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• Analyst firm predicts a billion mobile devices online by 2013

  The growing demand for online applications could push the number of mobile devices accessing the internet past 1 billion by 2013, according to research firm IDC.

• IDC unveils NZ predictions for 2010

  IDC launched its predictions for 2010 last week, featuring consolidated buying in government and a restructure of the ultra-fast broadband plan that, in part, appears to support statements made last week by controversial analyst Paul Budde.
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• 2009: The year the cloud was seeded

  The economic downturn may have dominated the agenda for much of 2009 but it was also the year the cloud was seeded, according to analyst firm IDC.

• 2009: An annus horribilis for IT management

  2009 has turned out to be a far worse year for CIOs and IT managers than anyone expected, according to IDC.

• Cost focus changes CIO reporting lines

  The number of Australian and New Zealand CIOs reporting directly to the CEO has fallen sharply, according to new research from IDC.
  The analyst firm says due to the greater focus on reducing costs and doing more with less, just 50 percent of CIOs are now reporting to their CEOs. In the same study last year, 78 percent reported to the CEO.

• Is SharePoint unstoppable, or mostly smoke and mirrors?

  Guessing what eye-popping growth figures Microsoft will trumpet for its popular portal and collaboration app, SharePoint, has become an annual parlor game for fans and detractors alike.

• Mac sales 'defy all logic', says analyst

  Apple's Mac sales in the US last quarter were up between 7% and 12%, according to estimates published yesterday by research firms Gartner and IDC.

• Mainframes set to be around for a while yet

  Some industry observers still like to talk down the prospects of the mainframe, saying it is not the corporate platform of the future, but the Big Iron keeps on ticking.

• Windows 7 ramp-up will be sharp

  Just more than a year after it launches, Windows 7 will account for nearly half of all the client operating systems Microsoft ships to corporate users, according to forecasts by IDC.

• IDC finds recession driving down storage spending

  Hard times are driving large enterprises to patch holes in their storage architectures with systems designed for small and medium-sized businesses, one reason enterprise disk storage revenue fell 18.2 per cent in the first quarter of this year, according to research company IDC.

• Server sales dropping faster than in dot-com crash

  Intel and AMD are spicing up the server market with ever-faster processors, but server vendors have suffered the largest revenue decline seen this decade, research firm Gartner has found.

• Aust server figures show steep decline

  In Australia, the decline in server shipments has been even greater than the global average, IDC figures show.

• Global server revenue down sharply in Q1: IDC

  A precipitous fall in worldwide server shipments triggered a sharp decline in revenue for server makers during the first quarter of 2009, IDC says.

• Local PC market at lowest ebb in nine quarters

  Percentage growth in the local PC market plunged to its lowest level for nine consecutive quarters in the period ending December 2008. Growth declined 7% against the previous quarter, having fallen sharply throughout the year. Quarter on quarter growth declined throughout 2008, from about 13% to minus 7%.

• IDC predicts crisis will kill some PC makers

  With credit in a tight squeeze and the economy in free fall, the next few years should see the collapse of some small PC makers and a restructuring of the rest of the industry, according to an industry research firm.