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		<title><![CDATA[Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:44:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wither Silicon Valley? IT will be driven by emerging markets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=26168]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Gartner is projecting that the "worse year ever" for IT spending---down 6.9 percent in 2009---will be followed up with dead-cat spending bounce in 2010 of a meager 3.3 percent. Does this dead-cat IT spending bounce mean traditional tech power centers---notably Silicon Valley---are no longer in the driver's seat?  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:53:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will cloud computing services get a boost from low IT spending?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This coming holiday season could be very good for cloud computing companies because many enterprises have scaled back their IT spending . . . by Tom Foremski]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:57:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[VMWare's Maritz: IT spending patterns need change if industry intends to grow]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme of the opening keynote at VMWorld 2009 was centered around two ideas: reducing complexity and offering freedom.    In its quest to  shift from a virtualization company to the tech industry's cloud infrastructure giant, VMWorld CEO Paul Maritz on Tuesday touched on a number of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:42:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Intel says big question mark on business IT recovery]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel says big question mark on business IT recoveryi think soi think companies will be needing technical people so badly they will have no choice but to hire the riff raff available because they laid off all the hardworking people who already built up years of good knowledge about their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Intel says big question mark on business IT recovery]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Intel [INTC] this morning held a mid-year update looking at its major business groups and initiatives. The first session was with Sean Maloney, Intel's most important executive next to Paul Otellini, CEO.      Mr Maloney is executive vice president and chief sales and marketing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:20:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PC sales to see biggest drop since 2001 tech bust; IT spending responsible]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PC sales to see biggest drop since 2001 tech bust; IT spending responsibleEveryone is just waitingfor Windows 7 to launch, [i][b]then[/b][/i] they will purchase new systems. :)Another idea....Maybe people are content with their Windows XP machines they bought just before Vista came out and now everyone is just waiting for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:50:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PC sales to see biggest drop since 2001 tech bust; IT spending responsible]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=5845]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    The number of PCs shipped around the globe in 2009 is expected to be lower than the previous year, the first time since the 2001 dot-com bust, according to market research firm iSuppli.        Just 287.3 million PCs will be...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:35:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: Feds provide a handy window into their IT spending]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review: Feds provide a handy window into their IT spendingInteresting...I'll have to look this over and see how much waste there is.  Too bad they don't do this for the "Stimulus Package".  We wouldn't know whether to laugh or cry.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:37:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Review: Feds provide a handy window into their IT spending]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=20502]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal IT Dashboard, a tool that puts the government's technology spending on display, is a handy overview of agency spending that provides a few "did you know" moments.    The IT Dashboard is an effort by the U.S. government to be more transparent about spending. And when...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:22:11 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Forrester expects IT spending trough in third quarter; U.S. tech spending to fall 5 percent in 2009]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=20484]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:11:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dell's major units take first quarter hits; IT demand indicators 'remain mixed']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dell's major business units---public sector, large enterprise, small and medium business and consumer---suffered double digit sales declines in the first quarter as net income fell 63 percent from a year ago.    For the first quarter ended May 1, Dell reported earnings of $290 million, or 15 cents...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 13:34:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech execs new hobby: Calling IT spending bottoms]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology executives have a new hobby: Calling IT spending bottoms. However, some refuse to play along.Â     Intel kicked off the bottom calling fiesta last week. Intel CEO Paul Otellini said "we believe PC sales bottomed out during the first quarter and that the industry is returning to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:31:28 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EMC: 'We expect IT spending to improve']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[EMC CEO Joe Tucci said Thursday that the storage giant expects second half technology spending to improve and noted that the worst is largely over.Â     Tucci's comments came amid EMC's earnings, which met expectations. In a statement Tucci said:  As we look to the balance of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:13:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Survey: Security doesn't escape the IT spending axe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16558]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The RSA show kicks off Tuesday in San Francisco and one of the larger questions will be focused on attendance. Will the Moscone Center be a morgue?    That take may be a bit dramatic. After all, security spending is immune to the IT spending slowdown. And what...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:30:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[7 (nasty) truths about IT spending]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-13604-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=63239&messageID=1170110&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[7 nasty truths about IT spendingWisht that I could work....For an over funded IT department. Or even have a project that is anywhere near properly funded. Where do these slices of heaven exist?agreedIt does seem simplistic to simply kill a project because it hit a threshold. If an unexpected data...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:11:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[7 (nasty) truths about IT spending]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=2903]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in Harvard Business Review suggests Draconian inflexibility is the way to achieve IT cost containment. That view makes no sense. by Michael Krigsman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:55:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gartner: IT spending in 2009 will be worse than 2001's decline]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gartner: IT spending in 2009 will be worse than 2001's declineIt's not just the economy, it makes senseIT shops are far to quick to spend on new hardware and systems when their existing systems haven't even paid for themselves yet. I've seen too many shops half-implement systems and then run...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Forrester Slashes 2009 US IT Sales Forecast]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gartner: IT spending in 2009 will be worse than 2001's decline]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gartner on Tuesday cut its IT spending forecast for 2009 to $3.2 trillion, down 3.8 percent from 2008 as consumers and businesses throttle back amid the economic downturn.Â     In a statement, Gartner said that the 2009 slowdown will be "worse than the 2.1 percent decline in IT...]]></description>
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