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Technology research firm Gartner issued a report today confirming that Apple was the largest single buyer of semiconductors last year, being trailed only by Samsung and Hewlett-Packard. Redefining the meaning of stating the obvious, Gartner points out that semiconductor spending increased because Apple sold more stu... |
24 January 2012
08:26 GMT |
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Gartner and IDC both published their findings for the third quarter of 2010, finding that are more or less in agreement, even if the numbers they tallied aren't precisely the same.
Lenovo is enjoying the results of its hard work now that it has snatched second place as worldwide PC maker from Dell.
As it... |
13 October 2011
04:08 GMT |
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Those who were wondering just what the odds were of the tablet market going through some radical changes have finally gotten their answer, and it is a negative one.
The Apple iPad has been in the lead of the tablet segment ever since it stopped being the only one of its kind.
Companies did hope that Android and... |
23 September 2011
08:14 GMT |
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It seems that the semiconductor industry as a whole, not just the DRAM sector, has gone through a hard year, as analysts found themselves forced to downward adjust their market forecasts.
Some time ago, Gartner said that the overall chip market, for the year 2011, would show an increase of 5.1 percent compared t... |
16 September 2011
10:11 GMT |
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Since the third quarter is coming at an end, analysts will, inevitably, speak out on what the future might hold, and Gartner did something of this sort for the PC segment, where tablets, apparently, are mercilessly turning things upside down.
The picture that Gartner paints for the personal computer industry is a... |
10 September 2011
06:57 GMT |
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Ultrabooks may be doing fine, but the overall PC industry doesn't appear to have such a pleasant picture painted ahead of it, at least according to a certain market analyst firm.
The PC market is the central pillar of the worldwide consumer IT industry and has been so ever since the first PC was first invent... |
8 September 2011
05:06 GMT |
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A report from analyst firm Gartner has recently found that enterprise investment in the iPad will benefit prospecting, account management and configure, price, quote (CPQ).
The company’s Michael Dunne noted this summer that there was growing usage of the Apple iPad and that CPQ ranking was the third most lik... |
24 August 2011
12:41 GMT |
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If the words of on IT market analyst firm aren't enough, users can rest assured that the PC industry really is on the rise again, now that Gartner has published a press release with similar findings.Users may or may not have learned, about a day ago or so, that market analysts had finished checking what had hap... |
15 July 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Technology research firm Gartner has issued the preliminary results that paint a picture of the current state of the PC market ranking Apple 3rd behind pack-leaders Hewlett Packard (HP) and Dell.
The note issued by Gartner this week reveals that worldwide PC shipments have surpassed 85.2 million units in the secon... |
14 July 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Each year, a substantial sum of money is invested into various IT installations, machines and businesses, and Gartner decided to study just how big a rise in expenses is expected for the ongoing year.Gartner is an analyst firm that conducted many studies of the years, so it is not surprising to hear that it has take... |
1 July 2011
09:43 GMT |
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Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company says half of the world’s major marketing automation vendors are poised to develop applications that specifically cater to the iPad by the year 2016.The research firm specifically acknowledges that 50 percent of all major marketing automation vendo... |
23 June 2011
12:41 GMT |
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It seems that the first quarter of the ongoing year proved to be quite lucrative for the server industry, as there was a significant upwards evolution in terms of sales and finances, though not exactly equal.With all the new connected electronics getting released and sold, the strain on the existing web infrastructu... |
27 May 2011
07:53 GMT |
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Microsoft’s customer relationship management solution is in a very select club, the Leaders quadrant in the Gartner 2011 Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Service Contact Centers. The Redmond company has continued to invest strongly in the development of its CRM solution, and launched Dynamics CRM 2011 and Dynam... |
26 May 2011
05:17 GMT |
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During the first quarter of the ongoing year, the total number of devices sold on the market with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform on board reached 1.6 million units, a recent report from Gartner reads. The research firm notes that this result would show in a way that the mobile phones launched on shelves w... |
19 May 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The price problem that solid state drives have has not yet gone away, but a certain analyst firm believes it will be resolved by next year, meaning that the mainstream market will finally have an easier time of integrating them.Solid state drives, those storage units, usually of the 2.5-inch form factor, which are b... |
12 May 2011
05:34 GMT |
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A report from research firm Gartner suggests that by the end of 2015 more than 50 percent of the organizations that are interested in innovation or in problem solving will use gamification to boost the abilities of their personnel and get better overall results. Gamification is a process where video game like mechan... |
