economic downturn

Samsung is typically seen as one of the rivals that has forced Sony’s television business deep into the red.

Today’s remarks that the company is considering spinning off its LCD business, therefore, are something of a surprise.

Sony ended its involvement in a joint LCD production venture with Samsung earlier this year, but the Korean company’s television business is still seen as being in much better overall health than Sony’s.

We've been having some fun with the MPAA's extraordinary cluelessness lately. It started with MPAA communications person Alex Swartsel bizarrely and unfairly attacking GigaOm's Janko Roettger for daring to point out that an economic downturn (combined with dumb moves by the movie industry) might lead to greater file sharing.

Journalist Janko Roettgers has been writing about file-sharing and piracy issues longer than most and his P2P-Blog is a collection of good articles dating back many years.

Janko hasn’t been so prolific on that specific subject in recent times because as writer and co-editor of popular news resource GigaOm, his brief is understandably wider.

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The general economic downturn is leaving its mark on IT salaries, according to an independent study released on Monday.

A Microsoft-sponsored report on the SMB market found that SMBs could represent an opportunity for future sales of IT software and services, despite the current economic downturn.

Amid the current economic uncertainty, some businesses will probably opt to kill existing outsourcing arrangements to cut costs, but some in the industry expect the economic downturn to result in a net gain for outsourcers.