Apple?s weaker shipment performance in the third quarter was primarily due to a shift in the company?s product release cycle. The company changed from a two-pronged launch approach in 2012 ? with tablet launches in the spring and the fall ? to a single fall release in 2013.
Vendors shipped a total of 258.4 million smartphones in 3Q13, establishing a new record for units shipped in a single quarter by more than 9.0%. The previous high was 237.0 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2013.
IT spending in the Asia Pacific region is forecast to reach $767 billion in 2014, a 5.5-percent increase from 2013, but it?s the opportunities of a digital world that have IT leaders excited.
Based on current supply data, shipments of the new iPad mini with Retina Display will fall below 4 million units and potentially amount to less than 3 million units in the fourth quarter.
Having slimmed down and gained some self-discipline, the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) business is posting its highest profits in nearly three years, allowing suppliers to thrive despite the decline of the PC business that once dominated market demand.
In a bid to cut costs while maintaining acceptable levels of customer service, airports are adopting automation for repetitive tasks involving security and access control.
IDC study showed that the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) PC market increased 2% quarter-on-quarter but declined 12% year-on-year in 2013 Q3 to reach 27.8 million units, 1% lower than IDC's initial forecasts.
Amid a slowdown in their core business of cellphone-based communications, wireless carriers are restructuring to capitalize on the booming market for machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular service.
Amid falling prices and rising consumer acceptance, LED technology is taking over the lighting business, spurring a 96% increase in packaged LED revenue in the market from 2013 through 2016.
The installed base of video-enabled devices that are connected to the Internet ? a category that includes diverse product such as tablets, smart TVs, games consoles, smartphones, connected set-top boxes, Blu-ray players, and PCs ? will expand to 8.2 billion units in 2017.
