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- Smartphone OS shares: Symbian - 76.2%, Linux - 13.7%, PalmOS - 4.6%, Windows - 4.5%, RIM - 1.0%
- Embedded Linux powered 13.7% of smartphones shipped worldwide in Q1 2005, up 412% from 3.4% in Q1 2004, according to Gartner. Windows Mobile smaprtphone shipments also grew, rising 50% from 2.9% in Q1 2004 to 4.5% in Q1 2005.
- Tags: Q1 2004, Q1 2005
- Blog posts 2005-07-23
- 30.2% of e-mail got opened in Q1 2005
- Only 30.2% of commercial e-mail was opened in Q1 2005, down from 38.2% in Q1 2004, according to DoubleClick. Click rates declined to 7.9% in Q1 2005, from 8.4% in Q1 2004.
- Tags: Q1 2005, Q1 2004
- Blog posts 2005-07-08
- Record mobile phone sales in Q1 2005 - 180.6 mln handsets sold
- Worldwide mobile phone sales in 2005 will approach 750 mln units, a 13% increase from 2004, Gartner says. The mobile phone industry had a record Q1 with worldwide sales totalling 180.6 mln units, a 17% increase from Q1 2004. The previous high for mobile phone sales was 153.7 mln units...
- Tags: sales, Q1 2005, Q1 2004, mobile phone sale, mobile phone, mobile
- Blog posts 2005-05-29
- Venture capitalists raised $5.33 bln in Q1 2005
- Venture firms raised 48 new funds and a total of $5.33 bln during Q1 2005. The same firms raised 49 funds and $2.67 bln in Q1 2004. Private-equity firms raised $15.79 bln in 38 funds during Q1 2005, up from $3.44 bln in 25 funds during Q1 2004.
- Tags: Q1 2005
- Blog posts 2005-04-18
- Venture capitalists raised $5.33 bln in Q1 2005
- Venture firms raised 48 new funds and a total of $5.33 bln during Q1 2005. The same firms raised 49 funds and $2.67 bln in Q1 2004. Private-equity firms raised $15.79 bln in 38 funds during Q1 2005, up from $3.44 bln in 25 funds during Q1 2004.
- Tags: Q1 2005
- Blog posts 2005-04-18
- 21% of US employers plan to increase workforce in Q1 2005
- In the latest Manpower Employment Outlook survey 21% of employers plan to hire in Q1 2005, up from 20% in Q4 2004 and up from 14% a year ago. Over the three months ending Nov. 30, job growth has averaged 178,000 jobs per month. Employment is up 2.3 million jobs...
- Tags: employers plan, Q1 2004, Q1 2005
- Blog posts 2004-12-13
- 21% of US employers plan to increase workforce in Q1 2005
- In the latest Manpower Employment Outlook survey 21% of employers plan to hire in Q1 2005, up from 20% in Q4 2004 and up from 14% a year ago. Over the three months ending Nov. 30, job growth has averaged 178,000 jobs per month. Employment is up 2.3 million jobs...
- Tags: Q1 2004, Q1 2005, employers plan
- Blog posts 2004-12-13
- Canadian VCs invested $375 mln in Q2 2004, up 48%
- Activity in Canada's venture capital industry in Q2 2004 reflected growth, with $375 mln invested. That is up 48% from Q2 2003, when investors poured $254 mln into Canadian VC. However, VC activity was down 8% from Q1 2004, when $407 mln was invested. More companies received a piece of...
- Tags: Q2 2004, Q1 2004, Canadian VC
- Blog posts 2004-10-13
- Wi-Fi unit shipments to increase 20% in 2004
- Access Point unit shipments reached 4.75 mln units in Q2 2004, an increase of 7% from Q1 2004. The 802.11g AP market continued to grow, increasing 15% from Q1 2004. Wi-Fi media adapters also showed strong growth. Introduced in 2003, media adapters enable a user to play music or show...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, unit shipment
- Blog posts 2004-10-09
- Taiwan LAN manufacturing revenues up 27.1% in Q1 2004
- Taiwan's robust wireless LAN WLAN industry generated a revenue of about $385 mln in Q1 2004, up by 27.1% YTY, according to the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center IEKC of the Industrial Technology Research Institute ITRI. The sector accounted for 21.3% of Taiwan's total contribution of approximately $1.8 bln to...
