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Photos: Lenovo launches netbook range
Photo With this launch, Lenovo is aiming to establish itself in the burgeoning netbook market which IDC forecasts will see shipments of netbooks reach 9.2 million by 2012. Lenovo is to enter the netbook race... [05 Aug 2008]
Apple OS gaining ground on Windows
News Just released second-quarter market share figures from Gartner show Apple shipments up 38 per cent, to 8.5 per cent of all units shipped, up from 6.4 per cent a year ago. Apple's gains on Windows are particularly painful... [17 Jul 2008]
Mobile market booming: But there's room for all
News IDC said in a recent conference, SSD shipments will hit about 28 to 32 million units in 2010 - small, compared to hard disk drive shipments which are predicted to hit 600 million units.... [06 Jun 2008]
Apple iPhone loses market share
News Both RIM and Palm grew their shipments on a quarter-by-quarter basis over roughly the same time period. According to data compiled by IDC, Apple's still the second-leading smart phone maker in the US... [03 Jun 2008]
US no longer king of the PC?
News Though it had previously projected seven per cent growth for the US market, shipments inched up just 3.5 per cent - half what IDC anticipated. This is the second quarter in which its purchase of Gateway... [17 Apr 2008]
Apple riding high on Mac sales, iPhone
News Last week IDC and Gartner had the worldwide PC market growing at around 15 per cent, while Mac shipments are growing more than twice as fast. Mac shipments were up 34 per cent compared... [23 Oct 2007]
Slower growth for server shipments: IDC
News It said: "Overall, x86 [server] shipments that were once projected to increase 61 per cent by 2010 are now facing just 39 per cent growth during that same period. In 2010, 1.7 million physical servers will be shipped to... [21 Mar 2007]
Laptops to outstrip desktops by 2011?
News As worldwide desktop shipments continue to slow, laptops are expected to represent more than half of all client PCs by 2011, according to an IDC report. Doug Bell, IDC personal computing... [21 Mar 2007]
Palm gears up to crack China
News The analyst expects smart phone shipments in the country to grow annually at a rate of 30 per cent. According to IDC stats, the converged devices market in China will encompass 12.1 million devices by 2011. [07 Mar 2007]
One billion mobiles sold in 2006
News The main reason for the increase was booming sales in the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, which have now surpassed shipments to mature markets in... [26 Jan 2007]
Rising PC sales failed to lift revenue in 2006
News The company accounted for 4.7 per cent of the US market in the fourth quarter, growing shipments by 31.8 per cent, according to IDC. In the US, PC shipments increased by only 1.2 per... [18 Jan 2007]
VoIP market growing "every quarter"
News IDC, which monitors IP telephony markets in 16 European countries, recorded a 15.7 per cent increase in shipments compared to the previous quarter. Rogier Mol, senior analyst for IDC... [14 Dec 2006]
More than a million Zunes to be sold by summer?
News IDC analyst Susan Kevorkian said the company's projections are similar to her estimates: "We think that Microsoft had relatively modest expectations in terms of unit shipments and sales going into the... [07 Dec 2006]
$12.9bn: Server market on the up
News Blade revenue shot up nearly 30 per cent in the third quarter while unit shipments of blade servers went up about 25 per cent. Unit shipments increased by 7.4 per cent, more than twice as fast as revenue. [22 Nov 2006]
Back to school rush boosts laptop sales
News Following a slower second quarter, blamed on the World Cup, EMEA PC shipments returned to healthier levels in the third quarter of this year, with year-on-year growth of 11.2 per cent, according to data from... [23 Oct 2006]
