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In 2018 zijn de Nederlandse ICT bestedingen gestegen met 3% tot bijna € 35 miljard. De ICT-bestedingsgroei beweegt zich daarmee op hetzelfde niveau als het BNP-groeicijfer. De groei had hoger kunnen uitvallen als de telecommunicatiemarkt zich had hersteld. In 2019 ligt de groei voor de totale ICT-bestedingen op een kleine 2%. Ook de komende jaren […] Read more »
Q3 2012 results from HP showed a massive loss of almost $9 billion. This is by far the biggest loss in HP’s history. Should we fear the collapse of the big tech giant? The facts: Q3 2012 shows $29.7 billion in revenue and a loss of $9 billion before taxes. Q3 2011 showed $31.2 billion […] Read more »
In 3001 Frank Poole was brought back alive after floating in space for about a 1000 years after HAL got a mind of its own. Being revived, Frank was at first not really connected to his new environment, hardly able to communicate; things had definitely changed. Then he got his Brain Cap that directly connected […] Read more »
These days it seems like everyone is an Apple aficionado. Apple is praised by many because they hang on to their strategy of building superior products. That has not always worked out as it does now. They may have had smarter and better products but they were unable to take advantage of it. In fact, […] Read more »
If we have to believe the media comments on the latest PC shipment numbers, the PC market is just about dead; thanks to the media tablets and smartphones. But when looking more closely at the shipment numbers the story is a bit more complex. Context calculated Dutch PC shipments in 2010 to be more than […] Read more »
Most people have never seen a mainframe. They think of them as a huge iron cabinet filling up a large clean room with attached to it green screen terminals pouring out ASCII code: a remnant of the past. Yet they have been around since the 1960s and are alive and kicking today. While many predicted […] Read more »