Blog posts on 2005-08

"Two-Minute Warning"
"Wintel Causing Global Heating" -McNealy
$1.09 bln spent on online game subscriptions in Asia-Pacific in 2004
$12.15 bln of servers sold in Q2 2005
$12.2 bln of servers sold in Q2 2005, 5.6% growth
$498 mln of educational software sold in 2000, $152 mln in 2004
$5.4 bln spent on business process outsourcing in Asia-Pacific in 2004
$6.1 bln invested in venture funds in Q2 2005
$69.23 bln of federal contracts awarded to small businesses in 2004
'Ask Bloggie' lives!
'Ask Bloggie' lives!
'Enterprise Service Ferrari' -- why settle for a bus?
1% of corporate PC users run Linux desktops
1,761,000 servers sold in Q2 2005, 9% growth YTY
1.3 bln euros earned on selling movies to European pay TV networks
10.8% of US households have MP3 players
12% of US Hispanics paid for ringtones
124.7 mln printers, copiers and multifunction devices will ship in 2005
14% of men and 14% of women try out online dating to find true love
149 mln multifunction printer/copiers to ship by 2009
15% more DRAM megabytes shipped in Q2 2005
15% of digital camera owners never delete any images
15% of home buyers discovered their new home on the Web in 2004
16.5 mln extension lines shipped in Western Europe in 2004
18% of biotech companies to use electronic data capture within the next 12 months
19% of large online retailers plan a private label credit card
190.5 mln mobile phones sold in Q2 2005, 22% growth
2.7 mln Americans paid for VOIP in Q2 2005
20 government contracts to total $250 bln in 2006
2004 mobile phone sales down 10% in Japan
2006: 'broad and deep' SOA adoption ahead
207K new jobs added to the economy in July 2005
21% of time on Google and 2% of time on Yahoo! was spent on search in June 2005
23% of US mobile phone owners downloaded a ring tone in 2005
27% buy portable media players looking for more features
27.9 mln of US households have tried a cell phone game
29% of all music sold in the US in 2004 was burned to a CD
29% of Irish companies expect lower IT spending in 2005
2D and 3D scientific visualisation market to generate $10.7 bln in 2005
3,000 Security Professionals Can't Be Wrong
30% of broadband Americans have never heard of VOIP
30% of camera phone owners plan to buy a digital camera
30% of New Zealanders bought products online, 50% investigated online but bought offline
30% of US population visited blogs in Q1 2005
30-day extension for VoIP customers
32% of corporate users in India have fallen for a phishing scam
33% of IT companies will increase outsourcing in 2006
35.9% of US teens bought cell phones just to use text messaging
38.2% of DVDs rented in Japan in 2004 contained Japanese movies
4% of Internet users plan to buy a PMP (Portable Multimedia Player) within the next 12 months
40 mln Americans want access to mobile e-mail
41% of Americans dated a co-worker
41% of US digital music player owners are willing to pay $10 a month maximum for music
42% of rural customers get their TV through satellite, 37% through cable
43% of US financial transactions go through credit and debit cards
45% of realtors rely on e-mail for primary communications with clients
46.77% of BitTorrent traffic is video
5% of Web users use desktop RSS aggregators, 6% use Web aggregators
5.8% of US cell phone users have checked their e-mail on the phone
50% of Australian kids have a cell phone
50% of Web users have never heard of RSS
51% of men and 51% of women have used online banking in the past 30 days
52% of online retail belonged to offline retailers in 2003
53% of broadband value-added revenues come from security, 24% - from ASP
53-60% of SMB IT spending goes towards infrastructure
55% of industry insiders think flash memory will replace hard drives in consumer electronics
55% of US farmers use PCs, 51% are online
557 mln hours spent in June 2005 on content sites
56% of large Web sites use homegrown search engines
56% use search engines to get to sites, 28% use bookmarks, 16% navigate a directory
57% recall using Web site for help, then calling customer service and still receiving no help
58% of ad executives would buy SMS ads
59% of online Hispanics use instant messaging, 55% listen to music online
6% of European households to subscribe to IPTV by 2009
60.366 mln mobile users in India
61% of kids play a video game every single day
61.44% of P2P traffic is video, 11.34% is audio
64% of all 2004 phone calls in Finland were from cell phones
64% of Canadian computer science students have pirated commercial software
66% of Australian parents say their kids are more Internet-savvy
68 mln motherboards shipped out of Taiwan in the first half of 2005, 5.3% growth
7-Eleven's precious shelf space
70% of Asian and 57% of North American open source developers contribute to open source projects
71 mln Northern Americans to have broadband by 2010, 42.7% of US households will use DVRs
724K Americans derive primary or secondary income from eBay
