The latest figures from IDC show that growth in Windows Phone helped Microsoft's mobile OS to jump to third place in global smartphone shipments, as BlackBerry market share fell from 6.4% to 2.9%. More...
IDC tablet analyst Tom Mainelli has some harsh words to say about the Surface Pro, stating that "it's just not there yet" in terms of execution, and that Microsoft should only have one tablet OS More...
According to IDC, Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface devices in Q1 2013. The majority of those devices are Surface Pros, with the Surface RT accounting for just 0.4% of all tablets sold. More...
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...
A new report from IDC claims that PC shipments for the first quarter of 2013 went down 13.9 percent compared to the same period a year ago and claims Windows 8 "appears to have slowed the market." More...
A new study commissioned by Microsoft claims that the majority of employees who use a PC at work admit to installing personal software on those PCs and that most encounter issues with that software. More...
The research firm IDC has predicted worldwide PC shipments will decline in 2013 after it recorded lower shipment numbers for 2012 and puts part of the blame on initial "underwhelming" Windows 8 sales. More...
The research firm IDC says that sales of smartphones with Microsoft's operating systems went up 150 percent worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2012, but still could not catch BlackBerry sales. More...
Two reports claim that Microsoft had small shipment numbers for the Surface RT tablet in the last quarter and iSuppli claimed actual sales were as low as 680,000 units for the quarter. More...
A new report from IDC claims that worldwide shipments of the Playstation 3 have now reached 77 million, just beating the Xbox 360 which the firm claims has 76 million units shipped. More...
The research firm IDC said this week that worldwide PC shipments were down 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, lower than what IDC previously predicted despite the launch of Windows 8. More...
Microsoft has released the results of a study it commissions from IDC which claims there are currently 1.7 million open cloud-related IT jobs worldwide, and that will increase to seven million in 2015 More...
A new report from research firm IDC predicts that Microsoft's Windows Phone OS will take 11.6 percent of the total worldwide smartphone market share by the year 2016. More...
IDC reports that in the third quarter of 2012, shipments of Android smartphones totaled 136 million units, or 75 percent of all the smartphones shipped worldwide. More...
The research firm IDC reports that worldwide shipments of PCs will be up by just 0.9 percent in 2012, in part due to people waiting for the launch of Windows 8 before buying a new PC. More...
Windows Phone device shipments more than doubled in Q2 2012 and Microsoft's mobile operating system is closing in on becoming the number three mobile OS, according to new figures from a research firm. More...
The IDC has put out their Q2 report that highlights that Samsung is surging in the smartphone market and Apple is still making considerable gains but Nokia and HTC are still having a hard time. More...
Microsoft has announced that, according to a new report from IDC, businesses that still use Windows XP on their PCs are "wasting budget dollars" and should upgrade to Windows 7. More...
A new report from IDC says that PC shipments actually went up in the first quarter of 2012, beating expectations of a slight decline in shipments for that same time period. More...
Research group IDC said this week it expects the launch of Windows 8 to help boost overall PC shipments in the second half of 2012. It also says tablets won't be a replacement for the PC. More...
In a new editorial and infographic, Microsoft tries to make the case that the cloud computing industry will generate nearly 14 million new jobs worldwide by the year 2015. More...
While the current PC hard drive shortage will start to get better early in 2012, an analyst at IDC says that the supply of hard drives won't fully recover to pre-Thailand flood levels until 2013. More...
A new prediction from the research group IDC predicts that Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system "will be largely irrelevant to the users of traditional PCs" More...
The US version of the well known gaming print magazine GamePro has been shut down by its parent company IDC after 22 years. The GamePro.com web site will also shut down on December 5. More...
China has surpassed the US as the world's largest market for PC sales, at least for the second quarter of 2011. 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...