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Anyone worrying that tablets may be losing their groove can sit back and relax because at least one analyst thinks shipment levels will rise massively in 2012.
The way things are going, some might start to think that maybe tablets aren't going to keep growing in sales much.
After all, the fourth quarter is s... |
11 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Acer may expect its revenues to drop in the fourth quarter of 2011 because of the HDD shortage that will cut PC shipments, but it still expects ultrabooks to reach the expected sales figure.
Acer said that it wants sales of 250,000-300,000 ultrabooks in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Them not relying on HDDs at all ... |
11 November 2011
10:27 GMT |
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) hasn't been slacking off and, instead, conducted some research into what will happen to the worldwide WiFi coverage over the course of what remains of this first half of the second decade of the third millennium.WiFi is getting support on pretty much every PC nowadays, espe... |
9 November 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Ultrabooks may not have impressed anyone with their shipment levels yet, but that doesn't mean they aren't going to do it later.
It is the belief of IHS iSuppli that ultrabooks will rapidly catch on once they really start shipping next year.
This prediction is in something of a stark contrast with the i... |
8 November 2011
20:11 GMT |
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Even with new display sizes being developed and marketed, there are high chances that 2011 will become the first year when LCD TVs sell less than in the previous one.
It appears that oversupply concerns are great enough that some people, market watchers as Digitmes calls them, aren't very optimistic about 2011... |
8 November 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Apple has many followers, so it stands to reason that there will be many people saying that there is no way the iPad will ever stop being number one in terms of sales, but J. Gold Associates disagrees.
These days, Apple's iPad is constantly being pitted against the entirety of the Android tablet crowd.
Of cou... |
4 November 2011
10:02 GMT |
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Since time is moving along, reports about what has happened or what may come on the IT market are obviously going to show up, and this time it is the LCD TV market that is getting a prognosis.The next year is one that, most likely, will show highly mixed results in terms of IT sales.LCD TVs are one of the industry&#... |
3 November 2011
11:56 GMT |
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Computing has become an intrinsic part of society, and there aren't many better way to figure out just how deeply IT is affecting the world than by looking at just how much money will be spent on it in the coming years. Next year, the world will invest a whole lot of money in the sustainment, enhancement and a... |
18 October 2011
04:11 GMT |
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After several announcements about e-book reading devices, market watchers have outlined their latest expectations in regards to the e-reader market.
E-readers are those compact, portable gadgets that people use to read books, newspapers, magazines, etc. in electronic format, and not only.
Since people like to... |
10 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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People tempted to forget about e-readers should not ignore this market, as reports say that the segment will prove quite lucrative for everyone involved.
E-readers were, at one point, a sort of wonder-child of bookstore chains and anyone who had any collection of digitized book content to speak of.
While prov... |
3 October 2011
09:09 GMT |
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Analysts again stepped up to state the fact that, despite the premature assumptions of certain parties, there is no way tablets will remove laptops from the picture any time soon.
People might not have noticed it, but the whole hype surrounding the tablet market is more or less identical to how netbooks were rece... |
30 September 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Whether or not the Kindle Fire becomes a best-seller like its e-reader predecessor is still up in the air, but certain parties, in this case Strategy Analytics, definitely seem to think it will.
About two days ago, we wrote that Amazon had finally launched the Kindle Fire tablet, though this was just one of its a... |
30 September 2011
05:56 GMT |
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There have been multiple occasions where analysts looked into the future of optical media and the latest such occurrence has In-Stat as the one responsible, the prediction being one that isn't too favorable to the DVD.
HDTVs may not be too widespread now, but they will definitely account for more and more of... |
30 September 2011
04:42 GMT |
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That ultrabooks will push back the tablet onslaught is the main hope of PC players, but there wasn't much assurance that this will happen, and there still isn't, though hopes seem to be on the verge of fulfillment.
The reason for the appearance of ultrabooks is, quite simply, the media tablet segment.
