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'Little joy' in today's mobile search
News Mobile search remains in its infancy leaving most people disappointed with user interface and accurate results, notes Ovum report.
Tags: Development/design, Mobile platforms/communications, Search, Ovum, mobile, Internet search, Mobile Device, mobile search, London, senior analyst
Indian SMBs to spend US$6.4B on telecoms
News Small and midsize businesses continue investment in equipment and services, to better manage customers and rising costs, finds new study.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile applications, Network infrastructure, Communications, India, Telecommunications, Video Conferencing, Small And Medium Business, phone, 3G
Study: Indian small firms go big on first PC
News Country's smaller players set to drive shipment of 1.6 million machines, a move expected to boost PC penetration and generate opportunities for hardware and software vendors.
Tags: SMB, Personal Computers, Sales, India, Small Business, software company, software, senior analyst, Microsoft Access, business expansion
Gartner: PC sales to see worst fall in history
News Shipments of new PCs are set to fall by 11.9 percent this year in the industry's 'sharpest unit decline in history', analysts at Gartner have predicted.
Tags: Personal Computers, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC Company, Gartner Inc., Sales, Emerging Market, senior analyst, industry, Dell Computer Corp., PC
Worldwide Internet-user total passes 1B
News In December, global Internet usage reached over 1 billion unique visitors, while the Asia-Pacific region accounted for the biggest chunk of people on the Internet during the month.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Search, Internet Audience, Mobile Internet, Asia-Pacific, Japan, Latin America, Internet User, Internet usage
Analyst: Comms vendors leading mobile UC
News Communications vendors are currently leading the way in supporting the ecosystem required to deliver their mobile unified communications offerings.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Corporate culture, Vendor, Ovum, Mobile, Research In Motion Ltd., Cisco Systems Inc., PBX, Frost & Sullivan, senior analyst
Comfort, trust give Office edge over Google
News Microsoft will only offer hosted productivity suite next year, but Office has user familiarity, trust and resources that Google may not match, say analysts.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Social Networking, Google Inc., Social Networking Feature, Security, Microsoft Corp., Web Application, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
HP-3Com merger heats up Cisco competition
News update Hewlett-Packard's 3Com acquisition will give serious boost to its datacenter credentials and challenge networking rival Cisco Systems, notes analyst.
Tags: Data centers, Data Management, Networking technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., enterprise networking, HP ProCurve, Retek Inc., Ovum, network, Cisco Systems Inc.
Developed SMBs to increase IT services spend
News IT services expenditure among small and midsize firms in Australia, Korea and Japan will grow 10 percent from 2009 to 2013, says AMI.
Tags: Business, Services, Business, Information Technology, IT Services, Services, Small And Medium Business, Australia, Japan, Korea
'Pragmatic' Intel seen in AMD deal
News Intel's settlement with AMD avoids costly and lengthy legal battles and signals Intel looking to reduce reliance on PC and server markets, says analyst.
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, Processors, Antitrust, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., U.S., Manufacturing, Chip Company, server processor, Settlement
AMD delivers its own server platform
News Low-power platform, formerly codenamed Fiorano, offers server builders combination of six-core Opteron with choice of three chipsets from AMD.
Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PCI Express, Server, AMD Opteron, performance, processor, product marketing, data center, chipset
World's outsourcing revenue worth $373B
News Global market will grow 14.4 percent by year-end, led by top performers India, China and the Philippines, which will account for 77.6 percent of total revenue.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Outsourcing, IT Services, India, Philippines, research company, recession, financial, China
Booming gray market threatens cell phone industry
News Apple iPhone's official carrier in China is enduring meager sales, just one result of the expansion of global market for copycat handsets.
Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., MediaTek, Phone, cell phone, handset, China Unicom, Sales, handset company, China
S'pore spam rate crosses global average
News Country's spam levels surpassed the global rate of 89.4 percent in July, after dipping below earlier in April, according to MessageLabs' latest security report.
Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Spam, Singapore, social networking, spam message, Symantec Corp., Germany, Web Address
Linux-Windows gap to remain for five years
News Don't expect mainstream adoption for Linux five years down the road, even if Linux operating systems become more user-friendly, say analysts.
Tags: Linux desktop OS, Open source, Open Source, Ovum, Operating System, GUI, Microsoft Corp., Linux Desktop Experience, Sales, Microsoft Windows
