The new forecast reflects a shift in PC buying trends as users increasingly consider alternatives such as delaying a PC purchase or using tablets and smartphones for more of their computing needs.
The "Big Four" ITOM vendors ? IBM, CA Technologies, BMC Software, and HP ? surrendered market share in 2012, while a new generation of ITOM vendors grew significantly faster than the market.
The use of Wi-Fi functionality in small-cell base stations will be a game changer for cellphone service providers, easing heavily congested data pipes while linking together billions of devices into a single network architecture.
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.
