Driven by falling prices and a major initiative from Intel, shipments of touch-enabled mobile PCs are expected to enjoy rapid growth in 2013 and the coming years, rising to about 25% of all notebooks by 2016.
2013 will mark the first year that smartphone shipments surpass those of feature phones, with smartphones expected to account for 52.2% of all mobile phone shipments worldwide.
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.
