Gartner, on the other hand, still believes that PC shipments could rise 2 percent this year.
See Gartner, iSuppli, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, who are all on the high side.
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This week, the PC community turned in its worst performance since IDC and Gartner started counting.
Gartner's Weiner says video can be passed from one person to another legally with DRM technologies.
Gartner expects tablet use to explode by a factor of 1, 100% in the next three years.
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Gartner says the Missouri law goes further and amounts to a ban on free speech.
Until Apple feels a competitive threat, it won't license its DRM, says Gartner analyst Allen Weiner.
Demand for MDM software is why Gartner debuted an MDM Magic Quadrant this year.
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In tablets, Apple is expected to dominate the market through 2015 according to Gartner Inc.
Gartner says worldwide PC unit growth in the third quarter was a meager 3.2%.
According to Gartner, by 2014, 80% of the workforce will be using 2 mobile devices.
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Gartner said some hybrid laptops are included, but they still represent very small numbers.
By contrast, Gartner said Apple's U.S. computer shipments rose 7.4% from the previous year.
Gartner estimates that enterprise storage systems are utilized at 40 percent of their capacity.
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Gartner recently cut its full year PC unit growth forecast to 3.4%, from 9.5%.
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According to recent Gartner projections, data will grow by 800 percent in the next five years.
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Gartner does not expect overall IT spending to recover to the 2008 peak until 2014.
According to Gartner, Android-based handsets accounted for 3.9% of the global mobile phone market last year.
That, at least, is the bucket-of-cold-water opinion of Gartner security industry analyst John Pescatore.
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By 2014, Gartner predicts, the Android will tie with the Symbian OS in popularity.
Gartner said Lenovo shipped 13.8 million units in the third quarter, compared with HP's 13.55 million.
According to research from Gartner, roughly 4% of U.S. cars currently feature wireless connectivity.
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Gartner and IDC alike agree that Acer, Dell and HP all took a drubbing.
The personal market appears to be shrinking, according to the market research firms Gartner and IDC.
Samsung sold 384.6 million phones in 2012, only 53.5% of which were smartphones, according to Gartner.
The company was recently cited by Gartner as the only true cloud broker dealer.
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The latest figures from Gartner puts Microsoft near the bottom when it comes to installed base.
"Kids are looking for things that increase the reach of their community, " says Gartner's King.
"It definitely was a much-needed acquisition on Cisco's front, " says Gartner analyst Mark Fabbi .
Gartner, a consultancy, estimates that agile programming will have a substantial impact on high-priority projects.
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