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Article | 19/01/2010 Ads to play bigger role in future mobile apps, says Gartner
The importance of advertising as a revenue source for developers will grow as users become less willing to pay for mobile applications, according to m...
Article | 14/01/2010 Gartner: 20% of businesses will get rid of all IT assets as they embrace cloud
Cloud computing will become so pervasive that by 2012, one out of five businesses will own no IT assets at all, the analyst firm Gartner is predicting...
Article | 6/01/2010 Gartner buys Burton Group in further consolidation of IT analysis market
Gartner has purchased the Burton Group, its second acquisition in a month, expanding the firm's already massive presence in the IT analysis market.
Article | 16/12/2009 Smartphone sales increase disappoints, says Gartner
Smartphones grabbed a smaller-than-expected part of overall mobile phone sales in 2009, and Nokia is largely to blame, according to market research co...
Article | 16/12/2009 Hackers are defeating tough authentication, Gartner warns
Security measures such as one-time passwords and phone-based user authentication, considered among the most robust forms of security, are no longer en...
Article | 3/12/2009 Falling PC Prices Pit Microsoft Against PC Makers
Last week, research firm Gartner released a PC sales forecast that initially sounded like good news for Microsoft and its hardware partners, but likel...
Article | 2/12/2009 Top data center challenges include social networks, rising energy costs
Enterprise data needs will grow a staggering 650% over the next five years, and that's just one of numerous challenges IT leaders have to start prepar...
Article | 2/12/2009 Gartner buying AMR Research in $64 million deal
Gartner announced Monday that it is buying AMR Research for US$64 million, in the latest acquisition by the giant IT research firm. The deal is expect...
Article | 1/12/2009 IBM stays tops as server market stabilizes, Gartner says
IBM retained its narrow lead over Hewlett-Packard in the worldwide server market as sales began to stabilize during the third quarter, Gartner said Mo...
Article | 20/11/2009 Money transfers to become hottest mobile app, says Gartner
Money transfers and payments over mobile phones will be among the top 10 most important mobile applications by 2012, market research company Gartner s...
Article | 16/11/2009 Gartner raises global chip forecast on strong PC sales
Gartner raised its revenue forecast for the global chip industry on Monday due to stronger than expected demand for PCs and mobile phones, as well as ...
Article | 13/11/2009 Smartphone sales up 13% in third quarter
Despite worldwide economic woes, smartphone sales to end users grew by 13% in the third quarter over the year-earlier period, pushing the overall mobi...
Article | 13/11/2009 Windows Mobile smartphone sales plunge 20% in Q3
Sales of smartphones running the Window Mobile operating system declined 20% in the third quarter at the same time that total smartphone sales surged ...
Article | 21/10/2009 Gartner's top 10 technologies include the cloud, mobile apps
The top strategic technology in Gartner Inc.'s annual top 10 list was cloud computing, but the one that may have been of the most interest to Bill Pia...
Article | 22/10/2009 Gartner on cloud security: 'Our nightmare scenario is here now'
At the Gartner Symposium IT/Expo this week, thousands of IT managers packed into sessions on the topic of virtualization of enterprise computers, alon...