Blog posts on 2004-10

"The Joel" waxes philosophical on Redmond
$1.54 bln of venture investments in Silicon Valley in Q3 2004
$13.6 bln will be spent on healthcare applications by 2008
$17 bln of IT services will go offshore by 2008
$22.34 bln in online sales in Q4 2004
$4.3 bln spent on wireless voice by middle market firms in 2004
1.2 mln wireless data cards sold in Europe in 2004
100K jobs have been lost to Chinese outsourcing in 2004
11 mln digital cable set top boxes shipped in 2004
11 mln US households will have digital TV set by year-end 2004
12.1 mln American homes to have VOIP by 2009
12000 legal jobs were outsourced in 2004
123 mln broadband subscribers in June 2004, 78 mln of them have DSL
13 mln Chinese have DSL, China becomes the leader in DSL broadband subscribers
14% of kids under 3 years old played video games
15% of all DRAM sales in Q4 2004 will belong to DDR2
16% of searchers bring 35% of the revenues
16% of visitors to online dating sites are above 55 years old
19 mln ZigBee units to ship in 2006, 123 mln in 2009
20% of Dell support calls are spyware-related
200K hotspots by 2008
22% of organizations deployed unified messaging, 85% are aware of it
23 mln Americans subscribe to satellite TV, 73.7 mln have cable
23% of Bulgarians unaware of Internet
25-30K WiFi users in Russia by 2008
26% of Global 2000 companies already deployed VOIP
28% of Google searches are for product name
29% of British households will own a digital radio in 2008
30% of catalog purchases took place on the Web in 2003
30% of users are not concerned with security threats
33% of all hard drives sold in 2008 will be inside consumer gadgets
34% of software sold in 2008 will be subscription-based
37 mln US households to subscribe to HDTV by 2008
38% of Americans (52% of online Americans) rely on Internet for election coverage
39% consider TV and 32% consider e-mail the most effective advertising medium
4% of Americans buy drugs online
4% of IT budgets will be spent on security
40% of UK companies banned instant messaging
41% of online Americans believe free trade is bad for US economy
410K cars and SUVs sold in first half of 2004 had pre-installed DVD systems
42.5% were satisfied with their financial situation in September
45% of consumers buy computers and consumer electronics direct
5 mln copies of Firefox Web browser downloaded
50 mln people use PayPal
50% of Americans with income under $30000 have no Internet access
50-60% of Web users have popup blockers, but popups still make 6% of the ad market
51% of Internet users want to record TV content in digital format
53% of online Americans support war in Iraq
54% of small businesses who invest in technology will buy PCs
55% of large US businesses will deploy 3G by 2006
6 mln broadband users in France by year-end 2004
6% of Americans cut the landline in favor of wireless
6-10% of US wireless customers use pre-paid plans
61% of small businesses use or plan to use Microsoft's Small Business Server
64% of online Canadians use online banking sites
70 fiber-to-the-home deployments in the US
72% of billion-dollar companies plan to increase Linux spending
75% of PC owners play music from PC into stereo system
79% of manufacturing, retail and transportation companies plan an RFID pilot
8 mln LCD TV units sold in 2004, 13.8 mln will sell in 2005
81.5% of visits to United Nations Web site look for English pages
9% of all 2004 hard drives will go into consumer electronics
90 venture-backed companies completed IPOs in Q3 2004
92% of high-capacity music players are iPods
98% of online retailers expect growth during holiday season
A "Bright Man", Indeed
Advertising in video games to generate $200 mln in 2004, $1 bln in 2008
Affluent investors are divided about Bush vs. Kerry
America's favorite cell phones - Sanyo, Samsung, LG
America's favorite wireless operators: Verizon and T-Mobile
Analysts poke holes in EMC's Dantz acquisition
And the winner of the Unofficial LongHorn renaming contest is....
APC's road to reliable voice-over-IP systems means getting serious about infrastructure
Apple iTunes sells 150,000,000th digital song
Apple owns 75% of digital music market, Real 50% of online entertainment market
Apple product marketing says QuickTime Player almost reached Windows Media Player market share
Apple releases Tiger to developers
Apple sold almost 4 mln iPods, 860K in Q3 2004
Are Mac OS X's days numbered thanks to Linux?
Are users really to blame for poor security?
