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Article | 9/09/2011 Gartner drops 2011 PC forecast with shift to tablets
Gartner on Thursday sharply dropped its worldwide PC shipment growth forecast for this year and next, citing economic struggles and a market shift fro...
Article | 10/08/2011 Gartner: 94% of new PCs will ship with Windows 7 in 2011
The Apple Mac is steadily grabbing market share, but Windows-based systems continue to dominate the worldwide personal computer market, according to a...
Article | 10/08/2011 Windows 7 to crack 40% share by year's end
Windows 7 will be on 42% of the world's computers by the end of this year, a Gartner analyst predicted today.
Article | 9/07/2011 Wall Street Beat: Uncertainty hits tech stocks
The two-week stock market rally in technology, among other sectors of the economy, came to a screeching halt Friday as the U.S. Bureau of Labor issued...
Article | 6/07/2011 Gaming spending to total $74B this year, Gartner says
Worldwide spending on electronic gaming products will total US$74 billion this year, and be driven in the coming years by fast growth in mobile and on...
Article | 2/07/2011 Wall Street Beat: Tech starts Q3 with upbeat outlook
Tech companies this week enjoyed an end-of-quarter market rally as concerns about the recovery abated somewhat and reports from market analysts indica...
Article | 1/07/2011 Gartner upgrades worldwide IT spending forecast
Gartner on Thursday upgraded its forecast for worldwide IT spending, saying it will grow 7.1 percent this year to US$3.7 trillion as companies migrate...
Article | 29/06/2011 CRM systems: IT in the cloud or the office?
Whether organisations opt for an on-premise or cloud solution, analysts from both Gartner and IDC agree the CRM systems market continues to be buoyant...
Article | 16/06/2011 Gartner: IT should be planning, moving to private clouds
ORLANDO -- If speedy IT services are important, businesses should be shifting from traditional computing into virtualization in order to build a priva...
Article | 9/06/2011 As iPad sales boom, Gartner downgrades PC forecast
Apple's iPad and other tablets are causing consumers to delay laptop purchases, Gartner said Wednesday as it downgraded PC shipment projections.
Article | 1/06/2011 NetApp to resell CommVault's tape backup, snapshot, replication tech
Storage vendor NetApp said today it can now support all types of backup through a single interface as a result of a reseller agreement with CommVault ...
Article | 28/05/2011 Microsoft seen not to blame for Skype rejecting open source company
Microsoft, long the enemy of open source software, announces a pending deal to buy Skype and Skype promptly ditches a partnership with an open source ...
Article | 28/05/2011 Wall Street Beat: Servers up, PCs down
Good news trickled in this week for the hardware sector, plagued by a slump in the traditional PC market, as Gartner reported that server sales rose d...
Article | 20/05/2011 Gartner: Android dominates smartphone sales worldwide
Another day, another report saying Android rules the smartphone world, this time from Gartner.
Article | 20/05/2011 Big vendors look to challenge VMware with open source
Several big IT vendors, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, BMC Software, Intel and Red Hat, announced this week that they are banding together to promote...