Apple today said it has sold 2 million iPhone 5 smartphones in China since Friday, setting an opening weekend sales record for the country. The announcement was Apple's first to trumpet sales in the People's Republic of China (PRC), as ...
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Verizon's Enterprise Solutions group today unveiled a cloud services portfolio for the healthcare industry that it said can meet federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements for safeguarding electronic ...
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Disk storage capacity shipped by vendors worldwide surpassed 7 exabytes for the first time in a quarter, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker report. The total disk storage capacity shipped by vendors in the ...
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Tablets are hot-- so hot that IDC just bumped up its global market forecast for the tablet market for 2012 and beyond. The proliferation of Android tablets of various sizes, the trend toward lower prices and the launch of the Apple iPad ...
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Skyera, a Silicon Valley startup, says it can make high-speed flash storage for enterprises cheaper than hard disks by using the low-grade chip technology found in thumb drives. Skyera has built a 44TB storage array, called the Skyhawk, ...
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Apple dominated the global tablet market last quarter on the back of record sales, a research firm said today, and reclaimed a massive lead over rivals. The Cupertino, Calif. company's share of all tablet sales jumped 44% in the second ...
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Apple will be the world's largest chip buyer this year because of the surge in demand for the company's products, enabling it to command lower prices and quicker delivery, IHS iSuppli said in research released on Wednesday. The company's ...
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Apple and Samsung have emerged as the global kings of smartphones, tablets and PCs even though the two vendors have very different product and pricing strategies, IDC said Monday. On price, Apple's average selling price (ASP) for all its ...
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The reported slow early sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet have raised a question among IT analysts -- does Microsoft truly want to produce boffo sales of the new device? Some analysts say that Microsoft can't afford to have smashing ...
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An aggressive iPad Mini cannibalization rate could add as few as 3 million tablets to Apple's bottom line in what is shaping up to be a record total for the quarter, an analyst said today. Cannibalization -- as opposed to replacement -- ...
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Computer game platform maker Valve is to port its Steam gaming and distribution platform to Ubuntu Linux in a move intended to protect the company from the impending "catastrophe" of Windows 8. Further reading Developers lose interest ...
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Reports of the drastic decline of e-readers amidst an explosion in multi-use tablets re-ignited a passionate debate in technology: Is a single-purpose device better and worth the cost, compared to a multi-function device? "I love my ...
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As Apple prepares to launch its iPhone 5 in China, some analysts expect the product to sell well in the country and possibly even top sales for Apple's previous iPhone models in the country. Apple will finally launch the iPhone 5 in China ...
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When Huawei was confirmed as the world's largest supplier of telecoms networking equipment in the first half of this year, it marked the culmination of a challenging decade for all the other major suppliers that had, until the emergence of ...
Nokia has been knocked out of IDC's list of global top five smartphone companies by mobile devices firm RIM. IDC has been running its Mobile Phone Tracker report since 2004, and this is the first time Nokia has slipped out of the ...