Blog posts on 2005-05

"Survivor: Palau?" No, "Survivor: Avaya"
$3.32 bln of semiconductors sold in Europe in April 2005
$4.2 bln spent on software as a service in 2004
$4.2 bln spent on software as a service in 2004
$409 mln of blade servers sold in Q1 2005
$51 bln of online leisure travel bookings happen online
118 mln broadband subscribers in OECD states
13% of US households do not bank at all
15% of blog readers ever leave a comment
15% of manufacturing companies outsourced research and development in 2004
15% reduction in IT workforce by 2010
16% of multiservice switches are sold to wireless service providers
16% of multiservice switches are sold to wireless service providers
18% of 2004 venture capital went into biotech
18% of 2004 venture capital went into biotech
180.6 mln mobile phones sold in Q1 2005
2-3% of Australian households have cut landlines
20 mln fixed WiMAX installations by 2009
20% of 25-34-year-old Americans own an MP3 player
20,000 college graduates with computer-related degrees in 2004
22% of French Internet users gamble online
29% of DVR owners say ad skipping is primary reason for recording
3 mln Blackberry subscribers
3,800 nanotech patents issued, 1,777 pending
3.35 mln Japanese Web users have blogs
3.8% of all advertising money to go into Internet ads in 2005
300,000 Americans searched for hybrid vehicles in March 2005
34% of broadband users go to sites advertised on TV
34% of broadband users go to Web sites mentioned on TV
35 mln households had home networks in 2004, 162 mln will have them in 2010
35% of young phone users want wireless music downloads
37 mln Americans listen to Internet radio
39% of 2003 H1B approvals were for tech industry, 37% brought people from India
40% of US households will have DVRs by 2009
40% of US households will have DVRs by 2009
43% of online buyers were delivered to retail sites by search engines
44% of UK small businesses ready to pay for hosted applications
46% of mobile phone owners are loyal to the brand
5% of UK IT specialists satisfied with their jobs
51% of online Americans aware of the link between the browser and PC security
52% of e-mail users agreee that spam is a big problem
52% of men and 31% of women are aware of RFID.
53% of DVR users want remote access to the recorded content
53% of online banking customers use other online services
54% actively try to resist advertising
60 Days
62% of telecom customers would buy landline+cell phone integration
62% of telecom customers would buy landline+cell phone integration
64% of mobile phone owners play a mobile game at least once a day
64% of mobile phone owners play a mobile game at least once a day
67% of local buyers research online
68% of Web users filed taxes online
68% of Web users filed taxes online
68.6 mln mobile subscribers in Brazil, 80% of them pre-paid
68.6 mln mobile subscribers in Brazil, 80% of them pre-paid
683 mln e-mail users worlwide, 130 bln e-mails sent daily
69.4 mln US households to have broadband by 2008
7 Tips for finding the right partner
7% of Cingular customers are on pre-paid plans
7% of Cingular customers are on pre-paid plans
7% of UK online users and 8% of online Americans research genealogy
7.5 mln broadband lines in UK
70% of network pros satisfied by network security
70% of Web users use an anti-spyware tool
71% of online sellers say e-mail promotions generate less than 10% of their business
72.5 mln mobile subscribers in Central and Eastern Europe
74% of European households to have digital TV by 2009
74% of European households to have digital TV by 2009
80% of US wireless carriers offer Wi-Fi
88% of PCs have spyware, CoolWebSearch most prevalent
88% of PCs have spyware, CoolWebSearch most prevalent
93% of financial institutions rely on algorithms
A VoIP sub-trend few people are talking about- but I am
Addressing the sad state of corporate innovation
Advertising in games to reach $562 mln in 2009
All about Infocard
All about Linux: in one paragraph
All about Linux: in one paragraph
AMD CTO Fred Weber: x86 everywhere
Americans go through 604 mln inkjet cartridges a year
Analyst sounds alarm on green compliance
Analyst to VoIP firms: spend your money on E-911 dev., not lawyers
Anti-Linux strategy predicts Longhorn insecurity?
Anti-Linux strategy predicts Longhorn insecurity?
Appistry: Why buy Xeons when Wal-Mart Pentium 4's will do?
