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$1.44 bln of semiconductors booked in October 2004
$102.4 bln spent on advertising in Q1-Q3 of 2004, online ads grow 25.8%
$16.4 mln of RFID middleware sold in 2004
$55.2 bln of microchips sold in Q3 2004
'How to Get Rid of Customers ' for Dummies: Sue them.
.NET is used at 56% of the companies, in public sector it's 65%
1 mln CDMA subscribers by year-end 2004
10.87 mln cable set top boxes sold in 2004
100-150 ZigBee chips in every house by 2007
11.4% of all seniors in metropolitan areas earn above $100,000
1142 phishing Web sites in October 2004
14% of Americans want to watch their houses through Web-enabled cameras
146 Bluetooth chipsets to sell in 2004
16.2% of New York jobs are in advertising
170 mln mobile phones sold in Q3 2004
171.2 mln Americans have cell phones
2% of ERP apps run on Linux today, 15% to run on Linux in three years
20 mln users access My Yahoo!
20% of IT professionals are women, only 10% of girls want to do science
23% of all travel sold online in 2004
24.7% of rural Americans have Internet access
27% of consumers want a single-tasking music player, 13% want a single-tasking video player
29% of American voters will use electronic voting
30% of companies installed WLANs by year-end 2004
30000 Internet-connected zombie networks in 2004
37% of e-commerce sites rely on .net
4 mln Ukrainians online
4% of all cell phone sold in 2004 were 3G
4.4 mln IPTV subscribers in Europe by 2008
4.5 mln Americans annually become victims of advance fee scam
400 VOIP service providers in North America
44.51 Indians have mobile phones, 43.96 mln - landlines
450 mln DVD players by 2008
5% of small and medium business purchase search engine listings
50% on new PDAs sold in Europe have GPS unit
51% of online Hispanics are affluent
52 mln PCs will be sold in Q4 2004
55.05 mln watched Presidential elections, 89.8 - Super Bowl
553 mln pounds spent on online advertising in UK in 2004
56% American Internet users listen to Internet radio
6% of iPod users made a switch to MacOS
6.8% of European companies moving to grid computing
67% of UK IT directors don't see an alternative to offshoring
690 mln e-mail boxes worldwide, 67% of them hosted
70 mln download protected intellectual property, software piracy totals $20 bln
70% of broadband Americans are not interested in commercial online video
70% of corporate buyers unaware of 3G advantages
8 mln Americans took advantage of number portability
8.35% of ad budgets went online 2004, 17% will go into online ads in 2007
802.11n: Heir to the 2.4 GHz band
82% of companies deployed IP VPN
85% of electronic voting projects failed in developing countries
9 mln LCD TVs sold in 2004
9.3% of e-commerce sales come from site's internal search engine
928K tech jobs in California today
99% of shoppers name customer service the top priority
A rare Java flaw and a black mark
A BPO revelation
A credit to her profession
A Different More Responsive Microsoft?
A level playing field tilts east
A Long Bus Ride, Lots of Transfers
A Taxing Time at the FCC
Act II: Dell. Blades. Microsoft. Drama. Action!!
ActiveGrid
Adobe's Linux Limbo
Advertising generates 1% of global GDP
All You Can Eat VoIP For 12 Months? I've Read The Fine Print For You
Amazon bestsellers for holiday season: MP3 players, digital cameras, Ugg boots
Amazon gets it right
Americans 18-34 prefer browsing Internet (46%), watching TV (35%), reading a book (7%)
Americans used 500 bln wireless minutes in first half 2004
And now for the Unofficial Worst Search Result Contest
And Web Services are a Good Thing Because... ?
Another Amazon Adventure
Another mobile Linux advantage
Another registry advocate
Apachecon!
Are Carriers Telling VoIP Users: "I (Don't) Want To Hold Your Hand?"
Are SSL VPNs really 'better' than IP VPNs?
Asia-Pacific PC market grew 10% in Q3 2004
At any day roughly 1000 sites are phishing Web sites
ATM and frame relay spending to remain flat
Australian PC market declines 8% in Q3 2004
Automating server management
Average corporate user accesses network remotely 8-24 times a month
Average household's stock portfolio underperformed the market by 1.44% a year
Average revenue per wireless user to shrink to $42.42 by 2007
Baltic enterprise application software market to grow 17% in 2004
Battle of the *NIXes: Time for Red Hat to stock up on Sun screen?
