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Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments fell "significantly" in the first quarter from the fourth quarter, research firm IDC said on Tuesday.
The research firm IDC said Thursday that worldwide personal computer shipments fell 1.9 percent during the fourth quarter and projected an 8 percent drop in the first half of the year.
Worldwide technology spending will slow significantly in 2009 because of the financial turmoil that has rattled global markets since September, research firm IDC said Wednesday.
Research in Motion Ltd. captured more than 50 percent of the U.S. smartphone market in the second quarter, up sharply from first-quarter levels, according to figures released Monday by technology research firm IDC.
Apple’s new iPhone — faster, cheaper and with more features — is winning praise from analysts who say the device has already more than earned its place in cell phone history.
At a time when sales of cell phones are slowing in the United States, there's one kind of mobile device that appears to be defying the trend: smartphones.
Our use of ever-higher megapixel cameras, iPods with large hard drives and jumbo video files posted on YouTube is starting to crush us — digitally, that is.
Microsoft: $1 of piracy = $5.50 in "lost opportunities"Each dollar lost to software piracy equals $5.50 in lost opportunities, claims Microsoft. A new white paper released by IDC and funded by the software giant looks at how copyright infringement affects the software ecosystem as a whole, not just how it affects a single corporation.
Mac shipments outpace market in Q1 | One More ThingDespite that tepid growth in the U.S., Apple saw its U.S. shipments increase by a margin far greater than the market, as well as any other PC maker in the top 5. According to Gartner, Mac shipments increased by 32.5 percent to U.S. customers.
Future Implications: Apple's complete home dominanceI understand 5.6 percent is not too significant and the nation's top vendors are releasing Windows systems, but Apple's rise in market share has been unprecedented. Just one year ago, Apple shipped only 761,000 units in the same quarter.
Spam to overtake human-issued e-mails in 2007IDC projects that spam will increase to 40 billion message in 2007. That's six or seven messages for every single person on the planet, and it will be higher than the volume of person-to-person e-mail sent this year.
Tech Researchers Calculate Digital Info "Add it all up and IDC determined that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes - 161 exabytes - of digital information last year."
Study: More Digital Data Than SpaceA new study finds that 161 exabytes of digital information were created, captured, and replicated last year - and that digital information will outstrip storage capacity by 2010.
Market research company IDC forecasts that none of the three new consoles will dominate the market in the next five years like the PS2 dominated last cycle; however, IDC states, Nintendo's Wii will outship and outsell the 360 and PS3 in 2007 and 2008.
Asia/Pacific Reports on Growing Use of Biometrics in Asian BanksLeading independent research and advisory firm, Financial Insights, an IDC company, today announced the release of a new report examining the growing use and effectiveness of automated biometric authentication devices by banks in Asia.
Server Slam: Windows In, Unix OutRevenues for windows-based x86 servers for the first time topped spending for Unix systems in the fourth quarter of 2005, according to analyst firm IDC.
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