Apple - Intel talks just a herring?
Application management market generated $17.9 bln in 2004
Arbitriage
Asia Pacific mobile operator capex increased 11% in 2004
Avaya CEO: Microsoft Live Communications server is "cheap dial tone"
Average blogger household income is $57,900
Average Web user has 3 adware applications
Bad relationship...
BEA to play the independent platform provider card
BEA's Free Flow
Behind the scenes of Intel's Vegas-wide WiMax network
Belgium to have 64% online penetration, Netherlands to reach 75% by 2010
Beyond the hype
Big SOA
BMC's new CTO touts virtues of BSM
BorderWare to move point solutions to common architecture
Bricklin on DVD: Good software copyright primer for enterprises
Broadband in residential units was a $364 mln industry in 2004
BT Trax, at your service
Business Opportunity of the moment
But seriously, folks
Bye-bye broadcast flag
C-change ahead for SOA?
Canada telcos to regulators: you're clueless
Canadian IT spending to reach $78 bln in 2005
Canadian IT spending to reach $78 bln in 2005
Canadian telcom regulators have it right
Chambers Interop keynote: 'Anytime, anywhere, any mode you want'
Chambers keynote Podcast: How I did it
China: 500 million mobile subscribers in 2007
Chinese digital TV production to grow at 37% a year
Chinese IT security market up 31.2% in 2004
Cisco hooks up with British Airways
Cisco introduces all-in-one low-cost products
Cisco posts workaround for IP phone DoS vulnerabilities
Cisco unveils new triple play in security appliances
Cisco's Giancarlo and IBM's Mills: Actually, a certain amount of complexity can be 'worth it'
Cisco, Dell, HP: top vendor picks for planned initiatives
Comcrash tech support to frustrated user: "what's Vonage?"
Confronting the SaaS skeptics
Connecticut's suit against Vonage is less than baseless
Consoles to generate $1.1 bln in 2005, $9.4 bln in 2008
Consultant: 5 reasons why Skype IM has older IMs beat
Converging federation standards?
Corporate blogging exists in 4% of major US corporations
Corporate intranet users name search the top priority
Cost argument for outsourcing running out as market matures
Could palmOne LifeDrive PDA work as a softphone?
Could RSI risks of laptop usage beget legal risks?
Craigslist facts: 2 bln monthly pageviews
Cringley on OneCare
CRM software to grow less than 5% in Western Europe
Cyber Security Group: six reasons why VoIP is vulnerable
Debian freezes over
Deja Vu: IT may matter, but the IT department may not
Depoliticizing open source
Desperately seeking: More AJAX developers
Digital identity with a capital 'I'
Digital TV sales up 70% in 2004
DirectRevenue attempts reform
Do no simple
Does Your CEO Trust You?
Does Your CEO Trust You?
Don't spill that Mint Mocha Chip Frappuccino on your VoIP handset
DreamWorks Animation renders digital jungle
Dry etch market grew 98% in 2004
Dry etch market grew 98% in 2004
Dual cores to rule by 2007
Dynamic specialization
E-commerce to grow to $142.5 bln in 2005
E-commerce up 23.8% to $141.4 bln in 2004
Ecosystemus interruptus: Multitasking did not undo PalmSource
Egyptian PC market down 0.4% in 2004
Egyptian PC market down 0.4% in 2004
EMC is tops among SAN storage vendors
EMEA server market grows 3.7% in dollar terms, falls 1.3% in euros
Engagement announcement: VoIP and WiFi
EU privacy laws
Europe fights for the open source wheel
European mobile penetration to reach 100% by 2007
European mobile penetration to reach 100% by 2007
Expecting parents visit toys and cosmetics stores most frequently
FBI to Duh! itself, again
FBI to Duh! itself, again
Fear and greed drive social software adoption, says expert
Federal Enterprise Architecture: agencies and vendors brace for pain
Fewer than 10% of rural Americans have broadband
Fiber-to-the-home up 83% in 2005
Florida gets a clue: they won't tax VoIP
Foes of outsourcing get good news
For Level 3, VoIP E911 is a huge opportunity
For local searches 66% turn to search engines, 34% - to Yellow Pages
For Skype Chat users, the "alertson"
For Windows bug hunters, there's strength in numbers
For Windows bug hunters, there's strength in numbers
