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If You Add Tablets, PC Market is UP

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If You Add Tablets, PC Market is UP

Whereas Gartner has divided out tablets (leaving PC sales down for the first time since Q3 2009), Canalys decides to leave tablets in and show WW PC sales up 7.7%, with shipments reaching 88.6m units.

Meanwhile WW PC shipments for Q1 2011 total 84.3m units-- a 1.1% Y-o-Y. That means tablets could reflect 9% of total PC sales.

HP still leads the WW market, with 16.6% share (down by -5.8% from Q1 2010). Following are Acer (12.8% market share and -6.5% Y-o-Y growth) and Dell (11.3% market share Continue reading...

VGA Declines as DisplayPort Grows

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VGA Declines as DisplayPort Grows

78.9m PCs WW will carry DisplayPort in 2011, IHS iSuppli says-- with global 2011 shipments growing by 154.6% from 2010's 30.9m.

According to iSuppli DisplayPort is already going through rapid growth. Last year's expansion totalled 136.5%, while the analyst predicts a 137% increase for 2012, before 2013's 46% and 2014's 62% growth, with 400m DisplayPort-enabled devices shipping by 2014's end.

Pushing forward the momentum for DisplayPort is Apple, whose desktops and laptops carry the interface since Continue reading...

EMEA EReader Market to Match US?

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EMEA EReader Market to Match US?

IDC reports EMEA ereader shippings total over 1.9m units in 2010, most of which in W. European markets-- just over 15% of the WW market.

However the analyst predicts EMEA sales will reach 9.6m units by 2015, growing by a total CAGR of 37.9% and roughly matching the US market's size.

Since their entering the market in 2007 ereaders grew much faster in the US than EMEA, mostly thanks to the Amazon Kindle's rapid uptake in that market.

The IDC attributes this growth to ereaders' combination of e-ink Continue reading...

Apple's Grip on the Tablet Market

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Apple's Grip on the Tablet Market

Apple will continue owning the majority of the WW tablet market-- as it does nowadays-- at least up til through 2015, according to Gartner. 69% of tablets will carry iOS by 2011's end, and 47% of the market will in 2015.

Gartner says most other vendors competing against Apple fail to give customers really want-- apps, services and slick user experiences. Instead, such vendors prefer to concentrate on hardware features, just as they did when competing against iOS on smartphones.

The analyst forecasts Continue reading...

Cisco Remains WLAN Market Leader

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Cisco Remains WLAN Market Leader

The WW WLAN market grows by 10% in 2010, reaching revenue totals of $4.4BN-- with growth of 9.1% and shipments increasing by 8.1% Q/Q in Q4 2010, according to In-Stat's WLAN market tracker.

Cisco remains the leading WLAN vander, with a 27% share of the market and increasing shipments by 8.1% in Q4 2010 when compared to Q3. Its total revenue for 2010 reaches $1.2BN (up by 31% from 2009).

Following in second place is Netgear, surpassing Technicolor with revenue for 2010 reaching $6.38m. The market Continue reading...

Optimistic Outlook for W.W. IT Spending

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Optimistic Outlook for W.W. IT Spending

Gartner is slightly more optimistic in its predictions for 2011's W.W. IT spending, saying it will increase by 5.6% over 2010-- reaching a total of $3.6TR (2010 spending totals $3.4TR).

The analyst's previous reports forecast 5.1% growth for the year.

Why such an increase? The reason lies in the iPad and its ilk, with W.W. tablet spending set to reach highs of $29.4Bn in 2011 (up from 2010's $9.6Bn), with global tablet spending reports predicting growth at an annual rate of 52% through 2015. Continue reading...

Notebook Shipments Facing Decline

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Notebook Shipments Facing Decline

DRAMeXchange says W.W February notebook shipments decline by 21.8% compared to January, due to Asus' outsourcing, February being the year's shortest month and flawed Intel Sandy Bridge chips.

Quanta and Compal report falling behind expectations (with shipments of 3.2m and 2.7m respectively) while Pegatron's February shipments drop by around 50% month over month.

The analyst does predict a 40-50% rebound for March (as compared to February's low numbers)-- but thanks to sandy Bridge delays and decreasing Continue reading...

Kinect Enters the Record Books

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Kinect Enters the Record Books

Microsoft's gesture-sensing 360 console  add-on, the Kinect, enters the Guinness World Book of Records-- not for being the device most likely to cause its users to make fools of themselves, but as fastest selling CE device ever. So far, at least.

Beating even the continually fast selling iDevices, the Kinect sold an average of 133333 units a day W.W. in its first 60 days of sale-- a total of 8m units sold from 4 November 2010 to 3 January 2011.

Microsoft has every reason to be happy with the Kinect-- Continue reading...

Tablets Disrupting PC Refresh Cycle

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Tablets Disrupting PC Refresh Cycle

Canalys estimates a Y-o-Y growth of 14% for the W.W. PC market-- with much of the growth coming from tablet device shipments.

The analyst predicts tablet shipments will grow to 52m in 2011-- with Apple, predictably, taking the winner's crown, as it accounts for over 75% of tablets (leaving 12m units' worth of shipments to be split between other tablet vendors).

The "traditional" PC companies (Microsoft, Intel and AMD in particular) are to lose market share to Apple-- especially with the iPad2 Continue reading...

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