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Merrill Upbeat On Chip Stocks
News the brokerage firm's analyst team cited several factors behind the call: stabilising earnings estimates, reduced capital spending and bottoming year-over-year changes. In a separate note, analyst Brett Hodess upgraded several semiconductor...
[August 1, 2001, 16:19]
Offshoring 'not Lowering IT Wages'
News But analyst firm Foote Partners disagrees, saying offshoring is no longer affecting IT workers' pay in the US and Europe. An IT employment analyst has lashed out at claims that IT workers are unhappy and suffering low wages because of outsourcing.
[July 21, 2005, 9:40]
Gartner Sees Steady CRM Growth
News The analyst firm said on Monday that overall CRM (customer relationship management) revenue would rise by around $1bn (£490m) each year between now and 2011. By the end of this year, SaaS will represent more than $1bn in CRM software revenue...
[September 10, 2007, 13:26]
Gartner: Businesses Must Manage IT Risks
News Businesses must recognise that failing to handle IT risks puts them at a competitive disadvantage, according to analyst firm Gartner. Analyst Richard Hunter said that failure to properly take account of, and plan for, IT risks can affect business...
[September 17, 2007, 17:01]
Mobile Tech Market 'may Be Recovering'
News The global market for mobile network technology shrank by 12 percent in 2003, according to a report from analyst firm Gartner. Mobile operators spent $40bn in radio access, switching, applications and core infrastructure, down from $45bn in 2002...
[May 20, 2004, 11:50]
Mobile Broadband Popularity Rockets
News Europe will have five million mobile broadband connections by the end of this year, a Swedish analyst firm has predicted. The analyst firm also suggested that the introduction of HSPA+ in 2009 — a further evolution of 3G which will see download...
[July 4, 2007, 11:01]
Oracle Price Hike Irks Customers
News A pricing disagreement between Oracle and some of its database software customers has IT analyst firm Meta Group urging customers not to pay the database software maker additional licensing fees. None of them have contained provisions of that sort...
[March 20, 2002, 9:38]
PCs To Buoy Asian Hardware Sales
News A recent study by analyst firm Gartner Dataquest indicates that PCs will account for 74 percent of computer hardware revenue in the Asia-Pacific region this year, where the entire hardware segment is valued at $32bn.
[July 5, 2002, 7:40]
Knowledge Workers Hold Key To Survival
News Boosting the productivity of knowledge workers is key to survival, and only limited progress has been made in addressing the problem, according to analyst firm Gartner Group. Speaking on Monday at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Cannes, Gartner...
[November 5, 2002, 11:09]
Mobile M2M Connections Set To Rocket
News Cellular machine-to-machine connections are set to rise by a compound annual growth rate of over a third in the next four years, analyst firm Berg Insight has predicted, driven by rollouts of vehicle telematics.
[May 7, 2008, 15:08]
European Firms Warm To WAP
News Nearly a quarter of European businesses currently deploy WAP services and another nine percent are planning to do so within the next 12 months, according to analyst firm IDC. Speaking at the firm's Telecoms Forum in Rome yesterday, IDC analyst Tim...
[February 27, 2001, 10:40]
HP Regains Number-one PC Maker Crown
News The analyst firm said on Wednesday that HP edged out Dell by a mere 110,000 units shipped in the third quarter. Both PC analyst firms attributed Apple's success to the completed transition to Intel processors.
[October 19, 2006, 9:35]
Gartner: Windows Collapsing Under Own Weight
News Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing under its own weight, as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute, according to analyst firm Gartner. To compound Windows' problems, it has outgrown the...
[April 11, 2008, 12:48]
Disk Storage Climbs Perpendicularly
News Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, which can make hard drives with up to ten times today’s capacity, will be widespread in 2007 and ubiquitous in 2009, according to analyst firm IDC. The analyst firm expects PMR to dominate the 630...
[June 27, 2005, 17:10]
Dell Is King Of The Castle - Analysis
News According to analyst firm IDC, a new king is installed this month as Dell steals Compaq's coveted crown for the first time. IDC analyst Karine Paoli believes Dell's decision to build and configure PCs to order combined with good price/technology...
[August 18, 1999, 9:15]
Next-gen Phones And Gadgets To Spur Economic Growth
News The worldwide microchip industry will continue to boom for the next two years, in response to the introduction of next generation mobile devices and Internet anywhere technologies, according to a revised forecast from analyst firm Dataquest.
[October 9, 2000, 10:34]
Public Sector IT Spending Climb To Continue
News Western European governments will invest $49bn (£27bn) in IT in 2009, compared to $38bn last year, predicts analyst firm IDC. The analyst firm said public sector buyers will be looking for packages of technologies that will help them communicate...
[August 3, 2005, 16:50]
Business Intelligence: No Vendor Can Do It All
News Speaking on Monday at Gartner's Business Intelligence Summit in London, Howard Dresner, vice-president at the analyst firm, said that despite claims to the contrary, no one vendor can provide all the sophisticated BI applications that a large...
[February 1, 2005, 13:30]
Sun's Unix Market Position Slips
News In the second quarter of 2005, IBM's Unix server revenue was 31 percent of the $4.3bn market, according to analyst research firm IDC, while HP had 30 percent and Sun 29.5 percent. The two analyst firms might not agree on the precise ranking, but...
[August 30, 2005, 17:00]
Workplaces 'should Ban Camera Phones'
News A clear policy of no camera-enabled phones -- just as there is a clear policy in most companies that no cameras are allowed on the premises -- is required and desirable," said Jack Gold, an analyst with IT research firm Meta Group.
[October 22, 2003, 9:00]