Foreign students enrollment in US universities dropped 2.4% in 2003-2004
Foreign students enrollment in US universities dropped 2.4% in 2003-2004
Former FCC wireless E911 chief: VoIP E911 to take years, not 120 days
Frankston's Threadlogs (#1): Enter walled garden here
FTC Takes on SPAM Zombies
Fun with Google
Fussing Over FireFox
Futurist Paul Saffo: The new personal media order
Gartner blog preps symposium attendees
Gartner CEO dusts off old themes in Symposium kick-off
Gartner exec to VoIP-resistant CIOs: get with the program
Gartner has new rap for complexity
Gartner issues false alarm on Microsoft WPA2 warning
Gartner keynote transcript: Conquering complexity
Gartner Symposium, day 1
Gartner to CIOs: Get ready to outsource infrastructure operations
Gartner ups PC shipments to 202 mln units in 2005
Gartner: tech complexity not greatest threat to CIOs
Gartner: time to move from 802.11b only to 802.11a/g
Gillmor Daily
Global Ethernet service revenues reached $2.5 bln in 2004
Global next generation voice products market up 40% in Q1 2005
Global software sales to reach 270 bln euros in 2008
Globus Toolkit 4.0
Google CEO Eric Schmidt unplugged
Google personalizes homepage
Grasshopper hops code from Visual Studio .Net to Linux--for free
Harping on Backups
Hate spyware? Of course you do: so why are you a Libertarian?
Here's how Vonage-Verizon E-911 will work
Here's why I'm cynical about the Vonage-SBC-BellSouth deal
High definition video conferencing is here
Hosted software not strategic
How do open source enterprises handle security?
How to get a head start on building mobile .Net or Java apps
How's this for product placement? Cisco IP mentioned on "24"
HR 29 and 744 passed last night
I don't want you to talk, Mr. Gates
IBM Cell door to slam open
IBM Cell door to slam open
IBM gets SaSsy
IBM's center of gravity
IBM: Poised to eat Solaris' lunch?
IDC names largest business software ecosystems: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft
IDC names largest business software ecosystems: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft
If OSDL is the center of gravity how should it act?
If VIA can't do it (the $100 PC), then nobody can
If we can build self-healing servers, then why not self-healing desktops?
iFrameDollars.biz: Making money the EZ way!
In 2007 China will have 57 mln broadband subscribers, US will have 54 mln
In 2007 China will have 57 mln broadband subscribers, US will have 54 mln
Indonesian banks to increase IT spending by 34%
Infrastructure software generated $6.7 bln in 2004
Infrastructure software generated $6.7 bln in 2004
Intel attributes laptop sales growth to Centrino
Intel on AMD's early dual-core wins: "Not so fast"
IP Telephony solutions provider Cisco CEO speaks his mind
Is Bluetooth past its prime?
Is Integrien's Alive the superMOM of MOMs?
Is Microsoft considering acquisition of Red Hat?
Is open source nimble enough?
Is Rodi BitTorrent's Replacement?
Is service the answer to the open source war?
Is SOA samo samo?
Is that an iPod phone in your pocket?
Is that an iPod phone in your pocket?
Is the bloom off the cellco WiFi hedge?
Is the Linux process insecure?
Is the Nexus the next Registry?
Is the Nexus the next Registry?
iSCSI the new Security Scourge?
IT Help Desks in the dog house
It's all about chunking
ITIL getting vendors on the same page
IVR systems get service-oriented
Jamie Lewis on the future of identity management
JBoss' Marc Fleury 'welcomes' IBM and Gluecode to the open source J2EE party
Journalists: the new industry analyst watchdogs?
Juniper's Kriens: 'Don't sell your soul to Cisco'
Keeping old PCs alive
Larry Smarr: Pumping the Net up for gigabyte images
Less Web, more services?
License management still a big business
Linux is now a mobile player
Linux present in 60% of Windows environments, says Yankee
Linux server sales reached $1.2 bln in Q1 2005
Local advertising generated $670 mln in 2004
Local advertising generated $670 mln in 2004
Local advertising pumped $1.2 bln into newspaper sites and $119 mln into local TV sites
Long live COBOL?
