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Hype over mobile app downloads to slow
News Global market growth will hit 153 percent between 2008 and 2011 but drop to 33 percent before 2014, with Asia accounting for 19 percent, new study finds.
Tags: Development/design, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile commerce, Apple Inc., Mobile App, Ovum, bank, mobile, Asia, Asia-Pacific
Low-cost laptops to drive PC market growth
News Despite economic sluggishness, research firm IDC sees potential growth for the low-cost portable market.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Personal Computers, Desktops, Servers, PC Company, International Data Corp., Europe, Japan, ASUS, performance
Gartner: IPTV to convert 48 million by 2010
News Analyst company expects subscribers to telly-via-broadband to more than double next year, from 6.4 million in 2006 to 13.3 million.
Tags: TVs
Credit crunch can't cramp IT's US$475B style
News European tech body expects region's IT market to grow to US$475 billion next year, nearly one-third of the global market size forecast to be US$1.5 trillion.
Tags: Virtualization, Best strategies, Business plans, Earning reports/forecasts, Euro, Turnover, IT Services, Western Europe, European Information Technology Observatory, London
Forrester: 2.2B people online globally by 2013
News In four years' time, 43 percent of Internet population will reside in Asia, according to new projections from the research group.
Tags: Web sites, Forrester Research Inc., Asia, Western Europe, Turkey, Russia, Emerging Market, Middle East, Internet, U.S.
Sony Ericsson warns of deepening losses
News The handset manufacturer expects its losses in the first quarter of this year to double those it experienced in the previous quarter.
Tags: Development/design, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, India, Gartner Inc., Touch Screen, Western Europe, handset maker, China, handset, analyst
Gartner sees slowdown in smartphone sales growth
News Amid a general fourth-quarter slowdown in sales growth, Samsung and RIM made significant gains with their latest handsets.
Tags: Smart phones, Apple Inc., Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Gartner Inc., Sales, smartphone sale, Western Europe, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., handset
Ericsson 'positive' despite profit drop
News Ericsson's third-quarter profits have fallen by 28 percent from last year, but sales and margins have both increased.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Financial statements, Earning reports/forecasts, Sales/revenue, Network infrastructure, Telecommunications, Sales, Western Europe, networking company, financial
IDC lowers IT spending forecast for 2009
News Tech spending will grow just 2.6 percent next year, compared with previous forecast of 5.9 percent.
Tags: Analyst reports, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Business, IT Budget, IT-spending, International Data Corp., Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe
Lenovo separates Think, Idea product groups
News It's part of a corporate reorganization that will draw distinction between mature and emerging markets as well.
Tags: Hardware, COO, IT-spending, Asia-Pacific, Small And Medium Business, Chinese company, Israel, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., Korea
Will Huawei finally make it big in America?
News The Chinese telecommunications equipment maker scores a big deal and is close to making a second with a couple of U.S. service providers, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Sprint Communications, Wireless, Wireless Network, Clearwire Corp., 4G, network, WiMAX, U.S., 3Com Corp.
Need for Filipino IT firms to go global
Blogs Unlike India which has launched quite a number of successful global IT firms, mostly in the BPO (business process outsou...
Mobile phone Wi-Fi usage on the rise
News People all over the world are increasingly using faster Wi-Fi hot spots to access the Internet from their mobile phones, according to a report.
Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, PDA phones, Wireless e-mail devices, 3G (Third Generation), Mobile, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Cell Phone, 3G Network, phone
Mobile payments to hit US$300B by 2013
News The annual gross transaction value of payments made via mobile phones to buy digital and physical goods is set to grow more than five-fold over the next five years, an analyst house predicts .
Tags: Mobile, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile applications, Mobile commerce, Mobile/Wireless, Next-generation technology/networks, RFID, Japan, phone, payment
Europe still shunning RFID
News While a third of companies are citing the thorny issue of ROI as a reason not to get involved, analysts are predicting RFID rollouts will continue to grow in a number of vertical markets.
