Mobile Phone Buyers Flock to Smartphones
Looking for another recession-proof technology to sell or integrate into customer sites? Smartphone unit sales-including units from Nokia, the Apple iPhone, the Google Android-based phone from T-Mobile and RIM's BlackBerry, among others-climbed to more than 36.4 million units worldwide, a 12.7 percent increase from the same period a year ago, according to a new report from Gartner.That compares with...
Desktop, Notebook Refresh Cycle Brewing
You may be reading all the stories about amazing new processors and high-performing, low-power PCs on the market today, but chances are you aren't reading this story on one of them. Unless you are at home.Responding to a deep economic recession, companies across the board have delayed their PC refresh cycles, and today's corporate users are likely to be...
PC Sales Expected to Rebound, Prices Won’t
The PC market is now expected to post positive unit growth in Q4 2009 in a long-awaited turnaround from what have been several quarters of decline. And that will lead to a "healthy market recovery in 2010."Market research firm Gartner is now forecasting PC unit sales for 2009 to decline by 6 percent to 274 million, a brighter forecast...
Video MSP Provides Live Feeds for 2009 NBA Draft
For basketball fans watching tonight's 2009 NBA Draft live on television to see which team gets Blake Griffin, there's no tolerance for lost video signals, dropped video or audio or anything else going wrong with the broadcast.For the fifth year in a row, video conferencing managed service provider Glowpoint service will be making sure that all the audio and...
Intel and Nokia’s Secret Mobile Device Plans
Intel and Nokia's announcement this week of a long term technology partnership around mobile devices of the future was long on vision and short on the product details that everyone wanted to hear.Intel and Nokia offered nothing in the form of product direction or timelines beyond a general statement of targeting devices that go beyond today's smartphones, netbooks and...
Users Fuzzy Over What’s a Netbook
The target market for the current generation of netbooks is largely confused about how their new devices differ in functionality from traditional laptop computers. And that makes for a large set of unsatisfied customers.That's according to a new report from NDP Group, a market research company, that further shows that many consumers who purchased a netbook - 60 percent...