If you're Apple, you're either celebrating or accepting that you're part of the trend. Gartner and IDC have released sales figures showing Apple's US PC shipments is both up and down respectively. More...
The research firm Gartner agress with IDC that PC shipments fell in the first quarter of 2013 but Gartner's report is not trying to blame Microsoft's Windows 8 launch as the main reason, as IDC is. More...
According to Gartner, the research firm we all love so much, Microsoft could be irrelevant in as little as four years if they fail to capture key tablet and phone markets during a "disruptive shift" More...
Gartner claims that worldwide Windows Phone sales increased by 124.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the same period a year ago and that its market share went up to 3.0 percent. More...
Gartner reports that worldwide PC sales were down for the fourth quarter of 2012, and claims part of the reason is that people are turning to tablets for secondary devices. More...
A new report from Gartner states that Microsoft's share of the mobile OS market increased in the third quarter compared to a year ago but it is still well behind Android, iOS and Blackberry. More...
Analyst firm Gartner predicts the market for "smart devices" will grow considerably in the next year totaling 1.2 billion devices being sold. That's up 50% from 2012's 821 million smart devices. More...
A new report from Gartner claims that Lenovo has now surpassed HP and has now become the world's biggest PC hardware company, while HP is still number one in the US. More...
The research firm Gartner is the latest to show slow but steady growth for Microsoft's mobile OS plans, showing a 2.7 percent market share in the second quarter of 2012, up from 1.6 percent a year ago More...
Gartner claims that worldwide, overall sales of mobile phones went down two percent in the first quarter of 2012. It's the first time since 2009 that the industry has seen a decrease in sales. More...
A new research report from Gartner predicts that when tablets that use Microsoft's Windows 8 are released, they will appeal more to IT professionals than consumers. More...
The research firm Gartner has predicted in a new paper that online personal cloud services will replace the PC as the center of a user's digital life by the year 2014. More...
A new report from Gartner claims that PC sales will grow by just 4.4 percent in 2012 ahead of the launch of Windows 8 but will grow more quickly by the end of 2013. More...
The latest market share reports from Gartner are in and it unfortunately reveals that Samsung's seldom-referenced Bada OS actually beat Windows Phone in Q4 2011 sales by a slim margin More...
Android's explosive growth continues, as it rises to 52% of the worldwide smartphone market. While the market as a whole continues to grow, its rivals nonetheless see their market share in decline. More...
Two separate research firms have announced that China-based Lenovo has jumped over Dell to become the world's number two largest PC maker. HP remains in the number one spot. More...
Tech analyst firm Gartner has cut its forecast for worldwide PC shipments in 2011 due to worsening economic situations in the US and in Western Europe along with the rise in mobile tech devices. More...
A new study from Gartner claims that by the end of the year, Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system will be installed on 42 percent of all PCs worldwide. More...
Two separate companies announced this week that PC shipments went up slightly in the second quarter of 2011. However the rise in sales were still smaller than expected. The Gartner firm announced that PC shipments... More...
Gartner published its market share reports on Tuesday for worldwide mobile phone sales in 2009. According to the figures, BlackBerry, iPhone and Android devices have all increased their market share whilst Windows Mobile and Symbian... More...
Research firm Gartner have published their predictions for PC sales for 2009, predicting that worldwide sales will fall by 6% from 2008 levels. The sales of netbooks, however, are set to rise. Gartner forecast that... More...
Blogging will peak in 2007, Gartner predicts, levelling off when the number of writers who maintain a personal website reaches 100 million.Gartner analysts expect that the novelty value of the medium will wear off as... More...
Apple has emerged as the fourth-biggest PC manufacturer in the US, while HP has snatched he top position in global PC shipments from Dell. That's the finding market researchers Gartner and IDC reported separately... More...
Research group Gartner has said that Mac OS X users are now safer from a mass attack -- such as Blaster on Windows -- than they were two years ago, partly because Microsoft has closed... More...
AMD's high profile suit against Intel alleging anticompetitive practices has been dismissed as "part of a media campaign" attacking the world's largest chip manufacturer, and should not affect corporate buying decisions. "The AMD filing, which... More...
As popular as the iPod is, it's also a security problem. The latest generation iPod can store up to 40Gb. What makes a 40Gb iPod a security risk? You can use that... More...
THE GROWTH OF PCs will slow over the next two years because of a lack of a 'killer app'. According to analysts Gartner although PC sales are booming at the moment as company's replace ancient... More...
Microsoft needs to be more forthcoming with information on software releases so that businesses can plan IT strategies, according to analyst firm Gartner. The software giant is looking at delivering an interim release of XP,... More...
The latest flaw with a major Microsoft product shows Redmond is unlikely to have anything that approximates to secure software until 2004 at the earliest. That's the damning assessment of analysts Gartner in response to... More...
Market researcher Gartner Dataquest said on Thursday the global market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips was likely to shrink an additional 19 percent in 2002 after a massive 67 percent contraction this year.... More...