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Q1 2006 mobile phone sales likely to exceed Q1 2005 sales by 20%

Preliminary data indicates Q1 2006 sales of mobile phones will be up 20% or more over Q1 2005 as the Chinese new year becomes more significant and Christmas campaigns in many other markets are extended, Gartner said. In Q4 2005, the mobile phone market remained strong with sales exceeding 235...

Tags: mobile phone, mobile, Gartner Inc.

Blog posts 2006-02-28

US e-commerce up 3.3% in Q4 2005, 2.4% of all sales were e-commerce

US e-commerce grew 3.3% in Q4 2005, a slower growth rate than the Q3 2005 and Q4 2004, the Commerce Department reported. E-commerce rose to a seasonally adjusted $22.94 bln in Q4 2005. E-commerce sales accounted for 2.4% of total sales, exceeding the previous record of 2.3% set in Q3...

Tags: Q4 2005, e-commerce

Blog posts 2006-02-18

EMEA PC market up 18.9% in Q4 2005

In line with expectations, the EMEA PC market displayed solid growth in the final quarter of the year, expanding by 18.9% year on year in Q4 2005. Boosted by strong consumer sales and the continued momentum in the notebook space, shipments rose to 22.3 mln units across Europe, the Middle...

Tags: Q4 2005, EMEA PC market, desktop

Blog posts 2006-01-23

Additional Resources

GPU shipments fall Q1 '08

According to Jon Peddie Research, GPU shipments this quarter fell by levels not seen since 2005. The report shows that GPU shipments fell by 5.6% compared to Q4 07. However, on a positive note, shipments are up 20% compared to Q1 07. ...

Tags: Shipment, GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Will Apple split its stock?

Apple keeps seeing strong growth of its iPod and Macintosh computer lines. And this week it will release Mac OS X Leopard, which unlike Microsoft's experience with Windows Vista early in the year, should be another winner for Apple. But will Cupertino do as it has done in the past...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Stock, Apple Inc., Investment, Desktops, Finance, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Open source in its boom phase

Open source in its boom phaseBoom? Is that what happens when it goes up in smoke?If there is a boom in open source I can't tell. The numbers in the market haven't changed much at all. Unfortunately with some open source moving to the GPL-3 we'll never...

Tags: UNIX, open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-09-13

AMD marketing and sales chief Henri Richard departs

AMD marketing and sales chief Henri Richard departsSounds like sour grapes to me.Why didn't OEMs jump on the AMD band wagon? Because that is a HUGE leap of faith and people are resistant to change. Because AMD CPUs simply under perform compared to Intels. Becaue AMD has...

Tags: Virtualization, Utility computing, Storage management, Processors, INTEL FSB, sales, marketing, Windows64, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Yeah

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Skype fiscals prove it's not the phone calls, but the services

Parsing Skype parent eBays 4Q and 2006 earnings reports today, we learn that: Skype net revenues totaled $66 million in Q4-06, a growth rate of 164% over the $25 million reported in Q4-05. The Q4-05 revenue amount represented the operations of Skype from the acquisition date of October 14,...

Tags: General, Skype, News, Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2007-01-24

The ultimate revenge? Novell's Allison to join Google

The ultimate revenge? Novell's Allison to join Googleawesomeit'd be nice to see more people leave the dark sideMJF Should joinMary-Jo Foley should join the National Enquirer. Her type of journalism would be more at home there. Let's keep ZDNet to news and facts not GOSSIP...So much for principleI suspect, due...

Tags: Operating systems, VPNs, Servers, Network security, Reuters Ltd., Novell Inc., Allison, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-12-21

EMEA WLAN market up 33% in Q4 2005

IDC reports that EMEA WLAN customer revenue increased by 33% to $665.8 mln during Q4 2005, compared to $499.5 mln in Q3 2005. The total EMEA market revenue reached $2 bln in 2005, representing a growth of 52% compared to 2004. Revenue for WLAN infrastructure increased by 46.6%, while revenue...

