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• Cisco gets boost in server shipments in Q1, Gartner says

  By Agam Shah | 30 May, 2012 19:24

  Worldwide server shipments grew at a slower-than-expected clip during the first quarter of 2012, but Cisco, which has a small market share, beat market trends as top server makers struggled with slow demand and weak economic conditions, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday.

• Gartner predicts huge rise in monitoring of employees' social media use

  By Grant Gross | 29 May, 2012 20:04

  Corporations are starting to embrace technologies used to monitor employee Internet use, with 60 percent expected to watch workers' social media use for security breaches by 2015, according to a new report from Gartner.

• Carbon tax: Silver lining to taxing times

  By Hafizah Osman | 28 May, 2012 07:57

  Channel businesses should be planning on how to deal with forthcoming Carbon Tax now, according to experts.

• iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped

  By Matt Hamblen | 24 May, 2012 14:16

  Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.

• BYOD is driving IT 'crazy': Gartner

  By Matt Hamblen | 22 May, 2012 01:01

  IT managers grappling with bring-your-own-device policies can expect to see an explosion in the number of smartphones and tablets used by employees in the next few years.

• Apple iPhone 5 to boost mobile market in second half of 2012, analyst

  By Karen Haslam | 18 May, 2012 17:08

  Worldwide sales of mobile phones saw a 2 per cent decline from the first quarter of 2011 due to a slowdown in demand from the Asia/Pacific region, but the launch of the Apple iPhone 5 will help drive a stronger second half of the year in Western Europe and North America, according to Gartner. The report also notes that Apple's sales in China were "particularly strong" despite people holding of sales in the hope of an iPhone 5.

• Samsung is the big daddy of Android phones

  By Brad Reed | 17 May, 2012 04:39

  Samsung has become the clear leader in sales of Android smartphones as Gartner today reported that it accounted for 40% of worldwide Android sales in the first quarter of 2012.

• Android, Samsung top smartphone sales, topping Apple's iPhone

  By Matt Hamblen | 17 May, 2012 03:22

  Android smartphones made up 56% of the global smartphones sold to end users in the first quarter of 2012, giving them a far higher share than the 22.9% held by Apple's runner-up iPhone, Gartner said Wednesday.

• Consumerization trends hit IT service management

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 17 May, 2012 02:49

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• Sony: We are not “out of ideas” and we do have “hit products”

  By Patrick Budmar | 14 May, 2012 13:38

  The last few years have not been kind to Japanese electronics vendors such as Sony, who has seen its grip on the market slip to competitors.

• Will BYOD revive the network-access control idea? Gartner thinks it will

  By Ellen Messmer | 08 May, 2012 20:34

  Is the BYOD craze going to bring a revival of NAC, the policy-based network-access control that was hyped a decade ago but didn't end up widely adopted for endpoint security?

• How to fight back against privacy pirates

  By Julie Sartain | 07 May, 2012 21:27

  Have you Googled yourself lately? Is the information about you accurate or full of inconsistencies, both of which can be devastating?

• Wide-Open Search

  By Stacy Collett | 07 May, 2012 20:11

  Twitter, Facebook, the Library of Congress -- all of these institutions have mind-numbing amounts of structured and unstructured data that must be indexed and searched quickly. In Twitter's case, that's about 300 million new pieces of information to index every day.

• Gartner says half of enterprises are wasting money on social media

  By Brandon Butler | 05 May, 2012 00:30

  Getting a positive return on investment from a social media campaign is about more than tracking the number of your Facebook fans and Twitter followers. It's about linking the social strategy to measurable business objectives, according to Gartner, which says most businesses aren't doing this.

• VMware ups its collaboration offering with Lithium integration

  By Brandon Butler | 04 May, 2012 07:42

  VMware Thursday announced that its SocialCast sharing tool will now work with Lithium Technologies tools to capture and integrate external customer data.