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True E-Book Reader Popularity Will Be Attained in 2010

“With the entry of new players, such as Barnes and Noble, into the e-reader market and an increase in models from Amazon and Sony, consumers began to have choices in single-purpose e-reading devices in 2009. Among the product differentiation points are support for E-ink’s electronic paper technology, supp...

16 November 2009
08:28 GMT

308.9 Million Phones Sold in Q3 2009

According to a recent report from Gartner, the total number of mobile phones sold during the third quarter of the ongoing year reached 308.9 million units, marking a 0.1 per cent increase when compared to the same time frame in 2008. At the same time, the research firm also shows that smartphone sales managed to top ...

12 November 2009
07:29 GMT

Symbian and Windows Mobile See Lower Market Share

Gartner released recently a market research study showing that the mobile phone market went down by about 6 percent during the second quarter of the ongoing year, and that the smartphone area of the market went up by 27 percent during the time frame, compared to the same period a year ago. Among the other findings t...

14 August 2009
04:29 GMT

6% Less Mobile Phones Sold in Q2 YOY

According to a recent report from Gartner, Inc, the worldwide mobile phone sales went down by 6.1 percent during the second quarter of the ongoing year when compared to the same time frame a year ago. However, out of a total of 286.1 million units sold in the quarter, more than 40 million were smartphones, the resear...

13 August 2009
05:14 GMT

Gartner Predicts Better PC Shipments by the End of 2009

The PC industry has been suffering from an on-going decrease in market demand, a trend that has affected all market segments. It now appears that, after more than twelve months of gloomy forecasts, the PC market is expected to see better results at the end of this year, according to a recent report by market research...

26 June 2009
09:09 GMT

Phone Sales Down 8.6% Globally, Gartner Says

According to a report Gartner, Inc. has recently published, the global mobile phone market has seen an 8.6 per cent decrease during the first quarter of the ongoing year, when compared to the same period a year ago, reaching a total of 269.1 million units shipped in the time frame. In addition, the report also shows ...

21 May 2009
03:24 GMT

Smartphone Sales Slowed Down in Q4 2008

Gartner has published yesterday a market study concerning the sales of smartphones during the fourth quarter of the last year, as well as those of the said devices for the entire 2008. As anyone would expect, Nokia still occupies the first position on the chart, with a 43.7 percent market share for the last twelvemon...

12 March 2009
05:02 GMT

Gartner Analyzes Five Popular SaaS Myths

As SaaS tends to become very popular, Gartner decided to provide fact checks for five of the most common SaaS myths. The aspects that have been analyzed include the cost-effectiveness of this delivery model, as well as implementation procedure, the ability to interact with on-premises applications and the SaaS config...

20 February 2009
12:02 GMT

The Magical Microsoft Application Platform

Microsoft has been labeled as one of the leaders among the companies providing application infrastructure, according to market analysis firm Gartner. The Redmond company applauded its positioning in the Leaders quadrant of four Gartner Magic Quadrants: the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Bac...

28 January 2009
04:53 GMT

Australians Switching to Mac Faster than Anyone Else

Recent figures revealed by research firm Gartner say that Mac sales in Australia have increased some 52 percent in the second quarter. This is almost six times the rate of the overall PC industry, CourierMail reports, also adding that Australia's figures for Mac adoption have even topped US numbers.In the US, th...

21 August 2008
05:09 GMT

Analysts Say Green IT Is Insignificant. Is it...?

April 8 saw Gartner analysts Simon Mingay and Martin Reynolds claiming at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo that green IT is indeed important. French Caldwell and Charles Smulders argued that green-IT is a myth, as IT accounts for a mere two percent of global emissions."There is good research out there that has shown that ...

10 April 2008
04:28 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 - Breaking the Web

Internet Explorer 8, the successor of Internet Explorer 7, and the next iteration of the Microsoft's proprietary line of browsers is right on track to breaking the web. This because of the Redmond company's decision to support web standards by default with IE8. Ray Valdes, Gartner Research Director, and Dav...

18 March 2008
14:42 GMT

Microsoft Business Intelligence Nothing Short of Magic

Microsoft is nothing short of magic. At least as far as the company's business intelligence platform goes, from the perspective of market analyst firm Gartner. Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008, the Redmond company has applauded its presenc...

6 February 2008
03:36 GMT

Microsoft Is Magic

Microsoft is nothing short of magic and, at the same time, a visionary. And it all debuted back in May 2006, when Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of the Security, Access and Solutions Division at Microsoft, announced plans to acquire Whale Communications. The Redmond company was looking for adjacent technologie...

18 December 2007
08:33 GMT

Europeans Are Not Interested in Mobile TV

A recent report from Gartner states that only five percent of all Europeans are interested in watching TV on their mobile phones. There are high chances that things will change once the telecom market adapts its offer to the users' demands.Mobile TV looks like one of the most evolved technologies that handsets h...

26 September 2007
08:39 GMT

The Magic Office 2007 System

In case you weren't aware of the full list of characteristics of the Office 2007 System, you should know that the productivity suite from Microsoft is nothing short of magic. Well, at least Visio isn't. The Redmond company applauded the integration of Office Visio 2007 among the "Leaders" quadrant in the 20...

14 September 2007
04:02 GMT

Free Windows Vista Virtualization!

Imagine a world in which the integration of Windows Vista and hardware emulation technologies would be free. Microsoft came close to liberalizing Windows Vista virtualization at the end of June but then changed its tune. The Redmond company reiterated support for the initial policy included in the operating system�...

4 July 2007
04:51 GMT

Microsoft Office Is Magic...

Microsoft Office is magic... at least when it comes to the software solutions focused on project and portfolio management. Microsoft revealed that it is one of the presences in the "Leaders" quadrant in the 2007 IT Project and Portfolio Management Applications Magic Quadrant report put together by Gartner. According ...

3 July 2007
09:51 GMT

Over 40 Million Windows Vista Later - All Retail Baby!

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, present on stage at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007 in Los Angeles on May 15, revealed that Windows Vista had sold approximately 40 million licenses worldwide. In this context, Microsoft managed to deliver on the initial promise that it would outsell Windows XP...

29 June 2007
13:07 GMT

The Impotent Wow! Windows Vista Failed Miserably

Windows Vista has failed to become the killer product designed to catalyze an increase in worldwide PC sales. Following the general availability of the operating system in January 2007, Vista was supposed to fuel new international PC shipments. Analyst firm Gartner revealed that Microsoft's latest version of the...

28 June 2007
10:47 GMT

Mac OS X Hacking Poses Wide Risk... for Windows

The public hacking of a MacBook Pro in a contest at the CanSecWest 2007 security conference in Vancouver poses a wide risk that expands to users outside of the Apple platform. This is the conclusion put forward by two research VPs from Gartner. Rich Mogull and Greg Young opined that the uncovering of a zero-day vulne...

2 May 2007
04:42 GMT


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