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Shake-up predicted to accompany IT recovery
News For tech workers, the recovery will mean a tremendous skills shift possibly affecting millions of people, Gartner predicted. Analyst firm Gartner has declared the slump in IT spending over, and is predicting a return to moderate growth during the...
[November 12, 2003, 10:40]
Mobile meltdown predicted for New Year's Eve
News The news also comes days after it was predicted that ordinary phone networks worldwide may ironically suffer disruption caused by people listening to see if they are still working. Millions of mobile phones across the country are likely to crash at...
[December 22, 1999, 11:05]
Sharp rise predicted in local gov't tech spend
News Local government IT spending is predicted to hit £3bn during 2007/8 — a nine percent increase on the previous year. According to the Society of IT Management's (Socitm) annual IT Trends survey, spending on local government IT will rise again as...
[January 4, 2008, 9:29]
Big numbers predicted for E-Commerce
News For now, a happy e-Christmas is predicted by analysts who reckon there will be a global spend of around $2.3bn (£1.4bn) in the run up to the festive season. In Britain, 1.6 million people have purchased something online in the last three months...
[December 15, 1998, 17:59]
Firefox's rise predicted to continue
News A fifth of the UK's 35 million business and home internet users are predicted to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla's Firefox before the end of the year, according to a new report. Consulting firm BDO Stoy Hayward claims figures...
[January 27, 2005, 9:05]
Tracking tech predicted to boom in Europe
News Technology for wirelessly tracking vehicles and people is predicted to take off in Western Europe throughout the next five years. The rest of the revenue is expected to be generated by technology that tracks people — with around 21 million mobile...
[December 11, 2007, 7:49]
Spending explosion predicted for Web services
News About 97 percent of large North American companies will have adopted some level of Web services technology by 2010, compared with 14 percent anticipated by the end of this year, Rogers predicted. Spending on Web services software is expected to...
[June 2, 2004, 13:10]
More PS2 and Xbox price cuts predicted
News The answer to all of these questions is most likely to be yes," Diot and Drozd predicted. PlayStation2 and Xbox prices could fall again before Christmas, according to analysts. Both Sony and Microsoft announced significant cuts in the price of...
[September 4, 2002, 11:20]
A Year Ago: Big numbers predicted for E-Commerce
News For now, a happy e-Christmas is predicted by analysts who reckon there will be a global spend of around $2.3bn (£1.4bn) in the run up to the festive season. Purchasing goods and services online will account for 17 billion transactions per year by...
[December 15, 1999, 6:03]
Chinese attack on CNN predicted
Blog A contributor to the 'Dark Visitor' blog has predicted an attack on news company CNN. The blog, which claims to track Chinese hack attacks, has said that the attack will occur on April 19 at 8.00 pm, Beijing time.
[April 18, 2008, 17:01]
Fireworks predicted over MS/Vodafone Web services deal
News The alliance between Microsoft and Vodafone to push the development of mobile Web services is likely to cause ructions within the industry in the months ahead, analysts have predicted. The two firms announced on Monday that they are joining forces...
[October 14, 2003, 15:40]
NFC tech predicted to reach tipping point by 2013
News By 2013, one in five phones will have NFC, the analyst firm predicted. The market for contactless mobile payments using near field communications is set to reach a tipping point over the next three to five years, according to a new report by...
[July 21, 2008, 8:12]
A Year Ago: Mobile meltdown predicted for New Year's Eve
News The news also comes days after it was predicted that ordinary phone networks worldwide may ironically suffer disruption caused by people listening to see if they are still working. Networks could buckle under pressure from widespread phone calls at...
[December 22, 2000, 6:01]
Public-sector IT spend predicted to fall
News The public-sector market is predicted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.9 percent between 2007 and 2011, making it worth £11.7bn in 2011, according to Ovum. But 2007 will see higher-than-average growth, with the UK public-sector...
[September 10, 2007, 16:08]
Firefox's rise predicted to continue
Talkback "Top digital architecture"? Windows? I think you mean "most common".
[January 27, 2005, 12:42]
Firefox's rise predicted to continue
Talkback While 20% would be awesome I think it will exceed that like every other growth target before it. The efforts of the Spread Firefox team and adoption by mainstream ISPs will send it flying past that target.
[January 28, 2005, 12:39]
Shake-up predicted to accompany IT recovery
Talkback Does anyone know what Gartner means by "The most valuable skills will include broadband, wireless. What is a broadband or wireless skill? The infrastructure and technology required to build these based services is controlled by a very few players...
[November 13, 2003, 16:59]
Shakeout predicted for Indian call centres
Talkback I spoke to AOL about 2 months ago it was an absolute disgrace. What is D fo Dango and I don't like being called Mr Paul the call took about an hour we hadn't got anywhere and I put the phone down, the next day I got a questionnaire from AOL I told...
[December 18, 2003, 9:54]
Grim times predicted for non-Y2K compliant companies
News The figures released Thursday, show two in five of the businesses surveyed were doing nothing about the bug problem with Northern Ireland, Wales and the West Midlands, areas of greatest concern. Although awareness and understanding has improved...
[October 23, 1998, 11:58]
Software-licensing costs predicted to fall
News Software licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. Analyst Gartner predicts vendors will find themselves increasingly challenged as IT departments look to reduce...
[November 19, 2007, 7:14]
