Posted by ZDNet Research @ 6:02 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 WiMAX and Flash-OFDM to replace 3G Posted by ZDNet Research @ 6:02 pm Categories: 3G Tags: Wireless broadband technologies such as WiMAX and FLASH-OFDM will replace 3G cellular data networks, according to a report by Datacomm Research and Rysavy Research. Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals. ...

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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 5:57 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 73 mln broadband modems, routers and gateways shipped in 2004 Posted by ZDNet Research @ 5:57 pm Categories: Broadband Tags: The broadband boom continues: worldwide, revenue for broadband modems, routers, and gateways totaled $4.6 bln in 2004, up 15% from 2003, and units totaled 73 mln, up 74%, according to Infonetics Research. Revenue hit $1.16 bln in Q4 2004, down 7% from Q3 2004, despite unit growth of 17% to 23.3 mln. Unit shipments are projected to soar 191% to almost 200 mln and revenue will grow 28% to $5.6 bln between 2004 and 2008. D-Link leads the overall broadband modem, router, and gateway revenue leaderboard in Q4 2004, just ahead of Thomson; Motorola claims #3, ahead of Cisco-Linksys and Siemens, which are tied for #4. In the broadband gateway ...

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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 5:53 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 $208.05 mln of venture investments in February 2005 Posted by ZDNet Research @ 5:53 pm Categories: Venture capital Tags: The Silicon Strategies Venture Capital Counter reported on $208.05 mln of venture investment activity in February 2005. Due to the poor showing in January the 2005 year-to-date investment figure at the end of February remained 31.9% lower than at the same time in 2004 February investments more than doubled the $92.7 recorded in January 2005 and were up 4.3% compared with February 2004. Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals. ...

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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 5:37 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 Network security appliance and software market generated $3.7 bln in 2004 Posted by ZDNet Research @ 5:37 pm Categories: Security Tags: Worldwide network security appliance and software revenue topped $3.7 bln in 2004, up 30% from 2003, and is projected to grow to $5.5 bln in 2008, according to Infonetics Research. Worldwide network security revenue is up 5% between Q3 2004 and Q4 2004, with growth in all categories except VPN/firewall software. Revenue is expected to grow 25% to $1.2 bln in Q4 2005. Cisco remains the revenue-leading vendor overall, with over 30% of the total network security appliances and software revenue in both Q4 2004 and 2004 total, a share position they have more or less maintained since 2002. Check Point and Juniper maintain their #2...

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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 4:46 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 Fear sells: another doomsayer has his day Posted by Russell Shaw @ 4:46 pm Categories: General Tags: My colleague Andrew Donoghue at ZDNet Europe has been attending the Business Continuity Expo in London this week. Apparently, one presentation really shook Andrews tree. He quotes David Lacey, IT director of the U.K. postal service Royal Mail Group as saying: "An electronic Pearl Harbor-type event will happen in 2006 or 2007. I do stand by that. New technologies such as VoIP risk driving a horse and cart through the security in our networks." While more tempered and IMHO, much more valid scenarios populate the rest of Andrews piece, thats not the point I wish to raise here. My real beef is the endemic tendency of many observers to postulate worst-case scen...

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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 3:29 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 Central and Eastern European telecoms lost 0.5% of landlines in 2004 Posted by ZDNet Research @ 3:29 pm Categories: General Tags: The fixed-line markets of Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia) contracted slightly in 2004. According to IDC, the number of fixed-line connections dwindled in 2004 by a 0.5% YTY to 32.88 mln and total telephony spending fell by 0.83% to $8.04 bln. Although mobile substitution continues apace and is the primary reason for the decline of the fixed-line telephony market, VOIP has also played a significant role, though its full effect will not be realized for several years. Spending by both residential and business customers sh...

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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 3:29 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 LCD TV shipments up 123% in 2004 Posted by ZDNet Research @ 3:29 pm Categories: General Tags: Lower TV prices caused global LCD TV shipments to jump 69% QTQ and 134% YTY in Q4 2004 to a record 3.6 mln units, according to DisplaySearch. For entire 2004 LCD TV shipments grew 123% to 8.8 mln. Sharp remained the dominant LCD TV brand with a 22% share, down from 28% as competition intensified. Philips, the second largest supplier, saw its market share rise from 11 to 15%. Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals. ...

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Posted by Phil Windley @ March 17, 2005 @ 3:04 PM   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 ETech summary, day 3 Posted by Phil Windley @ March 17, 2005 @ 3:04 PM Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Long Tail, Larry Lessig, JotSpot, Phil Windley This mornings opening keynote presenter was Larry Lessig, a natural at a conference about remixing. Larry gives an amazing presentationvery entertaining and informative. Paula Le Dieu, Cluster Head for Content Management Culture with BBCs central New Media department, gave a presentation on the BBCs efforts to embrace massive media, a word she uses to refer to blogs, wikis, and other popular publishing trends. Her statement that the "BBC will not use DRM." drew appreciative applause from the crowd. Of course, theyd been primed by Lessig. If youve read Chris Andersons article from Wired entitled The Long Tail ...

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Posted by Phil Windley @ 3:04 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 ETech summary, day 3 Posted by Phil Windley @ 3:04 pm Categories: General, Web Technology Tags: This mornings opening keynote presenter was Larry Lessig, a natural at a conference about remixing. Larry gives an amazing presentationvery entertaining and informative. Paula Le Dieu, Cluster Head for Content Management Culture with BBCs central New Media department, gave a presentation on the BBCs efforts to embrace massive media, a word she uses to refer to blogs, wikis, and other popular publishing trends. Her statement that the "BBC will not use DRM." drew appreciative applause from the crowd. Of course, theyd been primed by Lessig. If youve read Chris Andersons article from Wired entitled The Long Tail you know about the way that infinite inventory and low...

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Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 2:16 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 Linux contradictions between Google and EDS Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 2:16 pm Categories: General, Linux Tags: Sometimes stories come across your desk, within minutes of each other, that are so contradictory you have to laugh. First we have Google, courting open source developers for its Google Code project. Its a repository for good, useful, even cool code, based on open sourced Google code, which the company hopes will result in new tools that drive the multi-billion dollar companys business plan. Then we have EDS, the technology services giant, pulling together allies like Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, EMC, Fiji Xerox, and Sun for an anti-Linux scare campaign under the banner of the Agility Alliance. Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not...

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Posted by Chris Jablonski @ 1:53 pm   Year:March 17th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

March 17th, 2005 Phishing concerns taint legitimate email Posted by Chris Jablonski @ 1:53 pm Categories: General, Security Tags: Increasingly, people are regarding legitimate transactional e-mails from companies as fraudulent, not just mistaking phishing e-mails as real, according to Jonathan Oliver from MailFrontier. He spoke at Etech this afternoon about phishing attacks and social engineering. A recent study showed 30 percent of respondents incorrectly identified a phishing e-mail?as real or real message as a phishing attack. Oliver showed slides of legitimate e-mail from Citibank and Network Solutions that people considered phishing. Some other disturbing facts: only 9 percent got a 10/10 on a phishing IQ test; 51 million US adults were phished in the last 12 months; t...

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