Around the Digital ID World
Asia-Pacific broadband prices to decline 20-25% a year
Asia-Pacific mobile gaming market to generate $1.3 bln in 2008
Asian Internet security solutions market to generate $4.9 bln in 2008
Asian PC market up 13% in Q3 2004
Attitude adjustment: PalmSource does Java
Average corporate user receives sends 34, receives 99 e-mails a day
Average digital TV to cost $690 in 2008
Average Web buyer is 43 years old, earns $68K a year, and spends $92 a month online
Ballmer seeing last 12 months through rose-colored glasses?
Bangalore software revenues up 34% in fiscal 2004
Barrett's last stand...almost
Between WebDav and IPP, is SAMBA dead?
Big Blue's pre-emptive (against Dell) blade strike?
BitTorrent becomes the dominant peer-to-peer protocol
Blog wars: HP, cut and bleeding, begs Schwartz for mercy
Book-to-bill IC ratio is down in September
Brasil PC piracy will rise to 74.5% in 2004
BREW-based applications generated $200 mln in revenues
Build is back, says AMR
Bush spent $419K, Kerry $1.3 mln on Internet ads
Business gateways to generate $1.2 bln in 2004
Businesses are paying $2150 per liter of printer ink
By the end of 2005 93.8% of enterprises will use server virtualization
CAD software and services to generate $2.1 bln in 2004
Can Barry Bonds break eBay's grip?
Canadian VCs invested $375 mln in Q2 2004, up 48%
CCD market shares: Sony - 41%, Matsushita - 14.6%, Sharp - 13.8%
CD shipments up 4%
Central and Eastern European multifunction peripherals market to grow 49.1% in 2004
Chine to become world's largest online gaming market in 2007
Christening the Good Ship...
Cisco leads Australian VOIP market with 47% market share
Cisco, Symantec, and VeriSign leaders in security market, says Yankee
Color iPod
Comcast: Not Just A Cable Company Any More
Demand for TFT LCD to exceed supply in Q4 2004, Q1 2005
Despite governance questions, Conway gets $16M parachute
Did Salesforce build what it should have bought?
Digital format market shares: MP3 - 72%, WMA - 19.6%, AAC - 4.3%
Digital infrastructure must get smarter
Don't Sip A Draft: Draft A SIP!!
Echoes of the past: Technology outpacing laws?
eDonkey has 2.54 mln users, Kazaa - 2.48 mln
Election Day
Electronic design automation revenues up 2% in Q2 2004
EMEA PC sales up 18.5% in Q3 2004
Enterprise storage semiconductor market generated $857 mln in 2004
Enterprise wikis getting interesting
European businesses to spend their IT budgets on strategic applications in 2005
European e-government spending to increase in 2005
European financial and communications sector are the largest IT buyers
European IT to add 2 mln jobs in the next four years
Federal spending on broadband to libraries and schools totals $2.25 bln a year
Feds could save $4.5 bln a year by switching to VOIP
Feds will increase R&D spending by 6% in 2005
Females who support George Bush visit family and sports sites, females who support John Kerry visit finance and advice sites
Fighting software piracy with cheap PCs...not
Financial institutions to spent $1.9 bln on imaging solutions in 2005
Firefox RC 1 released
For every $1 spent online, consumers spend $1.70 offline
Forty years of acronymophobia
GaAs wafer market to grow at 54% a year
Gadgetheads rejoice: OQO finally ships tiny XP handheld
Gartner predicts: All roads lead to SOA
Gartner releases part two of Christensen interview on disruptive innovation
Gartner says in 5 years RFID tag will cost a minimum of $0.20
Geek checks out from Hilton after connection lock-up
Get ready for the Anti-Grok
Global PC market grew 11.9% in Q3 2004, Dell had 18.2% of global sales
Global PC market to grow 13.4% in 2004
Google desktop search not evil says Seltzer
Google extends search to the desktop
Google gets Keyhole
Gulf state security software spending to rise 27% in 2004
Hackers target OS X for a change
Hacking becomes a full-time job
Half of businesses using VOIP by 2006
Hardware security appliances to get 80% of European security budgets
Harvard prof: "Hey Microsoft, Go kill yourself."
