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Article | 13/09/2011 Tablets, phones to surpass PCs for 'net use in 4 years
The personal computer isn't dying, but its days of dominance are numbered. Research firm IDC predicts the number of U.S. mobile Internet users will su...
Article | 10/09/2011 IDC: Embedded systems market to double by 2015
The market for embedded computer systems, which already generates more than US$1 trillion in revenue annually, will double in size over the next four ...
Article | 9/09/2011 9/11: Attacks changed the way companies view IT
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led to scores of changes in how U.S. residents live and do business, and the IT industry was not spared.
Article | 2/09/2011 Storage shipments keep surging, IDC says
Enterprises and service providers spent more money on storage in the second quarter, emboldened by growing IT budgets, research company IDC will repor...
Article | 21/08/2011 HP or no HP: The PC lives
Suggestions that the PC is dead are greatly exaggerated. Flexibility, innovation and users' storage needs will keep it around a good long while.
Article | 12/08/2011 Future smartphones: How they will look, what they will do
As you're reading this article, developers, engineers, and product designers are working on the next great mobile technology. The mobile world is rapi...
Article | 2/08/2011 IDC reduces yearly processor shipment growth forecast
IDC dropped its growth forecast for yearly processor shipments worldwide due to a slowdown in consumer laptop sales in mature markets such as the US a...
Article | 27/07/2011 Mozilla mobile OS may face future patent battles, says expert
Mozilla's plan to create a mobile operating system will probably face patent challenges, one expert said, while another called it "too little, too lat...
Article | 22/07/2011 Economic issues to hurt semiconductor revenue, IDC says
Worldwide semiconductor revenue will grow at a slower rate next year, hurt by an uncertain economy in developed and emerging markets, research firm ID...
Article | 14/07/2011 Lenovo takes third spot in global PC sales from Acer
Lenovo nudged out Acer to become the world's third-largest PC maker, and is inching closer to taking the second spot from Dell, according to IDC resea...
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 | 9/07/2011 IDC raises tablet shipment forecast for the year
IDC raised its tablet shipment forecast for the year due to growing consumer interest in tablets and the introduction of new devices, the research fir...
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 | 29/06/2011 Office 365 arrives to flat IT spending
Microsoft is pitching its cloud-based Office 365 as a less costly alternative for IT budgets, assuming IT managers can find money in their budgets for...
Article | 29/06/2011 IDC: Mobile app downloads to soar
People will download more than 182 billion mobile apps in 2015, according to a new report from IDC.