Robyn Greenspan

Problems in the workplace are contributing to a growth spurt to online job sites. According to Corzen, Inc., revenue for Monster, CareerBuilder.com, and Yahoo!’s HotJobs has been moving steadily upward in 2004, and the trend is expected to continue for the rest of the year. First quarter year-over-year revenue growth for the three leading job […]

Instant messaging (IM) is gaining slow prominence in the workplace, with employees using the application for both professional and personal reasons. An early 2004 study of more than 2,200 U.S. adults from Pew Internet & American Life Project, revealed that 21 percent — or 11 million individuals — use IM at work, where some say […]

DSL subscriptions outpaced cable modem in the second quarter of 2004, but U.S. broadband growth is slowing down from a record-breaking year, according to figures from Leichtman Research Group, Inc. DSL operators added nearly 900,000 new subscribers to the rolls in Q2 2004, compared to cable modem’s 830,000. Cable modem maintains a 6.4 million subscriber […]

Numerous factors drive business success, but many companies are coming up short in one of the more critical elements — the workforce. According to an Accenture study that examined high-performance workforce issues, many companies don’t feel prepared to compete in an improved economic and business climate. Just 17 percent of the 244 high-level executive respondents […]

A smaller portion of IT professionals will experience an increase to their network budgets in 2005 (20.6 percent) than those who are currently outsourcing (20.9 percent) or planning to outsource network operations (13.1 percent), according to an ITtoolbox survey that identified server trends. The largest portion of respondents (22.2 percent) allocated between $5,001 and $15,000 […]

The global wireless market is expected to add an average of 186 million new subscribers each year, according to In-Stat/MDR, resulting in a total population of more than 2 billion by 2007. Estimates from The Yankee Group, a Boston-based research firm, are slightly more conservative, putting the number of global mobile users at 1.78 billion […]

Spam is not only an incoming threat to organizations worldwide, but an outgoing concern as well. A pair of reports revealed that businesses are unable to stop confidential documents from being leaked via e-mail, and marketers are worried about becoming spammers themselves. A SurfControl survey of roughly 400 UK IT managers and HR officers found […]

IT budgets are on the rise and predominant technological implementations include hardware and security solutions, according to a 2004 spending study from ITtoolbox. The survey of nearly 300 IT professionals examined businesses’ IT needs and budget allocations, finding that many are driven to spending to remain competitive. More than one-quarter of the total group of […]

Corporations are planning to pour money into the Web as a JupiterResearch (a unit of this site’s corporate parent) survey found that major site development initiatives are underway for 2004. Nearly half of the surveyed corporations have two to four major Web site implementations planned for 2004, and nearly one-quarter are prepared to spend at […]

Wireless phone owners are embracing a myriad of mobile services, according to research from Enpocket.Based on 1,000 telephone interviews from February 2004 to April, the survey revealed that the mobile usage gap between the UK and U.S. was narrowing, despite the UK’s earlier adoption of some services. Currently a cultural phenomenon in the UK, text […]