Ziff Davis Media Inc.

The Technology Confidence Index (TCI) - a quarterly consumer and business technology survey indicates that business and consumer technology spending is rising. Half of the respondents, technology buyers, expect to spend more on technology in 2004 than in 2003.

Household IT Spending

The majority of those polled expect their household to spend more on computing and consumer electronics products in 2004 than in 2003:

Corporate IT Spending

IT professionals are even more confident about workplace spending:

Furthermore, IT professionals are overwhelmingly positive that now is a good time for companies to make big investments in new information technologies:

• 83% say that now is a good time to make major technology investments
  
• 17% say that now is not a good time
  

Large portions of IT professionals expect their workplace to purchase more of the following equipment next year as compared to 2003:

About the Technology Confidence Index

The Technology Confidence Index was fielded September 11 to October 8, 2003. The results are based on 4,777 panelists projectable to PC Magazine subscribers. The margin of error for this survey is +/- 1 percentage point at the 95% confidence level.