Hidden lessons in 1.4 million record SSN hack
Home theater installations to rise 12-15% in 2004
Homeland security: The price of safety
Howard Stern deal adds 69K subscribers to Sirius
HP and Dell are top chip buyers in 2004
HP and Sun war of words continues
HP blade execs: Dell will not steal our thunder
I VoIP, Therefore IM
IBM Global Services is the top Western European services company
IBM says its Unix to be the global #1 while Sun's Schwartz says it's dead. So, which is it?
IBM's Sutor: No app left behind
IDC upgrades PC market forecast to 14.2% growth in 2004
In 2002 27.2% of computer science jobs belonged to women
In 2006 45.7% of software will be subscription-based, 23% - license-based
In 2007 50 mln Europeans will have broadband
In 2008 $1 bln will be spent on mobile porn
In 2008 56% of all handsets will have Bluetooth
In 2008 VOIP market will generate $7 bln
Indemnity. It has its privileges.
India Inc. is Twice as Fast as Japan Inc.
InStat-MDR: Broadband has the same effect as cable in the 80s
Insurance spending on IT to reach $19 bln in 2004
Intel fire sale soon? Perhaps, but keep your money.
Intel's Andy Grove rabid about lack of flu vaccine
Interactive program guides for PVRs to generate $1 bln by 2008
Internet users spend more time shopping online in August 2004
Is Apple's new G5 desktop a winner?
Is Sun's Schwartz inviting us to a game of Clue?
IT contractor demand in UK almost doubled by Q3 2004
IT salaries in India up 19% in 2004, Hewlett-Packard India has highest salaries
IT salaries to grow 10-15% in the next three years
IT spending to increase 7% in the next 12 months
Java booster shot on tap for Mac developers
JBoss founder Fleury casts Red Hat as OSS dinosaur
Kurzweil's Kurves map death of PCs, complete reverse-engineering of the brain, and Matrix-like virtual reality
Large enterprises will spend $38 bln on wireline telecom in 2004
Legislated Linux
Less than 2% of embedded CPUs are network-enabled
Less than 25% of doctor's offices have IT support
Lessons learned from county's homegrown network
Library Card
Logic intellectual property market set to grow at 14.3%
Mac port of OpenOffice steps up
Major news sources for political information: TV (78%), newspapers (38%), radio (16%), Internet (15%), magazines (4%)
Management practices, not IT, key to boosting productivity
Manufacturing firms to increase outsourcing by 9.3% in 2005
Michael Dell: Large and in charge (of the industry)?
Microcommerce to generate $60 bln by 2015
Micropayments grew 350% in 2004
Microsoft distributed 106 mln copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft's 'Windows Genuine Advantage' program a hit
Microsoft's slow-starter strategy paying off, but inspiring customers
Mobile device platforms: Time for co-existence, says Ovum
Mobile games to generate over $1 bln in 2004
Mobile phone sales up 25% in Q3 2004
More than 5300 tech acquisitions by Oct 2004
More than half of Silicon Valley employees left after the 2000 dotcom bust
Most IT departments will employ half as many people in 2008
Most of recruiting happens through employee referrals and search firms
Must read: HP's cease and desist letter to Sun
MySQL to leverage Microsoft's open source software
Neighborhood network a model for the future
Networked media processors to generate $700 mln in 2008
New England venture investments dropped 51% in Q3 2004
Nielsen surveys 37K users, comScore 1.5 mln for audience measurement
Notes from Vortex 2004
Novell: "The best OSSense is a good defense"
Oakley delivers digital music eyewear
Offshore outlook: The future is bright, but for whom?
Offshore outsourcing to grow at 20% a year - new research from Meta Group
Offshore StatWatch
Old dog, new tricks? Or, same story, different lawsuit?
OLED displays to generate $429 mln in 2004
One database, under God, indivisible, with universal visibility of all
One down. One to go. IBM joins Liberty Alliance.
Online music market shares: iTunes - 70%, Napster - 11%, Real, MusicMatch, WalMart - 6%
Only 10% of Internet users in China shop online
Only 39% of the seniors over 65 have mobile phones
Only 40% of European companies interested in mobile data, 4% ready to invest in mobile apps
Only 5% of Web searches are sex- or porn-related
Open Source Program Of The Year
Open source startup interruptus?
Oracle's favorite acronyms: SQL, ODBC, J2EE, and FUD.
Outsourcing to Malaysia to grow at 27.2% a year
Outsourcing: mentor capitalist addresses social policy
PalmOne's Treo 650: The perfect PDA/phone?
