China’s ZTE Corp. has replaced BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) among the world’s top five mobile phone sellers. According to a report released Friday by tech research company IDC, the low-priced cellphone maker ZTE also pushed Apple to the last spot on the Top-5 list on the back its surging sales. The report “Worldwide [...]
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BlackBerry knocked out of Top-5 sellers by China’ ZTE
January 29th, 2011 |
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Motorola, HTC, RIM Missing from Smartphone Top 5: IDC
January 28th, 2011 |
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Nokia, Samsung, LG, ZTE and Apple earned places in IDCs 2010 list of top-five phone vendors. Notably absent were Motorola, BlackBerry-maker RIM and HTC. – Nokia, Samsung, LG Electronics, ZTE and Apple all earned the
distinction of being the top five smartphone vendors during the fourth
quarter
of 2010 and the year on whole, IDC reported Jan. 27. Notably absent
from the
list were Motorola, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion and HTC, each
of whic…
Google Chasing Apple in Smartphone, Tablet Popularity
January 26th, 2011 |
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IDC and Appcelerator said Android smartphones and tablet computers are gaining in popularity on Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The survey sets up some interesting competition in 2011. – Google has nearly caught up
to Apple in smartphone popularity and is closing the gap in tablets, according
to 2,200 developers polled by Appcelerator and IDC earlier this month.
The joint survey showed
87 percent of respondents are quot;very interested quot; in writing
applications for Android…
Xyratex Is World’s No. 1 Storage OEM Supplier: IDC
December 21st, 2010 |
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Never heard of Xyratex? This is not surprising, because the Havant, England-based company does not market a branded product. – IT researcher IDC announced Dec. 21 that it has crowned UK-based Xyratex as the world’s champion supplier of disk storage systems to original equipment manufacturers.
The statistics that support this announcement, however, are somewhat dated; the IDC supplier ranking is based on 2009 revenue. It …
Multifunction Printers See Q3 Growth Boost: IDC Report
December 6th, 2010 |
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Inkjet devices continue to lead in the overall hard copy peripherals market with close to 20 million units shipped. – The worldwide hard copy peripherals market returned to pre-crisis shipment
levels with nearly 31 million units shipped in the third quarter of 2010.
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly
Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, this is the second consecutive quarter of
double-digit year-over-year growth…
Storage Sector Continues Strong Growth: IDC
December 3rd, 2010 |
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Global sales of disk-based storage arrays posted another double-digit gain in Q3 2010 following a 21 percent rise in Q2. – The good financial news continues for the solid-as-a-rock data storage
industry.
Global sales of disk-based storage arrays, which had grown only slightly during
2008 and 2009, posted another double-digit gain in the third quarter of 2010
following a 21 percent rise in the second quarter, indus…
HP, IBM Lead Strong Q3 Server Market, IDC Says
December 1st, 2010 |
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The worldwide server market saw some of the fastest growth in 10 years during the third quarter, IDC said. HP and IBM were the top vendors during the quarter. – The worldwide server market saw revenues grow 13.2 and shipments jump 13.1 percent in the third quarter as demand for systems continued to increase worldwide, according to market research firm IDC.
Hewlett-Packard took over the lead in the server revenue space as businesses push for x86-based syste…
Apple, HTC, Samsung Smartphones See Strong Q3 Growth: IDC
November 5th, 2010 |
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Apple, HTC, RIM and Nokia posted strong smartphone growth during the third quarter, said IDC. But Samsung was the star with its Galaxy S, posting 454 percent growth. – Samsung, HTC and Apple posted double- and triple-figure growth
during a third quarter that “reached a new milestone,” IDC reported
Nov. 4.
“Smartphone makers have the wind behind their sails,” IDC analyst
Kevin Restivo said in the new report, which showed shipments to have
totaled 81.1 million…
Android, Windows Phone Will Lead Smartphone Market Surge: IDC
September 8th, 2010 |
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Google Android and Windows Mobile will see their smartphone market share increase by 2014, while BlackBerry and Apple will experience declines, according to a new research note from IDC. – Google Android and Windows Phone will see their market share
increase over the next few years, according to a new research note from IDC,
while other smartphone platforms such as Apples iOS and BlackBerry OS face
declines.
Meanwhile, the research firm added, the overall market for
smartphones i…
IDC Sees PC Sales Slowing in Second Half of 2010
September 3rd, 2010 |
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IDC analysts say consumer purchases of PCs will slow in the second half of the year, but strong commercial sales will offset some of the weakness. – IDC analysts are predicting what others
have also: Consumer sales of PCs will slow in the second half of 2010 after a
strong first two quarters.
However, IDC pointed out in
a report Sept. 2 that the softening in the PC market in the second half was not
unexpected, and that worldwide a large num…
IDC Reports More Double-Digit Growth in Disk Storage Market
September 3rd, 2010 |
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The total disk storage systems market grew to $6.8 billion in revenues, representing 20.7 percent growth from 2009′s second quarter. – Worldwide sales of disk-based storage arrays, which leveled off only briefly
during the last two years of a difficult macroeconomy, climbed a healthy 21
percent in the second quarter of 2010 over the same period a year ago, industry
researcher IDC reported Sept. 3.
