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Cool tech gets down with the kids

News Social trends and the zeitgeist are more important than how good a new technology actually is when it comes to what consumers buy, according to Gartner. At Gartner's co-located mobile & wireless and enterprise & networking conferences in London...

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

Apple's iPhone motors past Motorola and sets sights on RIM

News This view is shared by Jason Chapman, research VP at Gartner.   Photos: Apple flying high at Macworld   Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008   Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel  ...

Tags: nokia, smart phone, iphone, apple

[05 Feb 2008]

E-payments: Cheap as chips

News Andy Kyte, VP of analyst firm Gartner, said at the Gartner Symposium: "All consumers pay between three to five per cent more on goods purely to fund payment systems. The e-payment push is not only coming from the price of payment processing...

Tags: cash, singapore, contactless, gartner

[27 Nov 2007]

The cashless revolution is coming...

News That's according to Gartner analysts who predict making payments through mobile phones using virtual currencies - such as Second Life's Linden dollars - could be a reality in the not too distant future, making cash obsolete.

Tags: cash, future, gartner, digital

[09 Nov 2007]

Five virtual world security worries for business

News Discussions involving confidential and commercially sensitive information shouldn't take place inside Second Life or any other virtual world - or in an open, internet-supported social-networking site, Gartner warned.

Tags: risk, security, virtual worlds, second life

[09 Aug 2007]

China's virtual plans are out of this world

News Sandy Shen, a Gartner analyst based in Shanghai, told silicon.com: "From the business perspective, Entropia will face challenges because the content is very foreign. Second Life - the business evolution

Tags: china, entropia universe, entropia, second life

[06 Jun 2007]

CIOs 'lack vision and fail to innovate'

News Gartner has also warned that technology is being seen less and less as a force for driving business growth by CEOs because of a lack of vision by IT leaders. Steve Prentice, VP and distinguished analyst at Gartner, speaking at the analyst's annual...

Tags: gartner, pa consulting, lse, london school of economics

[26 Apr 2007]

Businesses yet to cash in on Second Life

News Four-fifths of internet users will have a 'second life' in a virtual world - though not necessarily in Second Life - by the end of 2011, Gartner forecasts. Many business leaders dismiss virtual worlds such as Second Life as a game of no benefit to...

Tags: second life

[25 Apr 2007]

India diary, day 10: Lost in Pune

Comment I'm heading back into town - on the roads that make me wish I'd rented a 4x4 - to a meeting with Gartner, to discuss the future of Indian services companies and Indian entrepreneurship. Keep up with his daily diaries here.¦ India diary, day 1...

Tags: india

[13 Mar 2007]

CIOs: 'Focus on leadership, environment and new techs'

News Gartner also suggested CIOs take time to learn about useful "trend-setting" technologies such as virtual communities like Second Life and 3D printing. IT leaders need to address issues as diverse as leadership succession, environmental impact...

Tags: it department, 2007, cio, gartner

[07 Dec 2006]

HP sets up Linux 'centre of excellence' in Blighty

News Quoting Gartner Dataquest figures for 2005, he said IBM's share of the Linux database market was now down to 17 per cent with Oracle way out in front with 81 per cent. According to HP's enterprise Linux manager, Ian Dent, the aim of the centres is...

Tags: hp, linux, ibm

[17 Feb 2006]

Kill off costly legacy systems in 2006, says <strong>Gartner</strong>

Kill off costly legacy systems in 2006, says Gartner

News John Mahoney, chief of IT management research for Gartner, said: "Each time you resuscitate, you're putting it on life support and it becomes more expensive. CIOs should stop resuscitating costly legacy systems and just let some of them die in 2006...

Tags: gartner

[09 Dec 2005]

Ballmer: 'I don't throw chairs'

News In a morning keynote at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo, Microsoft's CEO said: "I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life. Some analysts, such as Thomas Bittman at Gartner, say this is likely, although Microsoft will need to tread carefully so as...

Tags: vista, microsoft, steve ballmer, ballmer

[20 Oct 2005]

PDA sales surge by 32 per cent as prices fall

News However, Gartner said it prioritises its PDA data as a data-centric handheld computer first and a communications device second. According to a report by Gartner, worldwide shipments of personal digital assistants totalled 3.6 million units in the...

Tags: pdas

[03 Aug 2005]

EMC nicks IBM veteran as CTO

News Hiring Nick indicates that "EMC is thinking bigger than just disk array storage", Gartner analyst Roger Cox said. The storage company said in a statement that Nick "will assume a major role in the direction of EMC's technology strategy and in the...

Tags: storage, cto, ilm, emc

[06 Sep 2004]

Next SQL Server database and Visual Studio.Net delayed

News Among those three companies, which are the top three database providers, Microsoft had been gaining market share, according to market data released last year from research company Gartner Dataquest. The annuity programme, in which customers pay a...

[11 Mar 2004]

Server sales grow 10 per cent in 2003

Server sales grow 10 per cent in 2003

News Computer manufacturers saw unit sales of servers jump by just over 10 per cent worldwide during the first quarter, according to a new report from market researcher Gartner. Unit sales of the heavy-duty computers totalled 1.2 million units during...

Tags: server, gartner

[28 Apr 2003]

Palm's Tungsten darts into the marketplace - but will it fly?

Palm's Tungsten darts into the marketplace - but will it fly?

News Figures out yesterday from Gartner's Dataquest unit confirm what the industry has long known - sales of PDAs are virtually stagnant. The W has always-on GPRS connectivity, though that shouldn't stunt battery life, a previous strength of Palm devices.

[29 Oct 2002]

Palm reinvents the PDA

Palm reinvents the PDA

News According to research firm Gartner, worldwide handheld shipments declined in the second quarter by 3.5 per cent compared with the second quarter of 2001, dropping to 2.7 million units. The general consumer wants something that will help them...

[20 Sep 2002]

Have we gone MAN overboard?

Comment Listen to Gartner's chief analyst Ian Keene and you'll wonder why so many big name vendors - from HP to Mitel, from Intel to Nortel - are clambering to be part of the gigabit (let alone terabit) gig. Gartner's Keene is even more pragmatic in his...

[05 Nov 2001]

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