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• iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped

  By Matt Hamblen | 24 May, 2012 14:16

  Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.

• Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors

  By Logan Kugler | 22 May, 2012 20:08

  Even for organizations with a stellar full-time IT staff, situations often arise where temporary outside help is needed. A big Web project might demand a few extra programmers to meet a tough deadline, for example, or a rollout of tools to support a sales force bent on capturing a broader market may require expertise not available in-house.

• Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 on sale Sunday for $400

  By Matt Hamblen | 12 May, 2012 06:11

  Samsung's Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is set to go on sale at retailers nationwide Sunday for $399.99, furthering the variety of tablet sizes from the vendor.

• IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 May, 2012 05:33

  The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $US77 million in 2011 to $US812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 per cent, according to a new report released by analyst firm IDC.

• Tablets Will Be Preferred Devices by 2016

  By Matt Hamblen | 07 May, 2012 23:36

  Tablets will become most users' main computing devices within the next four years, Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett has predicted.

• Will Yahoo CEO's misstep kill company momentum?

  By Sharon Gaudin | 05 May, 2012 06:28

  All the momentum and vision that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has been building for the struggling company may have been thrown off course.

• Are IBM, Cisco and Oracle IT platforms really comparable?

  By Jim Duffy | 13 April, 2012 22:39

  IBM's new PureSystems integrated data center offering is drawing comparisons to Cisco's UCS and other convergence platforms from leading IT vendors.

• Lenovo gains over Dell as world's second-largest PC maker

  By Agam Shah | 12 April, 2012 08:46

  Lenovo extended its lead over Dell as the world's second-largest PC maker, but it is too early to say whether the Chinese manufacturer eventually will top Hewlett-Packard to become the top PC vendor, IDC said on Wednesday.

• 10 most powerful IaaS companies

  By Christine Burns | 09 April, 2012 14:30

  We assembled this list with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC and Neovise who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. Each was asked to name the companies they believed have the most influence -- whether that's measured in market share, mind share, revenue, existing enterprise pull or underlying technology links -- in drawing enterprise customers into the realm of public cloud infrastructure. They are listed here in alphabetical order.

• Will Windows 8 survive in the post-PC world?

  By Shane O'Neill | 04 April, 2012 04:11

  Try as it will to break through in the mobile space, Microsoft is still struggling to gain any ground with Windows Phone almost a year-and-a-half after its launch.

• Opinion: Why Linux on the desktop is dead

  By Tony Bradley | 26 March, 2012 01:36

  Linux is awesome. It's a powerful, capable, flexible operating system with tremendous potential. But, it's never going to be a factor on the desktop, so don't even waste your time considering it.

• Mobile app developers see Google+ on the rise

  By Matt Hamblen | 21 March, 2012 08:50

  Recent surveys of mobile app developers found that 66% of them feel Google+ could catch up to Facebook.

• Interest in HTML5 growing among mobile developers

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 21 March, 2012 00:46

  Mobile developers will increasingly use HTML5 in their applications during 2012, but fragmentation will make their life more difficult, according to a joint survey from IDC and cross-platform development vendor Appcelerator.

• Via keeps battling Intel and AMD even as its x86 chip market share shrinks further

  By Agam Shah | 16 March, 2012 06:34

  While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices battle for the top two spots in the x86 microprocessor market, the third player, Via Technologies, saw a slip in its already-marginal market share, but it isn't ready to fold, research firm IDC said on Thursday.

• Analysis: What the Cloud really means for your IT job

  By Brandon Butler | 14 March, 2012 05:43

  Depending on which survey or story you read, the Cloud can be either a good thing for IT workers and their job security, or it can be terrifying.