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One in five wireless users take pictures with their phones at least once a week, according to the Internet marketing research firm comScore.

s next Samsung, but I would definitely not count it out, " said Matt Walker, principal analyst at research firm Ovum. "

According to Capital Economics, a research firm in London, however, the next trouble spot could be Venezuela.

IDC, a research firm, predicts that the market for tablets, which Apple dominates, will more than quadruple in the next two years.

"It was very easy to bring them together and offer the UAE a complete package, " says Mark Yoon of CLSA, a financial-research firm.

In April the Bank Credit Analyst, an independent research firm, asked what would happen if China suffered a "hard landing" .

Research firm Dragonomics calculates that China's per-capita capital stock in 2010 was just 6% to 7% of that in the U.

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

Shoppers continued to shun the high street in March, according to the "FootFall" index compiled by Experian, a consumer-research firm.

It recently climbed back to the No. 1, according to research firm Dealogic, but the fact that it had to stage a come back was unusual.

The research firm found that the Web helps 55. 6 percent of men and 51. 4 percent of women feel more "able to to meet new people. "

Besides, I worked for a research firm as a part-time job, whose primary content are market supervision and market information collection.

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

"It would be a full-employment act for lawyers, " says Lou Crandall of Wrightson ICAP, a research firm.

Research firm Creative Strategies estimates that 55% of iPhone sales are now from outside of the U. S. , up from about 25% two years ago.

EMISSIONS trading, says Ian Johnson of IDEAcarbon, a research firm, "is not an easy concept to understand" .

One gold bear, Julian Jessop, chief international economist of London research firm Capital Economics, changed his mind last week.

The analysis on which I base these comments was conducted by Ned Davis Research, the institutional research firm based in Venice, Florida.

'I wanted to try a robot waiter made of bread, ' says Mr. McManus, CEO of Maya Design, a local design and research firm.

The Nilson Report, a research firm, says that the industry is still only two-thirds of the way through booking losses.

"Now we have to go back on focusing on credit quality, " said Nancy Bush, managing member of NAB Research LLC, an independent research firm.

Breakfast has the potential to be very lucrative, says Sara Senatore of Bernstein, a research firm, because the margins can be high.

A recent survey from the research firm Gallup & Robinson highlights that sense of independence.

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

He joined a small market-research firm, which promoted the junior analyst to executive vice president within two years.

"The experience we had from the late 1970s to the late 1990s was an aberration, " said Barry Ritholtz of the equity research firm Fusion IQ.

Perhaps distracted by the takeover, it was unprepared for the PC market's shift to consumers, says Bryan Ma of IDC, a research firm.

For Jason Trennert, founder of economic-research firm Strategas Research Partners, the moment to throw in the towel came Aug. 2, he says.

Paul French, founder of retail research firm Access Asia, says Walmart would have been wiser to retain the executives and simply apologise.

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

It is not a simple matter just to boycott all Chinese goods, said Matthew Crabbe, managing director of research firm Access Asia.

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

Even with do-it-yourself solutions available, hiring a professional market research firm can be worth the price.

The next big thing could be social games, says Guo Cheng Gang of Pacific Epoch, a research firm.

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

Still, there has been "more fear than facts" around the CDS market, says Brian Yelvington of Credit Sights, a research firm.

About 592 million rooms were booked through July, compared with 552 million a year ago, the research firm said.

Forrester, a research firm, thinks that Amazon could shift as many as 5m devices by the end of the year, if the price is right.

"It is quite likely that they will challenge HP for the top spot, " says Wang Ningyuan at CI Consulting, an industry research firm.

Currently less than a tenth of banks do so, says banking industry research firm Javelin Strategy & Research.

"Samsung buying SanDisk would mean big damage for Toshiba, " said Yoshihisa Toyosaki, head of IT research firm J-Star Inc.

Chinese hotel occupancy climbed 21% in the first half from a year earlier, according to research firm STR Global.

research firm. Of those categorized as "down and out, " 65 percent reported they were eating less nutritiously .

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

Don Phillips, managing director at research firm Morningstar Inc. , recommends putting tax-inefficient assets in retirement accounts.

PatientsLikeMe managed to block and identify the intruder: Nielsen Co. , the privately held New York media-research firm.

New Energy Finance, a research firm, reckons that less than one-third of the world's potential capacity has been developed.

Daryl Kimball, Executive Director of the Arms Control Association, a private research firm, says that treaty helped end the Cold War.

We asked Harry Balzer, vice president of the NPD Group research firm, to look at 30 years of data on what Americans eat.

"History should be kinder to Jerry Yang, " said Allen Weiner, managing vice president at the Gartner research firm.

Since 2005 there have been at least 46 buy-outs of nursing-home operators worldwide, according to Dealogic, a research firm.

An index of business confidence published by Ifo, a Munich research firm, jumped to a three-year high in October.