Long live COBOL?
Low cost enterprise grade video conferencing
Mac's Day in the sun!
Macromedia Breeze adds VoIP conferencing
Major obstacle to electronic health records: 55.5% name funding
Malik: most VoIP companies doing "bupkis" in sales
March 2005 search engine market shares: Google - 36.4%, Yahoo! - 30.6%, MSN - 16.5%
Mass migration to VoIP expected within a decade
Mayfield's Threadlogs: Time to pay homage to the enterprise Wiki?
Meet a $39 IP-WiFi phone
Message from a Mac User
Message from a Mac User
Metaphor war
Micropayments to reach $1.8 bln by 2009
Microsoft CTO Craig Mundie looks into the future
Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?
Microsoft lays the groundwork for WPA2 and 802.11i
Microsoft OneCare
Microsoft plays Johnny Appleseed
Microsoft security guru wants you to jot down your passwords?
Microsoft steps up VoIP efforts
Microsoft to buy Red Hat? Say it ain't so
Microsoft to buy Red Hat? Say it ain't so
Microsoft's enlightened identity metasystem
Microsoft's Portable Media Centers: a strong monoculture headstart
Microsoft's winning anti-Linux strategy
Middleware as application defense?
Mobile infrastructure sales up 14% in Q1 2005
Money, and the other 99 schools
Money, and the other 99 schools
Monocultures and automobiles
Monocultures and automobiles
More services, more performance hits
Most popular travel sites: Hotels.com, TripAdvisor, Marriott
Most popular travel sites: Hotels.com, TripAdvisor, Marriott
Motorola seeks big agility
Mr. Gates' new workplace
Municipal Broadband Across the US
Municipal Broadband Across the US
MySQL, JBoss most likely on 'the block'
N+I : Where Companies Go To Die.
NetBeans 4.1 focused on open source mobile development
Networking projects hard to predict
New 3Com IP PBX features sound interesting
Newspaper circulation declines 1.9%
Newspaper circulation declines 1.9%
No good for advertisers, either
Nokia's security solutions could lift demand for its smartphones
Notes from the workshop
OASIS sets out to tame the SOA beast
Of Google, Yahoo and Marketing 101
Office to the max
Oh, the E911 ruling free-for-all on Slashdot!
Online music market to reach $1 bln in 2005
Open source rising in Africa
Open source youth movement
Open Source's debt to corporations
Open Source's debt to corporations
Open source, altruism, and the business model problem
PalmOne--iPod killer?
PalmOne--iPod killer?
Participatory product development
Patching Windows system costs 14% less than open source client
Patchlink centralizes security patching for all apps and OSes
Paths to SOA
PDA sales up 25% in Q1 2005, Research in Motion becomes market leader
PDA sales up 25% in Q1 2005, Research in Motion becomes market leader
People check e-mail 5 times a day on average
Podcast figures don't stack up
Popular packet analyzer doesn't recognize Skype traffic
Pundit: Stop your VoIP installation now!! To which I reply ...
Pushing IBM Around
Q1 2005 valuations for venture-financed startups up 24%
Radar Love
Real World Head Aches
Recipe for failure: ignore societal trends, says Gartner
Record mobile phone sales in Q1 2005 - 180.6 mln handsets sold
Red Hat to open-source Netscape Directory
Relational database market generated $7.8 bln in 2004
Relational database sales reached $7.79 bln in 2004, Oracle and IBM tied for top spot
Remanufactured printer cartridges to account for 24% of the market by 2008
Remixing Google Maps
Remixing Google Maps
Report: AT&T, Skype still carping about mandatory E911
Reversing outsourcing
Reversing outsourcing
Rick Rashid: Bring the romance back to science and engineering
RightNow CEO bemoans Salesforce.com's toolkit approach to CRM
Rise of 'HomoiPodi' challenges IT, says Gartner
Ruling jeopardizes media copy protection
Ruling jeopardizes media copy protection
Sales of expensive athletic shoes reached $600 mln in 2004
Salesforce.com; a commodity product?