73% of Internet users would buy PMPs if they cost below $200
74% of US students prefer online stores for textbooks
75% of mid-size companies have a VOIP plan
75% of security spending is going into compliance
76.8 mln mobile subscribers in Africa
8% of SMBs plan to increase Yellow Pages ad spending in 2005
8.2 mln UMD movies sold
8.7 mln 1-inch hard drives shipped in 2004, 140 mln by 2009
80% of corporate PCs are infected with adware/spyware
80% of counterfeit $50 bills are made on PC with color printer
80% of game developers are white
80% of network intrusions go unreported
80% of phishing is targeted at financial institutions
80% of US households to have broadband by 2010
81% of UK companies to increase outsourcing in the next 2-3 years
82% of consumer magazines plan to up their Web efforts within the next 12 months
83% of notebooks sold in 2005 are made in Taiwan
83% of visitors to blogs have broadband
87% of Americans have health insurance
88% of vacation buyers use Internet for planning and shopping
90% of SRAM manufacturers now make Pseudo SRAM
93% of corporate users will install a non-sanctioned app within the next 6 months
93% of Web users annoyed by pop-ups, 89% by prompts to install extra software
98% of Japanese mobile music downloads were to cell phones
A burst of sanity in the schools - chatting students won't go to jail
A case for government CTOs
A flaw in Cisco's response to a security problem
A guide for would-be conspiracy theorists
A high school without textbooks
A perfect storm for rich Internet apps
A profile of tech management in Virginia Beach
A search engine for system admins
A unifying theme for Microsoft?
A Walkman for your eyes
Accounting applications to generate $586.8 mln in 2009
Agent Smith invades online games
Akamai produces a zeitgeist meter
Akamai produces a zeitgeist meter
Al Qaeda hiring hackers, govt. systems may be prime targets
All about ITIL
All the news that hits
Aluria anti-spyware being acquired by EarthLink
AMD power usage trumps Intel -- but does anyone care?
AMD's Turion is for thin and light? Yeah right!
Analysts surprised by EV-DO price drop? Doh
Analysts: Need to replace aging telcom equipment to give SMB VoIP a boost
Anatomy of a Service Contract
APL and parallelism
Apple market share reaches 4.5% in Q2 2005
Apple on Intel has a rotten core
Apple's x86 Move: reality and the party line
Application delivery market up 23% in Q4 2004
Application integration, middleware and portals grew 7.5% in 2004
Application integration, middleware and portals to grow at 8.2% a year in Asia-Pacific
Architecture, engineering and construction software grew 14.9% in 2004
Are baby bells abusing their gov't granted right-of-way?
Are worms actually good for security?
Arizona to get cutting-edge telecom
Art and profit in open source
Asia-Pacific database management systems market to grow at 10.3% a year
Asia-Pacific financial companies to spend $49 bln on IT by 2009
Asia-Pacific mobile data to generate $35 bln in 2009
Asia-Pacific printer market down 4% in Q1 2005
Asia-Pacific private equity down 48% in the first half of 2005
Asian-Pacific PC sales up 18% in the first half of 2005
Ask Bloggie: Does This Scan?
Ask Bloggy
Attention Metaphor
Audiocasting's, aka podcasting, perfect storm
Australian kids on average spend 6.2 hours a week online
Australian mobile data services revenues to grow at 21.5% a year
Avaya's IP solution to nuke waste accident risk
Average American watches TV 14 hours a week, broadband American - 12 hours a week
Average cellular customer spends 6.9 hours a month on mobile phone
Average monthly revenue from broadband business user was $15.40 in 2004
Average user conducted 36.2 search engine queries in June 2005, 37.6 queries in July 2005
Back-to-school spending on electronics to fall to $2.06 bln in 2005 vs $3.09 bln in 2004
BEA retrenching with new app server and 'blended' business model
BEA's Bus
Beware the QA bullies
Big surprise: SOA enters the trough of disillusionment
BirthdayAlarm.com traffic up 40% in the last week of July 2005
Blade server shipments up 67.1% in Q2 2005
Blade.org: Standards body or boondoggle?
Block off the old chips: here comes a single-chip VoIP handset solution
Blueprints will cover both 'macho' and non-macho SOA
Botwar breaks out between virus writing gangs
BPO outsourcing to grow at 3.3% a year
Bricks and Cliques
British American Tobacco rolls out SOA
Broadband monopolists: please don't enact VoIP port-block rules
Browser market share in July 2005: IE - 87.2%, Firefox - 8.07%, Mozilla Suite - 0.52%, Opera - 0.49%
Budget for health information network far lower than expected costs
Building a successful startup
Business intelligence market in India grew at 27.09% a year
Busy BEA's new challenges
Calif. requires manufacturers to meet national voting law requirements
California's Tech Services Dept. considered
Cameraphones to outsell digital cameras by early 2006
Can SOA save Siebel?
