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New Economy jargon: Sooo 1999
News Signalling just how out of vogue New Economy buzzwords have become, technology research and consulting company The Yankee Group renamed a number of its business units this week, sans jargon. The Yankee Group's BtoB Commerce & Applications Research...
[March 2, 2002, 6:31]
Yankee Group slams 'Linux extremists'
News The Yankee Group has hit back at critics in the Linux community who have claimed that its surveys comparing Linux and Microsoft Windows are not impartial. Laura DiDio, an analyst at the Yankee Group who has been at the receiving end of much of the...
[April 7, 2005, 13:00]
Wi-Fi threat to 3G 'is overstated'
News In a new publication, research organisation The Yankee Group says there are still a number of problems need to be resolved before public access wireless local area networks (WLANs) become a commercial reality.
[July 3, 2002, 14:59]
Data services prop up wireless revenues
News The number of mobile phone subscribers will grow to more than 1.75 billion worldwide by 2007, with data services playing an increasingly important role in the wireless economy, according to research firm The Yankee Group.
[September 29, 2003, 14:35]
Linux sees big potential in small businesses
News The report, released on Monday by The Yankee Group, says Linux has minimal presence among business with 500 employees or fewer, with not even 1 percent of such companies currently using Linux on desktop PCs.
[September 21, 2004, 11:05]
UK firms at risk from telco collapse
News Research published last week by The Yankee Group found widespread concern about the state of the telecoms sector, following the troubles of WorldCom, KPNQwest and PSINet. Quite a few companies, The Yankee Group warn, are taking a "wait and see...
[August 27, 2002, 9:24]
Small firms worry they rely too much on Microsoft
News A report that Boston-based The Yankee Group released on Wednesday shows that some 43 percent of small and midsized businesses are "concerned" about becoming "overly reliant" on Microsoft's products and services.
[January 29, 2004, 9:55]
IBM is top dog for SMEs
News According to a survey from analyst house Yankee Group, US small businesses say they prefer kit from Big Blue - despite IBM's exit from the PC market. Dell remains the biggest box shifter, but comes second to IBM in terms of market leadership, said...
[August 1, 2006, 9:50]
Analysts claim improved reliability for Linux servers
News Mainstream Linux distributions for servers have caught up substantially with Unix in terms of reliability over the past year, while Windows Server 2003 downtime has risen by nearly 25 percent, according to a Yankee Group survey.
[April 16, 2008, 15:54]
Microsoft's subscription-like charges cost more
News While the new programme certainly hit many businesses hard, Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio said that she was "encouraged" that only 60 percent of Licensing 6 adopters saw price increases. Yankee Group and Sunbelt Software conducted the survey...
[March 21, 2003, 9:41]
Sprint sets sights on 4G
News During a keynote speech at Yankee Group Research's Wireless Leadership Summit in New York on Tuesday, Sprint Nextel chief executive officer Gary Forsee said the company, which officially closed the books on its $6.5bn merger with Nextel on Monday...
[June 28, 2006, 16:35]
Vista to hit firewall, antispyware markets
News Due out early next year, the next major release of Microsoft's flagship operating system promises not only to increase security for consumers, it will also dramatically affect the $3.6bn (£1.9bn) market for Windows security products, according to...
[May 8, 2006, 8:45]
Businesses increase spending on mobility
News A new report from Yankee Group has found large enterprises will be spending most on mobile data services, including email and sales applications. Small businesses, by contrast, favour the more bread and butter mobile approach and are keeping...
[June 26, 2006, 16:45]
Verizon to launch mobile chaperone service
News Mobile packages designed for families have become key to growth at US operators, which currently sign up as many as 60 percent of their new subscribers via family discount plans, according to technology research firm Yankee Group.
[June 12, 2006, 10:25]
Skype's market share halves
News The inclusion of VoIP within broadband packages has encouraged broadband take-up, according to analyst firm Yankee Group. Broadband service provider branded-VoIP has been a key factor in driving carrier growth and triple-play success over the last...
[February 1, 2006, 7:15]
Mobile revenues to top fixed lines
News Revenues from mobile phones in Europe will soon top those of the entire traditional telephone industry, according to analysts the Yankee Group. In an earlier report, Yankee Group said mobile network operators are relying on emerging data services...
[October 6, 2003, 14:40]
European regulation fails to solve broadband problem
News According to a Yankee group survey, European businesses are paying 150 times more for local leased line broadband connections than they do for international lines and 150 times what their US counterparts pay.
[May 3, 2001, 11:30]
Is there a future for digital video recorders?
News Research firm The Yankee Group says DVR products will find their way into 1.8 million US homes by year's end, growing to 19.1 million homes by the end of 2006. The Yankee Group's report includes standalone DVRs, along with DVR features built into...
[October 3, 2002, 8:54]
Broadband users take flight
News The Yankee Group European Connected Consumer Survey found that 21 percent of broadband users have deserted their Internet service provider in the last twelve months, compared with 17 percent in 2004. Broadband service providers (BSPs) and other...
[October 26, 2005, 14:25]
Antivirus tools becoming hackers' new favourite
News Makers of antivirus products have not yet been forced to acknowledge and fix potential problems in their code, analysts with Yankee Group wrote in a research paper published on Monday. Symantec, F-Secure and CheckPoint are among the vendors that...
[June 21, 2005, 9:30]
