In tablets, Apple is expected to dominate the market through 2015 according to Gartner Inc.
"It's a rough market to compete, " said Michael Gartenberg, a tech-industry analyst with research firm Gartner Inc.
"This is probably the end of story, " says Jay Pultz, a research vice president at Gartner Inc.
"Clearly, their notification leaves a lot to be desired, " said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner Inc.
Apple's market share in smartphones was 18.2%, down from 22.5% a year earlier, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
"People have discovered there is a difference in browsers, " said Brad Mitchell Smith, an analyst at research firm Gartner Inc.
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Research firm Gartner Inc. estimates enterprises will cut technology purchases by 6.9% this year, which would be the biggest decline on record.
Market researchers Gartner Inc. and IDC said last week that PC sales were worse than expected in the third quarter.
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Sales of these new touchscreen tablets are expected to nearly triple to 54.8 million units in 2011, according to industry tracker Gartner Inc.
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Meanwhile, global desktop and laptop shipments slipped 12.7 percent year-on-year to 78 million units in the first quarter 2013, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
"Over time, an optical disc will be as much of an historical curiosity as a floppy disk, " said Michael Gartenberg, a tech-industry analyst with research firm Gartner Inc.
Van Baker, consumer electronics analyst for research firm Gartner Inc.
According to a report by analyst firm Gartner Inc.
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Best Buy's acquisition of Mindshift compliments its 2002 purchase of Geek Squad, a provider of IT support services to consumers, according to Jeff Roster, a retail analyst for research firm Gartner Inc.
Market researcher Gartner Inc. released fourth-quarter PC shipment data today, showing that Dell was the biggest loser among the top 5 worldwide PC makers as its shipments fell 21 percent from the same quarter in 2011.
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Today, market researcher Gartner Inc.
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Jorge Lopez is a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, Inc.
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Cappuccio, is a vice president and chief of research at Gartner, Inc.
But most companies fail to include their help desk operations in planning for those "cope and recover" stages, according to market research firm Gartner Group Inc.
Underscoring the value of the partnership between IBM and Rensselaer, Gartner, Inc. estimates that 1.9 million Big Data jobs will be created in the U.S. by 2015.
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Worldwide sales of mobile phones climbed nearly 32 percent to 1.6 billion in 2010 while smartphone sales jumped 72 percent and accounted for 19 percent of the total, according to information technology research firm Gartner, Inc.
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