15 April 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Media tablets may be, at the moment, more or less limited to the consumer market, but it looks like some analysts would like to see them used in businesses, even saying that policies, technologies and enterprise skill sets should evolve to include them.The media tablet has become a real phenomenon on the worldwide I... |
5 April 2011
10:54 GMT |
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As technology advances, it is natural for certain market segments to lose in importance, and it seems a particularly big one is going through some rough times because of game consoles and tablets.That the PC market is suffering because of the rise of slates is not exactly a new thing, and Gartner just confirmed it a... |
14 January 2011
08:31 GMT |
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With the NAND and DRAM market going through a bit of a rough period, market analysts looked forward and tried to figure out how the situation would progress for 2011, and it seems that growth won't be as high as some may like.Since the year is almost over, analysts are already studying the composition of the ma... |
11 December 2010
07:01 GMT |
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It appears that the DRAM and NAND segments aren't the only markets performing less favorably than they'd like, as PC shipments are now also turning out to have been less promising than originally anticipated.Some time ago, market analyst firm Gartner predicted that PC shipments would grow by 17.9 percent t... |
29 November 2010
08:47 GMT |
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Research firm Gartner has just released the results of its annual survey regarding mobile phones sales, which show a strong rise in smartphone sales, as well as mobile phones. To no one’s surprise, Symbian is still in the lead with the most smartphones sold since Q3 2009, followed closely by Android and iOS dev... |
10 November 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Currently, the smartphone operating system market is dominated by the Symbian platform, a name that stayed in the lead for quite some time now. Greatly helped by Nokia, as well as by other mobile phone vendors, and by the lack of a powerful competitor, the Symbian OS took the lead on the market, though it seems that... |
13 July 2010
14:51 GMT |
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The number of users to make mobile payments all around the globe during the ongoing year is expected to grow by 54.5 percent when compared to the last year, a recent report from Gartner shows. That number should reach 108.6 million users during the ongoing year, the research firm states, adding that only 2.1 percent... |
21 June 2010
15:11 GMT |
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The economic recession seems to behave similarly to a volcanic cloud. It stays above a certain region for a time, after which it moves on to another. During 2008 and a part of 2009, the US was the hardest hit by the cloud of recession. Now, the cloud has moved on to Europe, bringing demand down to the point where NVI... |
5 June 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Gartner finished its analysis of the current state of the PC market and has reached the conclusion that the future looks bright. After a couple of years when IT players struggled to keep the PC market afloat, the seemingly recovering economy, as well as new CPUs, GPUs and operating systems, have created conditions fa... |
26 May 2010
10:14 GMT |
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There has been much talk about the unusually good performance of the IT market during a period normally known as the slow season. For instance, chip sales grew by 58.3% in March, and analysts believe that this year will mark an all-time annual high of over 30%. On the other hand, some concerns were reported about sup... |
26 May 2010
02:32 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system managed to surpass Microsoft's Windows Mobile in sales during the first quarter of the ongoing year. The platform moved to the fourth position on the worldwide market, accounting for 9.6 percent of the smartphones sold in the time frame, while marking a great increase when... |
19 May 2010
09:48 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Orange announced recently that its Orange Business Services was placed in the Leaders quadrant in three of Gartner Inc.'s latest reports. According to the company, its Orange Business Services was named in the Leaders quadrant for Global Network Service Providers, as well as in the Pan-European... |
19 March 2010
03:46 GMT |
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The market of touchscreen mobile devices is expected to top 362.7 million units in 2010, marking a 96.8 percent increase in sales when compared to 2009, when they reached 184.3 million units, a recent report from Gartner shows. Moreover, the touchscreen handsets are expected to account for 58 percent of all mobile d... |
5 March 2010
06:12 GMT |
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A recently published report from Gartner, Inc. shows that the mobile-phone market will continue to have as its leader the Finnish handset vendor Nokia, which sold 441 million phone units in 2009, and that registered a 2.2-percent drop in market share when compared with the previous year. The research firm also notes ... |
23 February 2010
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Market research firm Gartner claims that Apple totally owns the mobile-application market, with 99.4% of all sales in 2009. However, comScore analyst Alistair Hill begs to differ. During a presentation at the Mobile Games Forum in London today, he reportedly said, “I think somebody's missed something out o... |
19 January 2010
09:16 GMT |
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The emergence of a wider number of mobile application stores around the world is expected to result in a greater amount of downloads and in larger spendings on mobile software solutions. According to Gartner, the total number of app downloads in 2010 is expected to top 8 billion, with eight applications out of ten s... |
18 January 2010
15:41 GMT |
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“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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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