Can't wait to try out this VoWiFi analyzer
Caution all Skype users: here's today's BIG Skype teachable moment
Cell phones are a $570 bln industry in 2005
Central and Eastern European PC market up 26.1% in Q2 2005
China launching constant attacks on military networks
China-based systems caught probing US defense networks
Chinese and Taiwanese barebone PC exports to grow 97% in 2005
Chinese notebook PC market up 37.3% in Q1 2005, up 44.6% in Q2 2005
Chinese search engine market shares: Baidu - 52%, Google - 33%
Chris Anderson dissects the Long Tail
CIO compensation almost doubles at largest firms
Cisco + Nokia?
Cisco to consume Nokia?
City govt. strugging with Wi-Fi issues? Just Google it.
Cleantech venture investments up 4.8% in Q1 2005
Clear a path for SOA -- whatever it is
Coeur d'Alene tribe building Wi-Fi for entire reservation
Comcast's Magnificent Seven: A deal too good to pass up?
Commercial open source, a misnomer?
Comparing cost/benefit change: x86 vs. SPARC
Comparing Sun and Dell servers
Competing with the Microsoft ecosystem
Condition Yellow
Congress to address first responder funding gap
Congress turns up the pressure on city wireless
Connecting the dots with SOX
Consumer prices up 0.5% in July 2005
Consumers in 6 European countries spent 21 bln euros on packaged home entertainment
Content management system software sales to grow at 16.6% a year in Asia-Pacific
Contextual ads to grow to $5.4 bln in 2005
Converged SOA/open source business model emerges
Court fight ahead over VoIP wiretap ruling
Creating competitive advantage through IT
CRM market up 10% in 2004, hosted CRM up 105%
CRM meet RSS
CRM software market grew 8% in 2004
Customs Melt Down
Dana Gardner parses IBM's corporate search standard
DC area cities take opposing tacks to Wi-Fi
DC first responders get smartcards
Death by deregulation
Deconstructing the enterprise service bus
Dell servers most deliberated
Demand Generators
Department of Defense funding decoder rings
Department of Defense funding decoder rings
DHS asks industry to help with cybersecurity
DHS security still full of holes
DHS starts new IT procedures
DHS tests RFID at ports
Digital camera market shares: Kodak - 22.1%, Canon - 20.6%, Sony - 18.3%
Direct Revenue changing tactics?
Direct Revenue: is the gig up?
Divergent accessibility standards
Does Centrino ploy put Intel in hotspot?
Does Phil Zimmermann need a clue on VoIP?
Does this scan?
Dog Days
Dow Jones gets the memo on IBM's Linux strategy
DrKW CIO JP Rangaswami on the 'new outsource'
DSL access multiplexer port shipments up 6% in Q1 2005
Dynamic survey or questionnaire generation
E-commerce sales up 26% in Q2 2005
E-mail and calendaring software to grow at 7.3% a year
E-voting accreditation takes a small step forward
Ecosystems versus centralized development
Ed Bott FUDbusts the Mac Observer on Vista falsehoods
Eddie Bauer traffic up 63% in June 2005
Embedded software development tools generated $1.4 bln in 2004
Enterprise content management market to grow 10.6% a year
Enterprise server OS market shares: Windows - 65-70%, Linux - 15-20%
Enterprise VoIP trends: Numbers only tell part of the story
Enterprise WLAN market to reach $3.5 bln by 2009
Etymology of 'hypervisor' surfaces
European architecture, engineering and construction software market up 16.8% in 2004
European CD sales 2000-2004
Ex-AOLer gets one day in jail per 189K IDs stolen
Exclusive: Google Talk to be compatible with Gizmo, Vling softphones
Extension line market up 7% in Latin America, 11% in Central and Eastern Europe
Fastest-growing blogs: MSN Spaces, Fark, Blogger, Xanga
FCC extends deadline another 30 days
FCC's DSL ruling may spell trouble for VoIP providers
Fed move to IPv6 heats up
Federal health IT moves forward with creation of management office
Feds hang out with hackers at Defcon
FI Bashing at The Inquirer
Financial compliance process management software to grow at 19% a year
Fireman's Fund sees strategic differentiation in SOA
Firestorm already brewing about Vista's Digital Rights Management tech
Flat-panel TV sales: 10.9 mln in 2004, 20.8 mln in 2005, 30.58 in 2006
Former Palm founder "nails it" on smartphone culture clash
Found: Gem of a sound-byte on standards in IBM smartcar podcast
Four years after hacker broke into 73,000 Defense computers, are systems more secure?
