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RSS analyst in newsGeneration Y setting tech agenda
News Charles Golvin, principal analyst at Forrester Research said Generation Y is the audience companies are most struggling to understand - a key issue due to their importance for future revenue growth. Companies are having trouble keeping up with... [25 Jul 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks: In the "off-again" phase
News Speaking at Microsoft's financial analyst meeting, Ballmer said: "Now we aren't [talking] and that's where things are. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday that its on-again, off-again talks with Yahoo! [25 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News Forrester database analyst Noel Yuhanna said open-source databases can now meet about 80 per cent of existing business application needs. The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web... [24 Jul 2008]
Home servers latest trend to sweep market?
News The home server market is currently all potential, with only an estimated 400,000 US households employing one today, according to multiple analyst reports. Analyst JP Gownder says: "The digital assets that people have are clearly climbing and with... [21 Jul 2008]
Nokia grabs bigger slice of market
News Nokia sold 122 million mobile phones during the quarter, beating the average analyst forecast of about 120 million phones for the quarter. Nokia is gobbling up market share on mobile handsets fuelled by sales in emerging markets. [21 Jul 2008]
NFC payments to reach tipping point in three years?
News The analyst forecasts the gross transaction value of relatively low value purchases - such as refreshments, tickets and food - made via NFC will exceed $75bn globally by 2013, with the lion's share of contactless business being done in the Far... [18 Jul 2008]
Location-based services mean business
News ABI Research's principal analyst Dominique Bonte said business applications of LBS, such as asset and vehicle tracking and workforce management, will become an important revenue generator for carriers in the future as more companies look to deploy... [17 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News But the analyst adds that criminals will also make use of the cloud to reduce the cost of heavy processing in attacks such as breaking encryption keys or finding vulnerabilities in software. Kelly Kavanagh, principal analyst at Gartner, said in a... [17 Jul 2008]
Apple OS gaining ground on Windows
News IDC analyst Loren Loverde said in a telephone interview: "They've got great products and they are executing well. Apple's operating system is gaining ground on Microsoft Windows, with second-quarter results showing the company inching close to a 10... [17 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry ready to burst into new pastures
News Those fears were highlighted last month, when RIM posted a profit outlook that fell short of analyst expectations, even as it reported quarterly earnings that more than doubled. BlackBerry maker RIM is charging ahead with international expansion... [16 Jul 2008]
Google's search share continues to creep up
News Its share increased from 68.29 per cent in May to 69.17 per cent in June, the analyst firm said. Google crossed the 60 per cent share threshold in July 2006, analyst Matt Tatham said, slid back the one month in August 2006, but has been north of 60... [16 Jul 2008]
BT plans £1.5bn fat pipe upgrade
News Matt Yardley, analyst at Analysys Mason, said that the move by BT will "remove some of the awkward questions about why are we languishing behind many other nations in the provision of high-speed broadband". [15 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone to storm enterprise world, says O2
News Yet analyst house Gartner has described this as a basic level of security for business. Apple's 3G iPhone is poised to take the UK business world by storm, according to O2, which said corporate customers involved in beta testing are very interested... [04 Jul 2008]
Email: The tip of the cloud iceberg?
News That's according to analyst house Gartner which says IT applications provided over the internet will be boosted by the widespread use of this kind of email. The use of internet hosted email services - such as Microsoft's Hotmail and Google Mail... [03 Jul 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News James Governor, an analyst with RedMonk, said the deal was "a nice win" for Parallels and would take the company into the high-end of HP computing. HP has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels to those customers who... [03 Jul 2008]
