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The economic slowdown is still hurting the global handset market, research firm Gartner Inc. said in its quarterly report on the industry.

IDC, a market-research firm, says power consumption is now one of systems managers' top five concerns.

Forecasts from IDC, another market-research firm, throw light on why HP is willing to pay so much.

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According to a recent study by YouGov SixthSense, a market-research firm, it is the fastest-growing sector in the British dairy industry.

Market-research firm Mintel sees double-digit sales gains in the U. S. this year for salty snacks, popcorn and cheese snacks.

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According to Ian Marriott of Gartner, a market-research firm, the industry has settled into a pattern of single-digit growth.

And market research firm Mintel predicts that the chocolate market will keep growing throughout the recession.

Meanwhile, market research firm Euromonitor has its own predictions about India.

Nonetheless, Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at the Standard and Poor's market research firm, says banks are cautious.

The latest tap on the glass by GfK NOP, a market-research firm, revealed an astonishing pessimism, with a reading of minus 30 in March.

Take a look at this list from market research firm IBISWorld. It's for U. S. industries, and it's sorted by industry size.

NASS is a product category term recently coined by Peripheral Concepts, Inc. Santa Barbara-based market research firm.

Americans bought $13. 8 billion of men's and women's jeans in the year ended April 30, according to market-research firm NPD Group.

According to market-research firm IDC, Apple had 9. 4% of that market in the second quarter of 2010, up from 4. 6% a year earlier.

Mr. Otellini noted that the market-research firm Gartner Inc. predicts personal-computer unit sales will decline about 10% this year.

More than 200 operators around the world are preparing to deploy WiMax or have begun trials, says TeleGeography, a market-research firm.

Market research firm eMarketer released a new report today that examines how men behave differently than women online.

Teaming up with Microsoft would indeed have benefits, says Ben Wood of CCS Insight, another market research firm.

That number is likely to more than double by 2014, a report from the market research firm eMarketer said.

Much is at stake: this year companies will spend about $100 billion on data centres, according to IDC, a market-research firm.

But the San Diego market research firm Strategic Vision offers a countervailing point of view.

That number is likely to more than double by 2014, a report from the market research firm e Marketer said.

A 2008 study from market research firm Mintel reported that half of adults find the variety of shampoos and conditioners overwhelming.

"The target audience is everyone, " said Michael Gartenberg, vice president for strategy and analysis at Interpret, a market research firm.

Teaming up with Microsoft has its benefits, says Ben Wood of CCS Insight, another market-research firm.

The overall market for alcoholic drinks is declining as well, according to Intage, a market-research firm.

Sales of laptop computers passed desktops in the U. S. for the first time ever last fall, according to market-research firm IDC.

It will nearly eclipse standard screen dimensions by the end of 2009, the market research firm estimates.

Demand for NAND memory for tablets is expected to expand over 400 percent this year, market research firm IHS iSuppli said on Friday.

But Paul Jackson of Forrester, a market-research firm, worries that Nokia will end up overpaying.

At the end of 2012, predicts Gartner, a market-research firm, Android phones will have a bigger share of the market than iPhones.

ComScore, a market-research firm, reckons that last October big social-networking sites received over 800m visitors.

The stock-market research firm concluded that the rampaging gains of the past 10 months are unlikely to repeat themselves.

Operators are too powerful simply to roll over, says John Delaney of IDC, a market-research firm.

A report by market-research firm Synovate found that 52% of Hong Kongers said they had recycled waste at home in the past week.

China in the second quarter surpassed the U. S. to become the world's biggest PC market, according to market research firm IDC.

And utilities around the world lose between 25% and 50% of treated water to leaks, according to Lux Research, a market-research firm.

In the first quarter, it made 15. 7% of PCs sold globally, compared with 14. 8% a year ago, according to IDC, a market research firm.

Sales of nail-enhancing goodies like nail polish are up 65% since the first half of 2008, according to market research firm NPD Group.

According to iSuppli, a market-research firm, "Reports of Windows Mobile's death are greatly exaggerated. "

Intel's market share has sunk in most categories of computers, according to Gartner, a market research firm (see chart).

Meanwhile, market research firm The NPD Group has reported gains of 30 percent year-over-year in early returns.