France ready to take on Google, Yahoo
Freedom to change: Nick Gall's OSCON keynote
Future technology: Kutaragi on Cell
Gartner's latest on tablet PCs, social tagging, and other emerging technologies
George Ou criticizes PGP inventor Zimmerman's PKI diss
Get ready for surveillance technology
Get ready for the E911 disconnects
Gillmor Gang dissects the emerging podshow
Given price equiality between mobile and land lines, more than 50% would cut the land line
Global chip sales up 6.5% in the first half of 2005
Global ERP software sales up 9.4% in 2004
Global service provider router sales to grow 12% in 2005
Global solar panel sales: Germany - 39%, Japan - 30%, USA - 9%
Global space and satellite market to reach $158 bln by 2010
Global VPN services revenues to reach $29.8 bln by 2009
Going beyond the status quo to improve online services
Good day, OASIS
Google Talk lives...
Govt. datamining endangering citizen privacy: GAO
Govt. IT group calls for approval of Grimes as DOD CIO
Govt. tech Forums in Ottawa focus on e-government, service-oriented IT
Great Blog to read
Ground zero for credibility in blogging and journalism
Half of online Americans have used WiFi hotspots, 20% use them frequently
Hard disk drive semiconductors generated $3.3 bln in 2004
Hardened embedded systems offer a balm to the security conscious
Hardened embedded systems offer a balm to the security conscious
Has Microsoft lost its 'identity'?
Have you done your pre-Fall digital housecleaning yet?
Here's a path from Google Talk to Google VoIP
Here's one market VoIP should not overlook
Here's the scoop on the Linksys-Skype phone
Here's what I think about Von Coalition's request for 90-day E911 acknowl. reprieve
Here's who should buy Skype: no, not News Corp
Here's why cell-like early termination fees will come to VoIP
HHS consolidating, standardizing
Hiring by small businesses up 0.1% in July 2005
Home traffic to MSN Maps up 175% within a single week
Host bus RAID controller shipments up 25% in 2004
Hosted sector leaps to 10% share of CRM market
Housekeeping
How European cable companies make money
How GTalk plays into Google's identity strategy
How the undermining of US intelligence continues in cyberspace
How things change at Google
How to avoid the top five IT mistakes
How to buy a $20,000 hammer
How Zotob works
HP's Fink offers a challenge to IBM and Sun
Hungarian printer revenues up 6% in 2004
IBM gives Mozilla code for the disabled
IBM king of server revenue
IBM's Desktop vision
IBM's Mills touts managed clients
IBM, HP and BEA results point to software infrastructure resurgence
IBM, HP and BEA results point to software infrastructure resurgence
ID theft fears as Air Force, public univesities are hacked
Identity theft costs UK businesses $2.3 bln a year
If AMD is David and Intel is Goliath, What is VIA? Cinderella?
If I knew openSUSE I'd see a Linux desktop
If I lived here, I couldn't VoIP ya
Illumination LEDs to grow at 52% a year
In 23% of companies the employees intentionally downloaded spyware and viruses
In Delaware, a CIO does away with civil service, yielding better performace and a few hard feelings
In Estonia 44.58% of cable revenues are from broadband, in Austria - 35.67%
In May 2005 51% of the 37-inch TV sets were LCD TVs
Indian cellular revenues to reach $24 bln by 2009
Integration cited by Scottish cops for foiling open source
Intel plows health care field
Intel stands up for government-owned Wi-Fi
Intel to launch Digital Communities initiative
Intel wags mangy Centrino dog by Boeing's tail
Intel's Otellini's new normal
Introducing ZDNet's 'PhotoCasts'. Tell us what you think.
IP-PBX lines will generate $185 mln in Eastern and Central Europe
IPTV set-top box development in high gear
Is China attacking military computers? Maybe not.
Is Cisco killing their own reputation?
Is Nuvio the best VoIP provider? Here's who thinks so
Is open DRM possible, or even desirable?
Is the lack of open source marketing a problem?
Israeli PC shipments up 16.4% in 2004
IT governance is crucial to align IT with agency mission
IT productivity? Let the good times roll
It's Bloggie time!
It's Bloggie time!
Jonathan Schwartz at OSCON
Judge rules in class action against Direct Revenue
Judge uses black boxes to keep bad drivers in line
July 2005 search engine market shares: Google - 36.5%, Yahoo! - 30.5%, MSN - 15.5%
June 2005 semiconductor sales decline to $17.98 bln
Justice Dept. bill includes more access for state and local govts
Kai Fu Lee: I need to follow my heart
KeyBank's SOA payoff
Keystroke logging is not Sophisticated
Killer apps or app killers?
