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IDC: Downturn to drive Linux adoption
News The current economic downturn is set to drive Linux adoption, according to a white paper by research organisation IDC. This survey confirms that Linux users view [Linux] favourably, and this view places Linux in a competitive position to emerge...
[March 17, 2009, 12:36]
Downturn could lead to single next-gen network
News The global economic downturn could push nations towards investing in a single, open next-generation broadband network, rather than continuing the current strategy of multiple networks delivering competing digital services.
[January 22, 2009, 8:36]
Downturn to hamper Asian piracy fight
News Efforts to clamp down on the illegal use of software in Asia could prove futile as businesses become increasingly cash-strapped in the economic downturn. And with the downturn now straining company coffers, the use of illegal software could become...
[October 3, 2001, 15:11]
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog Being green is all well and good but how long will companies continue to worry about the environment if the financial downturn affecting the US bites harder and really impacts the UK? That was one of the questions posed to Lord Nicholas Stern, of...
[April 30, 2008, 16:52]
Downturn may not see drastic cuts in IT spend
News Investment in technology will not be severely impacted by the economic downturn, as companies will need to use IT to help them through the recession, according to analyst firm Pierre Audoin Consultants.
[November 21, 2008, 14:21]
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog Comment I am not sure that Lord Stern is not being a bit over optimistic about how green planning will be hit by a recession or downturn. I think that many of the energy and cost saving projects will continue as they are not altruistic or really...
[May 2, 2008, 12:18]
Downturn spells stay of execution for legacy IT
News Businesses are putting off technology upgrades as they look to save money during the economic downturn. As IT budgets are being scaled back, infrastructure upgrades and software-refresh projects are being delayed, according to research by the...
[December 17, 2008, 16:51]
Memory makers ride out downturn
News Unlike in past cycles, such as in 1995 and 1998, when excess capacity caused manufacturers to cut prices, the latest downturn was created by a slowdown in demand for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), the most common type of memory used in...
[August 8, 2001, 9:09]
Companies to simplify outsourcing during downturn
News The economic downturn will force businesses to simplify their outsourcing and offshoring agreements to generate faster returns on investment and reduce risk, even if that means glossing over problems in deals and fixing them later.
[November 21, 2008, 14:59]
Search-ad revenues defy economic downturn
News Despite an economic downturn, online advertising — and search in particular — is managing to keep its market intact, according to reports on Tuesday by an industry trade group and Wall Street analyst.
[October 8, 2008, 9:27]
Google earnings upbeat despite downturn
News However, on a conference call to discuss the earnings results, Schmidt conceded that Google was feeling the effects of the economic downturn. On a conference call to discuss the earnings results, Schmidt spoke in sober tones, while touting his...
[April 17, 2009, 12:25]
Micron hints at DRAM downturn
News On Friday, networking equipment maker Cisco said it expects the economic downturn to affect sales and earnings into 2002, triggering a world-wide selloff of tech shares on Monday. Demand for DRAMs, the basic building blocks for memory used in PCs...
[March 13, 2001, 11:38]
Cisco eyes new markets as downturn curtails profits
News Cisco chief executive John Chambers said he expects the company to continue to be affected by the downturn in the economy. There's no doubt that the battered economy is affecting technology bellwether Cisco, but the company is looking to the future...
[August 6, 2008, 9:02]
Cisco latest victim of downturn
News Analysts have said Cisco is better positioned to weather a downturn than most companies. Internet equipment leader Cisco Systems warned investors to expect flat to lower revenue in coming quarters, with full-year revenue growth in the "40 percent...
[February 7, 2001, 7:40]
Growth predicted for Indian tech despite downturn
News The Indian software and services industry will continue to grow despite the economic downturn, according to the country's outsourcing trade body, Nasscom. Anthony Miller, managing partner at analyst group TechMarketView, told ZDNet UK's sister site...
[February 10, 2009, 14:20]
Master data management set to thrive in downturn
News Gartner attributed the better-than-average growth prediction to "the ongoing requirements for businesses to increase effectiveness, reduce costs and meet compliance requirements" amid a downturn in world economies.
[November 19, 2008, 16:17]
Asia-Pacific region defies IT services downturn
News The growth trend in IT services in the Asia-Pacific region has continued to a large extent independently of the downturn in some economies within the region," Jester said. Despite continued sluggish performance in Europe and the US, the Asia...
[May 28, 2002, 14:20]
ELearning - Helping SMEs Through Economic Downturn
Blog Especially, it is an ideal way in this economy downturn. Dell Inc, the world's No. PC maker, will cut about 1,900 of 3,000 jobs at its manufacturing plant in Limerick. DHL Express cut almost 15,000 people, and so on.
[January 21, 2009, 8:42]
Semiconductor industry to see worst-ever downturn
News The semiconductor industry is facing its worst annual downturn ever, according to new figures from IC Insights, a US market research firm. The new research underscores the dramatic nature of the downturn for the chip industry.
[June 19, 2001, 12:23]
DRAM market set for 2005 'downturn'
News It's warning for a downturn," Dan Hutcheson, chief executive of VLSI Research, wrote in a recent version of The Chip Insider , an industry newsletter. Worldwide revenue from DRAM, the memory found inside computers, will grow a whopping 56.2 percent...
[December 20, 2004, 11:10]