- Tags: Q1 2004, IEKC, WLAN
- Blog posts 2004-09-25
- Australian smart handheld market up 21.5% in Q2 2004
- In Q2 2004 the Australian Smart Handheld Device SHD market posted strong growth of 21.5% from Q1 2004 in unit shipment terms. This significant growth was mainly attributed to the converged space which saw an expansion of 54.3% QTQ, with the bulk of growth seen in the data-centric category. The...
- Tags: Q1 2004, Q2 2004, Palm Inc., handheld
- Blog posts 2004-09-12
- E-book sales up 28% in Q1 2004
- The Open eBook Forum trade group tallied e-book sales of $3.23 mln for Q1 2004 - a mere rounding error compared to the multibillion-dollar market for paper books. But that figure marks a 28% jump YTY, suggesting that e-books are on track to meet optimistic forecasts for the year.
- Tags: Q1 2004, e-book sale, e-book
- Blog posts 2004-08-28
- Global WLAN hardware sales up 3% QTQ in Q2 2004
- Worldwide WLAN hardware revenue reached $719.5 mln in Q2 2004, up 3% from Q1 2004, and will grow 9% to $786.2 mln by Q2 2005, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly market share service, Wireless LAN APs, Switches and NICs. The analysts say competition further eroded ASPs and Cisco took top...
- Tags: Q1 2004, WLAN, revenue, Q2 2004
- Blog posts 2004-08-26
- Plasma TV sales up 169% YTY in Q1 2004
- Q1 shipments of plasma TVs in the US more than doubled from the previous year, according to research firm iSuppli. Prices fell by nearly $1,000 over the same period. Manufacturers shipped about 175,000 sets. Compared with 65,000 in the same period a year ago, it represents an increase of 169%....
- Tags: Q1 2004
- Blog posts 2004-08-22
- European venture investments up 21% in Q2 2004
- European technology venture capital surged in Q2 2004, with 199 companies raising $1.25 bln, a 21% increase YTY. After a sharp drop in biotechnology and healthcare funding in Q1 2004, the sector bounced back strong in Q2 to score the largest share of the pie, with $581 mln, or 46%...
- Tags: Q1 2004, Q2 2004, EUROPEAN
- Blog posts 2004-08-09
- PC graphics device market grows 12.9% YTY in Q1 2004
- Jon Peddie Research estimates that approximately 57.5 million PC graphics devices shipped from eight suppliers in Q1 2004, a 7.4% decline from Q4 2003 and a 12.9% increase YTY. The mobile graphics segment saw a 12.7% quarterly decline in shipments but achieved 29.1% growth YTY, outpacing a 9.9% annual growth...
- Tags: YTY, Q1 2004, graphics
- Blog posts 2004-07-26
- IDC reports server market shares for Q1 2004, Linux up 56.9% in dollar sales
- The server market expanded 7.3% in Q1 2004 to $11.5 bln as business buying pushed the market to its fourth consecutive quarter of growth, according to IDC. Shipments climbed a strong 22.4% from a year ago, and machines running the freeware software Linux sprinted ahead by 56.9% in dollar sales....
- Tags: Q1 2004, International Data Corp., sales
- Blog posts 2004-07-26
- Direct server sales up 40% in Q1 2004
- The recently published U.S. Server Channels Tracker reveals that the number of server units sold through direct channels grew 40% in Q1 2004 compared with Q1 2003, while sales through indirect channels grew at 9%. In terms of factory revenues, dollars from server sales through direct channels grew at 9.6%...
- Tags: server
- Blog posts 2004-07-14
- US home prices up 8.1% in Q1 2004
- Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight says US home prices went up by 8.1% in Q1 2004 if compared to Q1 2003, and up by 0.96% if compared to Q4 2003. The biggest price increases during the past year occurred in Hawaii, Nevada, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia and...
- Tags: Q1 2004
- Blog posts 2004-06-01
- Server sales increase 27.1% in Q1 2004 in numbers, 9.3% in revenues
- The number of servers sold worldwide increased by 27.1% in Q1 2004 to 1.57 mln units, with a clear move by users towards low-end servers and the Linux operating system, Gartner said. The growth in the low-end market meant that server hardware revenues only rose by 9.3% compared with the...
- Tags: revenue, server, server hardware, Q1 2004
- Blog posts 2004-05-26
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