Industry News

• London Laptop Thefts Up More Than Sales
  

  More than 15,000 laptops were stolen in the British capital in 2006, for an increase of 18.3%. Sales grew at just 16%.

• One-Third Of All Software Installed In 2006 Was Pirated
  

  About a third of the software installed on personal computers around the globe last year was pirated, according to a study from IDC.

• Brazil tops Internet use in South America
  Brazil has 32.1 million Internet users, the most in South America, the government census bureau said Friday.

   

• Survey: Many Americans see little point to Web
  

  A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released Friday.
  
  

• Poor Communications, Unrealistic Scheduling Lead To IT Project Failure
  

  Communications failures top the list of reasons IT projects fail, according to poll results from the Computing Technology Industry Association.

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• 12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert
  

  If you’re like me, you probably use Google many times a day.  But, chances are, unless you are a technology geek, you probably still use Google in its simplest form.