PalmOne-Microsoft deal holds more promise than short-term benefit, says analyst
Paris applies brakes to open source migration
Patent table gets turned against Sun's Schwartz
PDA shipments decline yet again 8.7% in Q3 2004
PeopleSoft board member: Conway underplayed disruptive influence of Oracle takeover effort
PeopleSoft's moves to thwart Oracle
Per-employee pricing patent? Puh-leeeeze.
Philippine market for service solitions to reach $372 mln in 2007
Phishing for Linux
Portable music player market to generate $58 bln in sales by 2008
RightNow's on-demand CRM suite gets thumbs up from Gartner
Robot population to grow 7 times by 2007
ROFL of the Day: "WMA is an open standard"
Romanian IT market grew 107% in 2003
Rough week for Microsoft?
Russian PC market structure
Russian PC penetration is 12%
Sales growth for consumer technology products to stay at 3-5% in 2004
Sales of high-speed routers reached $260 mln in Q2 2004
Schwartz and his patent
Semiconductor capital and equipment spending to grow 66% in 2004
Semiconductor capital equipment spending to decline 0.6% in 2005
Semiconductor orders to fall 20% in Q4 2004
Semiconductor plant spending to reach $45.7 bln in 2004
Semiconductor surplus reaches $1.1 bln in Q3 2004
Server market revenues to reach $42.4 bln in 2004
Should Larry forget PeopleSoft?
Slovakia IT services market grew 24.5% in 2003
Small business spending on CRM software grew 15% in 2003
Small-size LCD panel market to grow at 3% a year
SMBs spend $22 bln on local advertising
Software bestsellers for August 2004
Spam: Has the answer been hiding under our noses this whole time?
Spanish PC market grew 21.8% in Q3 2004
Steve Jobs--a brilliant dunce?
Stolen laptops
Student challenges Bill Gates
Study finds almost a third of computer users growing complacent about cyber threats
Sun exec defects to Red Hat
Surprise! Most consumers don't know the difference between a firewall and antivirus software
Swedish software market to grow at 5.1% a year
Tech layoffs up 60% in Q3 2004
Test driving the BlackBerry 7100t
The best hidden Web application
The coming ubiquity of wireless networks
The industrialization of IT
The IT world according to McNealy
The JetBlue of Enterprise Applications
Thin client market generates $560 mln a year, 60% of users prefer thin clients over PCs
Third of UK households to have broadband before 2006
Top 10 Web brands for September: Yahoo, MSN, Microsoft, AOL, Google
Top Web advertisers for September: Netflix, Dell, AT&T Wireless, SBC
Turbulence in per CPU pricing not over yet
UK online ad spending up 76% in the first half of 2004
US broadband penetration is 28.4% at the end of 2004
US business Internet access generated $12 bln in 2003
US clinical trial management systems market to grow at 13% a year
US retail sales jumped 1.5% in September
US wages and salaries increased 0.7% in Q3 2004
Users name $8.00 as the price to pay for hotspot access
UWB to grow at 400% a year
Venture investments in Q3 2004 fell by 15% (VentureOne) or by 26% (PWC)
Venture investments totalled $12.4 bln, 27500 companies in the first half of 2004
Verizon plans to have 18 mln households on fiber access by 2007
View from Microsoft Denmark looking good
VLSI Research still claims semiconductor industry will grow 8% in 2005
Web 2.0 conference highlights
Western European mobile device market grew 38% in Q3 2004
Western European telecom market to grow 3.7% in 2004, 3.8% in 2005
What's next for PeopleSoft?
Whew! That's one cherry of an OS!
Why Sun's JDS deserves a try
Wi-Fi unit shipments to increase 20% in 2004
Will Dell take the AMD plunge?
WiMax base stations to generate $2.6 bln in 2009
Windows is more secure?
Wireless LAN integrated circuits to generate $2.1 bln in 2008
Wireless networks cut utility costs by 25%
Wireless spam: Yet another reason for domain level authentication
Wireline telecom revenue to decline 1.6% a year
Wishlist for Christmas 2004: HDTV, MP3 player, digital camera
Without a peep from Sun, JDS for Solaris ships
WLAN IC market to generate $2.1 bln in 2008
Yahoo and MSN have the top messengers, Yahoo Mail the top free e-mail
Yet another nod to AMD by Intel?
ZDNet Research dives deep into IT buyer behavior