The world?s leading notebook PC original design manufacturers (ODM) will endure a bleak first quarter and slow first half in 2013, before ultrathin PC sales help revive the market later in the year.
Ovum?s survey revealed that 68 percent of the Internet population across 11 countries would select a ?do-not-track? (DNT) feature if it was easily available, suggesting that a data black hole could soon open up under the Internet economy.
Smartphones and media tablets continue to the prime movers of technology industries, with the two mobile platforms spurring a double-digit increase in the market for microelectromechanical system (MEMS) motion sensors this year.
Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 91.1 percent of all smartphone shipments during the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12).
Despite a 10% year-over-year increase for the full year 2012, the color laser market declined 1% in Q4 as ongoing weakness in the global economy finally caught up with this segment.
Despite lingering weakness in the global economy and continuing uncertainty in technology markets, the outsourced manufacturing industry is expected to post moderate revenue growth this year.
Enterprise app stores promise greater control over the apps used by employees, greater control over software expenditures, and greater negotiating leverage with app vendors.
The need for context awareness in mobile applications has increased with the capabilities of mobile devices, causing developers to consider both hybrid and native architectures.
