Massive growth for Chinese smartphones
China’s mobile phone shipments registered 97-million units in Q1 2013, up 15% compared with the same period in 2012, while China’s smartphone shipments totalled 78-million units in Q1 2013, with a growth of 117% compared with the same period in 2012. International...Co-processing grows in HPC sites
The proportion of high performance computing (HPC) sites employing co-processors and accelerators more than doubled during the past two years, and a surprising two thirds of HPC sites are now performing big data analysis as part of their HPC workloads. This is...IDC lowers monitor forecast
Continued decline in demand for PC desktops has led International Data Corporation (IDC) to lower its estimate of PC monitors shipped in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) to 33,8-million units, down from its previous forecast of 34,7-million units for the quarter. In...Government IT spend still sluggish
Worldwide IT spending by government organisations is projected to total $449,5-billion in 2013, a slight decrease of 0,1% from 2012, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The forecast includes spending by government sector organizations on hardware, software,...Cloud migration still to happen
Claims that most organisations have moved, or are moving, to cloud e-mail or cloud office systems are not consistent with research by Gartner. Gartner estimates that there are currently about 50-million enterprise users of cloud office systems, which represent only 8%...