Kraft Food and Cooking traffic up 105% in the last week of July 2005
Labor Day
Latin America mobile phone sales to stay flat in 2006
Latin America softswitch revenues to reach $6.5 bln in 2009
Layer 7, DataPower directory resources a hit
Linus wants money to protect the Linux trademark
Linux and MacOS X on X360?
Linux deployments in retail business up 34% in 2004
Linux maturity reflected in site analysis
Listen to Dan and David spar on tech
Look out Skype AND Google- here comes Microsoft
Magazine advertising pages up 3.1% in July 2005
Making heads or tails of 3G acronyms and Cingular's plans
Making sense of ESBs
Malicious code, not a vulnerability
Mapping the "Applistructure"
Medicare agency stands to save big by automating call center
Memory market to reach $95.4 bln by 2019, 80% of it could be universal memory
Messaging security appliances to generate $400 mln in Western Europe by 2009
Microsoft understands content is king
Microsoft's copyright play and the Trusted Computing Group
Microsoft's Linux and open source labs
Middle Eastern mobile phone sales up 63% in 2004
Military computers attacked from Chinese computers - but who's doing the hacking?
Mired in methodology
Mobile operators to earn 25.4 bln euros in Western Europe from data apps
Mobile smart device shipments up 105% in Q2 2005
Moore's Law - and Murphy's corollary
Moore's Law, Cell, and CMT
More cool stuff from Intel
More on Google's master plan
More standardization work on enterprise information flow
More standardization work on enterprise information flow
Most important functions in a mobile device: voice, address book, text messaging
Most popular functions for frequently used mobile devices: picture taking, location information, TV
Most popular news sites in July 2005: MSNBC, Yahoo! News, CNN
Most popular ways to find dates: friends, bars, online, work
Movie screen advertising generated $425 mln in 2004
Mozilla Foundation wants at making RSS usable by mere mortals
Music market shares: Universal - 25.5%, Sony BMG - 21.5%, EMI - 13.4%, Warner Music - 11.3%
Must read interview with Mike Lynn
My EVDO will beat your WiFi any day (well just about)
NAND flash market to reach $36.1 bln in 2008 and then collapse in 2009
NASA.gov traffic up 101% in the last week of July 2005
NASCIO points to successful IT frameworks
National Vulnerabilities Database launched
Networking hardware generated $9 bln in 2004, will reach $21 bln in 2009
New OASIS chairman replaced after only five months
New vendors-a-bloggin'
New Yahoo! Messenger has enhanced IP Tel capabilities
New Zealand Internet users learn about new sites from friends, families, search engines
New Zealand mobile data services to grow at 16.2% a year
Next generation network switching to reach $10.3 bln by 2009
Next-generation switching to grow 14% in 2005
NOAA backs off on info sharing
NOR revenues to drop 15% in 2005
Novell's fraud claim against SCO
NSF dreaming of GENI
Number of female students entering computer science down 80% in 2004 from 1998 levels
NYT: 'Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain'
Of cable TV, streaming and podcasting
Of datacenters, real and virtual
Oh boy! Vista test system is due any minute now
On browsers and competition
On-demand CRM from SAP? Ho hum
On-demand CRM from SAP? Ho hum
On-demand upstarts beating Siebel for attention...and that's about it
One man's corporate standard--another man's monoculture?
One third of SMBs eyeing hosted or managed VoIP, says report
OneCleveland the model for citywide broadband
Online banking usage highest among 18-24 year olds
Online map site shares: Yahoo! Maps - 41%, MapQuest - 33.4%, Google Maps - 9.45%
Online real estate advertising to grow 55% to $1.8 bln in 2005
Only 1.1% of Web search results appear in all top 4 search engines
Only 20% of IT executives are satisfied with CRM integration
Only 44.4% of commercial videos sold via the Web are feature movies
Oops. That DVD should have caused the toilet to flush.
Open source defense technology?
Open source is another trademark issue
Open source mobility lags
Open source obligations
Open source or as a service?
Open source ratings and the law of unintended consequences
Open source risks now insurable
Open source' Chinese wall
OpenSUSE: Where's the excitement?
Operations support systems to generate $19.7 bln in 2005
Optical transmission equipment sales down 1.5% in 2004
Optical transport equipment up 10% in Q2 2005
Oracle's Charles Phillips: On demand is the future
OSCON 2005: Tutorials
OSDL patent commons gets chilly reception from the "outspoken"
OSDL says no to Microsoft
OSI committee rejects former founder Bruce Perens' membership application
Overcoming the code of silence
Ovum chimes in on Malik's 'GoogleNet'
Packet 8 CEO: expect Yahoo! to compete against Skype
Packet 8 says they are bleeding money: I say they oughta sell to ...
