[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Demand for “cloud-ready” IT workers will grow by 26 percent annually through 2015, with as many as 7 million cloud-related jobs available worldwide, according to an IDC white paper sponsored by Microsoft. However, IT hiring managers report that…
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Worldwide Videoconferencing And Telepresence Market Disappoints
November 29, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Results from the IDC Worldwide Enterprise Videoconferencing and Telepresence Qview showed continued challenging market conditions in the third quarter of 2012 (3Q12), with videoconferencing revenue declining 4.8% year over year even though it increased 7.1% quarter over quarter. The enterprise…
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Worldwide Purchase Volume Over Mobile Devices To Exceed $1 Trillion
November 15, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] According to research from IDC Financial Insight, by 2017, worldwide purchase volume over mobile devices will exceed $1 trillion. Most of this volume will be in the form of mobile commerce, which includes digital media consumed on the…
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Worldwide Hardcopy Peripheral Shipments Decline
November 14, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The brightest spot in the overall worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market during the third quarter of 2012 (3Q12) was wireless devices, with its showing of 2% year-over-year growth in a challenging economic environment. According to the IDC, total…
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Public IT Cloud Services Revenue Projected To Reach $43.2B
November 11, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] U.S. public IT cloud services revenue will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.5% over the forecast period, from $18.5 billion in 2011 to $43.2 billion in 2016, says IDC. “According to our research, the three…
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Three Out Of Four Smartphones Shipped Worldwide Run Android
November 1, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The Android smartphone operating system was found on three out of every four smartphones shipped during the third quarter of 2012 (3Q12). According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, total Android smartphone shipments worldwide reached 136.0…
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Lenovo Nearly Catches HP As PC Market Leader
October 11, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The worldwide PC market contracted sharply in the third quarter of 2012 (3Q12), with shipments declining 8.6% from the third quarter of 2011, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. The results are below IDC’s August forecast of a…
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Smart Connected Device Shipments To Grow
September 30, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The worldwide market for smart connected devices—a combination of PCs, smartphones, and tablets—reached 267.3 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12), a 27.4% increase year over year and a 2.8% quarter-over-quarter improvement, according to research…
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Worldwide IT Spending To Grow 6% In 2012
September 10, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Worldwide IT spending remains on course to grow 6% this year in constant currency, only slightly down on last year’s pace of 7% growth, in spite of continuing macroeconomic uncertainty, says IDC. According to IDC, strong performance in…
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Worldwide WLAN Market Growth Continues
September 9, 2012
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments experienced year-over-year growth of 12.7% in the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12). According to the 2Q12 results published in the IDC Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker,…
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