Belkin and MIMO heats up the Wireless Ethernet wars
Best Buy is an On-Demand Buy
Better living--and smarter rats--through chemistry: a look at nanotechnology progress
Beware of Google desktop search
Bidding for HP's MIPS? Perhaps Carly should call Meg.
Big Iron Redux
Big LAN On Campus: Colleges Use IP For Many Functions
Blade server sales brought $1.3 bln in 2004
Blade wars
Blog Reader: "Local VoIP Number? Oh Yea?"
Blog, incumbent and electoral are words of the year at Merriam-Webster
Blog--Merriam-Webster's word of the year
Bluetooth phone shipments up 36% in Europe
Bosworth on simplicity and complexity
Bray discovers Google's secret sauce
British music sales up 3% in 2004, the best year for music sales ever
BT To Brits: Here's A Little Sip of IP
BT Trax, at a glance
Building On MIDCOM: Read It Here First
Busting the bus
By 2008 VOIP applications will bring 6.4 bln euros in Western Europe
Cable telephony grows 338% YTY in Q3 2004
CacheLogic says 35% of all Internet traffic is now BitTorrent
California Cities Attempt VoIP Tax In Advance of FCC Ban
Campaign Workers Use VoIP To Get Out The Vote
Canadian desktop market up 8%, laptops up 36%, servers up 38% in Q3 2004
Cat's Out Of The Bag: FCC Won't Let States Regulate VoIP
Change the Frame
Checking in on the other side of e-mail security
Chinese semiconductor market to grow 20% in 2005
Christmas bestsellers for online stores: toys, games, home & garden
Cinema screen advertising reached $1.3 bln in 2003
Cisco jumps up the stack
Cisco, Kids
Codeweavers moves iTunes to Linus
Come On In, The Water's Fine: Japan's VoIP Forum Makes Debut
Computer viruses could infect humans?
Consumer-driven health plans to reach 12% of health market in 2008
Corporate instant messaging leaders - Akonix, FaceTime, IBM, IMlogic, Jabber, Microsoft
Corporate spending on wireless to reach $37 bln in 2004
Corporate WiFi market leaders: Cisco, Symbol, Airespace, Proxim, 3Com
Cost of search engine keywords up 14% in October 2004
Customer-Driven Innovation
Define open source
Dell. Blades. Microsoft. Drama. Action!!
Demand for IT security professionals to grow at 13.7% a year
Desktop search and Linux
Despite looming deadline, IM audits, archives still missing from SOX compliance efforts
Digital camera market leaders: Sony, Kodak, Canon, Olympus
Digital TV revenues to double in 2005
Dilbert, Can You VoIP Me?
Discrete payroll services to grow at 6.3% a year
Disk storage market in Central and Eastern Europe to grow 17.5% in 2004
Disruptions in the software fabric
Dissing Gartner
Do too many cooks spoil the Wikipedia?
Don't Believe Every Market Study You Read
Don't Byte Off More Than You Can Sign Up
Don't change. Transform, via portals
DRAM sales to generate $26.9 bln in 2004
DRAM sales up 0.2% in Q3 2004, Samsung, Hynix and Micron lead the market
DSP sales to bring $7.9 bln in 2004
E-mail has 1.12% advertisement response rate
Election day Web traffic: Instapundit, WashingtonPost traffic doubles
Electronic advertising market to grow at 2.8% a year
Enlightened self interest in action
Esther Dyson’s new site delivering fresh food for thought
European holiday online sales to reach 13 bln euros this year
European hosted VOIP market generated 45.8 mln euros in 2003
Farmshoring brings tech jobs to U.S. boonies
FCC To States: No, You Can't
Fighting Irish Cheer On VoIP
Finally...a more accurate battery gauge
Find is the killer app
Firefox has 3% of the browser market share, IE on decline
Firefox, bah humbug
Firefox, Finally
Firefox: It's a love-hate thing.
Flash memory market leaders: Samsung, Intel, Toshiba, Spansion
Flash sales to bring $15.8 bln in 2004
FOMA's Rite Of PASSAGE
For Whom The Bills Spoil?
