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- Sweden
Remains Top IT Society; U.S. Slips
- Online
Holiday Returns Pass $1B Mark
- Asia,
the Emerging Net Giant
- Online
Ads Drive New Site Growth
- Killer
Tech Hub Forming in D.C.?
- Wireless
Web Set For Exponential Growth
- DSL
Set To Grow Globally
- IDC Forecasts
Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Revenue Will Surpass $53 Billion in 2004
- E-Mail
Habits Getting More Complicated
- Streaming
Media Consumers Among Net's Most Active Users
- IT,
Network Spending Headed Up, Despite Economic Slowdown
- Bad
Reception
- Just in Time
- Home
Web-Without-Wires Faces Battle Over Standards
- Top
17 Information Technology White Papers and Topics
- Music
Shipment Stats Prove Their Point
- Thirty-Two
Million Electronic Checks Processed in 2000
- PC-Based
Music Will Outlive Napster - Webnoize
- Online
Marketing in Canada
- Searching
for terms across the world
- Wireless
Web gaining ground in US
- Half
of i-mode users pay for content
- Six
million households to prepare tax returns online
- 60
percent of USA now online
Sweden
Remains Top IT Society; U.S. Slips
Norway and Finland knock the U.S. out
of second place in the race to access and absorb information technology.
Online
Holiday Returns Pass $1B Mark
Online shoppers in the U.S. have already
returned about US$1 billion worth of merchandise purchased during the 2000 holiday
season, according to a report released by the Yankee Group. Asia,
the Emerging Net Giant
More than 100 million new Internet users are expected
to come online in Asia by 2004, representing 27 percent of all users worldwide.
But while Hong Kong is well on its way, places like Vietnam lag behind.
Online
Ads Drive New Site Growth
Although the Internet advertising industry has
taken a hit in recent months, a report released finds that online firms should
not be so quick to scale back their Web-based marketing efforts in a bid to trim
operating budgets. Killer
Tech Hub Forming in D.C.?
Reputations are hard to change. Just ask the
good folks at the District of Columbia's chamber of commerce. But a recent survey
shows there are 332 technology firms in a city better known for high murder rates.
Wireless
Web Set For Exponential Growth
The wireless devices industry got some
good news with the results of an adoption and usage of wireless devices study
by the interactive products and services group DSL
Set To Grow Globally
IDC predicts that the worldwide market for DSL Internet
access is set to explode from 4.5 million lines in 2000 to 66.4 million in 2004.
IDC
Forecasts Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Revenue Will Surpass $53 Billion in 2004
The disk storage industry will grow at double-digit levels. According to IDC,
worldwide revenues in this market will increase at a compound annual growth rate
of 12%, to $53.3 billion in 2004 from $28.4 billion in 1999. E-Mail
Habits Getting More Complicated
Consumers' e-mail use has evolved, with
nearly three-quarters of consumers (74%) now owning two or more e-mail addresses
for an average of 2.6 per consumer Streaming
Media Consumers Among Net's Most Active Users
Internet usage as a whole
may be dropping off slightly, but Americans are spending more of their online
time using streaming media IT,
Network Spending Headed Up, Despite Economic Slowdown
IT procurement budgets
are not being slowed by fears of an economic slowdown, according to a survey of
Global 2000 corporations Bad
Reception
Today's latest buzzword is 'digital.' Fifty years down the road
this may seem dopey, but for now, this little word symbolizes everything that's
new and up-to-date. Just
in Time
Rising inventories are a reality in the new economy as well as
the old. But this time around, they may not be as painful. Home
Web-Without-Wires Faces Battle Over Standards
Two camps of technology
giants are slugging it out for the hearts of would-be sofa Web surfers.
Top
17 Information Technology White Papers and Topics
Bitpipe Inc., the leading
syndicator of in-depth information technology (IT) content, announced today the
Top 17 Information Technology research documents and topics for the month of January,
2001. Music
Shipment Stats Prove Their Point
While awaiting court action that could
put the nail in Napster's coffin, the recording industry is holding up a new batch
of numbers as further proof that downloading songs for free hurts sales of recorded
music Thirty-Two
Million Electronic Checks Processed in 2000
The Electronic Payments Association
estimates that 32 million paper checks were converted into electronic checks at
retail locations in 2000. PC-Based
Music Will Outlive Napster - Webnoize
As the future of Napster as a company
teeters on the brink of legal oblivion, the idea of listening to songs on a personal
computer will live on, but for a price, according to a new study released today.
Online
Marketing in Canada
Canadian marketers currrently spend more of their
net budget on building their websites, but, they'll spend more on site promotion
in the future. Searching
for terms across the world
Proving once again that sex sells, a recent
report found that terms like "sex" and "playboy" were among the most-searched-for
online. Wireless
Web gaining ground in US
Seven percent of US adults say they or someone
in their household accesses wireless Internet services on a mobile phone, according
to Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch. Half
of i-mode users pay for content
Forty-eight percent of the 18.8 million
users of i-mode, the Japanese wireless service, are paying for content, according
to an NTT DoCoMo executive who was speaking at the Business Mobile Forum 21.
Six
million households to prepare tax returns online
As many as 6 million
U.S. households could be filling out income tax returns online this year, a healthy
increase over the 2 million that did the same thing last year 60
percent of USA now online
Internet penetration in the United States reached
a milestone in January, according to audience measurement data just released by
Nielsen/NetRatings. Back
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