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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been losing market share lately, mainly due to the transition from the Symbian OS to Windows Phone, but it appears that it still managed to retain the top position on the mobile market.
The latest data coming from IDC shows that Nokia remained the top handset vendor in the worl... |
2 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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A combination of global factors is going to significantly encourage shipments of solid state drives throughout the year 2012. The International Data Corporation (IDC) regularly publishes reports and research papers regarding marketing situations and expectations. Its latest announcement deals with the market of so... |
10 January 2012
02:38 GMT |
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Looks like tablet makers and analysts may have been a little bit too hopeful in regards to the tablet market, if sales figures compiled by IDC are any indication.
For the third quarter of 2011, it was believed that sales of slates would be of 19.2 million.
Now, though, IDC found that the mark was missed by a perce... |
15 December 2011
09:00 GMT |
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In what probably won't surprise those versed in server industry knowledge, HP and IBM ended up taking the leading positions during the third quarter of 2011.
After somehow getting the leading role on the tablet market, HP also ended up on top in the server field, more or less tied with IBM at 29.8% share (thei... |
2 December 2011
12:31 GMT |
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The past month has not gone without a significant level of attention given to the crisis in Thailand and, as authorities are doing their best to curb the worst of the destruction, each level of the world economy, in this case the IT industry, is dealing with the fallout in its own way.
In this case, the effects of ... |
11 November 2011
04:05 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung managed to secure the leading position on the smartphone market during the third quarter of the ongoing year, and the latest data from IDC brings some more info on the matter.
Samsung shipped over 23.6 million smartphones in the third quarter of the ongoing year, grabbing a ... |
4 November 2011
14:31 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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Some probably saw it coming when Lenovo took Acer's place as third greatest PC supplier, but Lenovo dispelled all doubt now, ousting Dell from second place and becoming HP's newest big rival on the PC front. Of course, this might not last for long, for reasons not exactly similar to those that catapulted ... |
13 October 2011
03:48 GMT |
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The IDC's Personal Computing Group is reporting that media tablet shipments in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) reached close to 4.4 million units in Q2 2011, which beat the firm’s previous forecast of 3.7 million. The iPad, as you may have already guessed, has played a key role in this development.R... |
23 September 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Officials at NASA announced on September 19 the outlines of the Integrated Design Contract (IDC), which is designed to specify the American space agency's overall strategy for gaining access to privately-built spacecraft, capable of carrying astronauts and cargo to low-Earth orbit (LEO).
The document concern... |
20 September 2011
08:13 GMT |
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Right now, the majority of Internet devices are still in the realms of cables, but this situation is expected to change during the course of the next several years.
That the IT industry is steadily transitioning to a so-called mobile and wireless age is no longer any real mystery.
In the meantime, PCs and all o... |
12 September 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Intelligent systems are starting to account for an increasingly large part of the total electronic system units, and IDC believes that the embedded market has much to do with this.
Intelligent system is a moniker that has come to be applied to any system that has powerful processors, connectivity and an advanced ... |
12 September 2011
07:32 GMT |
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Apple may not have been in the lead before, but it looks like the smartphone market saw some leadership changes as far as market share is concerned, one of the major ones being Nokia's fall from first to third place.
Nokia may have held the top position as smartphone maker up to the first quarter of this yea... |
6 August 2011
03:44 GMT |
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The second quarter of 2011 is well over and done with, while the third is nearing its half, so market analysts are publishing their findings, this once outlining the happenings on the CPU market.
The central processing unit market segment of the IT industry is what one might call a veritable battleground.
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2 August 2011
07:25 GMT |
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Nokia might have lost the battle for supremacy on the smartphone market, but they did not lose the war on the mobile phone area, that's for sure.
