by $5 bln
Gbrowser to join Gmail?
Gmail sparks the creative impulse
GPS market to reach $21.5 bln in 2008
Grading George Bush on tech
Grid futures
Groove's Ray Ozzie chats with the Gillmor Gang
Guy Kawasaki on the art of the start
High income brings to less TV, more time spent online
How loyal are you to your suppliers?
How smart is the NSA?
I'll take one BlackBerry, and one BMW. Make that to-go please.
IBM to China: We'll take half
IDC says PC market will grow 14.2% in 2004, 10.5% in 2005
If RSS ain’t broke...
iMini Mac Leader takes on the world
In 2008 40% of PCs sold to home will be media centers
India to become third largest telecom market in 2010
Indian PC market grew 34.6% in Q2 2004
Indian software exports to grow 30% in 2004
Industry on the brink of a patent war warns Ovum
Insurance companies spend $1.6 bln yearly on e-commerce
Intel CTO calls for Internet overhaul
Intel Developer Forum roundup
IT market in Middle East and North Africa to reach $3.17 bln in 2008
IT services: Interest growing for small and mid-sized businesses
K-12 IT spending to grow 3.8% a year
Keep Nortel on your short list says Yankee
LCDs lead with 60% in Autralian monitor market
Less than 1 mln US VOIP subsribers today, Vonage has 200K customers
Like no one saw this coming from a mile away
Linux ships passing in the night?
Longhorn renaming contest
Look alert--WebEx is watching
Major hurdles to Linux adoption
mi2g estimated spyware and virus damage at $290 per PC
Micropayments to generate $11.5 bln in 2009
Microsoft and Sender ID: Ready or not, here it comes
Microsoft Business Solutions roadmap; the road gets longer
Microsoft MCP salary survey results
Microsoft security controversy: Broken promise or a bullet that had to be bitten?
Microsoft VP Allchin: Unplugged or unravelling?
Microsoft's Virtual Server ready to ship
Microsoft, Yahoo and Time Warner are top destinations in August
Microsoft: Name your poison. Open source. Blue cheese. We're ready.
MIT EmergeTech Rhetorical Question of the Day
MIT Emerging Tech Conference Quote of the Day
MIT Emerging Tech Factoid #1
MIT Emerging Tech Factoid #2
MIT panel: The ugly truths of offshoring
Mobile games to generate $203.8 mln in 2004
Mobile VPNs: Will it remain a niche solution?
More enterprises than not will use wireless applications by 2007
Most popular IT services among small businesses
Mozillathon crush: Should Microsoft be worried?
MSN Messenger overtakes AOL AIM and ICQ as top instant messenger
Multimedia networking to drive networking semiconductor market to $2.3 bln in 2008
Netflix owns 90% of online DVD rental market
Networked storage market generated $2.1 bln in Q2 2004
New AMD CPU sports NX tech, but few buyers
New OS from Palmsource still lacks Java focus
No clear buyer for SOAs
Nokia shipped 1 mln N-Gage devices
Non-SP2 Windows users open to JPG poison pill
Novell both-source vision
Nucleus scores hosted CRM
Offshoring: if you're gonna do it, you might as well do it right
On heels of IETF ruling, AOL bails on SenderID
Online advertisers expect budget increases in 2004 and 2005
Online advertising hits new record in Q2 2004, up 43%
Online gaming to generate $8 bln by 2008
Online movie downloads make up 0.3% of movie rental industry
Only 1.3% of Western European IT to be offshored
Only 13% users are excited about watching TV on the cell phone
Only 20% of companies view information security as CEO-level priority
Only 6.9% of e-mails were infected by virus in August 2004
Open source 10 commandments a step in the right direction
OpenOffice: Did Microsoft and Sun just put open source profiteers on notice?
Oracle wins antitrust case, but...
Outsourcing megadeals chill out, but why?
Over 1 bln online in 2005
Patent concerns foil Microsoft anti-spam spec at IETF
PC hardware filling in more security gaps
PC market in emerging markets grew 35% in the first half of 2004
PeopleSoft's last hurrah?
Personal income rises in all 50 states, Washington leads with 2.4% increase
Phishers cast their bait into the Gmail ocean
Phone fraud is a billion dollar industry
Planning to dump IE? Think again
Plant powered phones
PODcasting; death knell for traditional broadcasting?
