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iPhone sees 115% market share growth as LG dwindles

, Apr 29th 2011 Discuss [4]

It's a week of bad news for ZTE: not only has Huawei sued them, but Apple has snatched back its place in the IDC global phone rankings for the past quarter. Having taken fourth place in Q4 2010, ZTE now slips to fifth; Apple takes fourth with 18.7m shipments for 5-percent of the mobile phone market, behind LG in third, Samsung in second and Nokia maintaining first place. Read The Full Story

PC Market Not Looking Pretty for Q1 2011

, Apr 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

Research firms Gartner and IDC have come out with their quarterly look at the PC market in the US and worldwide. With some exceptions, the results are not good. Only three companies, Lenovo, Apple, and to a lesser extent, Toshiba, posted gains for PC sales in Q1. The two reports differ on how large the decline in the total market is, and also on the cause. Is it tablets? Lack of innovation in PCs? Or just a lingering hangover from big Q4 spending? See all the numbers after the cut. Read The Full Story

Windows Phone number two smartphone OS by 2015 predicts IDC

, Mar 29th 2011 Discuss [6]

Android will take the top spot for smartphone OS worldwide in 2011, analysts IDC have predicted, pushing iOS into third place behind Symbian. As for Microsoft, while the Symbian-faithful aren't entirely convinced by Nokia's decision to climb aboard the Windows Phone train, IDC is more confident in the two companies' partnership. "By 2015, IDC expects Windows Phone to be number 2 operating system worldwide behind Android," senior research analyst Ramon Llamas predicts. Read The Full Story

IDC Reports processor shipments flat in Q4 2010 year-over-year

, Feb 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

When it comes to tracking the computer market IDC is one of the research firms we all look to for an idea how well things are going. IDC has issued its report for worldwide PC microprocessor shipments for Q4 2010 this week and ranked the vendors on unit and a revenue basis. Read The Full Story

Apple Now 4th Largest Global Mobile Phone Vendor

, Oct 29th 2010 Discuss [13]

During my work as a market analyst with Creative Strategies,Inc we are constantly analyzing market share of whatever companies or products we are tracking.   My colleagues over at IDC have recently released numbers showing that Apple has now entered fourth place passing R.I.M in worldwide shipments of mobile phones.   Some people may read this and think these numbers are just for SmartPhone shipments however that is not the case.  Apple is now the fourth largest mobile phone vendor globally of total units shipped.

Source:IDC

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Microsoft Plans for 30 Million Windows Phone 7 Devices to be Sold by End of 2011

, May 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

Can we say "lofty?" We've barely got developers getting their hands on Windows Phone 7 prototype devices, and here we are seeing Microsoft setting a goal for themselves that, for all intents and purposes, might seem pretty far-fetched to anyone not on the Windows Phone 7 team. Sure, there's some glaring reasons why that may not (probably won't) happen, but at least we have to give this one to Microsoft: they sure know how to dream. Read The Full Story

Nokia hold top smartphone spot; RIM, Apple, HTC & Moto snap at heels

, May 7th 2010 Discuss [1]

Having told us all about general phone sales last Friday, market researchers IDC are back with some smartphone facts and figures.  As you might expect, the top five line-up is slightly different when you slice out basic handsets and featurephones, with Sony Ericsson, LG and Samsung dropping off the list and being replaced by Apple, HTC and Motorola.  Nokia keep their number one spot, with a stable 39.3-percent of the smartphone market share, while third-place Apple look to be nibbling away at second-place RIM's share. Read The Full Story

IDC says PC Market is back to growth

, Dec 18th 2009 Discuss [0]

The poor economy over the last year has really hurt the PC market. If you listen to some of the various PC makers and some analysts, the netbook has hurt the industry along with the economy. Over the last few months, things have started looking up for the computer industry with a return to modest growth compared to previous quarters. Read The Full Story

IDC releases CPU shipment numbers for Q3 2009

, Nov 9th 2009 Discuss [0]

With the global economy starting to recover, shipments of PCs are growing as well. That means when more PC ship more components used in the machines like CPUs are sold as well. The latest numbers for CPU shipments for Q3 2009 are in from IDC. Read The Full Story

Acer passes Dell in worldwide PC shipments reports IDC

, Oct 15th 2009 Discuss [0]

Some analysts are saying that the economy is starting to show signs of recovery, which is a good thing for all of us. The latest quarterly numbers for the PC industry are in from research Firm IDC and PC shipments have reportedly risen by 2.3% and there have been some changes at the top of the PC shippers list. Read The Full Story
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