Tags: EMEA WLAN, revenue

Blog posts 2006-03-14

4.2 mln Taiwanese PDAs shipped in Q4 2005

Market Intelligence Center indicated that the Taiwanese PDA industry is expected to ship 4.2 mln units in Q4 2005, up 20% QTQ, pushed by the peak retail season. For the full year of 2005, shipment volume is forecasted at 13.7 mln units, representing annual growth of 52%. The production value...

Tags: PDA, shipment volume

Blog posts 2006-03-08

EMEA routet market up 12.3% in Q4 2005

IDC says that in Q4 2005 the EMEA router market grew strongly by 12.3% to $1.3 bln compared to $1.2 mln in Q3 2005. The small SOHO segment, the largest segment measured in revenue in Q4 2005 and which includes wireless routers, increased a whopping 53.2% from $360.5 mln in...

Tags: Q4 2005

Blog posts 2006-03-07

EMEA LAN switch market up by 10.6% in Q4 2005

In Q4 2005 the LAN switch market in EMEA continued to grow in terms of both port shipments and revenues. Port shipments increased by 10.6% from 18.5 mln ports in Q3 2005 to 20.5 mln ports in Q4 2005, and revenues increased slightly by 0.8% to $1,267.5 mln in Q4...

Tags: Q4 2005

Blog posts 2006-03-05

EMEA server revenues down 4.4% in Q4 2005

Following 10 consecutive quarters posting positive annual growth, the EMEA server market ended 2005 with a revenue slowdown. Factory revenue generated by server sales declined by 4.4% in Q4 2005 over Q4 2004 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according to IDC. Unit shipments in EMEA, however, continued to...

Tags: EMEA Server Market

Blog posts 2006-03-02

676K servers sold in EMEA market in Q4 2005

Following 10 consecutive quarters posting positive annual growth, the EMEA server market ended 2005 with a revenue slowdown. Factory revenue generated by server sales declined by 4.4% in Q4 2005 over Q4 2004 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according to IDC. Unit shipments in EMEA, however, continued to...

Tags: Q4 2005, EMEA Server Market

Blog posts 2006-02-25

Global handheld market down 16.7% in 2005

The worldwide market for handheld devices swelled to its largest quarterly shipment volume all year, reaching 2.2 mln units during Q4 2005, growing 37.6% QTQ. According to IDC, growth was driven largely by a combination of holiday sales and larger shipment volumes of devices that were introduced earlier in the...

Tags: handheld, shipment volume

Blog posts 2006-02-02

Ray Lane offers key stepping stones across today's no man's land of selling software

Excellent insights and advice from Kleiner Perkin's Ray Lane on the ramifications of the business model turmoil in the software business. Whether you are buying, selling, investing in, or developing software, this article is absolutely required reading.One of the things among many that jumped out at me was the need...

Tags: software, Ray Lane

Blog posts 2006-01-12

$26.5 purchases online with Visa cards in Q4 2005

Online sales on Visa-branded payment cards rose 33.7% to $26.5 bln in Q4 2005, up from $19.83 bln in Q4 2004, according to Visa USA SpendTrak, which measures spending on Visa-branded credit, debit and commercial cards.

Tags: Q4 2005, Visa International

Blog posts 2006-01-05

Mobile phone sales to reach 800 mln units in 2005, average price $146

Mobile phone makers are expected to sell more than 800 mln units worldwide in 2005, up from earlier estimates of around 775 mln handsets. Q3 2005 sales will amount to 209 mln units. Global shipments for Q1-Q3 2005 were 566 mln handsets ahead of the traditionally strong Q4, said Strategy...

Tags: Cellular phones, mobile phone, sales

Blog posts 2005-10-26

US online spending reaches $19.8 bln in Q1 2005

Americans spent $19.8 bln online in Q1 2005, a 6.4% increase from Q4 2004 and 24% increase Q1 2004, the Census Bureau reported. However, online retail sales represent a mere 2.2% of US Q1 2005 retail sales.

Tags: Q1 2005

Blog posts 2005-06-27