Portsmouth Group expects IC market to grow 37% in 2004, not 44%
Power over Ethernet shipments to double each year till 2007
Problems loom despite XML success
Red Hat Linux sits next to SP2 on the "no execute" train
Red Hat: Moving up the stack
Reduced R&D spending named top threat for US innovation
RIM announces new BlackBerry phone
Russian mobile penetration to reach 68% in 2006
Russian plasma TV sales grew 93% in 2003, will grow 78% in 2004
Russians spent $1.47 bln on IT in 2003
Salesforce.com moves into contact centers
SCO makes analyst laugh
Security appliance market grows 57% in Q2 2004
Security vendors pitch aggravated SMBs
Semiconductor demand for automotive industry will grow 22.3% in China
Semiconductor market growth: iSuppli - 31.4%, SIA - 36.2%
Semiconductor shipments declined for the first time in 14 months
Semidonductor sales up 34.2% in August 2004
Seven deadly excuses for poor design
Silicon foundry wafer demand to grow 33% in 2004
Skype: The highly disruptive killer PDA app
Smart dust for sale
Smart pricing a boost to retailer margins
Smartphones account for 3% of wireless handset market
SMS share in mobile data to drop from 90% in 2003 to 40% in 2008
Software piracy in Ukraine is at 91%
Software vendors spent $5 bln on partner programs in 2003
Software's Dirty Little Secret
Solaris 10 open source project to debut by year's end
Solving the IDS vs. SSL conundrum
Some not so Cool(ey) math for Apple
South African online media attracts 3.5 mln readers monthly
Spam standard critcs err with glass is half emtpy attitude
Spectrum hogs: Fit to be slaughtered?
StatWatch: Identity theft
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: GNU/Insomiac?
Sun's utility model: one man's SPU is another man's Computon. How about we just call 'em MIPS?
Sun-Microsoft collaboration progress report
Taiwan LAN manufacturing revenues up 27.1% in Q1 2004
Taiwan notebook shipments and vendor market shares
Tech marketing budgets to increase 6% in 2004
Telecom service prices fall down 10% every year
The "Jack Welch Factor" and the irresolvable Catch-22 of outsourcing
The Dell of open-source software?
The fox in the henhouse
The free shall set you truth [sic]
The intersection of print publications and the Web
The Semantic Web explained
The six secrets of highly secure organizations
The Voice over IP Insurrection
Third of US households with digital cameras to use online photo services
Top e-government sites: Taiwan, Singapore, USA, Canada
Top innovations of the past 75 years: PC, Internet, DNA discovery
Top online music destinations
Top Russian search engines
Top US broadband cities: San Diego, Phoenix, Detroit, New York, Sacramento
Transmeta ships Efficeon, gives NX-tech a 6th name
UK interactive software market doubled in 6 years
UK PC market grew 21.4% in Q2 2004
Understatement of the Day?
Unified communications to generate $1.5 bln in 2004
US broadband penetration reaches 51.42% in August 2004
US loses 4th ranking in broadband penetration, now ranks 10th
US service economy grew 4.4% in Q2 2004
USAToday.com got 8.1 mln unique visits in August 2004
USB flash drive sales to reach $4.5 bln in 2006
UWB market to enjoy 400% CAGR till 2008
Virtual Server 2005; no threat to VMware say analysts
VOIP equipment sales grew 3% in Q2 2004
VOIP ports to grow at 15% CAGR
Vulnerability-related downtime to triple by 2008
War of the tech exec bloggers Round 1: Red Hat's Tiemann vs. Sun's Schwartz
Web portal aids hurricane victims
Web services a $950 mln market in 2004, $6.2 bln by 2008
What killed HP's Utility Data Center?
When Plan B doesn't work, go to Plan C: Pray
Why are customers switching to VOIP?
Why SP2 deserved every shred of the scrutiny
Wi-Fi Security still widely misunderstood
Will hardware ruin A/V firms' chances for MS takeover?
Wireless adoption among life and health insurers is at 5% in 2004
Wireless PC data cards to grow 47.8% a year in Western Europe
XML: Too much of a good thing?
ZDNet Research steps up