SANs winning the storage solution race
SAP to outplay Oracle, says AMR
SBC to offer E911 access to VoIP providers? Oh yea? I want these 12 questions answered first
Science of services
Security and the Linux process
Security: agreeing to agree
Semantic web looking for the killer app
Semantic web looking for the killer app
Semiconductor capex spending to decline 5% in 2005
Semiconductor equipment market to grow 20.5% in 2007 and 27.0% in 2008
Semiconductor surplus down to $500 mln in Q1 2005
Server market up 4.1% in Q1 2005
Seven key E911 issues the FCC ruling glosses over
Siebel's on-demand CRM chief now available on-demand
Skype adding Paypal makes sense to me
Skype flame wars erupt on Slashdot .. again
Skype: tweak our API, and those tweaks become ours
SkypeOut's big touch-tone recognition problem
Smaller VoIP companies headed for a fine mess
SOA conference: simplify, simplify, simplify
SOA path: Core business flexibility
SOA users endangered by vendor marketing hype
Sober worm is in 79% of all infected e-mails
Sober worm is in 79% of all infected e-mails
Software and services added 30K jobs in 2004
Software and services added 30K jobs in 2004
Something in the Air
Something you should know about Skype: you'll only read it here
Sony PSP searches up 119% in the second half of March 2005
Sony PSP searches up 119% in the second half of March 2005
Speculating on Red Hat and Microsoft
Spreading the .NET surface area
Spreading the .NET surface area
Spring M&A fever. Is something in the water?
Spy vs Spy: The Accountable Net Part II
Spyware and the law
Spyware violates Computer Abuse Act
Stir IP Telephony, Wi-Fi, WiMax and cell in a big pot and you get ...
Storage management generated $5.6 bln in 2004
Study: consumers twice as likely to sign up for VoIP if part of a price-bundled service
Study: VoIP Ramp-up now, migration later
Sun and Microsoft cooperation still cloudy
Sun draws lines in the sand
Sun: IBM's Solaris-Linux migration offer is "act of desperation"
SunRocket: we don't need 120 days; we'll do E911 in 30
Supporting the minority: Is open source over-extended?
Sure, ATAs are a pain, but here's good news: they won't be around much longer
Tablet Tales
Targeted Marketing
Targeted use of spyware in Israel
Ten features Vonage users wish they had, but don't (yet)
That's a no, then, on utilization?
That's a no, then, on utilization?
The antispyware event of the season
The coming spyware VoIP wars: and why anti-spyware laws won't matter
The future in review
The future of nano-biology: regenerating tissue and artificial proteins
The future of the enterprise and grids
The future of VoIP
The future of WiMax
The GPL wins again
The grand convergence in 2010
The Graying of IT
The Graying of IT
The Hollywoodization of gaming
The Hollywoodization of gaming
The importance of distribution: India's open source CD push
The little red hen business model
The missing glue in the fight against malware
The more profound transition at Intel
The next VoIP gold rush; third-party VoIP E911 solutions
The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?
The offer you can't refuse
The offer you can't refuse
The on-demand service world heats up
The Phisher that phailed English
The reality of Web services
The reality of Web services
The remedy for spyware--not anytime soon, part II
The remedy for spyware...not anytime soon
The road ahead for Vonage
The Rosetta Project: Rescuing languages
The SaaS paradigm
The Scobleizer Bunny
The sorry state of American telecom
The sorry state of American telecom
The true origins of the personal computer
The value of a software ecosystem
There Is No Baby In The Bath Water
Third party E911 solution providers are using the media to deliver RSVPs to prospects
This VoIP tutorial is the best I've ever seen
Thought to be redacted, classified military info exposed by cut n' paste
Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening
To catch a thief: cameras feed security info over IP
To your health: Web services
Too much hype over Skype?
Top digital devices US families own: satellite TV, DVD burner, portable DVD player
Top online retail categories by order size: computer hardware, tickets, automotive
Top real estate sites: Realtor.com, Home Gain, AOL Real Estate
Top search terms for travel agencies
Top search terms for travel agencies
Trade show bellwether: looking up
Trumba calendars its service
Universal Navigator: The next-generation browser?
