Today if someone is looked preoccupied there need be no doubt that he or she is worried about resent finance crisis. Stop that! It’s Christmas time in the world and there is no time to be lost in thought but quite the contrary this is the time of merry celebration and happiness.

By the way, experts promise the improvement of economical situation by the third quarter of 2009 but remind that economic hard times will continue into next year.

Anyway I wish all of you Happy New Year and let it be much better than this year.

Observing the situation on a computer market in touch with global economic crisis, i4u.com noticed that Sales of Mac computers in US stores last month declined 1% from the same period in 2007 alongside PC industry-wide sales growing by 2%.

So, what we should expect the next year. I guess nobody knows. There is great number different prognosis we can read though but it seems that all experts are in a doubt. But who knows now the true state. However analyst Steve Baker blamed the decline on Mac desktops noting that Mac notebooks still posted growth better than rival notebooks.
By the way there is no the same situation everywhere. For example according to the Bulgarian section of the international analytic agency IDC in the last quarter of 2008 the sales of computers have increased with 72.6% and the incomes from them – with 44.6% compared to the same period in 2007, informs IDG.BG.

Today a global economic crisis is not bad dream but reality. But actually it is not so terrifying deals for some companies that provide computing service. For instance computing service providers are expecting the current economic crisis is able to catalyze Asian companies to adopt their services, zdnetasia.com reports.

Horst Iblher, director of sales support and service management at T-Systems told ZDNet Asia, the German ICT provider is receiving increasing interest in the region in its leased computing platform service. While Asia lags behind Europe and the United States in its rate of adoption of utility computing, Iblher said this is picking up speed “especially in economically-troubled times”.

“The rate of take-up for utility computing is significantly higher in Asia, albeit coming from a lower base,” he said.