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- Smartphone market to grow 52% in 2008
- The smartphone market is expected to grow 52% in 2008 compared to 2007, to 190 mln units. That’s 15%, or $65 bln-worth, of the total 1.28 bln handsets expected to be sold 2008. In 2012, Gartner expects smartphone unit sales to reach over 700 mln of the total 1.8 bln...
- Tags: Smart Phone, Handset, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Sales Strategy, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Global cell phone market to grow 11% in 2008
- Gartner expects cell phone market growth to slow to 11% from 16% in 2007, and in US dollar terms growth would slow to 9% from 11%. Handset vendors sold 304.7 mln mobile phones globally in Q2 2008, with strong demand in emerging markets lifting sales 11.8% from Q2 2007. The...
- Tags: Phone, Emerging Market, Cell Phone, Sales Strategy, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing front
- Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing frontMarkets are based onDemand and Availability..Nobody needed a new OS at this stage.Nobody still does.. Ads won't change this.Plus for me.. i don't need fancy GUI tricks i could do 8 years ago under Enlightenment with X11 and Linux.There is no added...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight
- The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....
- Tags: Software, Developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Flash, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Reuters, Adobe, Microsoft, Silverlight, video
- News items 2008-08-25
- Global IT spending to reach $3.4 trln in 2008
- Worldwide IT spending will reach $3.4 trln in 2008, an 8% increase over 2007, according to Gartner. by AM
- Tags: IT-spending, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-23
- IKEA's mixed bag of IT investments
- Last evening I read an interesting Gartner case study (registration wall warning.) It tells how IKEA Components, a company that is part of the iconic retailer of flat pack furniture used Lawson Software products to make significant across the board process savings and improvements. The business intelligence/process project makes great...
- Tags: IKEA, Information Technology, IT Investment, David Meerman Scott, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Gartner: Global IT spending to jump 8 percent in 2008
- Gartner: Global IT spending to jump 8 percent in 2008well to be consistent with their other work - next weekit will be the opposite... less spending will be the prediction...but i do like a positive spend on things...:)RE: Gartner: Global IT spending to jump 8 percent in 2008I'm...
- Tags: Global IT, Gartner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Gartner: Global IT spending to jump 8 percent in 2008
- Gartner is projecting that worldwide IT spending till top $3.4 trillion in 2008, up 8 percent from a year ago. That's the good news. The bad: Much of that growth is based on the decline of the U.S. dollar, which helps American technology vendors. If you factor...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., IT-spending, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- cloud computing - lowercase, please. hold the (TM)
- Feel free to approach a co-worker at the Red Bull station this morning and casually ask: "So, did you do any cloud computing over the weekend?" OK, maybe that ice-breaker won't get you invited to happy hour with the cool crew from HR, but it also won't get you into...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Cloud Computing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- SAP wrap and transparency points
- This week's SAP influencer summit was a roller coaster affair. On the one hand I didn't detect anything fundamentally new on the BusinessObjects side other than a considerable amount of repackaging with a view to gaining additional sales. There's nothing wrong with that but it didn't demonstrate a huge amount...
- Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, SAP AG, Smb/Sme, Retail, Channel Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- EIC podcast: Kindle; iPhone; Dell; IDF
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk about Amazon's Kindle and its prospects, iPhone's distribution and Dell's new laptops. The never-ending guessing game that is Amazon Kindle sales picked up again. Citi analyst Mark Mahaney doubled his sales projection for the Kindle and noted...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Dell Computer Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Dan, Sales Strategy, Podcasts, Sales Force Management, Notebooks, Sales, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- An iGeneration view of TLAs
- Over on Enterprise Alley, I've been joined by Zack Whittaker. Zack's a computer science student so is ideal for providing a fresh pair of eyes on the world of enterprise application startups. I was interested to get his take on three letter acronyms - TLAs - something upon which the...
- Tags: computer science, erp, enterprise application, zack, enterprise resource planning (erp), enterprise software, software, dennis howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeInsidious BMThe widespread Microsoft use combined with the creeping IBM invasiveness appears to indicate a competition within the organization which IBM is currently winning. Probably a comeback.Murph has also mentioned that there are substantial external contracts providing services and capabilities in...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp., data-processing, diamond, meat, Murph, IBM mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- JiJi Self Service Password Reset (exe)
- Gartner states that 30% of helpdesk queries are related to password resets management and account lockout. With JiJi Self Service Password ResetJSSPR, end-users now have the ability to securely reset their own Active Directory passwords without having to involve highly technical helpdesk professionals. JSSPR lowers end-user downtime, end-users no longer...
- Tags: password, jsspr, help desk, call centers, it operations
- Software downloads 2008-08-07
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?
- A new proposal out of MIT (original home of the so-called $100 laptop from the OLPC) has gotten quite a bit of traction in the blogosphere and around the Web. A group of students, recalling their own early computing experiences in Apple II labs, is attempting to resurrect these...
- Tags: Web, Apple II, $100 Laptop, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Laptop Computer, Computer, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- MIT team working on $12 'Apple II' desktop
- Developing nations, listen up: a computer is headed your way, and it costs less than two Value Meals at your nearest McDonald's. Today's Boston Herald has a great story about a new project underway at MIT to create a $12 computer, the same university that spawned the...
- Tags: Desktop, Team, Apple II, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Apple Inc., Computer, Herald, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
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