I got information about IT Spending in 2012 to Reach US$2.7 Tn from vivanews, maybe it will help you for reference if you are going to invest in IT business.

The year 2011 has witnessed more developments in the IT industry with the release of new tablets and Ultrabook, updates in cloud computing, improve in cyber crimes. IT workers are beginning to focus their businesses towards efficiency.

This dynamics will still be around in 2012, referring to Gartner's survey. Director and Country Manager of Dell Indonesia, Pieter Lydian, said that next year the global IT enterprises will spend US$ 2.7 trillion.

"It is an increase of 3.9 percent from 2011 in which spending reached US$ 2.6 trillion," Pieter Lydian said yesterday.

Mobile devices, he said, will claim domination among business users. In addition, Cloud computing and social network sites, which has set up solid market in BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), will remain in control of the IT landscape.

The Gartner's survey has also anticipated that 50 percent of office email users will access their emails via mobile browsers, tablets or smart phones.

40 percent of the companies will prefer cloud storage to regular servers. 85 percent of 500 leading companies will fail in making possible data efficiency. However, companies will be more competitive by 2015.

Pieter said he was optimistic about the IT progress in Indonesia. "The growth will be high," he said.

Bank Century case never ending yeah...Monitoring Team Doubts over Century Auditing,
Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) will submit the forensic audit on Bank Century to the House of Representatives (DPR) today. Deputy House Speaker, Pramono Anung said that the forensic audit will be different from the previous scrutiny.

“The forensic audit has only one purpose, that is to obtain more details of the possibility of fraud,” he said.

However, member of the Bank Century monitoring team, Ahmad Yani, said the expectation on BPK’s auditing is not much. He feared the forensic audit results will not provide more findings as expected.

“I have received information from our anonymous sources in BPK that there won’t be any new findings on the case. In fact, it’s going to be worse than the previous auditing,” Yani told VIVAnews on Friday, Dec 23.

“This is only playing around. It’s not important to know where the fund was channeled,” Yani said. According to him, the essence of the problem is that Century’s bail-out has violated the law.

“The bottom line is that there was corruption,” Yani said.

Finance Ministry Fails to Sack Staffers Allegedly Involved in Tax Mafia,The Finance Ministry has failed to sack two tax officers who are allegedly involved in tax mafia case despite recommendations issued by the Directorate General of Taxation to dismiss the officers identified by the initials DT and TH.

Documents received by TEMPO stated that the two staffers are taxation personnel working at the Special Tax Office in K-Link Building in Jalan Jenderal Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta. The two are hired and are working as usual.

The recommendation for their dismissal has been issued because the two have been proven of receiving more than IDR 500 million of bribe money. The two are also suspected of having suspicious accounts which amount reached billions of rupiah.

Anas Plays a Role in a IDR 1.2 Trillion Project, Says Nazaruddin, Athletes’ village bribery defendant Muhammad Nazaruddin kept pointing his finger at Anas Urbaningrum, Chairman of the Democrat Party. Nazar said that Anas played an important role in passing the Hambalang project proposal in Bogor, West Java. “He [Anas] also received some fees [commission] from PT Adhi Karya, the winning contractor for the Hambalang project tender,” said Nazar after being questioned at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday.

Nazar claimed that everything related to the Hambalang project has been revealed during interrogation process. “I’ve explained about the fee, through whom it was distributed, when, and where. Now, it’s up to the KPK,” Nazaruddin added. The former treasurer of the ruling Democrat Party has also implicated his fellow democrats such as Angelina Sondakh, Mirwan Amir, and Ignatius Mulyono, in the project scandal.

The Hambalang project includes the construction of a stadium, education and training center, and sports school at the Hambalang hill, West Java. The project was worked on in 2010, costing IDR 1.2 trillion. Nazar has repeatedly exposed the case during his time on the run.

Holidays Passengers Increasing, The Transportation Ministry’s Director of Public Communications Center, said that his ministry will add more capacity of air and sea transport vehicles during Christmas and New Year holidays. The number of passenger for the two transportation services is expected to increase significantly this year.

Domestic flight passengers, for instance are expected to reach 2,365,436 people—higher than last year’s 2,056,901 passengers. Meanwhile, international passengers this year have been estimated to hit 397,897 from last year’s 361,718. “Flight operators have add 296,076 and 111,125 seats for domestic and international flights, respectively,” said Bambang at the Hotel Millenium, Jakarta, on Thursday. The Air Transport Directorate General has made an agreement with the Indonesian Air Force to utilize the army’s aircraft if commercial aircraft cannot serve all of its passengers.

PT Angkasa Pura II Brach Manager Sudaryanto estimated that the number of passengers has increased by 17 percent from 143,197 to 167,482 passengers. The extra flights at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport are available from Wednesday, Dec. 21 until Jan. 7, 2012. Sea transport passengers have also showed an increase in number by 5 percent, from 1,036,374 to 1,088,193 passengers.