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But that result was better than expected, and Gartner said the continued growth of low-cost laptops was a driving factor.

Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said the fact that Nokia maintained its outlook is a positive signal for many market watchers.

Partha Iyengar, India research director at Gartner, said the two economic giants are missing the forest for the trees.

Annette Zimmermann, a Gartner analyst, says Macrosense seems to have a novel offering, one with a potentially large market.

Lightly managed IaaS is overwhelmingly the most common scenario that Gartner's clients are trying to source.

Analysts seem to agree: Gartner refers to RIM as "the gold standard" for wireless security.

Gartner last month reported that third-quarter sales of laptop computers to consumers was 'the weakest in the last several years. '

The model of Android distribution also will cause smartphone prices to drop in the next two years, Gartner analysts said.

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

Gartner offers five key predictions where social software is headed over the next several years.

There were 81 million smartphones sold world-wide in the third quarter, the analysts at Gartner say, almost twice as many as a year earlier.

Remember the Gartner work, in the 1990s, on the "total cost of ownership" of a personal computer in a business?

A Gartner survey indicates that the number of enterprises planning to adopt service-oriented architecture is dropping dramatically.

It remarks that services like Twitter enable "new kinds of fast, witty, easy-to assimilate exchanges. "

Gartner said the economic slowdown is also a factor for weaker PC sales.

Analyst firm Gartner has just released its latest Hype Cycle white paper, detailing some of the biggest trends in technology this year.

He stated that Gartner was researching the strengths and weaknesses of each of the styles currently.

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

Even Gartner is convinced that the PCs will once again find a place in the hearts of consumers.

Also, research company Gartner recently released global smartphone numbers indicating Apple's iPhone doubled its worldwide marketshare.

"We do not expect demand to get better before second half of 2010, " said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi.

'The tablet is obviously one of the biggest challenges the PC has ever faced, ' said George Shiffler, a Gartner analyst.

According to Gartner analyst Steve Prentice, innovation is now coming from consumers and their favorite technologies.

Researchers at Gartner predict that by 2014 around a quarter of business apps will be created by workers who are not part of IT departments.

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

According to a Gartner survey the top trends in data centers are Client Computing, Server Platforms and Storage Evolution.

"Vertical integration is clearly the business model of the day, " Gartner Inc. analyst Van Baker said.

Gartner, Borlach and Wagner continue to make accusations of fraud despite inability to explain or replicate Bessler's demonstrations.

Overall, cellphone shipments are expected to increase by more than 30% this year, fueled by the rising white-box shipments, Gartner said.

Overall, SOA adoption in Europe is widespread, moderate in North America and lagging in Asia, the Gartner study showed.

As the chart below from Gartner's report shows, the most popular SaaS applications in the enterprise are content management, CRM, and ERP.

Overall, shipments of phones increased 35% in the third quarter from a year earlier to 417 million units, Gartner said.

According to Gartner Group, online sales will top billion worldwide. The United States accounts for most while Asia is rapidly catching up.

Gartner, a research and consulting firm, expects that this year only 3. 8% more laptop and desktop PCs will be shipped than in 2010.

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

Team member Keegan Gartner from Iowa State University (ISU) checks the rover's wiring before starting the Equipment Servicing Task.

Attitudes towards video communications have also changed, says Scott Morrison of Gartner, a market researcher.

Nokia Corp. of Finland ranked first with a 25. 1% share of the total 427. 8 million global unit sales, Gartner said.

Gartner also offers analysis of systematic application integration projects.

"The question is how [publishers] will react. Will they complain, capitulate, or will they pull out? "

Gartner said consumers also are 'temporarily, if not permanently, forgoing PC purchases in favor of media tablets. '

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

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

Finland's Nokia ranked first with a 25. 1% share of the total 427. 8 million global unit sales, Gartner said.

The personal market appears to be shrinking, according to the market research firms Gartner and IDC.

Gartner describes its tablet operating system, QNX, as "a promising platform" , and thinks RIM may sell 3m units this year.

Simon Ye, Gartner's PC analyst in China, said: "Acer has a strong record in making these things work, especially in winning market share. "

This, in turn, "is lifting mobile web access among non-smartphone users, " notes Gartner analyst Andrew Frank.

Open-source software is almost universal in the enterprise, a survey from analyst group Gartner Inc. has confirmed.

