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One major factor that’s driven the explosive growth of the global smartphone market is its short, roughly two-year upgrade cycle. But now…
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One major factor that’s driven the explosive growth of the global smartphone market is its short, roughly two-year upgrade cycle. But now…
Lawyers say never to sign (or click on) anything without reading it first, but that rule typically goes out the window when…
CIOs and CMOs say all the right stuff about working together, but when the rubber meets the road, little has changed.
Microsoft Azure is having troubles again, the company acknowledged Tuesday night. According to a status update, Azure’s Traffic Manager was experiencing “a multi-region partial performance degradation.”
When it comes to infighting and backbiting, there’s no place like the executive suite. It sort of makes you wonder why anyone wants to be there.
Gartner’s closely watched Magic Quadrant for cloud Infrastructure as a Service shows AWS in its usual top slot, but Microsoft makes a strong showing.
As billions more devices get connected to the internet, there will be a huge infrastructure transformation on the backend. Cloud computing will play a major role in how the world takes advantage of that device-driven data explosion.
All those acquisitions paid off! Oracle is now the second largest software company in terms of revenue, according to new Gartner numbers.
Android continues to muscle its way into the overall computing device market, illustrating the continued shift from desktops to mobile. By next year, for every 1 Windows computer sold, expect 3.6 Android devices to be purchased.
Connecting billions of devices to the internet and then building services around the data those devices collect will require a shift in the way we think about data centers. You’re going to have to accept the cloud.
The online ad industry is still bedeviled by botnets. And since no one is cleaning up the problem, advertisers are likely to respond by moving their ads to Facebook and Google, where they can be sure a real person will see them.
Believe it or not there are IaaS options beyond the AWS, Rackspace, Microsoft, HP world. Here are some smaller, more focused, and perhaps better choices depending on what you need to do.
Gartner says a shift to lower-cost devices across segments and continued demand for tablets shaped the device market landscape this year.
Using big data analytics in your business can save tens of millions of dollars — or open up new opportunities. But it’s early days, so here are suggestions that will help you avoid the “trough of disillusionment.”
So what else is new? Dueling server numbers from IDC and Gartner don’t give the big server makers a lot to cheer about.
Don’t be fooled — the laser and inkjet printer giants may not be doing much publicly with 3D printing, but their eyes are firmly on the prize.
According to data from Gartner, smartphone sales last quarter beat out feature phones for the first time ever, largely thanks to Samsung.
Hewlett-Packard’s cloud efforts can get lost in the noise of the company’s bigger “macro” issues, but as the company adds its OpenStack compute cloud to the mix — joining the existing CDN and storage clouds — the battle for enterprise cloud users is on.
Here’s our daily pick of stories about Apple from around the web that you shouldn’t miss. Today’s installment: Apple-Samsung judge wants CEOs to try to settle, the truth behind smartphone market-share numbers, Office won’t be Retina-ready any time soon, and a refresher on Apple’s patent strategy.
Techies know how important information technology is to a company’s success. Now new research by Gartner and Forbes seems to indicate that corporate boards have gotten that message as well, with board members ranking IT improvement as highly as boosting sales.
The launch of Google and Microsoft public clouds is looking well timed, as the corporate demand for public cloud services is about to go through a steep growth curve, research group, Gartner forecasts. Like Amazon, Both companies have been lustfully eyeing corporate customers.
Analyst powerhouses IDC and Gartner both rolled out their latest cloud computing and big data predictions and statistics Thursday morning, and while some are bold, others should have you saying “Duh.” Here’s what they have to say, and how that squares with what I’m seeing.
Android may have some shortcomings, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made enormous advances with manufacturers in terms of getting its OS on thei…
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is losing its market share in phones at an alarming rate right now. But despite all the profit warnings, drastic strategic…
The counterpoint to last week’s data from Gartner that spelled out near and long-term victory for Android: in tablets, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) ru…
All this news about Nokia’s next big move and losing mindshare / market share, and it’s easy to forget that the Finns (yes, they are still b…
People love to talk about the rise of the mobile web, but today, apps are where it’s at when it comes to mobile content, and they are very m…
The Gartner Magic Quadrant has been called out for some serious wrongdoings, but by not including Amazon Web Services among the leaders in its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting, Gartner just flat got it wrong.
Mobile voice and data revenues will create a trillion-dollar global market by 2014, as complementary products such as advertising, applications and web services are built, says research firm Gartner. Broadband has enabled mobility to this point, but location is the next big driver.
Both Gartner and IDC report the Mac is now accounting for a tenth of the PC market in the U.S., but these preliminary numbers will likely climb higher still when Apple reports actual Mac sales during its quarterly conference call next week.
We came back from the holiday weekend to a lot of predictions about the future of infrastructure and cloud opportunities, including a prediction on data warehousing being the next hot trend in storage, the latest version of Gartner’s cloud hype cycle and how Hurd-gate will impact Oracle.
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For Q3 2009, Apple’s (s aapl) iPhone accounted for 17.1 percent of worldwide smartphone marketshare, a new high for the company. That’s…
Social networking has generally been discouraged in the workplace, with many corporate IT departments blocking access to sites like Facebook and MySpace…
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Gartner reports that while mobile phone sales are down in the second quarter of 2009, smartphone sales are up, and the iPhone…
While second-quarter mobile phone sales fell 6 percent from the same period last year, sales of smartphones surged 27 percent, according to…
Gartner said today it expects chip sales to drop by 24 percent in 2009 — an unwelcome revision to its previous forecast…
This morning, research firm Gartner said the semiconductor industry would decline by 16.3 percent in 2009 to a $219.2 billion industry. This…
This year, worldwide sales of mobile phones will reach 1.28 billion units in 2008, a 11 percent increase compared to the 1.15 billion units…
Despite the iPhone’s blockbuster start this weekend, Gartner said today it was lowering it’s forecast for how many cellphones will sell this…
The next generation of mobile web applications will be driven by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), according to Nick Jones, vi…
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2.3 trillion SMS will be sent in major markets worldwide in 2008, Gartner predicts. That’s up nearly 20 percent from 2007, while messaging r…