Technology vendors could shortly find themselves up against it, with IT budget growth expected to slow in 2009. This is according to a survey from market analysis firm Datamonitor, which says the majority of global enterprises are planning to cut back on IT spending.
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The internet faces a radical shake-up at this year’s Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Paris, where proposals for a relaxation of the rules on top-level domain names will be put to a vote.
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Businesses are preparing to spend nearly $5 billion (£2.5 billion) by 2013 on social networking tools, with more than half of the companies in North America and Europe regarding Web 2.0 – the internet tech trend facilitating creativity and collaboration among users – as a priority for next year.
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Foreign companies are flooding into the UK to pick up a slice of the consumer internet market.
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A paradigm shift may be taking place in the world of mobile communications, as operators begin to offer totally free calls for the first time.
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Search engine giant Google has bought a stake in a biotechnology company co-founded by one of its bosses.
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The gloves are off in the increasingly bitter rivalry between two software heavyweights, with Oracle suing SAP for ‘corporate theft
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Baidu.com, the web search engine dubbed by some as the ‘Chinese Google’, has reported a five-fold leap in quarterly net profits thanks to new users and online advertising customers.
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Internet media giant Yahoo! Inc has skipped higher on New York’s NASDAQ exchange.
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‘Spam’ messages account for as many as nine out of every ten emails sent globally.
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