Gartner research analysts recently convened to discuss the changing nature of work and table some predictions for the coming decade. Their consensus view was that distributed and ad-hoc teams of people, along with blurred organizational boundaries, would become the norm for most modes of work.…
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Broadband & Location Turning Mobile Into a $1T Business
Mobile voice and data revenues will create a trillion-dollar global market by 2014, as complementary products such as advertising, applications and web services are built, says research firm Gartner. Broadband has enabled mobility to this point, but location is the next big driver.…
Read MoreMac Market Share Surges in U.S.
Both Gartner and IDC report the Mac is now accounting for a tenth of the PC market in the U.S., but these preliminary numbers will likely climb higher still when Apple reports actual Mac sales during its quarterly conference call next week.…
Read MoreSept. 7: What We’re Reading About the Cloud
We came back from the holiday weekend to a lot of predictions about the future of infrastructure and cloud opportunities, including a prediction on data warehousing being the next hot trend in storage, the latest version of Gartner's cloud hype cycle and how Hurd-gate will impact Oracle.…
Read MoreWhat Can Web Workers Learn from Corporations?
While corporations can learn from web workers, I think that the reverse is also true. As someone who has worked recently on both sides of the fence, I thought it would be interesting to think about what web workers can learn from corporations.…
Read MoreOutbreak Adds Some Flare to the LG15 Universe
[show=lgoutbreak size=large]The lonelygirl15 web series franchise has always drawn its success from its fans. But ever since its original creators changed their…
Read MoreWhy The Consumer Will Be King of Home Energy Management in 2010
If 2009 was the year that the smart grid became a hot buzz word and utilities first started to look into energy…
Read MoreiPhone Increases Marketshare Again
For Q3 2009, Apple’s (s aapl) iPhone accounted for 17.1 percent of worldwide smartphone marketshare, a new high for the company. That’s…
Read MoreSocial Network Use in the Office Could Spur Better Enterprise Technology
Social networking has generally been discouraged in the workplace, with many corporate IT departments blocking access to sites like Facebook and MySpace…
Read MoreMac Sales Up, But Netbooks Way Up
The good news is that preliminary estimates from both IDC and Gartner for the third quarter have Mac sales up and Apple…
Read MoreThe Hills With Puppets? Well-Played, Heart Felt
[show=heartfeltshow size=large]Look, I don’t like throwing around the word “genius” unless it’s deserved, but that’s what 15 Gigs’…
Read MoreMyers' Mainstream Electric Vehicle Ambition: Add a Seat
There are two strategies that new electric-vehicle makers commonly use to enter the market with ambitions to go mainstream: start at the…
Read MorePalm Pre Homebrew App of the Day: Comics
I am getting so much good stuff out of the Palm (s palm) Pre Homebrew Apps Catalog that I find myself checking…
Read MoreiPhone Market Share Up Again
Gartner reports that while mobile phone sales are down in the second quarter of 2009, smartphone sales are up, and the iPhone…
Read MoreNokia, Samsung, LG Gain Handset Share in Q2
While second-quarter mobile phone sales fell 6 percent from the same period last year, sales of smartphones surged 27 percent, according to…
Read MoreMac Market Share Suffers From Netbook Envy
Depending upon which research firm you believe, preliminary estimates for Mac sales are either down or flat for the second quarter compared…
Read MoreLive-Streaming Grief: Saying Goodbye to Michael Jackson
[show=michaeljackson size=large]I’ve always been of the belief that a memorial service is not for the person who passed away, but for those…
Read MoreElectric Utilities Fail to Promote Their Energy-Efficiency Initiatives
Electric utilities are increasingly offering energy-efficiency programs, but there’s a good chance their customers don’t know about them. That’s according to a…
Read MoreHow Low Can We Go? Gartner Sees Bigger Drop in Chips
Gartner said today it expects chip sales to drop by 24 percent in 2009 — an unwelcome revision to its previous forecast…
Read MoreDespite a Sharp Downturn, There is Hope for Chipmakers
This morning, research firm Gartner said the semiconductor industry would decline by 16.3 percent in 2009 to a $219.2 billion industry. This…
Read MoreGartner Sees $1.5B for Web Studio Video by 2012
Gartner estimates that worldwide ad revenue for "protail" video content will exceed $1.5 billion in 2012, up from $75 million in 2008.…
Read MoreSemiconductor Forecasts Predict Cheaper Gadgets Ahead
wo industry analyst firms issued revised semiconductor sales forecasts today that illustrate the poor economy's affect on the semiconductor value chain, with one from Gartner shaving $25.5 billion off sales of chips in the coming year. That's gonna sting, even when the revised total is still $$282.2 billion in sales for 2009. The other was a report from IDC will lower its PC-chip shipment forecast for next year.…
Read MoreBroadband Video Watchers Double; IPTV to Grow 64%
Two new bits of video research out today: One from ABI Research saying 63 percent of U.S. online households watch video in…
Read MoreWorldwide Phone Sales Will Increase To 1.28 Billion This Year: Report
This year, worldwide sales of mobile phones will reach 1.28 billion units in 2008, a 11 percent increase compared to the 1.15 billion units……
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