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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 | 8/05/2012 IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues
The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $US77 million in 2011...
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 | 3/04/2012 iPhone v BlackBerry: Is Apple's battle with RIM won?
While Apple is celebrating news that the marketshare of iOS devices continues to grow, BlackBerry maker RIM has been responding to concerns that it ha...
Article | 21/03/2012 Interest in HTML5 growing among mobile developers
Mobile developers will increasingly use HTML5 in their applications during 2012, but fragmentation will make their life more difficult, according to a...
Article | 16/03/2012 Via keeps battling Intel and AMD even as its x86 chip market share shrinks further
While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices battle for the top two spots in the x86 microprocessor market, the third player, Via Technologies, saw a slip i...
Article | 23/02/2012 Price of DRAM plunges to all-time low of around $1
Prices of DDR3 DRAM memory used in laptops and desktops have dipped to an all-time low of around US$1, and will continue to fall, which could help PC ...
Article | 27/01/2012 Apple customers voice mixed reaction to reports of poor working conditions
Amid renewed reports of poor working conditions at factories making Apple products in China, it's unclear whether customers will demand change.
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...
Article | 12/01/2012 IDC: PC shipments slumped as 2011 ended
Sales of personal computers slowed in the last three months of 2011, thanks to a sluggish economy, scarce hard drives and the proliferation of other f...
Article | 10/01/2012 SSD prices will fall below $1 per GB in 2012, says IDC
The price for SSDs (solid state drives) that are going into PCs are expected to fall below US$1 per gigabyte during the second half of 2012, further b...
Article | 29/12/2011 IPv6 doomsday won't hit in 2012, experts say
Next year will see one more regional Internet registry run out of IPv4 addresses, but 2012 will be more of a year to prepare for the inevitable shift ...
Article | 17/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: IPOs, M&A, chip news stir tech optimism
Zynga's initial public offering Friday, a raft of acquisition announcements this week from IBM, Salesforce and others, and some upbeat reports on the ...
Article | 3/12/2011 IDC: Storage growth slowing to normal
Growth in sales of enterprise disk storage slowed in the third quarter as the industry returned to normal patterns after recovering from the recession...