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.

'Apple moved the goal posts before most of their competitors even take the field, ' said Noah Elkin, an analyst at research firm eMarketer.

The recent rise, as Nariman Behravesh of the research firm IHS Global Insight notes, has relatively little to do with inflation fears.

High-frequency traders have roughly tripled their stock trades this month, estimates Tabb Group, a markets-research firm in New York.

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.

According to research firm IDC, world-wide PC shipments in the second quarter fell 3% from a year earlier.

So far this year, Western banks have issued $645 billion of bonds without government guarantees, according to Dealogic, a research firm.

The deal is the largest buy-out so far this year in the beleaguered retail industry, according to Dealogic, a research firm.

Another study, initiated by research firm Oxford Economics, has established a link between business travel and business growth.

'Mainstream America is taking a wait-and-see approach, ' said Sarah Epps, an analyst with technology research firm Forrester Research.

Yet analysis by BCA Research, a Canadian research firm, finds surprisingly little evidence of wasteful overinvestment to date.

A recent study by American research firm Gartner suggested that IT now causes two percent of global emissions.

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

But in recent months, points out Simon Hayley, of Capital Economics, a research firm, shares and commodities have begun moving in tandem.

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.

'Everyone is racing to catch up with Apple, ' said Maribel Lopez, chief executive of telecom research firm Lopez Research.

"The biggest declines, they're all behind us now, " said Nigel Gault, chief domestic economist at Global Insight, a research firm.

According to research firm Gartner, sales of tablet PCs are likely to quadruple in the next four years to almost 294m units.

But research firm Nanex LLC said on Friday that the trades by Waddell occurred after the market had already bottomed.

New Energy Finance, a research firm, expects the output of silicon for the solar industry almost to double next year.

'There's a terrific market out there for used handsets, ' says Ramon Llamas, an analyst at research firm International Data Corp.

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

That means close to 30% of investment is neither clearly state sector nor clearly private sector, according to Dragonomics, a research firm.

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

Prospective students should instead be wary of other things, says Al Lee of PayScale, an employment data research firm.

The roles of different computers are changing for consumers, said Helen Chiang, analyst for research firm IDC in Taipei.

The industries with the most companies on the research firm's innovators list were semiconductors and chemicals.

But "the real money is where the pain is" , says Jean Ross of the California Budget Project, a research firm in Sacramento.

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

Judah Cohen is the director of seasonal forecasting at an atmospheric and environmental research firm.

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.

The economists also used a research firm to survey all the citizens about their spending habits.

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.

In April, research firm Gartner said that it expects nearly 468 million smartphones to be shipped worldwide in 2011.

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.

Most countries require ISPs to offer content filtering, said John Pescatore of research firm Gartner Inc.

The research firm said that computer hardware including Apple Inc's iPad and laptop computers drove most of the growth.

According to J. D. Power & Associates, a marketing research firm, half of the hybrids sold in the U. S. are Priuses.

"Android has tremendous momentum, " said A. M. Sacconaghi Jr. , an analyst with the research firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.

'China is a lower priority for Apple, ' says Charles Smulders, managing vice president of client computing for research firm Gartner Inc.

Despite Barack Obama's claim that green jobs cannot be outsourced, a study by Brown-Wilson Group, a research firm, finds that they can.

But experts looking for shopping patterns are flummoxed, says Tim Denison at Synovate, a research firm.

A recent study by the Battelle Memorial Institute, a research firm, predicts that China's spending will match ours around 2022.

In comparison, research firm eMarketer said the U. S. online ad market last year reached $26 billion.

Paul French is the Chief China Analyst at Access Asia, a consumer markets research firm. He lives in Shanghai.

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

Software, then, would lag by the research firm's standard of global significance.

According to comScore, a research firm, the Huffington Post attracted 25m unique users to its site in December.

It's a very competitive sector in which Tudou is the No. 2 player by ad revenue, according to Beijing research firm Analysys International.

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.

IBISWorld is the FIRST research firm to offer key statistics and in-depth analysis on every sector of the US economy.

Sarah Rotman Epps of Forrester, a research firm, reckons high prices will prove fatal for these rivals.

Today, 'tens of thousands' of patients are still on the dual therapy, according to research firm SDI.

That, said Leslie Fiering, a senior analyst with research firm Gartner, was not good news for the customer.

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

Janet Zhang, an economist at Beijing-based research firm Dragonomics, says the price effect is especially marked in 2011.

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

People has launched an iPhone application and its website receives 13m unique visitors per month, according to comScore, a research firm.

The United States had an estimated 223. 1 million Internet users in June, according to Nielsen Online, a research firm.

Still, gold isn't expensive , on a historical basis, when compared with stocks, according to research firm Leuthold Group.

(CNET) -- Symbian and Android will dominate the mobile operating system market by 2014, research firm Gartner said Friday.