Forsee Foresees FCC Ban On State VoIP Reg
Free isn't open source
Gartner bets on 30% of top PC manufacturers to die off
Gartner names growth markets for telecoms: broadband, managed services and mobile
Gartner revises PC sales forecast for Q4 2004
Gartner Weighs in on UBL
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Services: ZDNet blogger says presto!
Gartner: "Consider" Cisco CallManager 4.1
Gartner: What's Hot, What's Not
German PC market grew 12.6% in Q3 2004
Ghost in the open source machine
Gillmor Gang probes Sun's strategy
GIPS Ships Bits for Hip DSP Chips
Giving Alphabet Soup a Bad Name
Global enterprise mobility solutions market to bring in $16.5 bln in 2004
Global mobile phone market leaders: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens, LG
Global sales of virtual MMORPG surpassed $100 mln
Global server revenues up 5.5% in Q3 2004
Go Ask Analysys: I Think They'll Know
Gobble Gobble
Good notebooks ergonomics: Going, going, gone.
Got Local If You Want It: Vonage "Ames" At Iowans
Green, green hills of open source
Grid computing to generate $1.8 bln in Europe by 2008
Handsets To Be Key VoWLAN Driver
Here's A List of All The VoIP Providers In The World
Hey Liz Claiborne Rep: Is That An IP Phone In Your Handbag?
HP's Fink finks on Solaris 10
I Feel The Need for VoIP Wireless Networking From Head To Toe
I've just installed Kazaa-Skype, and I've got 2,509 adware files
IBM looks to nab some of that desktop Linux limelight
IBM tags the mid-market for RFID
IBMer John Swainson to head CA
IM Integration Is Suite Stuff
In 2003 wireless telecom was a $100 bln industry
In 2008 China will be world's largest market for semiconductors
In 2009 70% of smartphones will have Bluetooth
India's PC market grew 35% in Q3 2004
Indian notebook market up 126% in Q3 2004
Industrial electronic monitors sales reached $659 mln in 2004
InfoWorld: Rollins reiterates AMD's role in Dell's future
Ingres joins the fray
Intel shipping desktop Linux to Asia
International VOIP traffic grew 23% in 2003, 40% in 2004
Internet takes 20% of media consumption time in UK
Internet Taxes Have You Squabbling
Internet toll booth: Has Microsoft dropped the other shoe?
IP In The Heart Of Taxes
IP On Your Cordless
IP Phone Reviews You Can Use
IP Solutions Vendors Ranked
IPv6: May The Task Force Be With You
Is a fork inevitable?
Is Linux like a wine that gets better with time?
Is Microsoft's docket clearing "telegraphing" a new legal offensive?
Is REST for the weary? (or wary?)
Is there a best browser toolbar?
Is there a shortage of open source talent?
IT spending in China reached $13 bln in 2003
It takes more brainpower to lie--go figure
It's Articles Like This That Help Your Customers Understand What IP Telephony Is
It's been an hour and my IP phone is still booting
Itanium 2: Reduced to third-class citizen?
JDS for Windows (says Schwartz)? Not quite.
Keep SOA projects in check with top-down guidance
Less than 10% of TV sets sold in 2004 are LCD TVs
Less than 500K of US 14 mln small business have an e-commerce Web site
Level 3: Love Me, Tender?
