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Mobile Multimedia Services to Take the Lead in Non-Voice Service Area

Mobile multimedia services are expected to account for around 11 percent of the total mobile services revenue in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ), by end of 2009, which will enable them to outpace the revenue from SMS services for the first time, according to a recently published report from IDC. During last year...

23 November 2009
16:11 GMT

Intel Gains More Market Share from AMD in 3Q09, According to IDC

It looks like the third quarter was not only good for NVIDIA, but for the entire worldwide PC-microprocessor market as well, according to a recently revealed report for research firm IDC. According to the new data, the PC processor-unit shipments rose 23% compared with the second quarter of this year, while the reven...

9 November 2009
05:29 GMT

Mobile Phone Market Starts to Recover in Western Europe

The mobile phone market seems to begin its recovery after the financial downturn that affected it during the past few quarters, at least this is what IDC says that happens in the Western European countries. The IDC European Mobile Phone Tracker shows that, compared with the second quarter of the last year, handset ma...

19 September 2009
06:51 GMT

Global Phone Market Drops 10.8% YOY

IDC has recently published its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, which unveils the fact that the global mobile phone market has been shrinking in the second quarter of the ongoing year when compared to the same time frame a year ago. Even so, while year on year the drop was of 10.8 percent, the market registe...

31 July 2009
07:37 GMT

IDC Reports Decline in Global PC Processor Market in 4Q08

According to a recent market report released by research firm IDC, the PC processor market has fallen considerably in the fourth quarter of 2008, a market trend that is expected to continue thorough the ongoing first quarter of this year. As a consequence of the poor market results in the PC processor segment, IDC po...

12 February 2009
05:46 GMT

Worldwide Server Sales Record First Decline Since 2002

 It appears that the consumer PC market is not the only segment affected by the worldwide financial turmoil, as the IDC has just posted the latest figures of its Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. According to the research firm, the factory revenues in the worldwide server market have declined by 5.2% on year t...

4 December 2008
07:39 GMT

IDC Predicts Slow PC Market Demand as Financial Crisis Continues

According to a recent IDC report, which comes to take into account the current global financial crisis, it is estimated that the PC market growth will slow as the financial turmoil continues to spread to more regions worldwide.  IDC, a leading analysis firm, expects worldwide PC shipments to grow by just 3.8% ov...

4 December 2008
05:41 GMT

More Notebooks Than Desktops Sold in the US in Q3 2008

According to a recent market report from the IDC, notebook shipments in the US market for the third quarter of 2008 achieved over 50% share, thus surpassing the quarterly shipments of desktop computer systems. The numbers indicate a first time for notebooks in the history of computer systems, as they managed to take ...

29 October 2008
07:30 GMT

Dell Marks Positive Q3 Market Growth in Asia-Pacific

For quite a while now, Dell has been trying to get back some of the market share it lost to its competitor HP, which would allow the Round Rock, Texas-based PC vendor to reclaim the number one spot in the PC market. This is why Dell is missing no opportunity of publicly stating the success it records with the various...

22 October 2008
09:17 GMT

AMD Loses Ground to Intel

As most of us already know, Intel is currently the worldwide leading manufacturer of computer processing cores, surpassing competitor AMD in a number of market segments. Although AMD's graphics subsidiary, ATI, is claiming back lost ground on the market of graphics cards with the release of its latest Radeon HD ...

25 August 2008
08:33 GMT

PCs Are Losing to Consoles in Japan

Some may have guessed this was going to happen sooner or later, while some wouldn't even admit it as a possibility. Take first-person shooter gamers for example. Would a FPS gamer ever throw his PC in the basement to play his favorite genre on a joypad? Not likely. The thing is - according to smh.com.au - the Ja...

5 November 2007
04:52 GMT

'Breaking' Video Game Research at E for All - 5 Different Types of Gamers

The E for All Expo held in Los Angeles has been the "platform" for two new studies from research firms IDC and IDG Entertainment (IDGE) this year, regarding the future of the video games market. The official report also talks of the five key segments of gamers, also revealing new data on the acquisition of video game...

22 October 2007
05:43 GMT

If Microsoft Falls, the World Will Follow, Because Microsoft Owns 40% of the World

Microsoft owns no less than 40% of the world, the IT world that is. The Redmond based software maker is no longer limited to the Washington state in the U.S. and has grown to the point where its global presence can easily impact the international IT market. Microsoft's oscillations have the potential to reverber...

18 October 2007
09:54 GMT

High Interest for the iPhone, Few Buyers

IDC has conducted a recent study in order to try to find out just how profitable the iPhone will be for Apple. Everybody wants to know the answer to this question, easy to see from the fact that it is not the first research made in this direction.Surprisingly or not, it seems that more than 60 percent of the respond...

22 June 2007
06:25 GMT


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