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  For first time, smartphone sales top other mobile phones in first quarter

  Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered sales of other types of mobile phones.

  By Matt Hamblen | 26 April, 2013 13:57

  Tags: Mobile/Wireless, IT industry, Networking, wireless, ZTE, mobile, Blackberry, Apple, consumer electronics, htc, IDC, smartphones, Nokia, Lenovo

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  Red Hat drops JBoss, goes with WildFly for Java middleware

  If you've ever thought that Java-related open-source middleware just wasn't exciting enough for you, good news -- Red Hat announced today that it would be jazzing up its JBoss application server software, rebranding the project as WildFly and focusing on obtaining Java Enterprise Edition 7 certification.

  By Jon Gold | 22 April, 2013 22:16

  Tags: IDC, wildfly, java, jboss, software, Red Hat

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  Big data projects a focus for Australian mid-market: IDC

  Big data is not only widely used by large enterprises in Australia as the mid-market is also taking advantage of it to make decisions faster, according to new research from IDC Australia.

  By Hamish Barwick | 18 April, 2013 11:17

  Tags: IDC, Shayum Rahim, IDC Australia, big data analytics, big data

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  Microsoft's Azure advances may not be enough to catch Amazon Web Services

  Microsoft is adding to its Azure cloud service offerings and lowering prices in order to attract customers who may already have chosen another service provider, experts say, but it might not be enough.

  By Tim Greene | 16 April, 2013 22:56

  Tags: Microsoft Azure AWS, Amazon Web Services, Windows, operating systems, cloud computing, internet, Microsoft Azure AWS price cuts, Gartner, Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services, IDC, Google, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure vs Amazon Web Services, Cloud, software

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  Don't blame Windows 8 for PC slowdown; Apple hit, too

  Don't blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales, a retail analyst at NPD Group said today.

  By Gregg Keizer | 15 April, 2013 20:13

  Tags: desktop pcs, Gartner, NPD Group, hardware systems, IDC, software, Macintosh, Windows, operating systems, Microsoft, PCs

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  Windows 8 update: Gartner, IDC diverge in blame game

  The problem with Windows 8 sales isn't Windows 8, it's Windows Phone 8, says a Gartner analyst.

  By Tim Greene | 12 April, 2013 21:20

  Tags: Gartner, EE, IDC, Microsoft, Windows, software, operating systems

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  Windows XP's looming retirement won't shake PC business out of sales funk

  But Microsoft is likely to reap more revenue from the disappearance of XP than will system builders, as many customers will do in-place upgrades to Windows 7 on current hardware.

  By Gregg Keizer | 12 April, 2013 18:07

  Tags: IT industry, IDC, Microsoft, Windows, hardware systems, desktop pcs, software, operating systems, PCs, Gartner

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  Microsoft's stock slides after dismal PC shipment reports

  Microsoft's stock took a beating in trading today after a pair of research firms said PC shipments in the first quarter were down as much as 14% from the year before.

  By Gregg Keizer | 11 April, 2013 20:26

  Tags: Windows, hardware systems, Desktop Apps, desktop pcs, goldman sachs, operating systems, Bloomberg, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Dell, IDC, Microsoft, software, Lenovo, intel, PCs

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  Surface 'Mini': ARM, Atom or both?

  Microsoft will launch a new line of Surface tablets later this year, including one or more smaller 7-in. devices, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  By Gregg Keizer | 11 April, 2013 19:11

  Tags: Microsoft, Windows, hardware systems, tablets, software, wall street journal, operating systems, Apple, Gartner, IDC, Google

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  Windows 8 takes blame for 'brutal' PC sales slide

  Microsoft's Windows 8 took another knock Wednesday as research firm IDC laid much of the blame for the first quarter's historically-horrible PC numbers at the feet of the beleaguered operating system.

  By Gregg Keizer | 11 April, 2013 11:04

  Tags: IT industry, IDC, Microsoft, Windows, hardware systems, desktop pcs, software, operating systems, PCs, Gartner

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  Struggling PC makers and Windows 8 push PC market into free fall

  A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, IDC said.

  By Agam Shah | 10 April, 2013 20:30

  Tags: IDC, hardware systems, desktop pcs, laptops

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  Second-gen Nexus 7 coming around July; it will run Qualcomm chip, sources say

  The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a Reuters report.

  By Matt Hamblen | 03 April, 2013 16:05

  Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Networking, wireless, hardware systems, qualcomm, nvidia, tablets, Components, processors, mobile, Reuters, IDC, Google

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  Microsoft signals push to smaller, lower-priced Windows tablets

  Microsoft has relaxed a Windows 8 certification requirement to allow devices with lower resolutions, a move analysts said means Microsoft could soon join the shift to smaller, less expensive tablets.

  By Gregg Keizer | 29 March, 2013 20:23

  Tags: IDC, Microsoft, Windows, hardware systems, tablets, software, operating systems

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  IDC: Web and native device app platforms will coexist in 2013

  The analyst firm is also optimistic about the adoption of cloud IDEs and heterogeneous parallel processing

  By Paul Krill | 29 March, 2013 18:57

  Tags: Mobile Development, application development, mobile technology, IDC, software, Appcelerator

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  Wall Street Beat: As markets rise, guarded optimism for IT

  Though IT trailed other sectors as market indices rose to milestone highs this quarter, some bright spots in earnings and market research reports this week indicate continuing confidence that things will go better for tech this year than in 2012.

  By Marc Ferranti | 29 March, 2013 18:50

  Tags: business issues, Samsung Electronics, hardware systems, Components, software, financial results, Red Hat, memory, Blackberry, Gartner, IDC