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Article | 6/11/2012 Smartphones and tablets growth exploding, especially in business: Gartner
Gartner report that 1.2 billion smart devices will be purchased in 2013, breaking the 1 billion mark for the first time.
Article | 5/11/2012 Gartner: EMEA IT spending will grow next year after gloomy 2012
IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will reach US$1.154 trillion in 2013, a 1.4 percent increase from this year, thanks to the in...
Article | 24/10/2012 Windows 8 in the enterprise? Not next year, says Gartner
Enterprises will not be moving quickly to adopt Windows 8, and most will skip next year, according to market research firm Gartner.
Article | 9/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: Economy weighs on chip, PC sector
After several days of gains, tech stocks dropped Thursday as markets declined on disappointing news from Europe, where government officials are meetin...
Article | 3/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech rises on sales, economic news
Tech stocks looked strong Friday morning on the back of a week of upbeat surveys on small business and online spending, positive news about enterprise...
Article | 24/11/2011 China overtakes U.S. in smartphone shipments, says research firm
China has passed the U.S. in the third quarter to become the world's largest smartphone market by shipments, but may find it tough to hold the positio...
Article | 16/11/2011 iOS loses smartphone market share while Android surges ahead
Android has surged ahead in the global smartphone market with more than half of all handsets sold worldwide in Q3 2011 running Google's mobile OS.
Article | 15/11/2011 Samsung becomes biggest smartphone vendor, as Android's market share grows
Samsung became the biggest smartphone vendor in the world during the third quarter, and Android's market share has surpassed 50 percent for the first ...
Article | 15/11/2011 Hard drive shortages will result in more expensive PCs: Gartner
Enterprise users and consumers who have held off buying new PCs recently may come to regret their decision as a hard-drive shortage following floods i...
Article | 15/10/2011 Wall Street Beat: Google, strong sales boost tech
Strong results for tech companies, especially Google, and an easing of concerns about the economy boosted confidence in the computer sector, as market...
Article | 5/10/2011 Cloud storage arrays to generate $1.45B in 2015
Worldwide revenue from vendors selling external disk storage subsystems for cloud-based systems will grow from $267.4 million this year to $1.45 billi...
Article | 29/09/2011 Catching up with mobile security threats
Development of enterprise mobile apps has been moving more slowly than development of consumer-facing apps, according to Gartner. One main reason is I...
Article | 22/09/2011 Windows XP to Windows 8: Don't go there
A majority of enterprises have migrated to Windows 7 or are planning to do so. But for Windows XP holdouts ready to side-step Windows 7 for the upcomi...
Article | 17/09/2011 Wall Street Beat: Market rally, tablet excitement lifts IT
Tech stocks rose along with major indexes this week as central banks came up with a plan to ease market fears about European sovereign debt, and as ke...
Article | 15/09/2011 Semiconductor market slumps as PC sales slow, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor sales have slowed in 2011, and the market is on pace for a small decline compared to last year, market research company Gartne...