Emerging markets will drive growth in worldwide smartphone sales in the years ahead, International Data Corporation (IDC) said in a recent survey entitled the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. According to the consulting and research firm, China will become the leading country-level market for...
Qualcomm and Telefónica announced an agreement focused on fostering the adoption of 3G and smartphones throughout Latin America. Under terms of the agreement, both companies will collaborate in an effort to bring a variety of 3G devices to the region, including smartphones enabled by...
Although cloud computing is still in its infancy, the technology has already begun changing how IT departments deliver economic value to countries, cities, industries and small businesses. According to IDC, spending on public cloud IT services hit $28 billion in 2011, compared with more than...
Information technology spending increased 5% in 2011, despite the worsening economic situation in Western Europe and volatility in other regions, according to a new study from the IDCÂ Worldwide Black Book. IDC noted that emerging markets continued to lead the way, with tech spending in...
Looking to extend its cloud computing platform, Oracle said it has entered into an agreement to acquire cloud-based talent management provider Taleo for $46 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, net of Taleo’s cash and debt.
Taleo’s talent management cloud is designed to help organizations...
The increase in mobile data and voice over IP usage has contributed to the growth of Chile's telecom services market, according to IDC Latin America. The research firm released a report showing the segment posted 7.7% growth in 2011, reaching $6.3 billion.
The firm...
Looking to expand revenues, Brazilian carrier Oi announced its cloud strategy dubbed "Oi Smart Cloud." The offering is designed to complement the carrier's enterprise portfolio, which currently includes fixed and mobile telephony, connectivity and IT solutions.
“Within three years, we expect to double data...
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IDC Latin America followed the company's global predictions in forecasting that 2012 will be the year of mobile and cloud platform wars as IT vendors vie for leadership while the industry redefines itself. The market intelligence firm also added the consumerization of IT, which...
Latin Americans like to communicate, especially Brazilians. That’s why social networks such as Facebook or Orkut have so many Brazilian subscribers. Another aspect – as well as consequence – is the growth of mobile devices embedded with access to social applications.
Pyramid Research noted in...
A recent IDC report on cloud computing showed that worldwide revenue from public IT cloud services exceeded $16 billion in 2009, and is forecast to increase at a compound annual rate of 27.4% to $55.5 billion in 2014. IDC noted that this growth is...
Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry still leads in the enterprise market across Latin America region, but that position could be threatened by upcoming smartphones from Microsoft's partnership with Nokia.
“I am not optimistic for the consumer market, but among enterprises Microsoft/Nokia might gain market share...
As Dell was hosting its annual Dell World convention in Austin, news broke that China's Lenovo has overtaken Dell to become the world's number two personal computer maker for the first time. According to Gartner and IDC, HP grew 5.3%, faster than the industry...
Do you think your personal devices are more useful at work than those provided by your company? If you said yes, you fit in recent survey, "Consumerization of IT," sponsored by Unisys Corp. and conducted by International Data Corp. (IDC). The study makes clear...
Spending on IT services in Brazil totaled R$ 21.075 billion (US$ 13.3 billion) in 2010, up 9.14% compared to 2009, IDC reported. Businesses continue to adopt technologies including convergence, governance, virtualization and server consolidation, mobility, outsourcing and cloud computing, among others. “In this scenario,...
Analyst firms are often accused of pulling figures from various places; the sky, their rear ends - basically anywhere but reality - and with the latest numbers from IDC its not difficult to see why.
Poor PC vendors. If a new report by analyst firm IDC is to be believed, the world and his wife are conspiring to reduce PC shipment growth for the rest of 2011. At the beginning of the year IDC predicted 7.1% growth for the PC sector, however after a poor Q1 that forecast has now been revised down to just 4.2%.
The worldwide smartphone market saw resounding growth year over year in the first quarter of 2011 with market research firm IDC reporting 79.7% growth, which it credits to lower prices, release of highly anticipated models, wide availability of older models and continued smartphone demand....
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is moving past its competitors with a record-breaking 18.6 million iPhones shipped for the latest quarter, according to analysts at IDC and Strategy Analytics. In the process, Apple overtook ZTE Corp. for fourth place and, according to IDC, claimed a 5%...
Ahh, the humble smart phone. For the first part of the last decade a mere curiosity reserved for the hardcore nerds and obsessive businessman of this world, subsequently thrust into the limelight by the iPhone, then Android, and most recently by the escalating war between the two.
The worldwide mobile phone market just keeps on growing, with IDC's latest results showing a 17.9% rise in the fourth quarter of 2010 alone. The market research outfit says vendors shipped 401.4 million units in 4Q10 compared to 340.5 million units in the fourth...
Business News Americas | January 21, 2011 | Matthew Malinowski
As Latin America's LTE market takes shape this year, media companies will join mobile service providers in the rush to meet client demand, the VP for research and consulting at IDC, Ricardo Villate, told an...
Korea IT Times | January 17, 2011
Opens a data center for cloud computing service at SK Broadband’s Internet Data Center to support 1,500 virtual servers
SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) announced today that it opened Cloud Data Center, a cloud computing data center, to offer innovative cloud-based...
Enterprise is expected to comprise at least a quarter of all tablet sales this year and drive an even greater slice of the market going forward, according to a new report from Deloitte Development LLC.Just about everyone predicts that tablets are on their way...