For the quarter, the total d…
IDC Reports More Double-Digit Growth in Disk Storage Market
September 3rd, 2010 |
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The total disk storage systems market grew to $6.8 billion in revenues, representing 20.7 percent growth from 2009′s second quarter. – Worldwide sales of disk-based storage arrays, which leveled off only briefly
during the last two years of a difficult macroeconomy, climbed a healthy 21
percent in the second quarter of 2010 over the same period a year ago, industry
researcher IDC reported Sept. 3.
For the quarter, the total d…
Virtualization, Cloud Computing Drive Ethernet Networking Space: IDC
August 24th, 2010 |
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Revenues in the Ethernet switching space jumped 32.7 percent in the second quarter, thanks to the growing adoption of such technologies as virtualization, cloud and VOIP, IDC said. – Virtualization, cloud computing and VOIP continue to drive the adoption of Ethernet networking, according to market research firm IDC.
In its Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker report released Aug. 23, IDC analysts found that second-quarter revenue in the Ethernet switching space had g…
Intel, AMD Lead a Rejuvenated Chip Market: IDC
August 19th, 2010 |
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Worldwide PC microprocessor units and revenue showed uncharacteristic growth during the second quarter of 2010, according to IDC. Mobile units rose while desktops fell, and Intel dominated all categories. – Worldwide PC microprocessor unit shipments and revenues increased notably
during the second quarter of 2010, IDC
reported Aug. 19.
While unit-shipment change between first and second quarters generally
averages 1.6 percent, and revenue change averages a decrease of -2.8 percent,
the 2010 sec…
Android Smartphones Pressured Nokia, RIM in Q2, IDC Says
August 6th, 2010 |
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Nokia and BlackBerry-maker RIM continued to lead the smartphone market in the second quarter, but it was Android-running phones from HTC, Samsung and others that aggressively drove up sales figures, IDC reports. – IDC has seconded recent
second-quarter smartphone sales estimates that device shipment numbers have
been soaring upward, with particular momentum coming from handsets running
Google’s Android mobile operating system.
The overall smartphone market grew 50 percent year over year, IDC
reported Aug…
IDC Ranks IBM Tops in Middleware
July 16th, 2010 |
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IBM announces that industry analyst firm IDC has ranked the systems giant as the worldwide leader in the middleware software market, beating out its closest competitor, Oracle. – IBM has announced that industry
analyst firm IDC has ranked the systems giant
as the worldwide leader in the middleware software market.
According to IDC, in 2009 IBM was the leading worldwide
application deployment software vendor with 31.9 percent of the market based on
revenue. That was ne…
Semiconductor Market to Normalize, IDC Says
July 7th, 2010 |
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The semiconductor market, which saw a steep drop in revenues for most of 2009 and then a sharp upswing in late 2009 and early 2010, is beginning to stabilize, according to IDC. – The marked fluctuation in the semiconductor market that started as the
worldwide recession hit the industry in late 2008 and into 2009 will begin to
normalize as the year moves on, according to market research firm IDC.
In a report July 6, IDC
analysts said the semiconductor market saw revenues …
PC Accessories Purchases Booming, IDC Says
June 30th, 2010 |
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Despite recent dips in the average selling prices of PCs, in a new report, IDC highlights a money-attracting market: PC accessories. In 2009, the researcher found, U.S. consumers spent $1.05 on PC accessories for every $1 they spent on PCs. – While PC prices dipped in 2009,
the little-noted PC accessories market took on steam and still
continues to grow. In report released June 29, research firm IDC found
that U.S. consumers spend more money on their PC accessories than they
do on the systems themselves.
In 2009, consumers in the …
Storage Software Had a Rebound Quarter, IDC Reports
June 7th, 2010 |
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IDC says the worldwide storage software market experienced solid growth in the first quarter, with revenues of $3 billion and 7.2 percent growth over the same quarter a year ago. – Following last week’s upbeat
market report on storage hardware sales, IDC
came out June 7 with a similarly positive report on storage software.
In its Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, the research company said
the worldwide storage software market experienced solid growth in the …
HP Overtakes IBM in Server Revenues, Gartner and IDC Say
May 27th, 2010 |
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HP overtook IBM in worldwide server revenues in the first quarter on the strength of its ProLiant sales and IBM customers waiting for refreshes of that vendors Power and mainframe offerings, according to Gartner and IDC. Overall, the global server market grew in both revenues and shipments, the analyst firms said. – Hewlett-Packard grabbed the worldwide market share lead from IBM
in the first quarter as sales globally continue to rebound, according to market
research firms IDC and Gartner.
Both firms said HP saw server revenues jump while IBM
figures slid in the quarter.
HP and IBM were both helped
by inc…