Paul Graham on open source and blogging
PC chipsets to generate $6.9 bln in 2005, $10.3 bln in 2009
PC manufacturer satisfaction: Apple - 81, Dell - 74, HP - 73, Gateway - 72
PC TV tuners to generate $3.7 bln by 2009
PDA shipments up 31.5% in Q2 2005
PDA shipments up 32% in Q2 2005
Peel interfaces from services
Phil Wainewright's Software as Services blog
Phil Zimmermann defends his VoIP crypto
Phil Zimmermann doesn't think much of Skype
Philadelphia's wireless war
Photo: Eben Moglen, Software Freedom Law Center
Photo: Google's Chris DiBona
Photo: OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen at LinuxWorld
Photo: The early days of Google's data center
Photoresist revenues up 17.7% in 2004
Plotting Katrina on Google Maps - when will government start mashing up maps?
Poland on VoIP: "interesting"; France on VoIP: "so what"
Policing the future
Political and current events blogs get 43% of visits
Politics, business, technology -- in THAT order
Politics, Tech, ET, and Global Warming
Power to the people (or at least us notebook users)
Privacy and Google
Product placement in magazines to reach $160.9 mln in 2005
Professional services to become the biggest consumer of storage and servers
Project and portfolio management software up 12.3% in 2004
Protection racket, same old software, snubbed founder...
Providers seek extension as E911 cutoff date nears
Public safety will push up state, local IT spending
Radio ad revenues stay flat in June 2005
Readers of newspaper business section are 57.7% male, 48% with college education
Readers: No way is Skype worth $3 billion
Recovering from Katrina
Registry: every SOA needs one
Releasing zero-day exploits to sell a product?
Report: Katrina knocks out Vonage service in New Orleans
Report: Supreme Court nominee Roberts owns stock in VoIP provider
Report: Vonage CEO's past woes won't block Vonage going public
Reported Vonage IPO a prelude to merger?
Residential VOIP shipments up 30% in Q3 2005, up 24% in Q4 2005 in Taiwan
Responsible disclosure, or headline grabbing?
Resurrection Time?
Retailer beware
Rethinking backup
RFID to be a $6.1 bln industry in 2010
ROI in SOA: Illusion or beautiful noise?
Romanian IT market up 28.3% in 2004
Russian enterprise application software sales up 53.4% in 2004
Russian mobile phone sales up 55.5% in 2004, 62.7% in 2005 and 55.9% in 2006
SAN fibre channel up 10% in Q1 2005
San Francisco shoots for universal wireless service for all residents
Saturday funny story: when a "PITA" is not a "pita"
School's in
Scotland cops go back to Microsoft
Search engine customer satisfaction: Google - 82, Yahoo! - 80, MSN - 75, Ask - 72
Search engine keyword prices down 7 cents in July 2005
Search engine market shares for July 2005: Google - 46.2%, Yahoo! - 22.5%, MSN - 12.6%
Search engine market shares for July 2005: Google - 59%, Yahoo! - 29%, MSN - 5.5%
Search engine market shares in July 2005: Google - 59.2%, Yahoo! - 28.8%, MSN - 5.5%
Search for top Gartner alternative comes up empty handed
Search index stats: Yahoo! - 20.5 bln objects, Google - 10.3 bln
Securing on-demand access
Security slips out of top-5 IT priorities ranking
Security: We have the technology, but do we have the will?
Seeing beyond point-to-point integration
Seeking balance in open source
Seen any perfect storms lately?
Self defeating desktop Linux strategies
Semiconductor equipment market up 1.3% in Q2 2005
Semiconductor equipment sales down 36% in July 2005
Separating copyright and copyleft
Server consolidation under-girds HP's growth
Server consolidation under-girds HP's growth
Server shipments up 10.9% in Q2 2005
Servers up 2.4% in Q2 2005 in EMEA
Service provider VoIP over custom solutions backed for small business
Seth and the Gang
Shopping around for VoIP equipment? Here's an indispensible directory of VoIP equipment makers
Should Copyright Office require IE? Web creator speaks up
Silicon Valley job count up by 900 in July 2005
Siriusly Speaking
Skype Forum community heaps scorn on Google Talk
Skype-to-Skype calls a terror risk?
Sleepless PCs in Seattle (OK, technically it's Redmond)
Slowly, telework making strides in DC suburb
Smart device OS market shares: Symbian - 62.8%, Microsoft - 15.9%, PalmSource - 9.5%
Smartphones: Where the computer and telephony cultures clash
Smashforce, mirrorforce and smashmouth at salesforce.com
smashforce, schmashforce
SMS grows for Amber alerts
So how bad *was* the Vonage outage?
