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Although Compal had predicted its projected on-quarter notebook shipment growth at around 10%, low notebook inventory levels prompted vendors to place in more orders for Q4 2009. With this new development, Compal expects to reach a total sales amount (for the whole year) of between 37 and 38 million units. This means... |
25 November 2009
09:32 GMT |
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Mobile voice service revenues are expected to start going on a downward route as soon as 2011 is here, a recently published report from ABI Research shows. According to the research firm, the revenues in the mobile voice area are expected to reach their peak in 2010, which started to decline during the following year... |
21 November 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Mobile payments and retail applications are expected to result in a great NFC adoption, a recent report from Juniper Research shows. According to the research firm, which analyzed “the $110bn NFC opportunity,” one of six mobile phone users in the world will own an NFC-enabled mobile phone by 2014. Howeve... |
10 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The number of smartphones delivered to the market during the ongoing year has increased significantly when compared to last year, yet their prices are said to have diminished. According to a recent report from ABI Research, the number of smartphones that cost under $200 has reached 27 percent of the total number of s... |
30 October 2009
10:49 GMT |
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According to a recent report from In-Stat, the smartphone market will be influenced by the battle between different mobile operating systems available on handsets today. However, the research firm also says that the competition will soon see a shift from the OS to the functionality and user experience that come along... |
27 October 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Waterloo, Ontario-based mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced on Thursday, September 24, 2009 its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2010, and posted revenues of 3.5 billion, up 37 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago. Even so, the company's earnings were only of $47... |
25 September 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Japan-based market research firm Techno Systems Research (TSR) recently stated that 17 percent of the total number of mobile phones shipped during the ongoing year would be smartphones. According to TSR, although the overall handset shipments are expected to decline by 10 percent during 2009, smartphone shipments wil... |
2 September 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster issued a note to clients this week saying that Apple was ready to introduce camera-equipped iPods, although not everyone would greet the new models with cheers. Other forecasts include an appearance on behalf of Mr. Steve Jobs (some analysts say otherwise), and an AppleTV announceme... |
1 September 2009
10:41 GMT |
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The Internet is already a common necessity in some countries, as essential as electricity and running water, but this isn't the case around the world, with many places still considering Internet access a luxury. That is slowly changing and, in fact, the world's Internet population is expected to grow by mor... |
23 July 2009
08:37 GMT |
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If you are interested in your own environment and you are in search of a new toy that makes the classic globe seem a Stone-Age tool, EarthBrowser might be the application you were looking for. All the mapping services available over the Internet are great, but this application is using the Adobe Air technology to pus... |
17 July 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Social media may be booming as a platform but actual revenue is still small compared to the number of users. A new forecast from research firm Forrester Research plots a good-looking future though, with social marketing spending rising to $3.1 billion in 2014, becoming the third largest form of online marketing after... |
10 July 2009
09:52 GMT |
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The global advertising market is set for a mild recovery in 2010 according to a forecast by leading media agency ZenithOptimedia cited by Reuters. Following an expected drop of 8.5 percent for the whole 2009, the market will gain a modest 1.6 percent next year. This year is bound to be a low point for the global ad m... |
6 July 2009
05:51 GMT |
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According to a recent market research report from ABI Research, the mobile phone market has seen a decline during the first quarter of the ongoing year and is expected to follow the same trend throughout the entire 2009. The report shows that 35 million fewer units were shipped around the world during the first three... |
12 June 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Although the financial recession has influenced the mobile phone market a lot, it seems that sales remained strong during the first quarter of the ongoing year, and mobile phone vendors managed to ship a total of 258 million handsets in the three-month time frame. The figure marks an 11 percent drop compared to the s... |
27 April 2009
08:14 GMT |
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A recently published study from ABI Research shows that next year won't be such a bad one for mobile phone makers after all, at least when compared to the ongoing one, when the industry is expected to see a drop in handset sales. According to the research firm, we should be able to see a flat growth in 2010 in m... |
1 April 2009
06:06 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, Palm will be able to sell no less than 1.5 million units of its newly unveiled Pre handset. Besides this forecast, we should also note that Palm's stock price took a jump right after the company unveiled its long-awaited, next-generation software and hardware. “Ou... |
14 January 2009
08:40 GMT |
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The global economy and financial system are undergoing rapid deterioration these days, driving some of the major market research firms to reconsider their previous IT industry forecast for the upcoming year. iSuppli announced having lowered its PC outlook for 2009, reducing the expected growth rate from the initial 1... |
22 November 2008
07:12 GMT |
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Apple might have passed the 10 million iPhone threshold already, data gathered by the Apple Finance Board (AFB) shows. Currently, Apple is into around 8 million iPhones sold (including the 3G model). This puts the device on track to hit the 10 million mark some three months ahead of Apple's self-i... |
7 October 2008
11:05 GMT |
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We are in the middle of summer and as we speak almost everybody is thinking of taking a vacation at the seaside or in the mountains. But even if we manage to put things in order when it comes to taking time off work and planning everything for the perfect vacation, there's still something that we cannot control... |
31 July 2008
11:54 GMT |
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As a PS3 owner, you know there's no chance in hell your console will catch up to Nintendo's Wii in sales. Or is there...? According to this piece up on The Economist, Screen Digest reckons that Sony's next-gen machine will indeed catch up to the Wii, but not this year, or the next, or the year after...... |
12 December 2007
06:42 GMT |
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After some months that saw problems in various branches of the computer manufacturing industry encounter supply or very low market prices that drove hardware component shipments to very low levels, the market research firm IDC predicts that the current market trend and increasing demand for customers will drive the e... |
14 September 2007
08:36 GMT |
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In the same day that AMD decided to finally officially launch its native quad core processors, Intel posted a new and improved revenue forecast for the third quarter of the year as the central processing units manufacturing company cited a growing demand for the Intel branded processors. Intel increased its revenue f... |
11 September 2007
09:00 GMT |
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Trend Micro is a software company that has the mission of developing, delivering and supporting the most flexible and customizable Internet security solutions to address the ever-changing threats on the Web.Yesterday, they have published a semi-annual threat roundup and forecast, that can be found on their website. Y... |
21 August 2007
08:30 GMT |
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