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

In [10] Gartner asked "What happens, when you roll out a new application? "

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

Gartner's specific recommendation is about "content service providers" and open source.

For instance, Gartner predicts that the ability to analyze unstructured content will lead to new business opportunities.

However, Gartner officials said there appears to be much confusion about how to construct a business case for SOA.

"They've taken on an awful lot, " said Ken Dulaney, an analyst at Gartner.

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

Carolina Milanesi, analyst at Gartner, warns that Nokia has six months to improve its high-end smartphones.

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

Gartner Group expects Application Services to be a $25B market by 2004.

The 11% share is an 'honorable performance, ' Gartner analysts write.

Companies now spend as much as 10% of their technology budgets on energy, says Rakesh Kumar of Gartner, a consultancy.

Fortunately, as Gartner points out, SOA is entering the "Slope of Enlightenment" .

'More companies are asking about the use of Android, ' said Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, noting increased interest in non-corporate devices.

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

Microblogging is only ranked "moderate, " so Gartner doesn't think that Twitter is a very meaningful technology.

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

"This will probably anger Microsoft, " said Ken Dulaney, an analyst at Gartner.

"The PC industry will ultimately mirror the car industry, " says Ranjit Atwal, an analyst at Gartner.

The key, believes Tracy Tsai, an analyst with Gartner in Taipei, is Acer's global brand strategy.

"The computing market is fragmenting and devices are specialising, " says George Shiffler of Gartner.

Scott Morrison of Gartner, a market researcher, says that video communication is spreading from one place to another.

Gartner calls its tablet operating system, QNX, "a promising platform" , and thinks RIM may sell 3m PlayBooks this year.

A separate study released by Gartner Monday offered less bullish figures.

"HP's been running the way it's been running for a long, long time, " says Martin Reynolds, an analyst with Gartner Research.

"I wouldn't quite say they're dragging their feet, but they're definitely not moving fast, " said David Smith, an analyst at Gartner.

Otellini added that Gartner's forecast of a PC sales decline between 9 and 10 percent in 2009 may be too pessimistic.

Separately, industry tracker Gartner reported a better-than-expected 0. 5 percent increase in global PC sales.

It has about a 10pc share of the worldwide smartphone market, according to Gartner.

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

This paper attempts to right a serial Gartner simple explanation.

That's the takeaway from a recent Gartner talk in Australia, reported by IT News.

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company.

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

Martin Gutberlet is the Vice President for Technology and Research at Gartner's Singapore office.

Until this happens, Gartner says failure rates will remain high.

Gartner said about 286 million handsets were sold in the three months ended June 30, down 6. 1% from a year earlier.

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

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

Gartner's conclusion about RFID is similar to our own - that it's moving slowly.

PC sales were expected to fall in 2009 due to the recession, but market researcher Gartner Inc. said shipments wound up rising 4. 7%.

The full paper is available to Gartner subscribers or for purchase.

Market research firms IDC and Gartner Inc. predict that PC shipments will grow a robust 20 percent this year.

Overall, the market for WCM tools will grow at a compound annual rate of 14 percent from 2009 to 2014, Gartner estimated.

Gartner also examined total mobile device sales during the third quarter.

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

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

Analysts at Gartner played it safer in their "Hype Cycle" report, giving a fuzzier timeline of five to 10 years for 3-D to catch on.

According to Gartner research, sales of smartphones are dramatically up.

For one thing, their market is still much larger, with 350 million PCs shipped in 2010, according to Gartner.

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

Gartner, the market researchers, estimate that 29 per cent of all new handsets will include built-in GPS this year.

According to Gartner, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013.

"There's a risk to everybody, " says Jeffrey Hewitt, a Gartner vice president of research. "This is a disruption. "

This March, Gartner advised that CIOs must prepare to cut IT costs in order to cope with the tightening economic environment.

According to Gartner, the worldwide market for mobile devices with touchscreens will grow over 97% this year .

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.

Gartner projects that approximately 50 million user licenses for hosted virtual desktops will be purchased by 2013.

Market researcher Gartner Inc. estimates that world-wide app sales this year will total $6. 7 billion.

According to market analysts Gartner and IDC, Dell's share of the personal-computer market has dropped almost 19% in the past year.

It said it expects inventory reduction to continue in the second quarter, but at a pace of some of 10-12 million phones.