Linux and DRM
Listings for sex and drugs appear on Target.com
Look for a new GPL in 2005
Major holiday shopping sites: Amazon, eBay, iVillage
Making Friends, The VoIP Way
Making magic
Marc's Voice: OK - I'm confused
Marlborough Men Ship IP
Medium-size online stores lose 2.5% of revenues to online fraud
Men work 49 hours a week, women - 43.5 on average
Merchant switch fabric market to grow at 45% a year
Metaphor Watch
Metaphor Watch II: City Planning
Microcontroller sales to bring $12.3 bln in 2004
Microprocessor market to bring $30.1 bln in 2004
Microsoft alum has sights on the world's first patent marketplace
Microsoft and your tinfoil hat
Microsoft gets 48.1% PDA OS market share in Q3 2004
Microsoft hedges its bets
Microsoft joins ranks of the indemnifiers
Microsoft still owns 88.79% of the Web browser market
Microsoft's Infocard: Lessons learned from Passport
Mobile gaming generated $26 mln in India
Mobile phone shipments up 23% in Q3 2004
Model-based approach
Most online shopping happens on Mondays
Most popular short-term investments for corporate cash piles: money market, bonds, notes
Most trafficked AOL properties: AOL.com, MapQuest, AIM, CNN, Netscape
Music player market shares
My ESB can beat up your ESB
My NORA "jones"
My Take On Today's FCC VoIP Ruling
Nanotechnology products to bring $2 trillion by 2014
Native iSCSI and the commoditization of Enterprise storage
Neither presidential candidate will stem inevitable outsourcing surge, says META Group
Net Tax Bill On Way To Bush: Has State IP Tax Provision
Never MetaData I didn't Like
Newspaper circulation down 0.9% in first half of 2004
NewsStand readers on newspaper readers online
Nielsen estimates DVR penetration at 4-5%
No ghost in the machine
No Moore's Law of training
No strain, no gain
Nortel's Alpha Bet With Alpha
Note to telcos: Resistance is futile
Novell Linux Desktop
Novell Linux update service to go "live" in a couple of days
Novell rejoins desktop fight, with Linux as ally
Novell vs. WinWord: One key to the kingdom that Microsoft won't let go (and other tales of intrigue)
Now You Can Throw Away That Fax Machine
On election night Bush's site got 317K visitors, Kerry's - 306K
On knowing your customers a little too well
Once More, with Feeling: We Demand On Demand
Online ad revenues to grow 21% in 2005
Online advertising generated $2.43 bln in Q3 2004
Online advertising generated $692.2 in September 2004
Online holiday sales of jewelry to grow 67%, furniture and appliances to grow 58%
Online sales to grow 16% in 2005
Online spending reaches $133 mln on Thanksgiving Day, $250 mln on Black Friday
Online video ads to generate $657 mln by 2009
Only 1.9% of local businesses advertise in pay-per-click search engines
Only 2 Hollywood studios excited about digital cinemas
Open source price point
Open source: look beyond Linux success and consider cost and complexity
Open-source details hold up Solaris release
Oracle may drop PeopleSoft lawsuit
Oracle vs. PeopleSoft case heading into overtime
Organic integrated circuit fab to cost $30 mln by 2008
PalmOne going beyond PalmOS?
PalmOne's Colligan on the hot seat in Asia
Patents pending
PC shipments up 24.7%, laptops up 74% in Central and Eastern Europe
PDA market leaders in Q3 2004: PalmOne, HP, Research In Motion, Dell
Plugged in: Dave Winer
Reading Microsoft's server road map
Redmond Readings
Renegotiate software license deals now
Report says ERP vendors off the mark
Residential customers to require a 57 Mbps broadband connection by 2009
REST Easy?
Revolution in Increments
Roll Away The Stone
Russian IT spending to grow by 26% in 2004
Russian software market is estimated at $4.5-5 bln
Sales of IP VPN equipment reached $267 mln in 2003
SBC To FCC: Make VoIP Users Pay
SBC: All Our VoIP Trials Will Soon Be Over
Search for source
Security officials to spy on chat rooms
Security software spending to reach $808 mln in 2008
Semiconductor market to grow 9.6% in 2004
Semiconductor production capacity up 8.8% in Q3 2004
Semiconductor sales to bring $213.b bln in 2004, $227.2 bln in 2006, $259.4 bln in 2007
Semiconductor sales up 1.5% in October
Server market revenues: Microsoft catches up with Unix, Linux tops $1 bln
Server market shares: IBM - 31.7%, HP - 26.8%, Sun - 10.2%, Dell - 10.1%
Server migration patterns for 2004: most companies moving to Windows, leaving Netware
Silicon wafer area shipments up 25% in Q3 2004
Single board computers and embedded CPU blades generated $1.36 bln in 2003
Skype and Kazaa: This Is A Marriage With Problems
Skype CEO: Why Regulate Us?
Skype has 13 mln users worldwide, 2 mln in the US
Skype Patch: Don't Go With The Overflow
SOA in the Loop
Software Blades
Software market to generate $189 bln in 2004, led by Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP
Software piracy in UK is at 29%
Spam In SIP?
Spoofed urls in IE: a vulnerability -- or an issue?
