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Worldwide Phablet Shipments to Surpass Portable PCs in 2014 — and Tablets by 2015
According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device Tracker, worldwide phablet shipments (smartphones with screen sizes from 5.5 to less than 7 inches) will reach 175 million units worldwide in 2014,...
EMEA Market Confidence Will Boost Workstation Refreshments in H2 2014
Workstation shipments in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region increased 12.7% year on year in first half of 2014. Global research and advisory company IDC expects this healthy performance to continue in the second half of the year, with 11.2% growth...
POPI success depends on effective implementation and regulation
The industry remains abuzz with talk around the recently Gazetted Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act, yet the compliance rate of South Africa’s enterprises varies significantly. For Small Medium Enterprises (SME’s) the pace to become compliant is...
Q2 shows weak server growth
x86 servers managed to produce an increase of 1.4 percent in units in the second quarter of 2014, and an 8.1 percent increase in revenue. RISC/Itanium Unix servers fell globally for the period, a 23.2 percent decline in revenue and 7.9 percent decrease in shipments compared with the same quarter last year. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed a decline in vendor revenue of 2.2 percent,
Emerging markets to account for 74% of smartphone sales
According to a new mobile phone forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, more than 1.25 billion smartphones will be shipped worldwide in 2014, representing a 23.8% increase from the 1.01 billion units shipped in...
Measuring the Impact of Apple’s Role in Payments
IDC Financial Insights today announced a new report, “Business Strategy: Apple and the Payments Tipping Point,” (Document# FI250350). The new report looks at how Apple's efforts will affect the payment space, online and offline commerce, and the growth and adoption of...
2014 Hype Cycle Special Report Evaluates the Maturity of More Than 2,000 Technologies
As the Gartner Hype Cycle celebrates its 20th year, Gartner said that as enterprises set out on the journey to becoming digital businesses, identifying and employing the right technologies at the right time will be critical.
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Top 10 risks worth considering when expanding into the rest of Africa
The first and most important misconception one needs to get rid of is thinking of Africa as a single place.
The four dimensions of tomorrow’s IT vendor management
IT vendor management as a formal discipline is rapidly evolving because organizations are demanding more from vendors in order to deliver the value and innovation needed to enable desirable business outcomes, according to Gartner, Inc. "Vendor management is...
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