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

Tech demand certainly held up well for much of the recession: Global tech spending rose 6. 2% in 2008, according to consulting firm Gartner.

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

Consultancy Gartner expects global hardware spending (two-thirds of which goes on PCs) to rise 9 per cent this year to $365bn.

Gartner said annual sales were set to reach its earlier forecast of 1. 134 billion phones or slightly more.

The Gartner Group, a data analysis firm.

And there's a book -- John Gartner.

We can't help but feel that Gartner may be underestimating the impact of microblogging.

A recent Gartner report states that mobile ad spending will grow 74% this year worldwide to $914. 5 million.

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

Gartner expects the global smart-phone market to grow 52% to 190 million devices, reaching a market share of 15% or about $65 billion.

In fact, Gartner Group stated in 1999 that more than 200 billion lines of COBOL code are still in existence.

Gartner estimates that sales of smart-phones will soar by 27% this year, to 177m units.

Motorola dominates cell market with a 32. 5 percent share, versus Nokia's 21 percent, according to Gartner.

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

By 2015, employees will customize 90% of the technology they use at work, according to Gartner.

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

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

As a result, Gartner is forecasting a growth rate of 8. 1 percent in the global outsourcing market.

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.

Gartner expects 3. 3 trillion messages to be sent in 2009.

Gartner predicts that mobile cloud computing will reach a market value of US$9. 5 billion by 2014.

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

The overall mobile phone market increased 13. 8 percent to 325. 6 million units as prices fell on tougher competition, Gartner said.

According to Gartner, 7. 5% of U. S. adults lost money as a result of financial fraud in 2008.

Apple sold 8. 4 million iPhones world-wide in the first quarter alone, according to research firm Gartner.

Gartner estimates that global app sales will total $6. 7 billion in 2010.

Gartner, a research firm, estimates that 1 billion will be sold in 2015, up from 468m this year.

According to research firm Gartner, global smart-phone sales will jump by 29% to reach 180 million units in 2009.

A recent report from Gartner, a consultancy, found that spending on security software rose by 18. 6% to $13. 5 billion in 2008.

Gartner even revised upward its long-term growth rates for laptop shipments, as consumers in developing countries buy more of the machines.

But Gartner also said last week that tech spending could fall 6% this year and average just 1. 9% annual growth from 2008-2013.

In the first quarter of 2007, its market share of smartphone sales to customers was 63. 5 per cent, according to researchers Gartner.

Huawei sold 9m handsets in the second quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, the research firm.

"I think it's going to be a good Christmas, showing growth of 10 to 15 percent from last year, " Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said.

Gartner expects tablet unit sales to total 19. 5 million this year and to nearly triple to 54. 8 million in 2011.

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Huawei and ZTE, its smaller Chinese peer, both increased their global market shares last year, according to Gartner.

Its worldwide market share went from 0. 4% at the start of 2007 to 1. 2% in the second quarter of 2008, according to Gartner, a consultancy.

As a result, Acer held no more than 3. 5 per cent market share in China in the third quarter of this year, according to Gartner.

Symbian will have a 30. 2 percent share of the global market in 2014, according to Gartner, compared to Android's 29. 6 percent.

But competitors, led by Apple, cut Symbian's share to 38 per cent last year and Gartner estimates it will be 19 per cent this year.

Its share of global mobile-phone sales has fallen from 10. 7% last year to 9%, according to Gartner, a research firm.

Mark Driver, Research Vice President, Gartner, makes a similar point in the aforementioned CIO Perspective report

In particular, experiments by Gartner placed the production of the vibrato in the abdominal

VMware considers that the virtual desktop market is poised to increase citing a Gartner report

Phil Wainewright has a pretty good take on Gartner's list, distilling it down to three meta-trends

Following is Gartner's study on how enterprises perceive these three companies

Nokia Loses Market Share as Growth in Smartphones Extended, Gartner Says

The following table lists the top CRM software vendors in 2006-2007 (figures in millions of US dollars) published in a Gartner study. [10]

Latest Data Center Trends Will Be Addressed at Gartner's Infrastructure, Operations and Data Center Summit, 15-16 March in Sydney

Other predictions by Gartner are:

gartner has published a first take on adobe

Gartner Identifies Top Trends Shaping the Future of Australian Data Centers in 2011

International Data Corp. last week said global PC shipments fell 3. 2% in the first quarter, while Gartner Inc. reported a 1. 1% drop;