The Telecom industry it saturated with fraud, take Montana Power who changed their name to Touch America. They went from a Power Utility company to a Telecommunications company without ever consulting the stockholders. The stock went down to 33 cents a share last I checked. Only the Baby Bells seem to be making money due to the packaging of services into one bill. DSL, LD, Local, Cell phones, etc into one big bill.

IT jobs are being sent to other countries and they aren't coming back. This is true.

The PC Industry is down, many $200USD systems will be coming out soon to saturate the market. Companies are selling computers at cost, or below cost, hoping to make up the money on upgrades and service charges to help desk calls.

"White Box" PC systems usually don't have that $500 Internet rebate, or a $200 price tag. Not cheap unless cheap parts are used, like PC Chips Integrated motherboards, etc. "White Box" PCs make up for it when upgrades come and the video card, audio card, network card, etc can be recycled into the new motherboard and the system upgraded ala-cart.

I could comment more, but my son is pestering me. It is his mother's turn to watch him, and it looks like I'll have to cut this short. Goodnight!