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29 September 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Analysts have been speaking a lot about PCs and tablets lately, but there are other items that are poised to see massive growth over the next decade or so, like lithium ion batteries.Analysts have reached the conclusion that smart power grids will be a major market for lithium ion batteries.A smart grid is a utility... |
24 September 2011
06:05 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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The tablet market is getting ready to welcome an invention from Amazon, but this doesn't mean that there aren't any concerns as to whether or not there is a good enough chance for the item to thrive.
The media tablet segment of the IT industry is a very young one, having truly consolidated itself earlie... |
22 September 2011
07:34 GMT |
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One may have thought that the worst of the recession has passed, but this doesn't apply to Europe, not exactly, and the worldwide IT industry is, even now, suffering, as found by analysts.
Market analysts no doubt love it when they can say one or more fields of the industry are doing well.
Unfortunately, t... |
22 September 2011
04:56 GMT |
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Staying in touch with the weather forecast is very important if you plan on going on a vacation or even spend a day outdoors. Although you can find weather information on many websites, there are some tools which deliver the forecast straight to your desktop, and one of them is Meteorologist.Meteorologist is a ... |
22 September 2011
01:49 GMT |
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IT companies are always setting sales goals, and ASUS seems to be exceeding is own, though this hasn't, for a while, actually done much visible good to its finances, all things considered.
Those keeping track of things on the PC market may have learned of the fairly underwhelming results of the past half a y... |
20 September 2011
06:06 GMT |
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The tablet PC market is one segment of the IT industry which, according to recent reports, Lenovo means to acquire a significant stake in as quickly as possible.
The exact classification of tablet-type devices into tablet PCs, media slates or other monikers is still somewhat vague.
Still, they at least can be ... |
19 September 2011
08:10 GMT |
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The latest in the saga of analysts' estimates with the 2010-2015 time frame is one that involves the cloud computing segment and wireless service providers in equal measure. Even though some parts of the IT industry aren't doing very well, like the DRAM sector, others are set to grow substantially over th... |
13 September 2011
10:29 GMT |
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US companies have been drifting away from PCs and towards mobile devices and gadgets lately, the same way demand for computers has been dropping, but this might have a fairly unexpected consequence, namely the rise of a new operating system. Among the many things happening on the PC front, some are not very encoura... |
12 September 2011
10:41 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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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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Ultrabooks might not be the cheapest things out there, but they are set to slam through expectations anyway, expectations which are already quite optimistic.The recently concluded IFA 2011 trade show saw the showing off of multiple Ultrabooks, like Acer's Aspire S3, among others.This was just the latest sightin... |
8 September 2011
04:41 GMT |
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The tablet market is set for great things, at least Amazon thinks so, given the kind of image analysts have painted for its tablets, even though the product hasn't actually been launched yet.Amazon, like so many other companies on the IT market, wants to make a name for itself on the tablet segment.In fact... |
31 August 2011
05:02 GMT |
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Soon, it will be a full year since the DRAM industry really started to go downhill, and analysts are, sure enough, seeing only trouble ahead for makers of memory, what with demand not getting any better.Those in the DIY PC market no doubt feel giddy over just how incredibly cheap DRAM memory is nowadays.Unfortunatel... |
30 August 2011
07:43 GMT |
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The tablet market has reached a stage where there is no question as to whether or not it will exist for a long time, to the point where market analysts are already looking five, six or more years into the future.The way tablets have managed to reach a sort of standard price ($500) and are even touching on much lower... |
23 August 2011
02:33 GMT |
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That ARM-powered Android tablets were gaining on the Apple iPad was no mystery, but the folks from ABI Research finally published some actual number as to just how much share the latter lost to the former.If there is anything certain about the tablet market is that it grew from nothing to a notebook-threatening mark... |
12 August 2011
04:51 GMT |
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The main reason tablets have been recorded as having substantially increased in market shipments is the fact that the Apple iPad has been selling by the thousands, but things will visibly progress for other models starting next year.One would think that the tablet industry is already growing fast enough, but further... |
8 August 2011
10:39 GMT |
