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Article | 26/08/2010 Microsoft's big Bing theory targets Google
With Microsoft and Yahoo officially teaming up in the search market this week, it's time to wait and see if this move could eat into Google's hearty l...
Article | 26/08/2010 Server sales post biggest jump since 2003, IDC says
Worldwide server sales posted their biggest jump since 2003 during the second quarter as Hewlett-Packard outsold rival IBM to take the top spot among ...
Article | 24/08/2010 IDC: Virtualization helps boost switch sales
Ethernet switch revenue grew by 32.7 percent year-over-year during the second quarter, helped by the growing popularity of applications such as virtua...
Article | 6/08/2010 Global IT spending set to rise
IT spending has shown some hefty recovery after the economic travails of previous years. According to research from IDC, global sales of software and ...
Article | 27/07/2010 IDC: SaaS momentum skyrocketing
Interest in the SaaS (software as a service) delivery model is growing to the point that by 2012, almost 85 per cent of new vendors will be focused on...
Article | 23/07/2010 For Facebook, the first half billion were easy
Facebook may have secured its place at the top of the world's list of social networking sites with yesterday's announcement that it passed the 500-mil...
Article | 20/07/2010 iPhone 4 antenna problem spooks Apple customers, says IDC
The iPhone 4's antenna and reception problems have given pause to two out of three current iPhone owners, who said they would postpone upgrading to th...
Article | 15/07/2010 Dell nudges Acer from No. 2 spot in PC sales
Dell recovered its second-place spot in worldwide PC shipments during the second quarter, edging out Acer as corporate PC sales gained steam, IDC said...
Article | 7/07/2010 No slowdown for rising semiconductor sales, IDC says
After seeing chip sales decline in 2009, the semiconductor industry's fortunes are looking brighter in the coming years, according to IDC.
Article | 25/06/2010 Survey: IT wants public and private cloud services
Skeptics who disparage the concept of the so-called private cloud and doubt its relevance should think again, according to research from IDC.
Article | 16/06/2010 PC shipments to grow this year as economies recover
The continuing economic recovery and growing interest in mobile devices will drive PC shipment growth by 19.8 percent this year compared to 2009, IDC ...
Article | 4/06/2010 Storage revenue on the rebound, IDC says
The storage business recovered strongly in the first quarter, showing clear signs that enterprises have shaken off the effects of the worldwide recess...
Article | 5/06/2010 PC shipments hit record growth in Q1
Echoing earlier research, a report from iSuppli shows that worldwide PC shipments hit record growth in the first quarter of this year.
Article | 31/05/2010 Microsoft admits Windows Phone 7 slide was wrong
Microsoft acknowledged on Friday that it used an inaccurate number to represent research company IDC's sales forecast for the upcoming Windows Phone 7...
Article | 28/05/2010 Unix server sales sink; IDC cites a perfect storm
The Unix server business has been hit particularly hard during the current recession.