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Consumerization, cloud computing, consumer and enterprise social networks, mobile application, the shifting of sources of supply from Asia to the Americas, big data and cybercrime are some of the trends …

With its new lines of Lumia and Asha Windows-based phones, Nokia is hoping to maintain its hold on low-end consumers while increasing its appeal to high-end users, say analysts and company executives.

The sale of mobile devices in India is set to reach 231 million units in 2012, an increase of 8.5% compared with this year’s total of 213 million units, according to a study by Gartner Inc.

Latin America’s share of worldwide information technology spending is on the rise, according to research firm Gartner Inc. By the end of this year, IT spending in Latin America will …

Cloud, social, mobility and an explosion in information were pointed by Gartner as the new nexus of forces that are creating a necessity to look different to the business. The …

Gartner’s David Cearley started his press conference at this week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in São Paulo with the phrase: “The days of Windows domination are pretty much over.” The consulting firm …

RCR Wireless News is on hand to cover Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Brazil at this week in São Paulo. Be sure not to miss our stories. The future of mobile computing is context aware …

Media tablets ranked No. 1 in Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2012. The ranking was announced by the consulting firm in Brazil at this week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in São …

Context-aware computing is the method by which new experiences are constructed that blend information from mobile, social, digital and physical world sources. Gartner noted that this concept is a developing …

Research in Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry still leads in the enterprise market across Latin America region, but that position could be threatened by upcoming smartphones from Microsoft’s partnership with Nokia. “I …

As Dell was hosting its annual Dell World convention in Austin, news broke that China’s Lenovo has overtaken Dell to become the world’s number two personal computer maker for the …

Cloud-computing service providers should install their infrastructure close to their clients to mitigate risks, said Gartner VP Gene Phifer, adding that as cloud service providers deploy that strategy, they will …

Every company will adopt cloud computing in the near future, and even now a lot of enterprises don’t know it, but they are using some kind of cloud services. According …

Worldwide mobile payment users will surpass 141.1 million in 2011, a 38.2% increase from 2010, when mobile payment users reached 102.1 million, according to Gartner. Worldwide mobile payment volume is …

Analyst firm Gartner today released their latest worldwide handset sales figures, including numbers for the first quarter of 2011 from all the big manufacturers. The headlines are that total handset sales have risen 19% year-on-year, with smartphones continuing to accelerate, seeing 85% growth since the same period in 2010.

Chipset vendor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is hiring Android driver development engineers, marking the company’s move into the tablet and smartphone space. The move may be a wise one indeed, …

Funny things, analyst forecasts. The short-term ones tend to be fairly accurate, but the long-term predictions often fall entirely flat. That’s not the fault of the analysts, it’s due to the inherent unpredictability of mobile and technology markets. Nobody saw Android’s success coming, just as nobody thought poor old Nokia Corp. would be in the sorry state they are today ten years ago.