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Thursday, June 09, 2005
Ng: More notebooks than desktops
By Wilson Ng
Wired Desktop
ADDICTS. I’ve been reading up on information technology trends, and here are some of the things I have come up with.
First, it has been confirmed that the majority of Americans are addicted to email. According to a survey conducted by Opinion Research, 41 percent of the respondents said the first they did when they got up in the morning was to check their email.
In the United States, the average person has almost three email accounts, and he spends about an hour a day reading, sending and replying to email messages. The average person checks his inbox over five times a day, and up to 60 percent of those surveyed admitted that they also try to check their email even when they are traveling or on vacation.
NOTEBOOKS IN THE OFFICE. Another interesting sidelight is that in the United States, the notebook computer has already exceeded the sales of desktops, which confirms the trend of people using notebooks even when inside the office.
Notebooks accounted for 53 percent of the total computer units sold last year. It is estimated that up to 95 percent of notebooks that will be sold this year will have Wi-fi (wireless fidelity) cards installed.
A recent CIO Magazine survey also revealed that more and more chief
information officers (CIO) feel that it is getting harder to find good computer professionals. The same survey revealed that most of the CIOs consider spending on computer security and storage to be their priority, with spending on software and hardware still growing, albeit slowly.
CHURCH HOTSPOT. St. John’s Rectory Church in Cardiff, UK made the headlines after installing a Wi-fi wireless network access point or hotspot.
According to Reverend Keith Kimber, if you want to take a break from the sermon, you can use your notebook or PDA to check your email, surf or even write to God. According to him, the objective is to make the church the proper sanctuary of the people—especially those who need to be connected.
And finally, Computex, the world’s second largest computer show held in June in Taiwan, reports the brisk sales and increase in Bluetooth devices.
Bluetooth is a wireless protocol introduced in 1994. The devices were said to be slow and expensive.
Today, it is said to be finally taking off, with Bluetooth chips expected to exceed 264 million. That is more than three times the 69 million sold in 2003, according to the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center, a Taiwan research group.
This growth has been partly fueled by the popularity of wireless headsets and the increasing connectivity between cell phones and computers.
(www.bizdrivenlife.net)
(June 9, 2005 issue)
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