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Dell eyes more indirect income in South Asia
News Hardware maker will boost enterprise partnerships as it seeks more revenue from indirect channel, which now accounts for 37 percent of its revenue.
Tags: Personal Computers, Servers, Sales channels, Hardware, PC Company, International Data Corp., Small And Medium Business, Gartner Inc., Sales, South Asia
Forrester slices 2009 IT spending projection
News IT spending in the U.S. this year is expected to nearly double previous forecasts, while next year's projections are virtually cut in half, according to Forrester Research.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, Forrester Research Inc., Mobile, IT-spending, research analyst, CIO, interest rate, software, News.com, U.S.
Ultra-mobile devices to reach 200M by 2013
News Shipments of machines such as Netbooks and mobile Internet devices, will jump 20-fold over five years to generate US$27 billion in revenues, new report shows.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Development/design, Mobile, Market, ABI Research, Notebook, research analyst, handset, principal analyst, notebook computer
Business intelligence has downturn upturn
News Worldwide revenue for technology related to business intelligence, analytics applications and performance management grew 22 percent in 2008 to over US$8.8 billion, says Gartner.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, IT budgeting, SAP AG, Business Objects, Gartner Inc., research analyst, business intelligence, analytics, revenue, analyst
Gartner: Server market still growing
News Despite the economic downturn, server sales are on the up, with Dell seeing the largest growth, according to the analyst house.
Tags: Servers, Analyst reports, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Gartner Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Fujitsu Siemens, Server, research analyst, revenue
One billion PCs now in use worldwide
News There are now over a billion PCs in active use, according to analyst firm Gartner, with the number predicted to double by 2014.
Tags: Personal Computers, PC Company, Gartner Inc., Broadband, Japan, research analyst, Emerging Market, research director, U.S., analyst
PC shipments up in Asia
News Led by mini-notebook revolution, region's PC market hits record 20 million units during the third quarter, but growth still falls short of IDC's forecast.
Tags: Personal Computers, Sales/revenue, Acer Inc., Asia, PC Company, International Data Corp., Asia-Pacific, research analyst, ASUS, Lenovo Group Ltd.
Lawyers, analysts: ICANN vote will cause URL chaos
News The decision to let custom top-level domains be created will result in a 'nightmare' for brand managers, according to observers.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Butler Group, ICANN, research analyst, London, Internet, brand, analyst, Tesco
Asia's green IT services to hit US$2B in 2011
News update Growing demand for green IT services in markets such as China and India lifts region to a five-year compound annual growth rate of 69 percent, says new report.
Tags: Green IT, Services, Green IT, Asia, cost savings, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Service, Compound Annual Growth Rate, Consulting
Analysis firm IDC cuts 5 percent of staff
News The Framingham, Mass.-based firm says the cuts include 26 research analyst positions.
Tags: Layoffs, International Data Corp., Gartner Inc., market research company, Framingham, Massachusetts, research analyst, Worker, analyst, market research
Recession hits APAC server shipment
News Fourth-quarter Asia-Pacific server shipments dip 5.8 percent year-on-year, with emerging markets taking bigger hit, according to Gartner figures.
Tags: Servers, IT-spending, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Gartner Inc., server revenue, Server, research analyst, Korea, recession
APAC contact centers eye UC, hosted services
News Contact center applications spend in region will grow slightly in 2009, with part of expenditure going to unified communications and hosted services, finds new report.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Customer support, Services, Contact Center, Outsourcing, IP, Asia-Pacific, TCP/IP, research analyst, Frost & Sullivan
Lack of global climate deal won't crush green tech
News No matter what happens at global talks in Copenhagen next month, industry and national governments are likely to drive investment in the near term.
Tags: Green IT, Climate, Cap-and-Trade, greenhouse gas, climate change, Carbon Emission, Green IT, Copenhagen, U.S. Senate, Environment
Windows 7 to fulfill 'unsated demand' for next OS
News Lack of Vista deployments will prompt most businesses to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP, says Microsoft executive.
Tags: Windows 7, Forrester Research Inc., Ovum, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Asia-Pacific, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP
ARM to wrestle x86 as low-cost PCs thrive
News By end-2011, ARM will become a significant PC processor architecture chipping away at x86's dominance in the industry, says Gartner.
Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, Notebooks and tablets, Netbook, Notebook, Google Inc., Google Android, Intel X86, Notebook Pricing, ARM
