Analyst report stories - Page 215

Tablet sales projections cut as phablet demand impacts the market, with a shift towards larger screens anticipated to revive growth.

Global smartphone shipments are set to rise by 23.1% this year, hitting 1.2 billion, according to analysts IDC.

EU court ruling on Google privacy prompts concerns over increased personal data sharing for identity validation, says Gartner analyst.

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in Asia Pacific and Japan reported increases in IT budgets for 2014 that exceeded the global average.

NZ's tech market faces upheaval: Microsoft to cut fees, businesses teeter on edge, and a final say on booth babes controversy.

European Court declares 'right to be forgotten,' forcing Google and others to allow data erasure requests, challenging the speed of tech laws.

In 2014, female CIOs expect to increase their IT budgets 2.5 percent, whereas male CIOs report an average increase of 0.2 percent.

Adobe named leader in web analytics, achieving top scores in 66 out of 75 criteria in independent Forrester report.

Australian IT leaders are facing challenges in digitalisation compared to their global counterparts, according to a survey by Gartner Executive Programs.

Rising above the IT buzz, cloud storage becomes vital with IDC forecasting public IT cloud services spending to surpass $107bn in 2017.

Amid benefits like low cost and scalability, the public cloud's data privacy concerns cast a shadow on enterprise adoption.

Government agencies around the world are facing pressure to cut IT budgets and services, according to a survey by Gartner.

New Zealand CRM software spend lags behind global growth, reaching $79m in 2013 compared to $20.4bn worldwide, according to Gartner.

Early adopters of cloud computing are among the “best performing” partners, according to a Microsoft commissioned study.

Gartner insists enterprise apps must evolve with a focus on agility to fully exploit cloud and mobile tech, reshaping development practices.

New Zealanders are increasingly staying at home for shopping and leisure activities due to advances in technology, according to research by IDC New Zealand.

Apple and Starbucks are eyeing the mobile payment market, but will they truly disrupt the way we pay? Analyst James Wester weighs in.

New figures demonstrate that CIOs will use the cloud to drive growth and innovation throughout their organisations.

Once widespread consumer adoption takes place, the enterprise is never far behind – whether it's ready or not.

You can say this about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg: once they got the memo about mobile, internalised it and then made it an operational imperative.