New Trends In It Sides

NEW TRENDS IN IT SIDES Information technology (IT): Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computerbased information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.Today, the term information technology has ballooned to encompass many aspects of computing and technology, and the term is more recognizable than ever before. The information technology umbrella can be quite large, covering many fields. IT professionals perform a variety of duties that range from installing applications to designing complex computer networks and information databases. A few of the duties that IT professionals perform may include data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database and software design, as well as the management and administration of entire systems. When computer and communications technologies are combined, the result is information technology, or "infotech". Information Technology (IT) is a general term that describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate information. Presumably, when speaking of Information Technology (IT) as a whole, it is noted that the use of computers and information are associated. Technology Trends:  ASP Trends  CRM Trends  ERP Trends  Healthcare Software Trends  Computer Security Trends  Wireless Trends  VoIP Trends  Information Trends  Internet Trends  Web Hosting Trends ▼ A Peek Under Microsoft's Secret 'Bigtop' By Mary Jo Foley Source: Microsoft Watch Microsoft's skunk-works distributed-computing project will likely debut as a grid-computing platform. But don't expect to see tangibles for a couple more years. Microsoft officials have said little about the company's intentions in the grid-computing space. But that doesn't mean Microsoft is ignoring the evolving grid/distributed-computing space. Microsoft is working on a skunk-works project that is code-named Bigtop, which is designed to allow developers to create a set of loosely coupled, distributed operating-systems components in a relatively rapid way, according to sources close to the company, who requested anonymity. Rather than attempting to tightly couple a few high-performance systems together, Microsoft is looking at the consequences of loosely coupling a larger number of moderately powerful computers to achieve a similar result. ▼Tech Trends of 2005 By Paul Thurrott Source: Connected Home ...Looking forward to the technologies we're likely to see throughout 2005, I can tell you that the convergence of computing and consumer electronics is only going to continue. Let's take a look at the five tech trends that CES organizers say will be ones to watch in 2005. Media Servers

Many people are already saving their photo and video memories to PC hard disks, and now they want to use home-networking technologies to enjoy that content—as well as other similar content, such as digital music—throughout the home. Although a home PC is a great way to acquire and manipulate digital content, a PC's typically small screen doesn't make for a great presentation. Instead, people would like to use their big-screen TV or other screens located in more comfortable rooms around the home. The key to this scenario is a home media server, which can be a PC or other device with a large hard disk. This device stores your digital content and is connected to your other PCs and devices through the home network..... Portable Entertainment Apple Computer's iPod was all the rage in 2004, but the future of portable entertainment is the smart phone, which will converge cell phone functionality with that of digital cameras, PDAs, MP3 and movie playback, video games, and other forms of entertainment. ▼ IT Managers Sound Hype Alerts on 64-bit Computing By Siobhan McBride Source: Computerworld Australian IT managers have thrown 64-bit processor technology in the hype basket claiming it is still too early to consider migrating from 32-bit computing. While some readers polled by Computerworld said the decision depends on operating system and application support, others said because this level of throughput is only necessary for highend computing they will stick with 32-bit processors for some time yet. ▼ Twelve Technical and Business Trends Shaping the Year Ahead By Peter Cohen Source: SearchCIO.com Since March 2000, a change in the way technology is financed has changed the way it's bought and sold. Money for technology is not free anymore. With cash scarce, companies are looking to squeeze more performance out of lower IT budgets. Technology vendors which offer tools that cut costs -- like VoIP, Linux, outsourcing, blade servers -- are taking a growing share of these dwindling budgets. In 2004, this dynamic will produce the following 12 technology trends: Convergence of cable and telecom industry services: After a decade traveling distant tracks, the paths of cable service providers and telecom carriers will finally intersect in 2004. Both will vie for a common set of offerings that include video, voice and data. According to IDC, 49% of U.S. households will choose the package that offers one bill, versus 32.4% of households that will choose the package that offers only cost savings. To satisfy these consumer needs, most cable and telecom market participants will offer these services, shedding old roles as the once-distinct sectors converge News and Trends Related to the Internet ▼ Online Banking Increases 47 Percent Since 2002 By Rob McGann Source: ClickZ Network Online banking has been the fastest growing Internet activity in the U.S. over the last five years, with 53 million Americans, or 44 percent of all U.S. Internet users, now using some form of online banking service as of November 2004, according to a survey conducted by Pew Internet & American Life.