Sprint n' SWAG
Stacked Up
Standards revolt
Star Chip Enterprise
Sticks and Stones...
Study Says IP and VPN Is An Ideal Match
Study: IP PBX Gains On Traditional PBX
Subway Paper Tracks VoIP Retail Push
SugarCRM on demand
Supercomputer or a nice ride?
Surfacing (briefly)
Survey: Web Services Lowers EAI Costs
Take A Peek At My IP Service Agreement
Taking "Solis"
Tech stocks caught in a tug of war
Tell of the tape: Firefox vs. IE
Test and measurement devices market to grow at 11% a year, Agilent retains leadership
Test Suite Stuff
That New Market Is A Lulu
The $100 PC? When hell freezes over.
The Amazone
The Big Blue Boot Camp
The business impact of open source software: researcher replaces assumptions with facts
The business of business process outsourcing
The desktop search land-grab
The Free Software Foundation Europe working with WIPO
The irony of it all
The IT Priorities Research Program
The Linksys/Vonage Router Deal: Is Linksys "Marrying Up?"
The Linux Core Consortium: Second time is a charm?
The other shoe drops: Ballmer warns of patent suits for Linux
The Podosphere
The politics of SOA
The Right Speed For Lightspeed?
The SOA Cloud Thickens
The sorrowful blue screen of death
The Spyware That Snagged Me
The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid
The true meaning of SOAP
The Twilight of Tech
The underdeveloped world of software
TheStreet.com speculation: Novell may sue Sun
Third of UK firms unable to fill their IT vacancies
This River Flows Uphill
Those left behind
TiVo has 2 mln paying subscribers
Today An Innovator, Tomorrow A Subsidiary?
Top 10 Linux/UNIX threats
Top automotive online ad buyers: Jeep, Toyota, Dodge, Ford, Chrysler
Top automotive sites: eBay Motors, AOL Auto, AutoTrader.com
Top home and garden sites: eBay Home, Home Depot, Lowe's
Top information societies: Denmark, Sweden, US, Switzerland
Top mobile phone manufacturers for 2004: Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens
Top mobile phone priorities for 2005: battery life, caller ID, ringtones, color screens
Top semiconductor vendors for 2004: Intel, Samsung, TI, Renesas, Infineon
Travel agents get 16% of online traffic, travel search engines - only 0.42%
TV ad revenues to rise 15-20% in Q4 2004
TV industry conducts own DVR survey, finds 42.7% returning the device
UDDI, Interrupted
UK card fraud reaches 478.8 mln pounds a year
UK insurance companies to increase IT spending at 4.2% a year
UK PC market up 18.3% in Q3 2004
Underhyping the Web
US consumer electronics prices experience the biggest decline in 5 months
US Internet access market volume reaches $35.1 bln in 2003, 50% of that is broadband
US retail sales up 0.2% in October 2004
Verisign says 80% of e-mail is spam
Verizon VoiceWing's Do Not Disturb Feature
Video game sales up 35% in 2004
Video games threaten sales of action figures, building sets, games, puzzles and toy cars
Videoconferencing is the top reason for corporate VOIP deployments
Viper: Snaking Toward The Enterprise Space
Vivisimo, Clusty, A9, AllTheWeb, Snap collectively get 7.1% of US Web users
VOIP'ing The Vote
Wal-Mart's data store is 460 TB
Web Services Does Not an SOA Make
Welcome To Our New IP Telephony Blog
Welcome to our new Research Blog
What Microsoft Learned From SCO
When standards sputter
Where are the snitches?
While You Were On Vacation, They Made Money
Who'll Regulate VoIP-Using Telemarketers?
Why CEOs don't blog
Why email attachements are still dangerous
Why stop at Single Sign On, why not Universal Sign On?
WiFi hardware revenue up 9% in Q3 2004
Will SOA collapse under its own weight?
Will You Vote For VoWiFi?
Wind River's Linux Embed
With the curse reversed, the Babe is a free agent (this time on eBay)
Worldwide recruiting services market to grow at 8.7% a year
WPA PSK Cracking, a case for strong authentication
WSTS lowers semiconductor market growth forecast to 1.2% in 2005
Yankee Group ups DVR penetration forecast to 33.5 mln DVRs by 2008