Android smartphones top iPhones, BlackBerries for first time
Android smartphones beat out iPhone and BlackBerry devices for the first time in the U.S. in the latest Nielsen Co. survey conducted just prior to Verizon Wireless sales of the iPhone.
"Gartner" news, interviews, and features
News about Gartner
-
-
Apple's iPad 2 reignites post-PC discussion
Gartner on Thursday lowered its growth forecast for worldwide PC shipments in 2011, joining a growing number of analysts who believe Apple's iPad 2 will bridge the remaining gap between laptops and tablets this year.
-
Security: Never mind the products, educate the users
If they could change one thing to improve IT security, the assembled experts on a panel at Cebit would better educate their users.
-
Gartner: Server sales kept bouncing back in Q4
Worldwide server revenue and unit shipments continued a yearlong recovery in the fourth quarter of 2010, but growth is likely to slow this year, research company Gartner said on Thursday.
-
Analyst: Business intelligence market set to grow
The local business intelligence (BI) software market is set to rise by 12.7 per cent year-on- year to US$347.6 million in 2011, according to analyst firm, Gartner.
-
Sice joins Acronis
Backup and recovery vendor, Acronis, has hired Karl Sice as its new Pacific general manager.
-
Nokia CEO quashes talk of sale to Microsoft
BARCELONA -- Microsoft won't be buying Nokia any time soon despite the despite a sweeping Windows Phone agreement announced by the vendors last week, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told reporters Sunday.
-
Building a better business backup system
As with buying insurance or taking vitamins, committing to data backup is a hard sell. Everyone knows that storing records safely in more than one place protects the health of a business, but many companies fail to establish backup systems that will keep them running if disaster strikes.
-
Competitive benefits drive businesses to open source
Vendors of proprietary software are fond of warning potential customers thatopen source software isn't ready for business, typically citing subpar features or a higher total cost of ownership (TCO).
-
Mobile number portability flops in India
Mobile number portability has not taken off in India, with only about 1.7 million users applying for change of operator in the 15 days since the program was introduced, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
-
Mozy's move could bring storm to unlimited cloud storage
Facing consumers with an appetite for cloud storage that has increased 50 per cent over the past year, the world's largest consumer online storage provider said on Monday that it will no longer offer unlimited storage and will increase fees for the limited online storage it's now selling.
-
Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market
One year after Microsoft introduced Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service market is only about 1/20 the size of the rival infrastructure-as-a-service market led by Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, and about 1/50 the size of the software-as-a-service market.
-
Apple could disrupt mobile payment industry, analysts say
Apple could cause some serious disruption in the mobile payments space if it enters the field as reported, say analysts.
-
Amazon cloud now can send bulk e-mail
Amazon's cloud is adding a service for sending bulk e-mail, saying it will eliminate the burden of "building large-scale e-mail solutions to send marketing and transactional messages."
-
NEWS FOCUS: Dealing with NGOs
<b>In the first part of this news feature, <i>ARN</i> investigated why corporate citizenship is considered a smart investment rather than just philanthropy. In part two we look at the pros and cons of working with non-government organisations (NGOs).</b>