Unstoppable? The Microsoft media juggernaut
Upgraded Yahoo! IM now offers voice calling (well, kinda)
US e-commerce reaches $19.8 bln in Q1 2005
US mobile data services and applications generated $1.6 bln in Q4 2004
US mobile data services and applications generated $1.6 bln in Q4 2004
US online marketing spending to reach $14.7 bln in 2005
US online marketing spending to reach $14.7 bln in 2005
US wireless customer base: Cingular - 50 mln, Verizon - 43 mln, Sprint - 40 mln
Video game sales reached $2.2 bln in Q1 2005
Virtual goods for MMORPG are a $880 mln industry
Virus-infected e-mail down 30%, phishing down 45% in April 2005
Virus-infected e-mail down 30%, phishing down 45% in April 2005
Visits to Vatican site up 452% in March-April 2005
Visits to Vatican site up 452% in March-April 2005
Voice over DSL to generate $1.1 bln by 2009
VoIP and more: the big, honkin' problem with centralized tech support
VOIP generated $1.3 bln in 2004, to bring $19.9 bln in 2009
VOIP generated $1.3 bln in 2004, to bring $19.9 bln in 2009
VOIP in North America to be a $20 bln industry by 2009
VoIP performance analytics are more than just raw numbers
VoIP planning becomes reality
Vonage eyes Singapore, Japan, Korea
Vonage gets $200 million: here's what will happen next
Vonage's Citron sure has a point about E911 access standards
Vonage's Citron talks about Skype, AT&T, and that "low-horsepower" OS
Vonage's Web and phone support is a jumbled mess
Wal-Mart's Domain Name Battles
Wal-Mart's Domain Name Battles
Wall Street wakes up to Web services
Washington State outlaws spyware
We are Family
We want our XQuery
Weaving the Net
Web analytics to generate $275 mln in 2005
Web users spend 40.3% of online time on communications in March 2005
Welcome Back Techknow Times
Welcome to the party
WEP cracking for dummies
Wharton professors weigh in on Longhorn
What a mess
What Gartner kept from META
What is your favorite desktop Linux application?
What Linux really means for India is localization
What Qwest *really* means when they tell FCC "sure on VoIP 911"
What SBC is *really* telling the FCC
What's left for RSS to disrupt? Plenty
What's running on your PC. In English.
What's the world coming to? Ballmer and Szulik greet, meet and eat in NYC
What's wrong with keynote presentations
What’s the Definition of Insanity?
When programmers change their tune
When programmers change their tune
Where is Stiennon?
Where should security live?
Why cable companies call Internet telephony "digital phone" instead of VoIP
Why copy Microsoft?
Why copy Microsoft?
Why Metro will not kill PDF
Why open access won't fix our telecom mess
Why open access won't fix our telecom mess
Why the third world won't save open source
Why the third world won't save open source
Why Vonage's road ahead will be tougher than they say
Will Apple switch to Intel?
Will Apple switch to Intel?
Will content companies avoid open source?
Will content companies avoid open source?
Wily's Intrascope watches every step J2EE apps take
Wireless networking chipsets to grow at 23% a year
Wireless networking chipsets to grow at 23% a year
With Nagel gone, will PalmSource wake up and smell the Java?
Without wetware, what?
Without wetware, what?
WLAN equipment revenue up 20% in Q1 2005
WLAN semiconductors to generate $3 bln by 2009
Women shoppers to drive online cosmetics sales up 33% in 2005
Workshops or Peace Summits?
Workstation business worth $4.5 bln in 2004
Workstation business worth $4.5 bln in 2004
Worlds collide at mash-up event
Worldwide 2005 IT spending growth: 5% in USA, 4% in Western Europe, 1% in Japan
Worldwide equity market shares: US- 47%, Western Europe - 27%, Asia - 18%
Worldwide equity market shares: US- 47%, Western Europe - 27%, Asia - 18%
Worldwide memory sales: $28.4 bln in 2002, $33.7 bln in 2003
x86 facing real competition
x86 facing real competition
Yankee Group report: Linux won't disappear
You need this barometer to know which way the VoIP wind blows
Zone Labs CEO: Microsoft's OneCare will not stomp us out