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Asia-Pacific server revenue up 15.8% in Q2 2005

According to Gartner, Asia/Pacific server revenue in the first half of 2005 grew 12.9% YTY. In Q2 2005, the growth of server revenue was reported at 15.8% YTY.

Tags: Q2 2005, revenue, server revenue

Blog posts 2005-10-30

Network storage market up 16.1% in Q2 2005

The total network storage market NAS combined with Open and iSCSI SAN posted 16.1% YTY growth in Q2 2005 to nearly $2.5 bln. EMC continues to maintain its leadership in the total network storage market with 27.9% revenue share, followed by HP with 21.3%. Dell and IBM posted the strongest...

Tags: YTY, Q2 2005, revenue, EMC Corp.

Blog posts 2005-09-08

External disk storage revenues up 8.6% in Q2 2005

According to IDC, factory revenue in the external disk storage systems market grew 8.6% YTY to $3.8 bln in Q2 2005. The total worldwide disk storage systems market grew at a slightly higher YTY rate of 9.9% to $5.6 bln in Q2 2005, marking the highest YTY growth in the...

Tags: YTY, Q2 2005, disk storage

Blog posts 2005-09-06

Indian PC market up 31% in Q2 2005

In Q2 2005, the Indian PC market saw a 9% sequential and 31% YTY growth to reach 10.5 mln units, according to IDC India. HP retained its #1 slot with a sequential increase of 19% and 45% growth YTY. HCL was #2 with 40% YTY growth. Lenovo occupied the #3...

Tags: Indian PC market, YTY

Blog posts 2005-09-06

US business IT spending up 17.3% in Q2 2005

Spending by business on information-processing equipment and software represents about 37% of all nonresidential fixed investments. In Q2 2005, businesses spent 17.3% more on computers and peripheral equipment than they did in Q2 2004, US Commerce Department reported. Software investments rose 11.2% YTY. Computer sales represent about 9% of the...

Tags: YTY, Q2 2005, computer

Blog posts 2005-09-01

US house prices up 16.5% in Q2 2005

Purchase prices of homes financed by Fannie Mae increased at a 16.5% annualized rate in Q2 2005 and are now up 14.1% YTY. Prices had increased 8.8% annualized in Q1 2005, or 12.5% YTY, according to Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. Quarterly gains peaked at 19.2% annualized in Q3...

Tags: YTY, Q2 2005

Blog posts 2005-08-08

Additional Resources

Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)

Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Are there really too many Windows editions?

Are there really too many Windows editions?Are there really too many Windows editions?Nope!Still, from a consumer point of view, he wants one version, 20 bucks,enable any features you want. The multiple versions are ONLY for Microsoft's benefit in order to extract more money from YOU the eager customer.There is something...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

China overtakes US in broadband

Both the USA and China had about 78 mln broadband lines at the end of August, but China grew twice as fast. In the USA, new broadband lines added fell from 3.4 mln in the last quarter of 2007 to barely 1.1 mln in Q2 2008. In China they rose...

Tags: China, Broadband, Broadband Line, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, AM

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Where are all the programmers?

Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

US Internet ad revenues reach $11.5 bln in the first half of 2008

US Internet advertising revenues in January-June 2008 were $11.5 bln, setting yet another new half-year record that represents a 15.2% increase over the first half of 2007. Q2 2008 was up 12.8% over Q2 2007 and showed a slight decline of 0.3% from Q1 2008. Search revenues totaled almost $5.1...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, AM

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Microsoft Xbox 360 Messenger Kit

When the Xbox 360 was released in November 2005, owners of the previous console were delighted to see that the online element would not only be preserved, but it would also be vastly improved. Xbox Live on the 360 not only provided updated features across the board, but it also...

Tags: Game players, Microsoft Corp., chatpad, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, headset

Product reviews 2008-10-06

Does Sprint have a Nextel nibble?

The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, is reporting that Sprint Nextel has received interest in its Nextel business from Latin American carrier NII Holdings Inc. and several private-equity firms. But this is far from a done deal. Sprint has been exploring a sale of Nextel but...

Tags: Nextel Communications Inc., Sprint Communications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Gadget nostalgia: Five things I had and five things I have now

I was quite inspired by fellow ZDNet blogger Matthew Miller's post listing every mobile device he's had over the years (86 and counting, my friend!). Though my memory isn't as robust as Matt's, I thought I'd compile a list of my own ghost gadgets of the past, comparing them with...

Tags: Motorola Razr, Phone, Logitech, Intel Core 2 Duo, Camera, Computer, Motorola Inc., Processors, Telecom & Utilities, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Interest in switching to broadband among Americans in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008

  Oct 2002 Feb 2004 Dec 2005 May 2008 Yes, interested in broadband 38% 40% 39% 36% No, not interested 57 58 60 62 % of all Americans with dial-up at home 38 30 25 10 Source: Pew Internet Project ...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, NB

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution

Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solutionMissing Facts...You're missing several key facts about our current mess...1) The banks were forced into making high risk loans by our delightful government. Based on a study later determined to be flawed showing bias in lending, the Clinton administration passed laws requiring banks...

Tags: Government, Obama, JFK

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks

Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaksWindows 7It seems that Microsoft is playing it safe with Windows 7 by having minimum changes.Is WinFS still alive or do we have to consider it as a dead duck?Thanks RodIt's mostly the applications anywaysFrankly, it's mostly the applications that need to take advantage of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows Kernel, Craig, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, parallel-processing tweak, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Win32, tweak, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Sprint's Xohm service and the first "WiMax" review

[Update 10/2/08: Hands-on reviews of Sprint's Xohm service, which is based on Mobile WiMax, have now been posted at LaptopMag.com (XOHM WiMAX In Baltimore: Speed Tests With XOHM ExpressCard) and PCMag.com Sprint XOHM Mobile WiMAX.] No sooner had Sprint flipped the switch on its WiMax wireless broadband...

Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, Service, Laptop Card, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Gauging the ThinkPad: Before (IBM) and after (Lenovo)

Has Lenovo lost whatever mojo the ThinkPad had? That simple question raised a lot of discussion at TechRepublic and it's worth pondering. The problem: Gauging Lenovo's performance depends on a lot of anecdotes with few concrete  answers. As background, John Sheesley asked a simple question: Has Lenovo...

Tags: Consumer Reports, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-29