Posts Tagged ‘gartner’
E-Readers spells succes in the Holiday season of 2010
Gartner says that while the number of electronic readers sold is likely to increase in 2009, it expects 2010 to be the year when e-book readers really become popular consumer electronic devices, culminating in e-reader “mania” for the 2010 holiday season. There are a number of hurdles that need to be overcome before e-readers can [...]
Smartphone sales to outstrip notebooks
Gartner predicts that worldwide sales of smartphones will grow by 29 percent year-on-year to reach 180 million units in 2009, overtaking notebooks in total unit terms. The research firm adds that it expects smartphone sales revenue to reach US$191 million by 2012, higher than end user spending on mobile PCs, which is forecast to reach [...]
Gartner: Western Europe PC Market was Flat in Q1
PC shipments in Western Europe totalled 15.3 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 0.7 per cent increase from the same period in 2008, according to Gartner. Of the leading Western European countries, the UK was the weakest while France and Germany saw low single-digit growth. The consumer market remained buoyant driven by [...]
Gartner: Phishing Attacks on U.S. Consumers Increased 40 Percent in 2008
More than 5 million U.S. consumers lost money to phishing attacks in the 12 months ending in September 2008, a 39.8 percent increase over the number of victims a year earlier, says Gartner. The average consumer loss in 2008 per phishing incident was $351, a 60 percent decrease from the year before.
Gartner: Mobile phone sales declined 5% in Q4 08
New data from Gartner has revealed that mobile phone sales dropped almost 5 percent in the last quarter of 2008 as vendors struggled against low consumer confidence. Total worldwide sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the quarter, a 4.6 percent decline from fourth-quarter 2007, with the top five handset vendors all registering [...]
Virtualisation could create need for IT support
Virtualisation technology is set to increase by 43 per cent in 2009, which could be helped by IT support in London. Research produced by Gartner predicts the market for software using this system will increase from $1.9 billion (£1.32 billion) in 2008 to $2.7 billion in the next twelve months. Among the elements of the [...]
Server market: units up, but revenues down in Q3
The worldwide market for servers reached 2.3 million units during the third quarter of 2008, up 4.4 percent from the 2.2 million units sold in the same quarter of 2007. However, worldwide server revenue fell 5.4 percent to $12.7 billion during the quarter, thanks to constrained economies and tightened credit, said Gartner.
HCL gets good rating in latest Gartner study
HCL Technologies announced it has received a “Positive” rating in Gartner’s global ‘MarketScope for Remote Monitor Services’ (Global) and ‘MarketScope for Remote Support Services’.
Dell it's a sell
Dell reports third-quarter results after the market closes Thursday. While Hewlett-Packard had better-than-expected results, Dell could just as easily report numbers worse than analysts project, currently per-share profit of 31 cents, says Wall Street Journal. Research from Gartner, an information-technology research firm, shows that Dell is losing market share globally.
Inovation from Microsoft: Windows 7 is Vista
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer characterized Windows 7 as an improved version of Windows Vista this week, prompting the question of why consumers and businesses should adopt Microsoft’s current operating system, says PC Magazine. Speaking at a Gartner-sponsored conference in Florida, Ballmer was asked what would make consumers and businesses buy Vista. The interview, held [...]
