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Small firms in emerging markets up IT spend
News Fewer small businesses in markets such as China and India are feeling pinch from downturn, with 17 percent indicating budget increases, new research shows.
Tags: IT budgeting, Personal Computers, Servers, Business, IT Budget, Small Business, business productivity, Server, Emerging Market, Germany
Intel to SMBs: Don't hold off PC refresh
News Security risks and maintenance costs may make older desktops and notebooks more expensive than new machines, chipmaker points out.
Tags: Personal Computers, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Hardware, Intel Corp., Power Supply, Small And Medium Business, Small Business, Notebook, Virus Attack
Marketing matters to Asian tech firms
News Technology brands from Asia have strong technical capabilities, but need to work on marketing and connecting with customers to perform overseas, say experts.
Tags: Strategy, Branding, Pricing, Market research, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Asia, Gartner Inc., Chinese company, Pricing, China Market Research
New report warns of dangers of trashy avatars
News In conjunction with the rise of virtual worlds as a tool for business training and meetings, companies should assign a dress code to their employees' avatars, according to market research firm Gartner.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Avatar, Web sites, Web 2.0, Gartner Inc., market research company, 3D, Environment, research company
Gartner: PC sales to make slight recovery by year's end
News Demand isn't as dire as originally forecast; sales will be down just 2 percent for the year.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Personal Computers, Desktops, Microsoft Windows 7, Gartner Inc., Sales, Notebook, Emerging Market, Microsoft Windows, Recovery
COO: Facebook can build your business, and now we can prove it
News Facebook's COO formally announces the social-networking company's "strategic alliance" to build social-media audience measurement tools with Nielsen.
Tags: Web 2.0, Tool, Australia, social networking, Facebook, brand, market research, emergency service, Web 2.0
Gartner: PC sales to pick up by year-end
News Shipments will be down 6 percent this year compared to 2008, but positive growth is expected for 2010.
Tags: Personal Computers, Sales, Microsoft Windows 7, Gartner Inc., operating system, Microsoft Windows, marketing, analyst, market research, PC
APAC PC market returns to the black
News After two quarters of decline, region's PC shipments saw 19 percent sequential, and 8 percent year-on-year, jump in the second quarter, says IDC.
Tags: Personal Computers, Sales/revenue, Hardware, Region, International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Small Business, Sales, Back-office, Notebook
Gartner: Global mobile phone sales up
News Asia is main driver of growth, while the only region worldwide showing a dip in year-over-year handset sales was Western Europe, says research firm.
Tags: Cellular phones, Analyst reports, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile, Cell Phone, Mobile-phone Sale, Gartner Inc., Sales, research company, food
Has Apple hit the 10 millionth iPhone mark?
News Several bloggers using unofficial manufacturing data claim the company has surpassed its goal of selling more than 10 million of the popular gadgets.
Tags: Mac OS, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Mobile, Google Inc., Smart Phone, phone, research company, UMTS, NPD Group Inc.
China hungry for flat-panel monitors
News By 2011, China will be the No. 2 market for flat panels, with the United States slipping to third, according to a new report.
Tags: Monitors and displays, DisplaySearch, Notebook, LCD monitor, flat panel, peripheral company, China, U.S., monitor, desktop
Samsung unveils 'world's smallest' 256GB SSD drive
News Company has created one of the largest-capacity and fastest solid-state drives to date.
Tags: Storage, Apple MacBook, Storage, Notebook, Lenovo Group Ltd., performance, hard drive, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., notebook computer, agency
Microsoft platform tops Web 2.0 developer survey
News The company's Web 2.0 development platform has beaten offerings from Google and Facebook to lead in a users' choice survey that some believe is flawed.
Tags: Web 2.0, Software engineering/development, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Survey, Facebook, co-founder, Web 2.0, U.S.
US, Europe cut IT spend as India, China boom
News IT budgets are being slashed in the United States and Europe as bullish growth in China, India and Russia leaves the Western tech industry in the shade.
Tags: Offshoring, IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Euro, IT Budget, India, M&A, Information Security, Russia
iPhone manufacturing costs down from last year
News iSuppli estimates that Apple cut more than US$50 from manufacturing costs per unit since the phone made its debut last year.
Tags: Mac OS, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Mobile, iSuppli Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, Manufacturing, 2G, phone, software
