Apple has fallen to third place among the world’s top smartphone makers, trailing South Korean giant Samsung and Chinese tech powerhouse Huawei, according to a new report. According to the… Read More
First, the bad news when it comes to Software as a Service in 2018: The market is maturing. Growth is expected to cool a bit. And artificial intelligence, according to… Read More
As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 10 Creators Update and announces new Surface Studio apps, new reports on the state of the traditional personal computer market highlight the challenges the company faces, particularly in consumer… Read More
Tablet shipments are down 12 percent from this time last year, continuing a trend of declining tablet sales overall, according to a new report from the IDC research firm. Approximately 38.7 million tablets shipped in… Read More
Are you buying new PCs less frequently than you did in the past? You’re not alone. Worldwide PC shipments are now projected to decline by 7.3 percent this year, 2 percentage… Read More
Interest in the tablet market proceeds to wane, according to new numbers from IDC out today. Tablet shipments fell nearly 15 percent year-over-year during the first quarter of 2015. The downturn… Read More
It’s getting harder and harder to find someone who doesn’t own a smartphone. And with the latest numbers from IDC, it’s easy to see why. IDC estimates that 1.43 billion smartphones… Read More
The worldwide PC market continues to decline. According to the latest numbers from IDC, PC manufacturers shipped just 71.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, with yearly totals falling below the 300 million… Read More
The smartphone market is slowing down, according to a new forecast from IDC released today. Shipments are expected to grow this year, but only by 10.4 percent. That’s a drastic… Read More
Remember when people predicted that tablets were going to replace desktop computers? That doesn’t look like it’ll be happening anytime soon as consumers increasingly opt to go with larger smartphones… Read More
Windows PC shipments are expected to decline for a fourth year in a row as competition from tablets and smartphones continues to take a bite out of the traditional notebook… Read More
Windows Phone’s worldwide market share will rise over the next five years, but only slightly, market research firm IDC says in a new forecast this morning. The report shows Microsoft’s… Read More
Sales of PCs took a significant hit during the first quarter of 2015, according to new reports from Gartner and IDC, but the research firms say that’s not necessarily a… Read More
Bad news, computer makers: IDC announced today that it predicts shrinkage in the PC market in both developed and developing countries this year. PC shipments are expected to shrink by… Read More
Amazon isn’t happy with a recent report from IDC that showed the company only shipping 1.7 million Fire tablets during the holiday quarter, a drop of almost 70 percent from… Read More
Despite new tablet launches and the holiday shopping season, tablet sales fell in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to new data from market research firm IDC. That’s hardly surprising,… Read More
The personal computer market had a solid holiday quarter in 2014, according to new reports from IDC and Gartner. While the two firms’ estimates differ on the exact details, both agree that computer… Read More
Back in the 90s, anyone who said that Apple would one day be among the top five personal computer manufacturers in the world would have been laughed out of a room.… Read More
The PC market continues to decline, and new projections from IDC say that tech watchers shouldn’t expect it to stop any time soon. The research firm announced today that it’s… Read More
In terms of market share, Windows Phone is growing, Android still dominates and Apple is slipping just a bit according to the latest numbers from the IDC research firm. Windows… Read More
Worldwide tablet shipments will grow by more than 58 percent this year, surpassing shipments of portable PCs for the first time, according to new projections released this morning by IDC.… Read More
Maybe the Kindle Fire really is the “fruitcake of tablets.” Worldwide market share for Amazon’s family of tablets dropped to 3.7 percent in the first quarter, according to new data… Read More
Two influential analysts downgraded Microsoft’s shares this morning, another blow to the Redmond company as it struggles to gain traction in smartphones and tablets, and feels the impact of slumping… Read More
A line about Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 from an IDC report is getting lots of attention this week for predicting that the upcoming operating system will be “largely irrelevant” to users… Read More
Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s an impressive number on the surface, but absent any other… Read More
New numbers this afternoon from the IDC research firm show worldwide PC shipments falling 3.2% during the first quarter — the first year-over-year quarterly decline since the end of the… Read More