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Article | 29/05/2012 Gartner predicts huge rise in monitoring of employees' social media use
Corporations are starting to embrace technologies used to monitor employee Internet use, with 60 percent expected to watch workers' social media use f...
Article | 24/05/2012 iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped
Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.
Article | 17/05/2012 Android, Samsung top smartphone sales, topping Apple's iPhone
Android smartphones made up 56% of the global smartphones sold to end users in the first quarter of 2012, giving them a far higher share than the 22.9...
Article | 17/05/2012 Samsung is the big daddy of Android phones
Samsung has become the clear leader in sales of Android smartphones as Gartner today reported that it accounted for 40% of worldwide Android sales in ...
Article | 17/05/2012 Mobile phone sales sink for first time in three years
Is the bloom off the rosy market for mobile phones?
Article | 12/04/2012 Apple's iPad will continue to boss Android tablets for years to come
The iPad will remain top dog in the tablet market until at least 2016 and likely well beyond, analysts believe.
Article | 12/04/2012 Lenovo gains over Dell as world's second-largest PC maker
Lenovo extended its lead over Dell as the world's second-largest PC maker, but it is too early to say whether the Chinese manufacturer eventually will...
Article | 12/04/2012 DOJ's antitrust case may have huge implications for publishing
The U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five book publishers over alleged e-book price fixing means that the publishers h...
Article | 11/04/2012 Android won't challenge Apple's tablet dominance in 2012: Gartner
Worldwide tablet sales to end users are expected to total 118.9 million units in 2012, with Apple continuing to dominate and the Android camp struggli...
Article | 28/03/2012 Gartner: Software-as-a-Service market to grow 17.9 per cent to $US14.5 billion
Global spending on SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) will rise 17.9 percent this year to US$14.5 billion, according to figures released by analyst firm Gar...
Article | 10/03/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech rides market optimism
So far this year, the technology sector is off to its best start in the stock market since 2000, right before the dot-com bubble burst, and even thoug...
Article | 29/02/2012 Hard-drive shortage hits servers in Q4, Gartner says
The growth in worldwide server shipments was slower than expected during the fourth quarter due to a shortage in the supply of hard drives, and the tr...
Article | 24/01/2012 Apple has become biggest buyer of semiconductors: Gartner
Apple became the biggest buyer of semiconductors last year, ahead of Samsung Electronics and Hewlett-Packard, according to Gartner.
Article | 19/01/2012 Survey: Business intelligence back on top of CIOs minds
Business intelligence and analytics have again become the top technology priority for CIOs, replacing cloud computing, according to a survey of 2,335 ...
Article | 14/01/2012 Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings season could be stormy
Get ready for a perfect storm of earnings news. With tech bellwethers including IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Google set to issue financial reports next w...