Research Reports

The rest is spent on communication such as sending emails and visiting social media sites; production activities, such as editing videos and writing blogs; and finding information, including checking the news and weather and researching products and services.

While Apple did not address the low end of the market with its announcement, the iPhone 5c represents a major departure from its previous product strategy, which could improve the company's competitiveness.

The worldwide smart connected device market, comprised of PCs, tablets, and smartphones, is forecast to grow 27.8% year-over-year in 2013, while the PC outlook has been lowered by 10% in 2013.

In another troubling sign for the notebook market, eight of the nine leading mobile PC brands reduced their LCD panel purchases in July.

Worldwide PC shipments are now expected to fall by -9.7% in 2013, further deepening what is already the longest market contraction on record.

Following Samsung?s introduction of the first flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) products this year, demand for these elastic displays is expected to grow by more than a factor of four next year, with sales reaching nearly $100 million in 2014.

This was the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue decline, as server market demand continued to soften in most geographic regions.

The enterprise segment continued to grow at a very healthy rate and increased 14.8% over the same period last year.

A glut of large-sized liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels used in the television and information technology (IT) sectors arose at the end of the first half this year as production consistently outpaced shipments.

IDC has defined a new competitive security market segment dubbed Specialized Threat Analysis and Protection (STAP).