SOA and M&As: the power of two, or less than zero?
SOA's deep impact on software
Softswitch sales in North America to grow by 27% in 2005
Software architects and SOA interdependencies
Software failures in your car
Software for jerks
Software industry disruption
Software quality at Web speed
Sometimes, change is so easy...
Sophos top considered email security vendor
SoSaaS: Same old Software, as a Service
South Korean IT services market to grow at 5-7% a year
Spam bots, keyloggers, porn, adware, Direct Revenue, 180solutions
Spanish PC market up 36.6% in Q2 2005
Speech recognition telephony to generate $173 mln in 2009
Speeding up the courts
Spyware adware sneakware
Spyware at epidemic proportions
Spyware mentality
Ssh! ASPs are back, but don't tell anyone ...
State CIOs chide DHS for attention to cybersecurity
State IT spending to reach $9.4b by 2009
States with most new tech jobs in July 2005: California, Texas, New Jersey
Stem Cell Research: The Hope, the Reality & the Future
Stepper market to fall 5.2% in 2005
Stepper sales to fall 5.2% in 2005
Steve Jobs sighting, monoculture and software ecosystems
Sun continues sailing its free and open course with DRM
Sun's definition of 'quality'
Sun's flawed utility vision
Supply chain app revenue up 3.3% in 2004
SUSE opens to yawns
Sybase's mobility emphasis makes more sense
Sybase's mobility emphasis makes more sense
System-on-a-chip intellectual property to generate $1.5 bln by 2009
Tablet PCs to generate $5.4 bln by 2009
Taiwanese notebook exports grew 40% in the first half of 2005
Tapping into Pandora's music genome
Teachers warm to computers but lack of training, PCs limits classroom computing
Tech paychecks down 1.2% in Q2 2005
Telecom services and equipment to generate $1.81 trillion by 2009
Telework lags in public sector for dubious reasons
TeraGrid picks up $150 million
Texas consumer groups dismiss VoIP as antidote to high phone bills
Texas signs up industry leaders to advise $200m fund
Text messaging revenue to reach $4.3 bln in 2006
The 5 *real* reasons why VoIP providers want E911 deadline extension
The Four Five 'Net Freedoms
The blogs of war
The Comdexification of Linux
The Dan & David Show: Intel vs. AMD, Google vs. Microsoft and other matters
The double-edge of the FCC's DSL ruling
The EFF chimes in on Sun's DRM scheme
The fox in the open source henhouse
The future of the microprocessor
The g-man versus the army of zombies
The golden opportunity that security vendors are ignoring
The great ESB squabble of 2005
The Incumbentsphere
The Multiple Token Dilemma. Get Over it.
The myth of the cyber-meltdown
The national sex offender registry
The national sex offender registry
The real E911 compliance barrier: institutional resistance
The rise of the 'composite company'
The road to municipal Wi-Fi is paved with good intentions
The road to municipal Wi-Fi is paved with good intentions
The RSS Crisis
The smart robot conundrum
The things we know for sure
The upside of wireless VoIP on campus
The view from LinuxWorld
The virtual machine revisited
The Vista virus that wasn't
The well-mannered marketplace
The Windows week that was
There's an elephant in the podcast room
There's an elephant in the podcast room
Third of corporate business trips are booked online in 2005
Thoughts on OpenSUSE
Time Warner Cable: all have acknowledged E911 limits; Me: Yea, right
Time-Warner Cable still leads broadband VoIP pack
Top 10 countries for music piracy: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Spain, and Ukraine
Top accessories bought with a new laptop: bag and a mouse
Top blog sites: Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad, Xanga
Top blogs by total visits: DrudgeReport, Fark, FreeRepublic, Gawker, Slashdot
Top bogs by unique audience: FreeRepublic, DrudgeReport, FleshBot, Gawker, Fark
Top global brands: Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, Intel, Nokia
Top net advertisers in July 2005: Apollo Group, Vonage, United Online
Top online dating sites: Yahoo! Personals, Match.com, Spark
Top parent companies in July 2005: Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!
Top PC and electronics news sites: CNET, AOL Computers, IDG, Ziff Davis, ZDNet
Top privacy policies: Intel, Expedia, e-Loan
Top server vendors in Q2 2005: IBM, HP, Sun
Top UK sites by pageviews: eBay, Google, MSN
Top UK sites by unique visitors: Google, Microsoft, MSN
Top US e-mail domains for delivery rates: mail.com, earthlink.net, peoplepc.com
Top vendors in Spanish PC market: HP, Acer, Dell
TPM is so much TP for Apple
Treo surfaces with Windows Mobile: PalmOS R.I.P.
