Smartphones reach key milestone

The smartphone market passed an important milestone in 2013 when worldwide shipments surpassed the 1-billion mark for the first time, driven by continued momentum from Android and iOS, says IDC. According to the company’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker,...

Who will the early beneficiaries of IoT be?

As the Internet of Things (IoT) market starts to coalesce in both concept and solution offering, International Data Corporation (IDC) recommends vendors take the next step and look at this huge IT opportunity in a more realistic and valuable framework. As exciting as...
The year of the enterprise

The year of the enterprise

The year ahead has been tipped as the year of the enterprise as regards telecommunications services, with IDC’s top 10 predictions for the African telecoms services market in 2014. Spiwe Chireka, program manager: telecoms and media – Africa at IDC, points out that...

Top storage trends automate, simplify IT

For many IT managers, storage has become too complex, hard to manage and expensive. According to IDC, businesses’ storage demands are growing in excess of 50 percent a year while their total available storage capacity is growing at half that rate. As a result of this,...

Gaming set to drive ad spend over $24bn

A new digital PC and Mac gaming software and services forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC) concludes that PC and Mac gamer spending and direct banner/video ad outlays across all digital channels will grow to over $24-billion worldwide by 2017. The...