At 24.5 percent market share, Nokia is still in front of Samsung, at least this is what the Q2 2011 numbers from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwid... |
30 July 2011
05:37 GMT |
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With the earnings season is well underway, findings have been largely in the positive spectrum, though not everyone involved in the field of IT has cause for celebration, as Acer's PC sales performance shows.Reports concerning the financial happenings on the IT market haven't been at all scarce lately, and... |
14 July 2011
03:03 GMT |
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With all the chatter surrounding the tablet market, one would expect glowing sales figures to hit the web, but it looks like this isn't happening, at least not as far as the first quarter is concerned.The past month has been quite rich in news and reports concerning a tablet or another, whether they have alread... |
12 July 2011
03:51 GMT |
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That sales of tablets were growing is something that was confirmed months ago, but by just how much was unclear, until IDC decided to study deeper and found that the shipment rise will be a factor of 2 or 3.Even just the last couple of weeks have been more than rich in news regarding tablets, like the Lenovo IdeaPad... |
1 July 2011
05:51 GMT |
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Financial reports and forecasts are made all the time, and this occasion is marked by IDC publishing its findings in regards to the probable evolution of the cloud market over the next few years.The thing about online storage is that it allows users to save and access their work from any systems and any place in the... |
29 June 2011
10:23 GMT |
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A new report coming from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that the total mobile app downloads are set to increase to as much as 182.7 billion in 2015, up from the 10.7 billion they topped in 2010.
Moreover, research firm notes that app developers will shift their interest towards the inclusion of in-app... |
28 June 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Much has been said about the hard disk drive market and how it might start to seriously decline because of solid state drives, but IDC believes such products can once again start to grow as a market.SSDs have been getting steadily more affordable on the consumer market, giving hard drives a fairly hard time, or at l... |
13 June 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Windows Phone, the new mobile operating system that Microsoft launched on devices in October last year, is expected to become the second platform on the smartphone market in 2015, a recent report from IDC reiterates. The research firm already said that the platform is expected to become a leader on the market, and i... |
10 June 2011
15:11 GMT |
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That ARM wants its chips inside personal computers is no news, but it looks like at least one analyst firm actually sees this happening, with a visible result expected over the next few years.At the moment, the PC market is still firmly owned by the x86 central processing unit architecture, which Intel and Advanced ... |
5 May 2011
09:29 GMT |
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That PC sales would be hit by the flaw found in Intel chipsets months ago was an obvious consequence, but it looks like it was not the only, or even the main, cause behind strained PC shipments in the EMEA region.IDC decided to take a look at how the PC market progressed in the EMEA region (short for the part of the... |
22 April 2011
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That overall PC sales dropped in the first quarter is not that big a surprise, knowing the Sandy Bridge issue, but it looks like a certain pair of PC vendors managed to thrive while top players slid.The first quarter of the year was definitely not a friendly time for the overall PC industry, what with the way all sa... |
14 April 2011
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Last year, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft came to the market with a new version of its mobile operating system, dubbed Windows Phone 7, which did not enjoy an impressive take off until now, but which is expected to become the second leading OS in the world within four years. According to a recent report from... |
29 March 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Analysts have been keeping an eye on the tablet market for quite a while now, and it looks like they found great growth potential in a certain continent known as Australia, especially as far as the Apple iPad 2 is concerned.
Tablets may have been looked upon as devices with a low probability of success on a netb... |
26 March 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Since the first quarter of 2011 is more or less nearing its end, market analysts are wrapping up their findings about the last part of 2010, and it seems that tablets and e-readers both thrived last year.That e-book readers have been growing in sales each months is something that has been going on as far back as 200... |
11 March 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Recent data from IDC's European Mobile Phone Tracker shows that the Western European mobile phone market went up by 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter of the last year when compared to the same time frame the year before, reaching 58.7 million units. Smartphones enjoyed an impressive growth of 99.4 percent year ... |
10 March 2011
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When it comes to figuring out the market situation, any market has its share of analysts, and IDC has issued a press release in which it announced its findings regarding the market for external disk storage systems.The first quarter of 2011 may have already gone past its fist half, but it is still not too late for 2... |
5 March 2011
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Market analysts have already started to say how tablets are eating away at the netbook, notebook and, according to some, even the desktop market share, but IDC Canada claims to have found only minor consequences in terms of PC shipments.The Mobile World Congress expo in Barcelona, Spain, saw the launch of quite a fe... |
18 February 2011
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It appears that 2010 was a year when the IT industry definitely recovered, as sales of all sots of hardware grew by a great deal, something that reflected onto the overall IT spending.Last year, demand for various hardware upgrades picked up, after having been slowed down by the global recession of 2009.Spending on ... |
10 February 2011
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Not long ago, IDC issued a press release meant to inaugurate the debut of its Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker, and part of said release had, of course, information on the current situation on the e-reader market.That the tablet market had boomed last year is something that was confirmed yet agai... |
18 January 2011
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Market analysts company IDC, took a close look at how the tablet market evolved during 2010 and found that the popularity has grown similar to how e-readers have been getting more and more widespread.IDC defines media tablets as slate devices with screen sizes of 5 to 14 inches and which run lightweight operating sy... |
18 January 2011
09:16 GMT |
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Dell may have gone through some rough times last year, but it appears to have regained its footing if the information found by IDC on the state of the global PC market is anything to go by.Market analysts periodically look at the state of the market, and its individual segments, and keep track of how companies fare ... |
13 January 2011
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Windows Phone 7, the latest mobile operating system flavor that Redmond-based software giant Microsoft brought to the market in 2010, is expected to enjoy steady growth during the ongoing year and beyond, though it would require for some key features to be included into the mix to guarantee its success.In 2011, Micr... |
4 January 2011
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Since press releases regarding financial aspects of various markets are coming out one after another, IDC figured it would pull its own weight by revealing what the situation was on the external disk storage systems market.
