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	Saturday, June 04, 2005

Current IT Trends  ( techdrivenlife) According to Current Analysis, a San Diego based research firm, more notebooks were sold last year in the United States than desktops.  Notebooks now account for 53% of the total units sold last year, and moreover, 95% of them are already equipped with wireless. In another survey by Opinion Research, a majority of us are so hooked to email that 41% of people checked their email after they get up in the morning.  It was gathered that the average person has three e-mail accounts and spends about an hour every day reading, sending and replying to messages.  The average person checks their inbox at least 5 times a day, and even more for those with Blackberry and PDA mails.   Upto 60% of respondents admitted checking their inboxes even on vacations. This one news is even more extreme... a Wi-Fi wireless network access point, known as a hotspot, was installed by British Telecom in Reverend Keith Kimber's St John's Rectory church in the city of Cardiff.  If you want a break on the sermon, you can check your email ... or surf !  According to the reverend, the objective is to make the church the proper sanctuary for people -- even business people with notebooks and mobiles...  Talk about a techdrivenlife! A CIO Magazine poll noted that 15% of their respondents complain that it is harder to find key IT labor.  Even harder for big companies --- for those with over 5,000 employees, a higher 34.9% said IT labor was indeed hard to find.  The largest segment, about 54% plan to increase spending on security, 46.5% to increase spending on storage, while about 45% plan to increase spending on computer hardware.   5:01:29 PM     comment []   trackback []