on demand by 2010
'Emerging markets will split mobile'
News In countries like India, that's not necessarily the case - where operators are spectrum constrained, there probably will be demand for WiMax. The head of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has predicted there will be more than five billion mobile phone... [15 Feb 2007]
US servers guzzle more power than Mississippi
News Server power demand has moved high up customer priority lists - especially with rising power costs and overstuffed data centres - and hardware makers are responding. Based on the number of servers IDC forecasts to ship, the world's server power... [15 Feb 2007]
Apple, Napster and Google sued over video
News Apple, Google and Napster have all been named in a video on demand (VoD) patent infringement suit - by a company that stopped offering such services several years ago. Company founder Jonathan Taplin told The New York Times: "Intertainer was the... [04 Jan 2007]
SAP eyes 'third way' for software - using SOA like a gearbox
News Software isn't a straight choice between packaged and on-demand - at least that's according to SAP, the giant software vendor which has recently been saying how it will use service-oriented architecture (or, to use the buzzy acronym, SOA) to... [28 Sep 2006]
HomeChoice-Tiscali confirm marriage
News The ISP will in return take a 100 per cent share of the video-on-demand (VoD) company. Homechoice and Tiscali have put an end to speculation by announcing their official merger. Tiscali will now bring its marketing weight to bear on pushing IPTV... [14 Aug 2006]
IPTV to attract 63 million by 2010?
News Kirstein envisions some of the enhanced services to include on-demand gaming, music and home networking management. Internet protocol television, or IPTV, is expected to attract 63 million subscribers by 2010 - more than a 26-fold increase over... [04 Aug 2006]
Big bucks in China's software industry
Comment Almost 4,000 Japanese-speaking software engineers are now required to meet the growing demand. Lewis believes the Chinese government is taking a risk by homing in on "what's making big bucks" now rather than looking to the long term. [26 Jul 2006]
China's internet revolution
Comment According to Chinese government figures, around four million PCs are bought every year in China as the popularity of computer games fuels the demand for internet cafés. China, which is also operated by Alibaba, is one US media company that has come... [21 Jul 2006]
BT scores broadband Premiership rights
News Subscribers to the service will be able to view digital terrestrial television, as well as premium content, on-demand through their broadband connections, using set-top boxes and traditional TVs. The 3 mobile network in Italy is looking to launch a... [26 May 2006]
CIO Jury: Adapt or die, IT departments warned
News Gartner will predict that 40 per cent of people in the IT department will have substantial business and non-IT experience by 2010 and that demand for process and relationship expertise will double, while demand for IT specialists will shrink by 40... [10 May 2006]
Web video to hit $1bn by end of the decade
News Within the next two to three years, however, on-demand and download services, such as those offered by iTunes for TV shows, will start to make more of a mark, as will subscription-based services, buoyed by the emergence of home networking. [05 Apr 2006]
Digital TV boom-time coming to Europe
News And BT today announced it is taking pre-registrations for BT Vision - its own IPTV service slated for a launch towards the end of this year, which will offer digital terrestrial television as well as premium content on-demand through broadband... [20 Mar 2006]
Mobile WiMax gets thumbs-up in Japan
News The consultancy said the region's demand for portable and mobile services will spur the uptake of the mobile flavour of WiMax. The long-range wireless broadband technology, which received its official certification late last year, is set to be... [13 Mar 2006]
Opinion: India sets its sights on Europe
Comment A few years ago when Nasscom predicted demand for Indian IT services would be worth $60bn per year by 2010, many scoffed at their audacity. Last Friday the President of India himself, Dr APJ Kalam, tore up those projections and stated that demand... [24 Feb 2006]
IT training all about the business
News Rob Chapman, founder of IT training firm The Training Camp, said he's seen a rapid growth in the demand for business management and project management courses in recent months. Chapman noted the "vendor-neutral" security courses are in particular... [25 Jan 2006]
