The market for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has expanded in recent years in parallel with the deployment of publicly accessible charging stations, mainly funded by government...
Worldwide shipments of production printers grew 15% on year to 13,000 units (printers and MFPs) in the second quarter of 2013, according to IDC. Despite the increase in shipment volume,...
Dell moved ahead of Samsung Electronics in the worldwide monitor market for the first time since 2007, shipping more than five million units in the second quarter of 2013. Total monitor...
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted an on-year decline of 0.8%, totaling just over US$5.9 billion, in the second quarter of 2013, according to IDC. For...
The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow 7.3% year over year in 2013, marking a sharp rebound from the nearly flat (1.2%) growth experienced in 2012. Strong demand for...
As initial smart grid programs begin to wind down and the sector as a whole matures, utilities are increasingly shifting their focus from the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure...
Worldwide spending on public IT cloud services will reach US$47.4 billion in 2013 and is expected to be more than US$107 billion in 2017, according to a new forecast from IDC. Over...
Microsoft has announced the appointment of Phil Sorgen as corporate vice president of the company's Worldwide Partner Group. Sorgen will manage a team of sales and marketing professionals...
Worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) revenues reached US$5.4 billion in the second quarter of 2013, representing an on-year decline of 1.1%. On a sequential basis, second-quarter...
In the second quarter 2013, worldwide server shipments grew 4% on year, while revenues declined 3.8% from the second quarter of 2012, according to Gartner.
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenues in the worldwide server market decreased 6.2% on year to US$11.9 billion in the second quarter of 2013. This...
After several quarters of notable decline, the worldwide hardcopy peripherals market showed encouraging signs of recovery in the second quarter of 2013. According to the International...
The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market grew 10.7% on year with 16.8 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2013, according to the IDC Worldwide Personal...
With the cost of natural gas reaching historic lows in many regions, interest in natural gas vehicles (NGVs) is growing. The growth of the NGV market is inherently tied to the availability...