Truth and Dare
TSA data collection attacked, fliers urged to request records
Turning hopeless victims into smart mobs
Two tech pioneers: Dave and Ray
Uh oh. Has the zero-day exploit tipping point finally arrived?
UK businesses spent $17,000 on their worst security incident in 2004
UK ITIL blogger shares latest trends
United Arab Emirates printer market up 2.2% in 2004, to remain flat in 2005
Unix server market shares in Q2 2005: IBM - 31%, HP - 30%, Sun - 29.5%
Unshackling telecom innovation
US digital camera market in Q2 2005: Kodak - 23.8%, Canon - 21.9%, Sony - 18.6%
US digital camera sales up 20% in the first half of 2005
US enterprise IT spending to reach $252 bln in 2005
US house prices up 16.5% in Q2 2005
US instant messaging market: AOL - 41.6 mln users, Yahoo! - 19.1 mln, MSN - 14.1 mln
US IT buyers to increase spending by 2.8% in the next 12 months
US median household income was $44,389 in 2004
US productivity up 2.2% in Q2 2005
US-Cert report on spyware
Vacation
Video game sales fall in France and Spain in 2004
Virus creates long lines
Virus slowdown opens door for other security projects
Vista specific whitepapers showing up on Microsoft's Web site
Vista's vulnerabilities begin to surface
VMware shares its source
VoIP chip market up 40%; TI still leader
VoIP gets real: 12-month planning rises rapidly
VoIP helps turn long-distance romance into engagement
VOIP semiconductor market leaders: Texas Instruments, Broadcom, MindSpeed
Vonage has major service outage
Vonage outages apparently fixed
Vonage users report outbound calling outages today
Vonage's Citron: ISP is surcharging for Vonage access
Waiting for Steve's other shoe
War of the words between CRM overlords
Web conferencing and collaboration software up 14.2% in 2004
Web search ads to grow at 12% a year, banner ads to grow at 7% a year
Web-based e-mail shares: Hotmail - 35.5%, Yahoo! Mail - 35.1%
Webinar on document handling
Welcome to Ask Bloggy
Welcome to the Web 2.0 frontier
Western European mobile handset market: Nokia - 35%, Samsung - 16%, Motorola - 15%
Western European mobile network infrastructure to reach $11.9 bln by 2005
Western European mobile phone market up 20% in Q2 2005
What big enterprises want from on-demand vendors
What CEOs should know about the 'recombinant Web'
What kind of video mobile users want: concerts, TV drama, home videos, reality shows
What people consider when dating online: photo, description, hobbies
What should be Skype's business model? I sort through the visions
What should we give the Tuxmasters?
What VoIP access providers can learn from Dell's customer service failings
What worries fed CIOs? Poor quality software, insecure wireless networks
What's exciting about Google Talk?
What's wrong with antitrust
When is the tipping point for hosted CRM?
While Baby Bells sit on their assets...
Who is representing Mambo?
Who needs a business plan?
Who needs Wi-Fi when the plug in the wall will do?
Who owns the air?
Who owns the air?
Who says SMBs don't get SOA yet?
Who will defend the Internet trademark?
Who's really to blame for the recent worms?
Why doesn't government support telework? Lack of interest, not security concerns, group says
Why E911 acknowledgement PITA factor will help Skype and other softphoners
Why IE 7.0 needs CSS
Why lower international cell call rates are a threat to VoIP
Why Microsoft can't best Google
Why mobile synch can stink
Why MS Office for Linux is a win-win
Why Packet 8 VideoPhone is featured in both "Stargate" series
Why the computing world chose PKI
Why Yahoo! *has* to be up to something about VoIP
Wicked problems in software design
Will Boston airport Wi-Fi rift set an ugly precedent?
Will Intel crush AMD next year?
WiMAX equipment revenues to reach $124.5 mln in 2005
Win FS beta 1 is born
Windows viruses keep IT managers busy
Windows Vista: Hollywood's bodyguard in a digital world?
Winer's OPML Roadshow rolls into Berkeley
Wisconsin IT department under fire over HP catalog
Worldwide HDD market in Q2 2005: Seagate - 30.5%, Western Digital - 17.6%, Hitachi - 15.5%
Worms responsible for only 12% of attacks in the second half of 2004
Would consolidation drive Linux forward?
Xythos' document management gaining government converts
Yahoo Mail: Way too many clicks
Yahoo's new search master
ZDNet blogtracks for 8/24/05: Hyperventilating on Google
ZDNet UK issues apology to Google
Zotob being felt
Zotob: Starting to feel a little bit like Nimda.