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E-readers must truly be growing in sales all the time if E Ink has again set a higher bar for the expected e-paper screen sales, at least according to the most recent rumors focused on such things.Tablet may be taking up a lot of the news space recently, but this does not mean all other things are fading into obscur... |
8 August 2011
05:47 GMT |
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The incredibly low prices that DRAM memory has reached over the past couple of quarters may have prompted standard memory capacities in PCs to go from 2 GB to 4 GB, but this situation will change in 2012, according to iSuppli.Those keeping track of things on the memory market may be aware of the fact that DRAM chips... |
3 August 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Analysts have once again looked at the notebook market, and it looks like the findings suggest a significant increase in the standard performance of mainstream machines compared to previous years.The laptop market is one that has grown substantially ever since the first mobile computers were developed and sent out i... |
13 July 2011
09:52 GMT |
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As more and more electronics adopt touch-based input, sales of such panels can only grow, an assumption that is more than corroborated by market analysts versed in the workings of this particular field.DisplaySearch is a firm that makes it a point to always stay well informed in regards to the situation on the displ... |
13 July 2011
07:27 GMT |
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As some may or may not have expected, it appears that what can be called the authorities on the display industry believe that the number of 3D display shipments will be about a fifth of the total sold in 2011.3D may not be the rave right now, but this doesn't mean that the future won't see a change in the ... |
12 July 2011
10:55 GMT |
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Amidst attempts to rebuild stockpiles and less than stellar sales of DRAM, it looks like the worldwide supply of semiconductors ended up growing during the second quarter, in preparation for probable demand spikes.The past half a year was a period during which the Semiconductor market mostly grew, though not all chi... |
11 July 2011
10:34 GMT |
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This being the earnings season, OCZ, like so many others, published its financial performance for the latest quarter, but it looks like it already known what it wants to do next.It appears that this is the time when IT companies take turns at outlining their financial status, citing revenue levels, profits and other... |
8 July 2011
09:36 GMT |
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There are things that can always be guessed at based on existing data, but it looks like the DRAM market is one whose outlook has companies divided between the optimistic and those not very so.Many users might not have made a habit of keeping tabs on the financial aspect of the IT market, but the fact remains that t... |
6 July 2011
09:13 GMT |
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It appears that certain predictions in regards to the market of LED-backlit TVs have proven to have been slightly too optimistic, now that reports show a lack of acceleration in orders.One in a while, market analysts take a look at one part of the IT market, or the IT industry as a whole, and try to predict how thin... |
4 July 2011
09:30 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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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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While the electronics market is said to be on the fairly quick mend, price shifts are always happening, although some are more evident than others, and more far-reaching, like what is about to occur on the LCD segment.Not long ago, market analyst firm iSuppli reached the conclusion that the effects that the Japan di... |
30 June 2011
10:53 GMT |
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One would think a disaster the magnitude of the one that hit Japan on March 11 would have more long-lasting effects on all aspects of the world economy, but it seems humankind, or in this case the electronics industry, is quick to recover.As the world no doubt remembers, and will keep remembering, an earthquake and ... |
30 June 2011
10:19 GMT |
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Analysts are always studying the IT market to see what has changed and what hasn't, and it appears this is an occasion where the memory market has fallen under scrutiny, though findings aren't particularly shocking.
When the DDR4 memory specification was finalized, it became obvious that the days of DDR... |
27 June 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Now that the e-reader market has mostly stabilized as a segment that will go on existing for years to come, E ink, the primary maker of displays for such items, seems to have gotten an idea of how many screens it will be able to ship.E-readers have come to the point where the main, or only, way for them to stand apa... |
27 June 2011
03:53 GMT |
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It appears that all the troubles that hit the IT industry this year are turning out to be less disastrous than originally expected, with analysts now believing that the semiconductor market will still manage a significant growth by the end of 2011.As the world knows, Japan was hit by a very big disaster on March 11,... |
23 June 2011
09:50 GMT |
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That USB 3.0 devices have been selling well is no real secret, but it still falls to analysts to determine exactly how large a shipment volume they might reach this year, and this is precisely what In-Stat looked into.When it comes to the Universal Serial Bus, the USB Implementers Forum and market analysts seem to t... |
20 June 2011
02:42 GMT |
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