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Brown University economists measure GDP growth from outer space

Space warming....We are now causing space warming due to the cow tooting..

Tags: Brown University, gross domestic product

Discussion threads 2009-09-06

Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the Web

Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the WebEconomic growth in the 21st century"Norvig doesn't expect AGIs to suddenly appear overnight. The U.S. Gross Domestic Product index, for example, shows constant exponential progress but it doesn't seem like any great acceleration can be seen OR PREDICTED due to technology, Norvig said....

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Google Inc., Web, HBE, Peter Norvig, GDP Growth

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Indonesian small business IT spending reached $1.6 bln in 2005

The small business segment in Thailand and Indonesia invested a total of $1.3 bln and $1.6 bln in IT, respectively, in the last 12 months. The context for this commitment to IT investment is a dramatic growth in GDP. Robust domestic demand resulted in a growth rate of 6.3% for...

Tags: small and medium business, GDP Growth, GDP

Blog posts 2006-01-15

Additional Resources

News to know: E-readers; Web OS and IT; VMware; Cisco

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dion Hinchcliffe: How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business Oliver Marks: Course Credits as a...

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Web, Virtualization, Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Camera, E-books, Open Source, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Brown University economists measure GDP growth from outer space

For many developing countries, the data for measuring economic growth is unreliable or incomplete. In response, a team of economists at Brown have suggested a new framework for estimating a country or region’s gross domestic product GDP by using satellite images of the area’s nighttime lights. by Chris Jablonski

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Brown University, Economist, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-09-06

YourWorld (Mobile)

Ever wondered where a little state exactly is, when they talk about it on TV or the newspapers? Curious about its background, geography, political situation, economy, religion, people? With YourWorld this and many other information is always in your pocket! YourWorld is like a mini encyclopedia about all the countries...

Tags: Mobile, AnguriaLab LLC, YourWorld, It', Internet, TVs, Telecom & Utilities, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-09-02

Forrester expects IT spending trough in third quarter; U.S. tech spending to fall 5 percent in 2009

Forrester Research has revised its 2009 technology spending projections with expectations that U.S. IT spending will fall 5.1 percent in 2009 with global outlays to drop 11 percent. Forrester's revision is a cut from the 3.1 percent decline expected in its March report. Forrester analyst Andrew Bartels...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Business Investment, Information Technology, IT-spending, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Windows 7: Now it's an economic savior too

Windows 7: Now it's an economic savior tooAnalogy:Churchill: "You can't tax yourself out of poverty"Obama: "Let's spend [future generation's money] to become wealthy again".WTF!If Cap and Trade Passes People Will Balk At Buying AnythingPrices of goods and services will go through the roof, think people are going to care about...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Windows 7: Now it's an economic savior too

Expectations for Windows 7 may be getting a bit out of hand. It's one thing to expect Windows 7 to juice a PC upgrade cycle, Microsoft's earnings and tech industry growth. It's quite another to think that Windows 7 is going to move the needle on gross...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, PC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Bain survey finds tech and telecom execs are least worried

Bain & Company released its 12th Bain’s Management Tools & Trends Survey results from interviews with 1400 top executives around the world. One of the findings was that tech and telecom execs were the least concerned about long-term impact from the recession and are the most...

Tags: Bain, Recession, Telecommunications, Survey, Exec, Workforce Management, Productivity, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Automating the Quote-to-Cash Process

Global marketplaces have spurred the growth of global supply chains, making them hotly contested areas for business. However, as the business environment continues to evolve, companies are rethinking these long, thin supply chains. Businesses today realize that the sourcing and manufacturing strategies that they adopted over the last two decades...

Tags: Logistics Service Provider, Logistics, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Services, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-06-01

HP's printing business: Will ink spending be questioned in the long run?

From a business model perspective I often marvel at Hewlett-Packard's printer business. Sell printers at a loss. Milk customers for recurring revenue. Make money from the ink. It's a work of art.  But it really sucks on the consumer side of the equation. Case in point: My...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Printing, Printing Business, Document Management, Printers, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Peripherals, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?

Tech giants are spending heavily on research and development, but it's difficult to follow the bouncing return on investment ball. The research and development return topic was brought up by my ZDNet UK colleague Rupert Goodwins earlier this week. Rupert went on a tour of Microsoft Research...

Tags: R&D, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., IEEE Spectrum, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Microsoft to issue bonds: Will it go shopping?

Microsoft to issue bonds: Will it go shopping?more likelyM$ has run out of cash and is going belly up.Ballmer is just trying to prolong the life of the beast before this new Enron will be exposed.It is to pay for this.http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137267/eu-software-makers-responsible-codeSoftware finally to be held accountable. This will be costly...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, NoAxe, Microsoft Corp., Linux, bond, General Motors Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Hey, Wired President. You Wouldn't Tax the Internet, the Cell Phone or the Tweet. Would You?

Hey, Wired President. You Wouldn't Tax the Internet, the Cell Phone or the Tweet. Would You?Not a fan, but....Not a fan of taxing what for so long has been free, but I do see a silver lining. If email were taxed, or we were charged in some way for each...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Internet, phone, Comrade, cell phone, tax, Wired Inc., Tweet

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap Representative

NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap RepresentativeGlad the wiretaps took placeWith the express purpose of preventing future terrorist activities, I'm glad the feds aggressively looked. With the current regime, I fear the future is going to be very different; an "enemy of the state" is now going...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Federal government, Big Government, domestic call, NSA

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

International Airlines to UN: Set us a CO2 Target Now (but US carriers still ponder)

People in business often speak of NGO's in a kind of wide eyed way, a mixture of fear and curiosity, but most vastly under estimate their capability. Granted, NGOs are as diverse as businesses - some are hopeless, some perform magnificently. For illustration of the latter & the potency of a sophisticated and intelligent NGO, then look no...

Tags: Aviation, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carrier, Climate Group, Emission, James Farrar, Management, Nancy, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Forrester Slashes 2009 US IT Sales Forecast

Forrester Research said US IT sales of goods and services will fall 3.1 percent this year, it had expected growth of 1.6 per cent compared with 2008. The only sector expected to show growth is outsourcing, which traditionally does well in downturns. The US market research firm...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Recession, Information Technology, IT-spending, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Global IT purchases to decline in 2009; BRIC and 'tech 12' analyzed

Global IT purchases will equate to $1.66 trillion in 2009, down 3 percent from 2008. Software purchases be flat in 2009 relative to 2008, but continue to do better than other categories in tech spending. And Australia spends the most on IT relative to gross domestic product relative with the...

Tags: Growth, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., BRIC, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-14

2009

Here are a few more projections of what could happen in greentech world during 2009. First some predictions about what could be up in the world of infrastructure. (I know that's a useful word but I sure hate it...how about big stuff, instead?) These are...

Tags: China, Public Sector, Financial, Infrastructure, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-31