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Articles tagged with: Idc and Gps
Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?
The market for Western European converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to idc's European Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
Related Tags: android, google, t-mobile, 3g, windows-mobile, microsoft, nokia, sim, iphone, smartphone, samsung, eu, cisco, cisco, apple, itu, vodafone, smartphones, ibm, wind, ericsson, lg, htc, blackberry, compete, rim, blackberry-storm, touchscreen, blackberry-bold, oem, omnia, operating-system, windows, storm
Mobile email is a killer application for Australian SMBs
idc's latest end-user research reveals that over half of Australian Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) exhibit entrenched usage behaviour of mobile and wireless technology. more
Related Tags: mobile-email, mobile-data, voip, blackberry, Australia
Handheld Device Vendors Benefit from Dell's Departure
According to idc's Worldwide Handheld QView, vendors shipped a total of 720,000 units during the second quarter of 2007, a 43.5% decrease from the same quarter one year ago and a 21.8% decrease from the previous quarter. This marked the second consecutive quarter in which total worldwide shipments have not crested above the million unit mark. more