| Overall, worldwide PC unit shipments were up 23.3 per cent, according to IDC, which tallies well with PC Data's report on the US retail, online and mail order channels. |
| But with the slowing economy, customers are more interested in price and convenience than whizzy technology, says IDC analyst Jason D. Smolek. |
| In its new report IDC examines the online bookselling market in Europe and profiles seven of the largest players including Amazon, BOL and WHSmith. |
| Eric Domage, manager Western European Security Research and Consulting, IDC, said the recent series of security announcements from HP were encouraging for a number of reasons. |
| This IDC study presents the five-year forecast for mobile phone shipments worldwide by device vendors. |
| A lot of this spend, said IDC, will be on 3G networks, which have been dismissed in some quarters as expensive white elephants. |
