CES
Global Top Brands Award Winners Unveiled During CES 2023
Award winners shine as the brightest in innovation and cutting-edge CE products
IDC
Retailing
Esports: How Retailers Can Score High Sales
What are esports, and can retailers provide the gear their customers are seeking?
Retail
AI At Retail: Chatbots Continue Marching In
Retail will invest $4.5 billion in automated customer service this year
Products
OnePlus Cracks U.S. Top 5 In Premium Smartphone Brands
Upstart brand comprises 3.3% of T-Mobile's Mix
CES
Consumers Aren’t Terribly Impressed With Home VR
Enthusiasm is waning, so what does the future hold?
Computers
PC Sales Are Up For The 1st Time In 6 Years
This marks the strongest year-over-year growth for the category since 2012.
Accessories
Fitbit Turns To Kids With Ace Band As Wearables Continue To Find Footing
Growth is slowing, but consumers remain interested
Products
5G Could Recharge The Smartphone Market
First-ever dip in global shipments will be short-lived says IDC
Products
Apple Bests Samsung In Worldwide Phone Sales Amid Disappointing Q4
But Samsung remained the overall leader in the worldwide smartphone market for 2017.
news
Fitbit Slips To No. 2 In Wearables
China’s Xiaomi became the world’s largest wearables vendor for the first time ever in the second quarter, according to research by Strategy Analytics. Xiaomi...
news
Tablet Market Decline Slows
The tablet market showed some signs of life in the second quarter despite a continued downward spiral in overall sales. According to research from...
news
Wearables Should Remain On Retailers’ Radar
The wearables category, while not setting the consumer technology industry on fire as was predicted by many, is growing at a healthier pace than...
news
Fitness Trackers In The Lead As Wearables Market Grows 3.1% In Q3
While the smart-watch market continued to tumble, the overall wearables market grew 3.1 percent year over year in the third quarter according to International...
news
How Much Damage Has The Galaxy Note 7 Recall Done To Samsung’s Brand?
Exhale. The high-profile Galaxy Note7 recall Samsung faced this fall won’t cause any long-term damage, according to one IDC study. The market research firm...
news
Smart-Watch Market In Transition As Shipping Volume In Q3 Plunges
The worldwide smart-watch market cratered under growing pains in the third quarter of 2016, resulting in a whopping 51.6 percent decline in year-over-year shipment...
news
Battery-Life Frustration Stalls Smart-Watch Growth
New smart-watch shipments are expected to see only modest growth for the rest of 2016 due to late-in-the-year and iterative product releases, according to...
news
Wearables Shipments Will Grow Nearly 30% This Year: IDC
Worldwide shipments of wearable devices are expected to reach 101.9 million units by the end of 2016, representing 29 percent growth over 2015, according...
news
Detachables To Boost Tablet Growth Starting 2018: IDC
Worldwide tablet shipments will drop in 2016 for the second consecutive year and will continue falling until 2018, when a “slight rebound” driven by...
news
Detachables To Turn Around Tablet Decline In 2017
Worldwide tablet sales, combining slates and detachables, will fall in 2016 but will begin growing in 2017 and beyond by single-digit percentage rates as...
news
Smart Wearables Will Push Aside Basic Bands By 2018
Smart wearables will begin to outsell basic wearables such as fitness trackers in 2018 on a worldwide basis, said market research firm IDC. Global...
news
IDC: Q2 U.S. PC Shipments Fall 3.3%
Framingham, Mass. – U.S. PC shipments slid 3.3 percent to 16.4 million units in the second quarter, accelerating from the first-quarter’s 1 percent decline,...
news
Wearables Demand Continues Global Swell
Framingham, Mass. — The wearables market maintained its upward trajectory in the first quarter of 2015 as new vendors, including Apple, prepared to enter...
Computers
Dell Cites Study Showing PC Share Growth
Round Rock, Texas – In another sign of reinvigorated PC demand, Dell said this week that it continued to see growth in its client...
Blogs
Macs & Chromebooks Take PC Prizes
Chromebooks and Macs were the big winners in the third-quarter PC business as consumers continued to gravitate to the blazing speed and cheap price...
news
IDC: Q3 PC Shipments Beat Estimates
Framingham, Mass. — Worldwide PC shipments dropped 1.7 percent to 78.5 million units in the third quarter, marking a sizable improvement over prior forecasts...
news
IDC: Global Tablet Growth In Sharp Slowdown
San Mateo, Calif. – Growth in worldwide tablet shipments will slow to 12.1 percent this year from 2013’s 51.8 percent because consumers are keeping...
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