The total factory revenues posted were a bit under $5.2 billion, a figure which correspond... |
4 December 2010
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Since the year is steadily drawing to a close, analysts have begun to publish their findings concerning the current state of the market, and it seems that the PC microprocessor front saw some changes during the third quarter of 2010.It appears that, in terms of vendor performance, Q3 of 2010 saw some small modificat... |
11 November 2010
06:21 GMT |
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The global smartphone market reached a number of 81.1 million units during the third quarter of the ongoing year, marking an increase of 89.5 percent when compared to the 42.8 million units that were shipped during 3Q 2009, a recent report from IDC shows.According to the research firm, mobile phone makers posted dou... |
5 November 2010
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Apparently, the performance of the worldwide PC market has stirred mixed feelings among analysts, as IDC found that, while an overall growth was achieved, it failed to actually meet the expectations set previously, especially in the US.Commercial purchases were the main driving force behind desktop sales, while the ... |
14 October 2010
05:24 GMT |
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With companies taking turns posting their financial results for the latest quarter, it was only a matter of time before market analysts found out just how the overall CPU market performed, and it seems that, while it lost some share in the server market, AMD gained some ground in the PC processor segment.Apparently,... |
21 August 2010
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The smartphone market went up by 50 percent during the second quarter of the ongoing year, a recent report from IDC shows. A total number of 63 million units in Q2 2010, up from 41.9 million units, have been sold during the same time frame a year ago. The International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobi... |
6 August 2010
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After a dismal 2008 when the IT industry was faced with serious problems, the 9% decrease in the semiconductor market during 2009 was almost seen as a relief, considering how much less optimistic the estimates made at the start of the year had been. Now, the market seems to be on a rebound, at least that's what... |
9 July 2010
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The mobile phone market in Western Europe has registered impressive growth during the first quarter of the ongoing year, a recent report from IDC states. According to the research company, the market went up 8.1 percent year on year to 42.7 million units in 1Q10, helped by a 57 increase in smartphone shipments in th... |
2 July 2010
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A recently published report from IDC (International Data Corporation) shows that the mobile broadband market is expected to grow significantly during the next few years. According to the research firm, this wireless segment should go from 6.5 million subscribers in 2009 to around 30.2 million users in 2014. The compo... |
15 June 2010
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Even with the supposedly weakening demand in Europe, 2010 is already looking as though it will turn out to be significantly more favorable for the IT industry than the last two. In late 2009, with the economic crisis expected to ease, IDC had already predicted an improvement. To be more specific, IDC believed that th... |
15 June 2010
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Until late last year, the two market segments that were expected to grow the most during 2010 were those of netbooks and e-readers. Later on, Apple launched the iPad, which, despite mixed review, has already sold over one million units. Competing products are now expected to debut in packs at Computex. Considering th... |
20 May 2010
09:57 GMT |
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The number of smartphones (converged mobile devices) that were shipped during the first quarter of the ongoing year increased by 56.7 percent when compared to the same time frame a year ago, reaching 54.7 million units, the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows. Moreover... |
7 May 2010
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Over the past year, there has been a very fast increase in the popularity and widespread adoption of solid state drives, to the point where HDD sales, at least on the enterprise front, declined. This phenomenon has occurred because SSDs are starting to gain higher storage capacities and are already much faster than p... |
4 May 2010
08:32 GMT |
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