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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.
Monday, July 20 2009 06:32 PM
Tags: Personal Computers, Sales/revenue, Hardware, Region, International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, Small Business, Sales, Back-office, Notebook
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.
Monday, July 13 2009 06:23 PM
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.
Friday, June 26 2009 06:12 PM
Tags: Personal Computers, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Hardware, Intel Corp., Power Supply, Small And Medium Business, Small Business, Notebook, Virus Attack
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.
Thursday, October 08 2009 10:15 AM
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.
Thursday, September 24 2009 09:36 AM
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.
Wednesday, September 23 2009 11:49 AM
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.
Thursday, June 25 2009 05:12 PM
Tags: Personal Computers, Sales, Microsoft Windows 7, Gartner Inc., operating system, Microsoft Windows, marketing, analyst, market research, PC
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.
Wednesday, May 27 2009 06:38 PM
Tags: Strategy, Branding, Pricing, Market research, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Asia, China Market Research, Gartner Inc., Chinese company, Pricing
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.
Friday, August 29 2008 01:05 AM
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.
Tuesday, October 07 2008 09:50 AM
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.
Wednesday, July 09 2008 08:06 AM
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.
Tuesday, May 27 2008 08:23 AM
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.
Thursday, May 08 2008 12:14 AM
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.
Friday, September 12 2008 08:24 AM
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.
Thursday, July 17 2008 12:41 PM
Tags: Mac OS, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Mobile, iSuppli Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, Manufacturing, 2G, phone, software






