Japan continues to be a bright spot in the worldwide large format printer (LFP) market posting positive year-over-year results in both units shipped (1.2%) and shipment value (1.7%) in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13).
Regional CIOs are increasing their spending on public cloud services and technologies in 2013 by 50 percent to $7.5B; and being much more specific about which types of cloud models they will use and the workloads that they will run on the cloud.
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled nearly 426 million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0.7% from the same period last year.
On the outside, the US and South Korean versions of Samsung?s Galaxy S4 smartphone look alike. But on the inside, there are major differences in key components ? including the apps processor, the wireless subsystem and the user interface.
Global shipments of solid state drives (SSD) in PCs are set to rise by a factor of seven by 2017, allowing them to claim more than one-third of the market for PC storage solutions by that time.
What would happen if half of all global production for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), two-thirds of NAND flash manufacturing and 70 percent of the world?s tablet display supply suddenly disappeared from the market?
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-over-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time.
The gaming-optimized handheld (GOH) category, typified by Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's PlayStation Vita, has recently been overshadowed by gaming-capable smartphones and tablets and this trend is likely to continue.
