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• 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.

• Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors

  By Logan Kugler | 22 May, 2012 20:08

  Even for organizations with a stellar full-time IT staff, situations often arise where temporary outside help is needed. A big Web project might demand a few extra programmers to meet a tough deadline, for example, or a rollout of tools to support a sales force bent on capturing a broader market may require expertise not available in-house.

• 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.

• Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 on sale Sunday for $400

  By Matt Hamblen | 12 May, 2012 06:11

  Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is set to go on sale at retailers nationwide Sunday for $399.99, furthering the variety of tablet sizes from the vendor.

• IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 May, 2012 05:33

  The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $US77 million in 2011 to $US812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 per cent, according to a new report released by analyst firm IDC.

• Tablets Will Be Preferred Devices by 2016

  By Matt Hamblen | 07 May, 2012 23:36

  Tablets will become most users' main computing devices within the next four years, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett has predicted.

• Will Yahoo CEO's misstep kill company momentum?

  By Sharon Gaudin | 05 May, 2012 06:28

  All the momentum and vision that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has been building for the struggling company may have been thrown off course.

• Analysis: Does the iPad cannibalize Apple's laptops?

  By Gregg Keizer | 28 April, 2012 20:36

  Is Apple cutting the MacBook's throat with the iPad?

• ICT makes headway in transport and logistics sector: IDC

  By Patrick Budmar | 26 April, 2012 14:59

  The transport and logistics sector has already been using ICT to improve productivity and operating costs, though this will continue to grow in focus in coming years, according to IDC.

• Analysis: BYOD could hurt Windows Phone growth

  By Colin Neagle | 26 April, 2012 05:34

  Some of the researchers behind last year's high expectations for Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system are beginning to dial back their predictions, citing the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend as a roadblock in some markets.

• Asus, fifth and rising in tablet market

  By Matt Hamblen | 25 April, 2012 20:13

  Asus has won critical praise for its early tablets, including the quad-core Transformer Prime TF201 that was released last year and the new quad-core Transformer Pad TF300T that will be available in some U.S. retail stores next week.

• IDC: big data skills crisis needs vendor action

  By Derek du Preez | 21 April, 2012 17:19

  Enterprise IT departments are struggling to take advantage of the benefits big data can bring due to a lack of skills in the marketplace, according to IDC research VP Susan Feldman.

• Windows sales defy predictions, grow 4%

  By Gregg Keizer | 21 April, 2012 02:15

  Stronger-than-expected sales of Windows helped Microsoft post a 6% increase in revenue for the first quarter of 2012, the company said yesterday.

• Skepticism mounts over Windows RT's enterprise role

  By Gregg Keizer | 20 April, 2012 03:27

  Omissions from the feature set of Windows RT are making analysts increasingly skeptical that enterprises will gravitate toward tablets running the new forked version of Windows.

• CISCO PARTNER SUMMIT 2012: Cisco reveals new global channel program

  By Hafizah Osman | 18 April, 2012 16:55

  Cisco has delivered a new global partner program, Partner Plus, that aims to accelerate the growth of its partners with mid-sized customers.