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Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo According to analyst house Gartner, Android took a 3.5 per cent share of the global smartphone market in the third quarter of this year, while Windows Mobile's share declined to 7.9 per cent - a drop of... [16 Nov 2009]
The top 10 technologies you need to plan for next year
News As virtualisation advances and the choice of hardware and OS becomes less important, CIOs need to develop a five- to eight-year plan around client computing, says Gartner. According to... [22 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Apple iPhone
Cheat Sheet Apple says it sold 5.2 million iPhones in the third quarter of this year alone while the latest stats from analyst house Gartner put Apple as the third largest smartphone maker in terms of sales - with 13.3 per cent... [02 Sep 2009]
UK business PC sales drop by 25 per cent
News UK sales of professional desktop and mobile PCs fell in the second quarter by more than 25 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to analysts at Gartner. Gartner... [07 Aug 2009]
Symbian offers app developers a helping hand
News Although Symbian still has the biggest share of the OS market - 47.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to analyst house Gartner - it has not necessarily been able to interest developers... [16 Jul 2009]
What does Google's Chrome OS mean for Android?
News Annette Jump, research director at analyst house Gartner, reckons even with Chrome OS in the pipeline Android is still well suited to the smallest, cheapest netbooks: devices she describes as "seven,... [09 Jul 2009]
iPhone suffers as Android buoys Linux cause
News Gartner said the rise was mainly due to Android-based smartphones being launched through T-Mobile during Q4. According to analyst house Gartner, the iPhone saw a quarter-on-quarter sales... [13 Mar 2009]
Drunk Facebook pics, iPlayer, BT and outsourcing hotspots
News Elsewhere it seems the downturn could be good news for teleconferencing, with analyst house Gartner predicting virtual meetings will replace more than two million airline seats by 2012. The month also witnessed a clash... [05 Mar 2009]
The eight hot mobile techs to watch
News Analyst house Gartner has named the technologies it believes will play a significant role in shaping the mobile landscape over the next two years. Gartner predicts... [28 Jan 2009]
Smartphone wars: Can Windows Mobile ever be sexy?
News Gartner predicts the number of mobile OS platforms will shrink over the next few years as developers converge on their favourite ecosystems. In this increasingly cutthroat market, Nick... [16 Jan 2009]
Mac OS X overtakes Windows...
News But economic gloom is continuing to take its toll on the high end mobile market: Q3 saw the weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner began tracking smartphones. Gartner added... [04 Dec 2008]
Symbian CEO on open source, Windows Mobile and 'usability'
Comment According to analyst house Gartner, Symbian claimed well over half (57.1 per cent) of the smart phone OS market in Q2 2008, followed a distant second by BlackBerry-maker RIM (17.4 per cent), after which... [07 Oct 2008]
Google's Android phone unveiled at last
News Because it lacks corporate email, it won't likely take significant market share from either RIM, which according to Gartner sold over 55 per cent of smart phones in the second quarter of 2008, or Windows... [24 Sep 2008]
Smart phone sales suffer second-quarter slowdown
News According to analysts Gartner, a slowing economy around the world is to blame, coupled with the development of more sophisticated "enhanced phones" running Java or Qualcomm's Brew rather than true smart phone operating... [09 Sep 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Gartner said the increase in use of cloud-based office software, such as Google Apps or salesforce.com, means online security services will be necessary to protect mobile IT users accessing business data... [17 Jul 2008]
