Smartphone Sales Boom- Who Needs A Laptop? PCWorld (blog) New research by Canalys shows that 2011 global smartphone shipments topped those of client PCs -- including desktops, laptops, netbooks, and formts -- for the first time. The development is a "significant milestone," says Canalys analyst Chris Jones.

Patent Wars & Microsoft, Buyer of iPads The Mac Observer IDC is out with a stat for Apple this week that — historically — just seems crazy. CNET has the industry tracker saying that Apple is now the third-largest cellphone maker in the world. Not smartphone maker. Cellphone maker. IDC says two factors ...

More smartphones than computers shipped in 2011, says study The Verge Research group Canalys estimates that 487.7 million smartphones were shipped in 2011, an increase of over 60 percent from 2010. Computer shipments grew too, but more slowly — around 15 percent more shipped last year. Even counting formts as personal ...

Kindle, successo mondiale Gazzetta di Parma È stato proprio l'iPad ad accendere all'improvviso concretamente anche in Italia i riflettori sul mercato degli ebook, che gli analisti di Jupiter research stimano in cinque anni arriverà a valere dieci miliardi di dollari a livello globale.

Scammers targeting online dating industry Dayton Daily News Jupiter Research projects revenues for the online dating industry will rise from $900 million in 2007 to $1.9 billion in 2012. Due to the popularity of online dating sites, scammers are targeting singles of all ages and locations by creating fake ...

Super Bowl Sunday 2012: Galaxy Note to Make a Splash But Will it be Enough? International Business Times ABI Research analyst Kevin Burden also feels 'tweener' devices haven't been too successful. "That's a stretch for me," Burden said. "We simply don't know how successful the Note will be, since our only real experience was with the Streak.

Banks Push Hadoop Envelope to Open Big Data's Secrets Banktech In a recent report on the impact of big data on analytics, "More than half of the organizations polled identified analytics as among their top five IT priorities," says Julie Lockner senior analyst and VP of data at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), ...

A Profit "Parade" That's Leaving Everyone Behind Barron's Samsung probably sold 5.8 million of its Galaxy Tab formt computers, according to research firm Canalys. Samsung, moreover, while it shipped more than any vendor outside of Apple, probably has on its hands lots of unsold inventory, says Chris Jones, ...

Iran launches new satellite using ballistic missile technology DigitalJournal.com According to the Iranian Fars News Agency, the satellite called "Navid-e Elm-o Sana'at" (Promise of Science and Industry) is designed to collect data, monitor weather conditions and natural disasters. Tehran Times reports the satellite was manufactured ...

TCS Ranked a Leader in Canadian SAP Implementation Ecosystem in an IDC ... India Education Diary IDC MarketScape reports are designed to identify factors for effectiveness and success in particular markets, both long and short term, and then evaluate vendors in the market against those factors. The key criteria for defining excellence in the study ...

Insiders in a political class of their own The Australian Six of The Weekend Australian's Top 10 political influencers are politicians. The top three are party leaders. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. Recommended Coverage Greens leader has key to PM's policies AFTER 2010, no political analyst is ...

The World Now Buys More Smartphones than Computers Gizmodo The study by Canalys has troves of data about global smartphone sales, which seem to lend credence to the theory that smartphones are becoming the main computing devices of the masses. Creation and productivity tasks aside, the vast majority of what we ...

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