J. D. Power, a market research firm, forecasts that the share of the market taken by diesel cars will quadruple from today's 3. 2% by 2015.

Nielsen, a market-research firm, reckons the devices make up the majority of mobile-phone purchases in America.

Games sales in America in October totalled $697m, 35% more than a year earlier, according to NPD, a market-research firm.

In America, the world's biggest PC market, this will happen by the end of the year, accord in g to IDC, a market-research firm.

Gartner, a market-research firm, predicts that the overall tablet market will reach nearly 55m units in 2011.

Informa, a market-research firm, projects revenues from content and data services of $240 billion by 2012.

Amazingly, Toyota now ranks below Hummer, according to market-research firm YouGov's BrandIndex daily poll of Americans.

According to the market research firm Gartner, BlackBerrys accounted for about 20 per cent of new smartphone sales from April to June 2010.

Sales for the whole of China were estimated at Rmb11bn according to China Reports Hall, a market research firm based in Xiamen.

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The mere act of asking people to register caused its market share to drop by half, according to Hitwise, a market-research firm.

According to IDC, a market-research firm, a quarter of corporate data centres in America have run out of space for more servers.

Market-research firm Gartner Inc. (IT) forecasts Android will account for 49% of the smartphone market by 2012, up from about 23% in 2010.

China's dairy market more than doubled from 2003 to 2008, market research firm Euromonitor says.

According to the market research firm iSuppli, the basic TouchPad cost Hewlett-Packard $306 to build.

Historically, network operators have been in the strongest position, explains Ben Wood of CCS Insight, a market-research firm.

Market research firm Gartner estimated that 103. 5 million tablet devices will be sold in 2012 with Apple accounting for two-thirds.

In June a poll carried out by GfK, a market-research firm, found that 60% of Swedish file-sharers had cut back or stopped altogether.

Sales of OLED displays in 2006 reached $615m, says Vinita Jakhanwal of iSuppli, a market-research firm.

Gartner, a market-research firm, reckons global handset sales will shrink by around 4% to 1. 2 billion units.

In America alone, over 250m people each spend an average of 10. 5 hours a week gaming, according to TNS, a market-research firm.

according to App Annie, a market-research firm.

Connected TVs now make up 12 percent of all flat panel sales, according to market research firm NPD Group.

Even so, around 5m e-readers will be sold worldwide in 2009, according to iSuppli, a market-research firm, and a further 12m in 2010.

Shoppers spent $534m online on Black Friday, up from $531m in 2007, according to comScore, a market-research firm.

HP claimed over 22% of the market in the second quarter, according to IDC, a market-research firm. Lenovo was third with 10. 3%.

America alone has more than 7, 000 data centres, according to IDC, a market-research firm.

The average wedding this year is estimated to cost $24, 641, down 14% since 2007, according to the Wedding Report, a market-research firm.

According to a market research firm of California, the US, the total value of the world solar energy market last year was USD 3bn.

Overall sales of video games have been 11 percent higher so far this year than last year, according to NPD Group, a market research firm.

Apple accounts for 69% of online music sales in America and 35% of all sales, more than Wal-Mart, reckons NPD Group, a market-research firm.

According to Mintel, a market-research firm, sales of white sugar fell by 16% in real terms between 2002 and 2006.

Visits to stores rose 6. 5 percent in the week ending December 26, according to the NPD Group, a market research firm.

Wood Mackenzie, a market-research firm, expects sales to increase from $10. 9 billion in 2005 to $18. 2 billion in 2010 (see chart).

Sales of e-readers are expected to reach 12m this year, up from 5m in 2009 and 1m in 2008, according to iSuppli, a market-research firm.

U. S. jewelry sales fell 2. 7% in 2008 and another 1. 6% in 2009, according to market-research firm Mintel International Group Ltd.

Last year, 69 new toothpastes hit store shelves, down from 102 in 2007, according to market-research firm Mintel International Group.

Last year about 13% of website visits in America were pornographic in nature, according to Hitwise, a market-research firm.

In June 2009, for example, sales of games in America were 31% lower than in June 2008, according to NPD, a market-research firm.

According to market research firm iResearch Inc. , Ctrip now commands 55. 6% of online travel sales compared to eLong's 9. 8%