penetration in comment and analysis
Leader: What Yahoo's video rewind tells us
Leader The former suffers from lack of penetration via DSL, cable or satellite, the latter from firewall configurations and IT departments wary of carrying gigabytes of video over critical LANs. Notably, in South Korea, with its high penetration of... [31 Oct 2003]
Where the growth of IM will take your business
Comment The market penetration of enterprise IM has already been impressive. There's no doubting the use of IM is on the up but where do the experts see it heading? Anthony Plewes has been asking them. Questioning instant messaging pundits, you’ll find... [23 Oct 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM v BHAL, location-based services and ecommerce VAT
Comment It would seem that BEA and HP would expect that penetration to exceed Sun's in the foreseeable future. This is shown in a three fold increase in the penetration of HP in the BEA customer set. BEA WebLogic 8.1 has just gone GA. [11 Aug 2003]
The unholy trinity of broadband
Comment Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said something rather significant about the deal: "Microsoft is strongly committed to speeding up the adoption of broadband in the UK, and we are very excited about BT's broadband strategy and innovative no-frills... [08 Nov 2002]
What if... mobile operators fail the content challenge?
Comment Corporates won't invest in wireless B2C until there is enough penetration of wireless data usage into the consumer space. This stands a chance of driving enough penetration to elicit the interest of the big brands but it is imperative that the... [06 Nov 2002]
Email deities and broadband deaths
Comment It won't take long for people to make the 'broadband can kill you' connection - both countries are at the top of the world rankings for broadband penetration. Security company Indicii Salus has released research that shows people care more about... [22 Oct 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Services carve up, Vodafone and SFR, ARM's lay-offs
Comment Did you know, for instance, that the addition of PwC to IBM Global Services will give IBM a European market penetration of 12.2 per cent and revenues of approximately $11bn? Last week IDC cast its eye over the rapidly maturing, and consolidating... [21 Oct 2002]
Lies, damn lies, and broadband statistics
Comment But figures about broadband penetration or rate of adoption of multimedia wireless services are much harder to calculate and compare. New research from the ITU suggests the UK isn't doing badly in terms of mobile internet adoption. [17 Sep 2002]
The Ovum View: DSL is taking off - but where's it going?
Comment Penetration rates still vary around a few per cent of the population but the change in the last six months has been dramatic. Price reductions in broadband access, particularly for DSL services, are a welcome, if overdue, development. [08 May 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: The death of free email, Linux databases and P2P prize-giving
Comment The tracking of Linux is difficult, not least because anecdotal information indicates a much deeper market penetration than press stories sometimes suggest. For much of its history the internet has been intimately associated with freedom, and even... [08 Apr 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Handcuffed by the industry standard
Comment Vendors that fail to achieve market penetration may withdraw products or even go out of business. The phrase 'industry standard' is nowadays bandied about ad nauseam. Yet what does it mean, and should we always be adhering to it? [25 Feb 2002]
MMS - mobile's massive stupidity?
Comment MMS won't be cheap and wide handset penetration will take time. The people of Cannes must be used to corporate excess by now, and this year's 3GSM World Congress will barely move the needle on their binge-ometer. [21 Feb 2002]
Those were the days: Remembering the ZX Spectrum
Comment As well as talking about Spectrum emulators and the "now famous 'dead flesh' keyboard" Chappell added: "The thing that stays with me from that tail end of the Sinclair era is the sheer scale of market penetration. [17 Jan 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: ZX Spectrum users get dewy eyed
Comment The thing that stays with me from that tail end of the Sinclair era is of the sheer scale of market penetration. It seems quite a few of you have decided to join him. Here are just a few of your reader comments. [14 Jan 2002]
"Unbreakable" software? Oracle needs to watch the hyperbole
Comment By the testimony of penetration testers Oracle does take security seriously, and reacts promptly and in a measured fashion. Oracle has been spouting about its "unbreakable" database and "unbreakable" application server platform for a few weeks now. [23 Nov 2001]
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