That current U.S. online banking population is more than 3.5 times the number of online bankers Pew measured in March 2000. At that time, only 14 million Americans (17 percent of U.S. Internet users) did banking chores online. ▼ USA: Your Number One Source For Spam in 2004 By: Jeremy L. Muncy Source: SecurityProNews ….The majority of spam mailings received around the world originates from the United States according to software company Sophos. In order to compile their list, company researchers monitored all spam messages that were sent to their network during 2004. Topping this list was the United States, which is responsible for 42.11% of spam mailings received worldwide. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, had these comments, "When we first reported on the top spamming countries back in February 2004, the USA had the excuse that the CAN-SPAM act had been in existence for a couple of months. Almost a year and millions of spam messages later, it is quite evident that that the CAN-SPAM legislation has made very little headway in damming the flood of spam." According to Sophos, the top spam producing countries are as follows: 1.)United States - 42.11% 2.) South Korea - 13.43% 3.) China (incl Hong Kong) - 8.44% 4.) Canada - 5.71% 5.) Brazil - 3.34% 6.) Japan - 2.57% 7.) France - 1.37% 8.) Spain - 1.18% 9.) United Kingdom - 1.13%

10.) Germany - 1.03% ▼ Desktop search tools a virus writers' best friend By Munir Kotadia Source: ZDNet Australia Companies should not deploy a desktop search tool without first considering the security implications because they could end up helping virus writers, say security experts. Desktop search tools, such as those recently announced by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, are designed to make it easier for users to find information stored on their hard drives. However, security experts are warning that virus writers could use the new tools to make their malware more efficient. Foad Fadaghi, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan Australia, said that most viruses are designed to harvest e-mail addresses and other personal information from an infected system. He warns that, because desktop search tools can index and categorise that information, virus writers are likely to start exploiting the technology. ▼ Ballmer to Google: 'We Will Compete By Elizabeth Montalbano, CRN Source: CRN

Microsoft demonstrates new search technology that spans Web, PC hard drives Microsoft upped the ante in its search-engine challenge to Google by demonstrating new technology that allows a user to search both the Web and a PC's hard drive. At the annual Microsoft financial analyst meeting, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Steve Ballmer vowed that Microsoft was determined to beat Google in creating the best and most popular search-engine technology. "There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete," Ballmer said with characteristic bluster. "We're going to compete very, very hard." ▼ Number and Use of Domain Names Source: VeriSign Renewal Rates Reach All-Time High A report released by VeriSign, highlighting key quarterly market data for domain name activity around the world, shows more than 4.7 million new domain names were registered during the first quarter of 2004-the highest quarterly figure for new domain registrations in the history of the Internet. The profile reveals that more than 63 million domain names have now been registered, approximately one for every 100 people living in the world today. This number is greater than at any time in the Internet's history, surpassing even the heights that were seen during the Internet "bubble." Moreover, data reveal that the current base of domain names is being utilized more actively than ever before, as measured by renewal rates, look-up rates, and the percentage of domain names tied to live sites. ▼ Can't Stop the Pop-ups By Stefanie Olsen Source: CNET News.com In January, Paul Haigh downloaded Google's toolbar to dispel annoying pop-up ads. By March, they were back. Google's pop-up blocker, included as part of the Web search engine's popular browser plug-in, "worked fantastically well for about two months, blocking everything," said Haigh, a photographer from the United Kingdom. "Then the odd pop-up started to appear, mainly on highly ad-displaying sites based in the United States." "I know they are on the increase because they are annoying me again," he said, adding that he's received three this week. Pop-up purveyors are finding ways around popular new filters that aim to stomp them out, the latest sign of an Internet arms race over one of the most controversial online ad formats around. At stake is the future of a lucrative form of online advertising that many ad executives say is among the highest performers for Internet marketers — despite severe negative reactions from a majority of Web users. ▼ Surf Control Says 'Brand Spoofing' Spams Up Nearly 500% Since January Source: Yahoo Finance Company Uncovers Latest Trick to Make Brand Spoof Spam Look Legitimate