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

Some commentators, such as Tim Lee of, a research firm, have consistently warned that investors have become complacent.

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.

Research firm NPD Group said Microsoft users were switching from Windows XP and Windows Vista to Windows 7 in significant numbers.

According to Data Explorers, a research firm, only 4. 5% of the FTSE 100 index's value is out on loan.

Venture capital is starting to flow to the industry again after a severe slowdown, according to San Francisco research firm Cleantech Group.

"This shows that Nokia really is under attack from all sides, " said Geoff Blaber, analyst at CCS Insight, a telecoms research firm.

U. S. -based research firm comScore Inc. has a more conservative estimate of just 283 million users.

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.

Research firm TARP has found that for every person who complains, there are 26 who do not.

"It gives them technology bragging rights, " said Nathan Brookwood, head of industry research firm Insight 64.

Prices are now on a downward spiral, says Ben Wood of CCS Insight, a 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.

One research firm, Inside Network, recently reported that Facebook's U. S. users dropped six million to 149 million during May.

Data from online research firm Hitwise shows that traffic to the site has increased 22-fold in the last 12 months.

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

On a seasonally adjusted basis, light-vehicle sales in September were the lowest since 1992, according to Autodata Corp, a research firm.

They represent nearly 60% of sales and 80-90% of its profits, estimates Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm.

A nationwide survey of 500 mothers by research firm Braun Research found 54 percent of respondents said they were not getting enough sleep.

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

The report is from research firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

More than 50 million DVB-H phones are expected to be sold globally by 2010, according to estimates from Research firm Informa.

Sales of smartphones globally grew almost 50 percent in the first three months of this year, according to the research firm Gartner.

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.

Samsung Electronics has overtaken Nokia to become the world's largest maker of mobile phones, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

Research firm Gartner predicts that the Android OS may end up ranking second worldwide by 2012.

Earlier this week research firm Ovum forecast that Symbian phones will continue on some markets into 2016.

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

US industry sales are up 25 per cent so far this year, according to the NPD research firm.

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

According to Steve Cramoysan, a research director at Gartner, the research firm, current authentication methods on the phone are inadequate.

According to Steven Zausner of CreditSights, a research firm, the curve is as steep as it has been at any time over the past 20 years.

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.

Research firm iSuppli estimates that Apple earns a profit margin of more than 50 percent for iPhone.

Paul Kapustka is editor and founder of Sidecut Reports, an independent research firm that specialzes in wireless technologies.

Mark W. Johnson is Chairman and Co-Founder of innovation consulting and research firm, Innosight.

'You have to realize that risk is a fact of life, ' says Richard Peterson, a psychiatrist and director at research firm MarketPsych Data.

According to research firm IDC, Apple has less than 1% share of unit shipments in the PC market.

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.

Such funds were up by a modest 3. 4% over the first eight months of the year, according to the Hennessee Group, a research firm.

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

The top two video sites, Youku and Tudou, have 21% and 17%, respectively, according to research firm Analysys International.

This "flat out didn't work, " says Matt Rosoff of Directions on Microsoft, a specialist research firm.

Low-income people were hit hardest, according to Multi-Sponsor Surveys, a Princeton, N. J. , research firm.

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.

According to SNL Financial, a research firm, big banks are making higher returns on equity than smaller ones.

Users of those devices fire up twice as many apps a month as BlackBerry users do, according to Zokem, a research firm.

According to research firm Sageworks, it's dentists, accountants, lawyers, doctors, and some other service businesses.

Thirty-seven fund companies had segregated account licences as of June, according to data from research firm Howbuy Fund Consultancy.

Gartner, the global IT research firm, has forecast global PC market growth at 10 per cent this year.

Last month, research firm DisplaySearch raised its forecast for 2009 LCD TV sales, predicting a 21 percent rise in shipments.

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

In Britain, internet shopping now accounts for nearly 4% of total retail sales, according to Planet Retail, a research firm.

A new study from research firm NPD Group found that 82 percent of American children (55. 7 million) say that they are "current games. "

"They know how to take people's money quickly and efficiently, " says Mike McGuire of Gartner, a research firm.

According to Data Explorers, the research firm which produces the indicator, it is a way to track the negative sentiment of investors.

In December Truvia captured 58% of retail sales in the stevia-sweetener market, according to ACNielsen, a research firm.

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

The first glimpse into demand for Windows 7 came from NPD Group, a research firm that tracks retail sales.

In the first quarter of this year the average American spent 158 hours per month in front of the box, according to Nielsen, a research firm.

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

The one billionth computer is sold, data research firm Gartner says.

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

By March of this year, Acer shipped 38% of all netbooks, versus 30% for Asustek, according to research firm DisplaySearch.

American banks have only $10 billion of their own capital invested in hedge funds, according to Preqin, a research firm.

