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U.S. smartphone market a two-horse race

Posted August 22, 2011 - 2:23 pm

The U.S. smartphone OS market is now a two-horse race between Google's Android and Apple's iOS.
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Permanent $100 price cut for HP TouchPad makes more sense

Posted August 10, 2011 - 7:32 pm

Desperate, sure, but HP made a wise decision in permanently lowering the price of its TouchPad tablet.
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12 ways cloud computing changes everything

Posted June 20, 2011 - 7:42 pm

Despite fears over reliability and security, enterprises are slowly but steadily moving their applications to the cloud, and the migration is going to change those companies in profound ways.
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Gartner joins IDC in revising down PC sales forecast

Posted June 8, 2011 - 12:41 pm

Like IDC on Monday, fellow research firm Gartner is paring back its forecast for 2011 PC shipments.
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Fewer PCs shipped in Q1 (take one guess why)

Posted April 13, 2011 - 9:45 pm

In what should become a quarterly ritual in the foreseeable future, top tech research firms show a decline in personal computer shipments for the first quarter.
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Is the iPhone over?

Posted April 6, 2011 - 11:44 am

Sales of Apple's iPhone appear to have hit a plateau. Is the groundbreaking device headed for permanent second-tier status in the smartphone market?
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ABI: Android to dominate smartphone market by 2016

Posted March 31, 2011 - 3:45 pm

IDC generated a lot of buzz on Tuesday with its prediction that Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 would become the No. 2 smartphone platform by 2015, behind only Google's Android.
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Doesn't anyone love Unix anymore?

Posted March 2, 2011 - 4:13 pm

Even mainframe sales leaped more than at any other time since IDC's been counting. Unix sales stayed flat.
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Worldwide smartphone shipments nearly double in Q4

Posted February 7, 2011 - 5:41 pm

Vendors shipped 100.9 million smartphones during the fourth quarter of 2010, up 87.2% from the 53.9 million smartphones shipped during the fourth quarter of 2009, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.
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IDC: Apple now No. 4 mobile phone manufacturer

Posted October 29, 2010 - 8:52 am

How popular are smartphones becoming? Popular enough that two manufacturers who sell only smartphones are now among the top five in the overall worldwide mobile phone market.
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Android Poised To Take Runner-Up Phone Slot by 2013

Posted January 25, 2010 - 9:09 pm

In a new report from IDC, analysts predict there should be 68 million Android-based devices on the market by 2013. Huge growth, but is even this underestimating Google's mobile OS?
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Mac sales cratering, or rising, or something!

Posted July 17, 2009 - 1:36 pm

If Apple is so beloved by the media elite, why are they so excited to see them fail?
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Being green brings in the greenbacks, say IDC and Atos

Posted April 8, 2009 - 2:53 pm

Companies serious about going green were rewarded with a 2 percent higher profit margin, according to IDC and Atos.
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Dell and IDC Say Videoconferencing Hot for SMBs

Posted April 3, 2009 - 11:16 am

It's hard for me to think of business videoconferencing without imagining a vice president in front of his laptop wearing a shirt and tie but no pants. But IDC says 35 percent of all small and medium businesses will be using videoconferencing of some type this year. Dell's new Vostro laptops include Web cameras and software to make this happen. But do you believe one of three small businesses will really go Webcam happy?
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Quality problems cost software companies up to $22 million annually

Posted August 19, 2008 - 7:53 am

A new white paper by International Data Corporation (IDC), found existing software quality approaches at most companies are inadequate to address the internal and external costs of software defects. Sponsored by Coverity, the IDC white paper â€œImproving Software Quality to Drive Business Agility,â€ found that development organizations find major problems with their software even after quality assurance and spend significant amounts of effort and time to repair those defects.
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