Worldwide device shipments (i.e. PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to total 2.4 billion units in 2013, a 9 percent increase from 2012, and forecast to continue growing to reach more than 2.9 billion…
The fourth quarter 2012 Japan Quarterly Mobile Device Tracker shows that smartphone shipment volumes increased 29.2 percent year-over-year. Japan now comprises 8.8 percent of total smartphone shipments, according to International Data Corporation. The ratio of…
Tablet ownership in Western Europe is set to quadruple in the next five years as the percentage of online consumers to own a tablet increases from 14% in 2012 to 55% in 2017, according to…
As consumers transition their digital lives away from PCs and into personal clouds, a new type of interaction technology is emerging between them and their connected devices: cognizant computing. According to a new report from…
According to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC), smart connected device shipments rose 28.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 to 367.7 million units shipped, http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23958513. Tablet shipments experienced the highest level…
Twenty-two percent of U.S. consumers spend $50 or more per month and nine percent spend $100 or more using tablets, a much higher than spending level than that observed by smartphone owners, according to a…
ABI Research projects one billion cameras were shipped in smartphones and tablets in 2012, according to new research released by the company. Almost every smartphone shipped today has an embedded rear camera and one in…
In the third quarter of 2012, the Japan mobile device market, including PCs, smartphones, tablets, mobile cards, and personal routers, grew 25.6 percent, according to the International Data Corp. (IDC). A whopping 13.56 million units…
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. The 2013 outlook for IT spending…
Global tablet applications processor market showed a robust 77 percent year-on-year growth in Q3 2012 to reach $0.9 billion, according to the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service report, “Tablet Apps Processor Market Share Q3…
