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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years. PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. The consumer PC market is the one that is shrinking. Impact of the New PC Market on the Used PC Market.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

PC shipments in 2015 will be 52 percent higher than PC shipments in 2010. IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is interesting to me about this concept of a platform for change that is very different from say - campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook or the use of widgets and charity badges on blogs for personal fundraising campaigns -- is that while Virtual Worlds are empowering individuals -- we are empowering collective action.

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