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Hi! My name is Bill Chamberlin. While I am employed as a Principal Analyst at IBM, this blog represents my own work on my own time. Any opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent IBM's views or opinions.

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April 16, 2012

"Currently, about 59 percent of business leaders foresee an improvement in economic conditions over the next six months, up from 32 percent in the fourth quarter. Expectations for their own industries are also more upbeat, with 44 percent of CEOs expecting conditions to improve in the months ahead, up from approximately 25 percent last quarter."

— Quote found in a press release by The Conference Board titled “CEO Confidence Increases”

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September 28, 2011

"Congestion does more than choke our highways, it chokes our economy, making it harder to buy what we need and harder to keep or find a job. That’s a bad thing – especially when our economic recovery is so fragile."

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Quote by Tim Lomax, one of the authors of The 2011 Urban Mobility Report, published by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University. Quote found at Traffic problems tied to the economy, study says

2011 Urban mobility report

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(Notes: 33)

Filed under: traffic congestion urban mobility economy

September 7, 2010

"It is estimated that one-third of Jakarta’s nearly 9m inhabitants have a BlackBerry—and that is only the most popular of the many millions of smartphones in a city where there are nearly nine mobile phones for every ten people. Jakartans are among the world’s leading urban denizens in text messaging and mobile Facebook usage—largely because they lack fixed-line broadband services. What has started as a technology “work-around”, however, is evolving into a new innovative and creative space for social networking, in terms of both applications development and how such applications are utilised by society."

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Quote found within “Digital economy rankings 2010:
Beyond e-readiness” (PDF), a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit which has worked in co-operation with the IBM Institute for Business Value and its Global Centre for Economic Development.