If you’re running a business that has a presence in a virtual world, market research firm Gartner thinks you might want to make sure your employees’ avatars aren’t dressed like Lady Gaga at the VMAs.
Personal computer sales in the June quarter were probably about average for this time of year, writes Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope this morning in a note to clients, and he expects Apple to be “best in show” among PC vendors in the quarter.
Intel certainly isn’t immune to the downturn in the economy–a decline that both IDC and Gartner today said will result in a big dropoff in 2009 semiconductor industry revenue.
But Barclays Capital analyst Tim Luke today asserted that Intel might not be hurt quite as badly as some other chipmakers.
Admit it. When you read that headline–“Gartner: 85 percent of enterprises using open source”–you assumed that was a good thing, right? Who’s afraid of enterprises saving a lot of money and getting much more flexible IT for their IT budgets?
Worldwide smartphone sales grew 15.7 percent in Q2 from a year earlier, Gartner announced this morning. The research firm says smartphones remained 11 percent of the mobile device market, unchanged from a year earlier.
Worldwide server sales rose 12.2 percent, year over year, to 2.3 million units, in the second quarter, declares research firm Gartner (IT) in a note today, while revenue was up 5.7 percent for a total of $13.8 billion.
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