HI-TECH > February 2009

The economic meltdown continues to slowly suck the growth out of the IT market, and the economists and market researchers at IDC have once again taken a sharp knife to their projections for IT spending in 2009. IDC's Black Book report now says that global IT spending will only increase by 0.5 per cent, to $1.44 trillion. This echoes comments made over at Gartner, which claims global IT spending will rise by the same 0.5 per cent in 2009, but to $2.68 trillion. Back in August, as the U.S. economy was still on the verge of collapse, IDC was projecting a 5.6 per cent increase in IT spending on a global basis, and , it trimmed that back to 2.6 per cent growth across all geographies and...

Podcast available through: If you like David Limbaugh, you might enjoy William Murchison Thomas Sowell Chuck Norris Remember when liberals were wringing their hands and accusing President George W. Bush of being a dictator and a king? Of course, that was breathtakingly absurd, but what's really ironic is that these people actually want a king, provided they get to pick him. As Barack Obama feverishly presses forward with his...

Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend is married. You can't imagine the scolding I've endured from my friends about this. Some of it is beginning to sink in, and I'm doubting whether he will end his marriage for me. In your opinion, if I am deeply in love with this man, is it worth the wait? Do you think he will cheat on me, too, because he's cheating on her? -- Philadelphia Dear Philadelphia: I see those as two separate questions: Should you wait, and, if...

                  Text: SAN FRANCISCO: After spending six weeks diagnosing Yahoo Inc.'s troubles, new Chief Executive Carol Bartz started to prescribe a cure on Thursday with a management shake-up that will usher out the Internet company's chief financial officer. Besides pushing CFO Blake Jorgensen out the door, the overhaul will expand the responsibilities of Yahoo's chief technology...

Facebook made one of the most important announcements in the young company's history today. It has proposed a set of foundational documents, including the first official statement of Facebook Principles. The proposal is made to Facebook's users, who will now have 30 days to read, comment and perhaps vote on the documents. Looking just below the surface of this big news, though, there are a number of things going on that make absolutely no sense to us. Facebook's management appears to have lost its grip on reality. The population of Facebook dwarfs that of scores of countries in the physical world; these foundational documents are of immense importance and raise big red flags. We were on a...

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              Text: BANGALORE: CyberSource Ltd., the UK-based subsidiary of CyberSource Corporation, on Thursday announced that its "Decision Manager" anti-fraud...

              Text: SAN FRANCISCO: US Internet firm Yahoo Inc is "not opposed" to doing a deal that would potentially sell its search business, Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen said on Wednesday. But he said the search business is deeply intertwined with Yahoo's other online products and properties, and so any deal, whether a partnership or a sale, would be done for the right reasons and the right economics. "It's extremely difficult to draw...

This week: BBF, TTYN The case for the prosecution: If, members of the jury, you are unfortunate enough to have teenage daughters, it is likely that you will be aware of a peculiar patois in use by that group in instant messaging conversations and on social networking sites such as MySpace and Bebo. Where once parents needed merely to police split infinitives and double literals,...

26 Feb 2009, 0042 hrs IST, TNN               Text: BANGALORE: India Inc has expressed concern over US President Barack Obama's plans to clamp down on the outsourcing industry. Such a legislation will clearly make outsourcing unattractive to US companies, which is bad news for the Indian tech sector. Reiterating one of his election campaign agenda, in his recent speech Obama made it clear that...

Dear Carolyn: I discovered that my wife was having a lengthy affair. She says it was with Guy X and it's over. I think it's with Guy Y and it might not be over. I base this on: extensive review of phone records, wherein Guy Y's number makes up about 25 percent of all the calls; the time of the calls ; cross-referencing calls with Guy Y to...

A prominent Canadian academic in the tech-policy field has said that "Green IT" initiatives don't work. "Most of the negative environmental impacts [of IT] occur in the form of completely unintended, second and third order effects," says...

              Text: HELSINKI: Global mobile data traffic through Internet browser firm Opera's mobile portal rose in January by 18 percent on the previous month, the fastest pace of growth since May 2008, Opera said on Wednesday. Wireless operators are keen on raising revenue from Internet browsing...

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              Text: BARCELONA: Everybody at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona wanted to be the new best friend of the social networks. From the world's biggest phone maker, Nokia, to tiny Irish semiconductor start-up Movidia, delegates to the wireless industry's biggest annual gathering couldn't stop talking about Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. The majority of visits to such online communities are still made by people sitting at a computer telling their friends where they are and how they are feeling, exchanging opinions on their favourite movies and music or uploading videos. But the spontaneous and personal...

Northern Ireland's political leaders will today hold talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London. First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness are expected to hold talks on a series of issues, but...

              Text: MOUNTAIN VIEW: Google Inc is making amends for an e-mail outage by giving 15 days of free service to businesses, government agencies and other subscribers who pay for an expanded version of the product. The concession is meant to placate customers who were cut off from their e-mail accounts on Tuesday for as long as...

While IT spending is projected decline in some industries in 2009, the prognosticators at Gartner are thus far saying that despite the economic meltdown, IT spending across all industries and geographies will rise a tiny bit. Some industries and geographies are going to do better than others, of course. And there are some areas that are not going to see growth at all. Gartner this week put out a report called Dataquest Alert: Utilities, Healthcare and Government Lead IT Spending Growth in Challenging 2009, providing some dicing and slicing of IT spending with an industry and regional flavor, in contrast with to the traditional high-level IT spending projections Gartner, IDC, Forrester, and...

              Text: MUMBAI: Google Mail, popularly known as Gmail, was attacked on Tuesday. The oldest trick of the day was used to hack into one of the widely-used email service providers, when thousands of machines controlled by a group of people may have been directed to access Gmail simultaneously, resulting in a crash of Gmail’s servers. Gmail went down at 2 pm IST, causing inconvenience to as many as 110 million users worldwide. Through the afternoon, Gmail continued its fight sputtering to...

Nokia Aims For More Job Cuts With 1,000 Voluntary Layoffs HELSINKI, Feb. 24, 2009 E-Mail Story Print Story Sphere Share Text Size: A A A Nokia Corp., which announced this month it was planning cut jobs, said Tuesday it will seek up to 1,000 voluntary resignations...

 

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