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INDUSTRY NEWS
Web 2.0 Is Set for
Spending Boom
Web 2.0 is set to be
embraced by
Enterprise 2.0 as
businesses prepare
to spend nearly $5
billion by 2013 on
social networking
tools.
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Gartner Says
Worldwide IT
Services Revenue
Grew 11 Percent in
2007
Worldwide IT
services revenue
totaled $748 billion
in 2007, a 10.5
percent increase
from 2006 revenue of
$677 billion . . .
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Africa Fastest
Growing Market for
Telecom
Africa has been the
fastest growing
market worldwide for
communication
technology in the
past three years and
will emerge as an
important market for
the industry,
according to the
head of the United
Nations
International
Telecommunication
Union (ITU).
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Data Center
Expansion Predicted
A study released
this week confirmed
what inexpert
observation would
seem to have been
suggesting since the
beginning of the
year: we are
entering a period of
widespread expansion
in the data center
space.
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Slouching Toward
Telecommuting:
IT’s Newest
Challenge
It was simply
happenstance but
this headline
crossed the wire
just as I was boring
a colleague with
another
doom-and-gloom
update on the
skyrocketing price
of energy.
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Data Centers Are
Becoming Big
Polluters
The world�s data
centers are
projected to surpass
the airline industry
as a greenhouse gas
polluter by 2020,
according to a new
study by McKinsey &
Co.
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SIDE TRAQS
He Wrote 200,000
Books (But Computers
Did Some of the
Work)
It‘s not easy to
write a book. First,
you have to pick a
title. And then
there is the table
of contents. If you
want the book to be
categorized, either
by a bookseller or a
library, it has to
be assigned a unique
numerical code, like
an ISBN, for
International
Standard Book
Number. There have
to be proper
margins.
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Broadband: Other
Countries Do It
Better, But How?
One of the ironies
of the current
broadband situation
in the US is that
staunch free
marketeers defend
the status quo even
though the result of
their views has been
duopoly and high
prices. Meanwhile,
other countries
(including those
with a reputation in
some quarters for
“socialism”) have
taken aggressive
steps to create a
robust, competitive,
consumer-friendly
marketplace with the
help of regulation
and national
investment.
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Ottawa High School
Student‘s Flu Gluee
Wins National Prize
A 17-year-old Ottawa
high school student
has won a national
student
biotechnology
competition by
making a molecule
that flu viruses
stick to, which
could potentially be
used to diagnose or
eventually prevent
flu infections.
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A Cell Phone‘s
Missing Dot Kills
Two People, Puts
Three More in Jail
The life of
20-year-old Emine,
and her 24-year-old
husband Ramazan �al�oban
was pretty much the
normal life of any
couple in a
separation process.
After deciding to
split up, the two
kept having bitter
arguments over the
cell phone, sending
text messages to
each other until one
day Ramazan wrote
“you change the
topic every time you
run out of
arguments.”
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Strippers Can’t
Compete with
Internet
The number of
strippers and strip
clubs in Toronto is
declining, with
former dancers
blaming the Internet
for putting them out
of work.
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Earth Is Losing Dirt
at an Alarming Rate
Nutrient-rich
topsoil is being
eroded much faster
than it can be
replenished, experts
say.
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EVENTS CALENDAR
MAY
The Cable
Show is the
largest convention
and exhibition for
cable and
telecommunications
in the United
States.
May 18�20,
2008 | New Orleans,
LA
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JUNE
Computerworld Mobile
and Wireless World
is where IT
executives join
thought leaders, key
solution providers,
and their peers for
a visionary overview
of mobile and
wireless promise.
June 9�10,
2008 | Miami, FL
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NXTcomm 08
Join the new global
communications
marketplace at
NXTcomm 2008 and be
ahead of the trend.
The buyers you wish
to see will be there
to discover
up-to-the minute
technologies,
business solutions
and
revenue-generating
services.
June 166�19,
2008 | Las Vegas, NV
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JULY
HostingCon
2008 Find
the products and
services,
information, and
connections you need
to grow your hosted
services business at
HostingCon 2008.
July 288�30,
2008 | Chicago, IL
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AUGUST
Channel
Partners Conference
& Expo is
the only event
devoted exclusively
to The Channel —
agents, VARs,
systems integrators,
interconnects,
wireless dealers and
consultants mdash;
selling
communications
products and
services. The
biannual trade show
is celebrating its
11th year by
achieving milestones
in the variety and
number of attendees,
exhibitors and
sponsors. The
Channel Partners
Conference & Expo is
a one-of-a-kind
networking and
educational event
that is earning
praise from
carriers, resellers,
manufacturers,
managed services
providers, software
vendors and their
indirect sales
partners.
August 18�20,
2008 | Boston, MA
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