'Brand spoof' spam scams increased nearly 500 percent since January, and by 51 times since May 2003, SurfControl (London: SRF), the world's number one Web and e-mail filtering company, reported today. The company also warned individuals and companies to beware of a new dirty trick employed by brand spoof spammers -- a fake address bar that appears in an e-mail recipients' Web browser -- that makes these e-mail scams look even more legitimate. ▼ Google Announces Availability of Next-Generation Corporate Search Appliance Source: Google New Google Search Appliance Delivers Greater Search Performance, Fresher Content, and Enhanced Search Results Relevance Google Inc. announced the availability of its next-generation Google Search Appliance, an integrated hardware/software search product that enables corporations, universities, and government agencies to deliver Google-quality search results on their intranets and public websites. This latest version of the Google Search Appliance, available in three models, is designed to offer better search performance, including increased capacity for more than 300 queries per minute and expanded collections that scale from 150,000 to 15 million or more documents. In addition, the new Google Search Appliance features a continuous crawl that is designed to automatically maintain the freshness of document collections as they deliver relevant results based on Google's latest search algorithms. ▼ Trends: Dynamic, Personalized Mail By Neil Berman Source: DM News Though e-mail is an accepted, proven form of delivering marketing messages, professional marketers are looking for better ways to build customer loyalty and generate greater return on their investments. The future of online marketing is using dynamic content — matching messaging and offers to recipients’ demographic data. Though this approach is much more involved than standard e-mail marketing practices, it yields much higher results as well as longer-term and more value-added relationships. Assessing technological opportunities and threats: an introduction to technology forecasting Author: Fredrik Halsius; Christoffer Löchen; [2001] Abstract: The current trend of globalization and rapid technological change has thrown high-tech firms into a new situation. The overall corporate strategy is today often strongly related to the organizations technological strategy. Hence, for the long-term survival there are no other options than continuous product development and sound investments in new technology. Strategic planning is about developing and maintaining a viable fit between the organizations objectives, skills, recourses and its environmental surroundings. The ever-changing business environment produces vast amounts of information concerning trends and events in the technological, political/legal, social and economic environment that might have a substantial impact on the organization and its strategies. This highlights a need for technology forecasting methods. With some planning in advance it is possible to invest in the right technology at the right time and avoiding the bad investments. This thesis briefly introduces the subject Technology Forecasting with some commonly used forecasting techniques. It also presents, from a theoretic perspective, a methodology for assessing technological opportunities and threats using these methods. The theoretical model is then put in

relation to an empirical model developed by Telia, which formed the basis for their futurological studies presented at the early nineties. Mobile informatics in a hospital environment: Moving from stationary to mobile supporting services in a medical environment Author: Fredrik A. Bergstrand; Max N. Gabrielsson; [2008-06-27T11:57:32Z] Abstract: Much of the supportive technology developed for use within medical environments is targeted towards stationary computers. In this report we present a study performed to design a mobile client for accessing and interpreting clinical lab results. The study shows that the current stationary system does not efficiently support the time critical and mobile work that is performed at the hospital ward. Healthcare professionals spend much of their time wandering between patients and offices, while the supportive technology stays stationary. The design of the prototype presented in this report reflects how clinicians work with lab results, and it also allows the users to reach the information at any location and at any time. Lab results in the prototype are presented as groups corresponding to the bodily function the lab test are to examine. A graphical view presents trends of a patient?s progress and how the patient responds to the treatment. The client also notifies the user on newly arrived results, eliminating the time required to seek out an unoccupied stationary computer in frequent intervals and manually search for new results. The report concludes that the working environment would be improved by supporting the mobile workers with mobile technology. The main result of this report is a proposition of how to design a mobile client for efficient access and interpretation of lab results. .