According to Foresight Analytics, a research firm, at current values half of the debt coming due this year in America is in negative equity.

Research firm IHS Global Insight expects global production of vehicles this year to fall 18% to 56 million.

"They thought they were fine-tuning, " says Arthur Kroeber at Dragonomics, a research firm in China.

Roubini's research firm estimates that China has wasted $1. 4 trillion since 2008 on investments that will likely end up as bad debts.

They manufactured 147 million notebooks for the brand companies in 2009, according to Taiwan research firm DigiTimes Research.

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

Each year, the world spends $24 billion on soap bars or liquid gels and wash, according to Euromonitor International, a research firm.

Revenue should reach roughly $25 billion this year, according to research firm IBISWorld.

Go to a market research firm or temp agency and ask them to source participants to a certain profile.

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

In 2007, Nokia's Symbian operating system commanded 64 per cent of the smartphone market, according to Gartner, the 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.

PC shipments in the Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan, grew 17 percent in the third quarter, research firm IDC said on Tuesday.

'They have three solid revenue streams, ' that is 'really a good sign, ' said analyst Debra Aho Williamson of research firm eMarketer.

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.

By 2007 Splenda had seized 61% of sugar-substitute sales in grocery and drug stores according to Information Resources Inc, a research firm.

According to research firm InternBridge. com, 60 percent of students say internships are now mandatory for graduation at their schools.

Overall foot traffic in New York City stores increased almost 50 percent, according to the research firm ShopperTrak.

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

In 1996 a ticket to one of America's top 100 concert tours cost $25. 81, according to Pollstar, a research firm that tracks the market.

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

The research firm iSuppli expects China's gray-market mobile phone shipments to rise to 255 million this year, up 12% from 2010.

Already, Chinese film studios produced 15% more films in 2010 compared with the year before, according to media research firm EntGroup Inc.

Research firm IHS iSuppli recently said it projects that by 2015, 22. 9% of notebook shipments worldwide will be ARM-based systems.

The figures were compiled by ShopperTrak RCT Corp. , a Chicago research firm that tracks sales at more than 50, 000 stores.

Forrester, a research firm, reckons such activity will help boost sales of electronic readers from 3m units this year to 13m by 2013.

Despite the low price, high volumes mean the market will grow to $6. 8 billion in 2010, IT research firm Gartner predicts.

JPMorgan Chase alone could have to stump up $2. 6 billion, according to CreditSights, a research firm.

According to GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), a research firm, bosses' pay rose sharply in 2010.

London-based research firm Ovum forecasts global mobile-data revenue to rise 10% to US$1 trillion in 2015 from US$906. 82 billion this year.

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

Tablet devices are expected to displace 10% of PC shipments by 2014, according to the research firm.

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.

At the end of 2009, Android OS had just 3. 9 percent market share, the research firm reported.

Projections from research firm Dragonomics show China's current-account surplus as a share of GDP dropping by half in the last year to 5%.

Research firm Analysys International said Google had 21. 6% of China's search market revenue as of the third quarter, while Baidu had 73%.

According to research firm Gartner, in 2008 there were more than one billion PCs in use, and by 2014 there will be two billion in use.

Americans invested almost $30 billion in the sector in 2006, according to New Energy Finance, a research firm.

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

saw the most visits on Cyber Monday, according to Brand Keys, a marketing research firm.

But most bigger banks are still grappling with how to move forward, according to Martin Whybrow of IBS Intelligence, a research firm.

JD Power, a research firm, ranks it top for customer service among large banks in America's mid-Atlantic region.

Capital Economics, a London research firm, expects them to reach 3. 5%.

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.

Over the past 20 years, the summer hasn't been kind to stocks, according to research firm Bespoke Investment Group.

DisplaySearch, the electronics research firm, forecasts that Chinese e-reader shipments will hit 800, 000 this year and jump to 3m in 2010.

Baidu has a 76% share of the market revenue generated by Internet searches in China, according to research firm Analysys International.

Last week, Gavekal Dragonomics, a research firm, forecast that export growth in China would reduce to just 9 per cent next year.

"It's more an art than a science, " says Paul Bard of Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm in America.

People aged 40 and over account for 62% of spending on music in Tesco, according to Kantar, a research firm.

Total loan volumes in the system could shrink by 10% between 2009 and 2011, says Analistas Financieros Internacionales, a research firm.

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.

In 2009 some 43% of Japan's population watched TV on mobile phones, according to Impress R D, a research firm.

Around 41% of funds in Asia manage $20m or less, and only 2% manage more than $1 billion, according to Eurekahedge, a research firm.

But tablets may still have a big impact, argues Carolina Milanesi of Gartner, another research firm.

Earlier this month, research firm IDC lowered its 2009 PC growth forecast, saying revenue would fall 5. 3% from this year.