"I think they have got some serious challenges, " said Gartner research director Michael Gartenberg.
In October, Gartner Research said that China's Lenovo had overtaken HP as the number-one maker of PCs.
Carolina Milanesi of Gartner Research, takes the middle ground on the issue.
Andrew Frank, a media analyst with Gartner Research, is skeptical about advertisers' ability to grab the attention of an online video audience.
And yes, there have been security concerns about NFC, but one has to be careful here, says Gartner Research analyst Mark Hung.
Banks are lagging, said Vincent Oliva, managing vice president of Gartner Research, recalling a conference his firm held in Orlando a year ago.
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All of these predictions shift, however, if economic troubles in America spread to other parts of the world, says Gartner Research analyst David Cearley.
In this market, the most likely outcome for any successful search start-up is being bought, likely by Google itself, says Gartner Research analyst Andrew Frank.
Gartner research director Stephanie Baghdassarian says that growth in mobile ads comes in part at the expense of other media, including local newspapers and other print publications.
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"Points for the sake of points is just buying off the customer, it doesn't drive loyalty, " says Gartner Research analyst Adam Sarner, who tracks customer loyalty programs.
Gartner research director George Shiffler said in a statement that the research firm once thought notebook demand would be sustained by consumers by second and third PCs as personal devices.
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He points to data from Gartner Research that predicts sales of 1.4 billion post-PC devices (a category that he construes as including the Chromebook) by 2015 compared with 540 million traditional PCs.
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"There is always a gap between development and deployment, " says Alan Brown, an analyst with Gartner Research, noting that Bluetooth technology took four or five years to take off after it was finalized.
Compared with those action-packed scenarios, a group of intelligence agents meeting in a virtual conference room seems rather tame, says Gartner Research's Carol Rozwell, an analyst focused on the use of virtual worlds in business.
They show a philosopher so unfamiliar with the state of the Internet and the kind of research into usage produced by analysts such as Gartner, Forrester Research, the Yankee Group, the Pew Research Center, Jakob Nielsen or Ethan Zuckerman, that he takes these claims as givens, not as claims requiring amplification, clarification, and examination.
But tablets may still have a big impact, argues Carolina Milanesi of Gartner, another research firm.
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Gartner, a research firm, says that more than half of the smartphones shipped worldwide in the second quarter run on Android.
Gartner, the research and consulting firm, has gone so far as to anoint this emerging space with an acronym, IPAM (intellectual property asset management).
"Vendors and operators are trying to encourage sales by dropping prices on the high end, " says Carolina Milanesi, Gartner's research director for mobile devices.
Gartner, another research firm, said this week that failing to communicate with customers on social networks could be as damaging to companies as not answering phone calls or e-mails.
According to a survey of American bank customers in 2007 by Gartner, a research firm, more than half rate security features as extremely important when deciding whether to go online.
The protection this affords to Android should help the spread of the operating system, which according to Gartner, a research and consulting firm, powered just over half of all smartphones sold in the fourth quarter of 2011.
According to research from Gartner, roughly 4% of U.S. cars currently feature wireless connectivity.
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The personal market appears to be shrinking, according to the market research firms Gartner and IDC.
"It's a rough market to compete, " said Michael Gartenberg, a tech-industry analyst with research firm Gartner Inc.
Data on Global Mobile Phone Units is taken from publicly released information by market research firm Gartner.
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Research firm Gartner has predicted that users worldwide will triple to a total of 30 million this year.
Brian Blau, research director at tech research firm Gartner, says Google needs a real-time option, or a Twitter equivalent.
Market research firm Gartner said Tuesday that it expects a 1% to 4% slowdown in 2009 global handset sales.
Apple's market share in smartphones was 18.2%, down from 22.5% a year earlier, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
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