Worldwide tablet shipments continue to surge, growing 142.4% year over year in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to preliminary data from IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Tablet shipments totaled 49.2 million units in 1Q13, surpassing that of the…
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Video killed the radio star. And Windows 8 was perhaps the final nail in the coffin. PC shipments continue to decline, finds IDC, with users not (or not yet, at any rate) willing to shell out the big bucks for…
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Worldwide shipments of smart connected devices grew 29.1% year over year in 2012, crossing 1 billion units shipped with a value of $576.9 billion, says IDC. The market expansion was largely driven by 78.4% year-over-year growth in tablet shipments, which…
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Growth has been slow in worldwide PC markets. There has been slower than expected growth in China during the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13). Although the slowdown is partially due to the timing of Chinese New Year; new budget cuts…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Despite intense industry efforts to overcome market inertia, 2012 nonetheless ended on a sour note with global PC shipment volume shrinking 3.7% on the year, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. With limited initial traction from Windows…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 91.1% of all smartphone shipments during the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12), according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Android…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Worldwide tablet shipments outpaced predictions reaching a record total of 52.5 million units worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12), according to data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. The tablet market grew 75.3% year over year…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The worldwide mobile phone market grew 1.9% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12), as strong holiday smartphone sales raised shipments of these devices to levels nearly equal to those of feature phones. According to…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Worldwide PC shipments totaled 89.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12), down 6.4% compared to the same quarter in 2011 and worse than the forecasted decline of 4.4%, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker.…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, both factory revenue and unit shipments in the security appliance market grew in the third quarter of 2012 (3Q12) compared to the previous year. Worldwide factory revenue was up 5.7%…
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