A clear majority of organizations worldwide (56 percent) use open source applications, says John F. Andrews, Evans Data Corporation

The company earns about 60-70 percent of its revenue from products released during past 12-24 months

Says Russia needs no help from the West

The industry set the new record, calculated by market-research firm NPD Group, on the strength of a December sales month in which industry revenue ($5.3 billion) topped $5 billion for the first time

Cyberoam- Commtouch email threat report for November reports lowest levels of spam at 59%, from an average of 90+% earlier

Governments face a choice now to move away from a reliance on the financial sector

Perst 4.0 also adds rich new tools for developing mobile and embedded applications in both Java ME and in Google’s Android environment

Plans to install a software from US firm to detect the fingerprint of copyrighted music files being sent on its network

Windows Mobile, Synovate survey reveals touch phones are most preferred devices with over 60% of male respondents below age of 30 desiring to have touch-based device

Potential benefits to phone companies and equipment vendors such as Ciena Corp, Cisco Systems and Tellabs Inc are likely to be overshadowed by recession’ deep impact on technology spending

The need for justification of the value of IT seems to be more important than ever

Models like the Storm, as well as the earlier BlackBerry Pearl and a flip version of the smartphone, are all laden with multimedia features to attract non-business users

Operations expected to commence in next few months