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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.
Article | 21/06/2011 IDC: High-performance computing poses challenges for SMBs
Cloud computing could help boost the use of high-performance computing (HPC) among small and medium-size businesses, but there are hurdles that have t...
Article | 13/06/2011 IDC: Technology consumerisation is overhauling the IT role
The consumerisation of technology in the workplace, whereby users bring in their own devices and even sign up to their own choice of cloud systems, is...
Article | 10/06/2011 1B smartphones to ship in 2015, IDC says
Nearly 1 billion smartphones will be shipped globally in 2015, almost double the amount for all of 2011, as millions of people seek out the more power...