Led by a holiday season featuring price cuts of unprecedented duration, the US PC market established a new record of nearly 20.7 million units shipped in the fourth quarter of 2009, resulting an on-year growth of 24%. Other regions also experienced solid growth, particularly emerging markets in Asia/Pacific and Latin America, leading the global market to 15.2% on-year growth for the quarter, according to IDC.

This marked the first quarter of double-digit volume growth since the third quarter of 2008. The fourth quarter results cap a strong second half of 2009, further cementing signs of a market revival and ending the year with on-year growth of 2.3%. (continuare…)

Worldwide PC shipments surpassed 90 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009, a 22.1% increase from the fourth quarter of 2008, according to preliminary results by Gartner. It was the strongest on-quarter growth rate the worldwide PC market has experienced in the last seven years although it should be noted that the numbers are compared to a very weak quarter a year ago due to the economic downturn at that time, Gartner pointed out.

“These preliminary results indicate the recovery of the PC market on a global level,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. “The US and Asia Pacific had already shown positive indicators last quarter, however the fourth quarter 2009 results were more concrete evidence of the recovery. The Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region entered the economic downturn later than the US and Asia Pacific, so it has been slower to recover. The EMEA region returned to positive shipment growth for the first time in three quarters, and Latin America and Japan also recorded shipment increases.” (continuare…)

Apple

Apple reportedly plans to launch a 22-inch touch-enabled all-in-one PC in 2010, in addition to the current non-touch 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

Apple will outsource production of the 22-inch model to Quanta, with Taiwan-based Sintek Photronic supplying the touchscreen panels.

US PC vendors may gradually be replaced, says Acer founder

Acer founder Stan Shih has responded to comments that Acer can only compete in the US market using a low-price strategy and cannot effectively develop its brand value by saying that the US PC brands may gradually be replaced by brands from other regions as PC prices continue to drop, resulting in lower overall gross margins.

Shih used the example of the TV industry pointing out that originally US brands were ahead, but as the industry advanced, US-based brands such as RCA have mostly been replaced by TV brands from Asia.

Shih added that when the US share of the global PC market starts to drop, Taiwan’s IT industry will play an even more important role in the global market with cheap and good quality own-brand PCs.

   Bucuresti – 15 Ianuarie 2010 – Blackboard Inc. a anuntat astazi o alianta cu Microsoft Corporation pentru a oferi studentilor si celor ce invata acces la informatii din cursurile lor on-line prin intermediul browserelor web, permitandu-le astfel sa fie la curent cu noutatile din cursurile importante in timp ce navigheaza pe internet, nu doar atunci cand se autentifica pe conturile lor din Blackboard. (continuare…)

   Toata tara  – 14 Ianuarie 2010 – http://hosting.fanx.ro va ofera GAZDUIRE GRATUITA. Furnizam servicii de GAZDUIRE GRATUITA fara reclame! (continuare…)

   Bucuresti – 14 Ianuarie 2010 – Kaspersky Lab România şi trafic.ro anunţă încheierea unui parteneriat pentru monitorizarea site-urilor româneşti, identificarea paginilor infectate şi alertarea rapidă în cazul incidentelor de securitate. (continuare…)

   Bucuresti – 13 Ianuarie 2010 – Magazinul online www.husepiele.ro, proprietate a SC BRAND ID SRL, anunta ca , incepand cu luna ianuarie 2010 , a devenit unic distribuitor in Romania al prestigiosului brand de accesorii pentru telefoane mobile, PIEL FRAMA, repectiv huse din piele premium realizate manual pentru telefoane mobile şi PDA-uri. (continuare…)

        Bucuresti – 12 Ianuarie 2010 – Continuarea promotiei este legata de aniversarea a 25 de ani de activitate (continuare…)

   Bucuresti – 12 Ianuarie 2010 – Orange şi Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) anunţă lansarea puternicului smartphone BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 pentru clienţii din România, începând din 13 ianuarie. (continuare…)

   Bucuresti – 11 Ianuarie 2010 – Noile facilitati ofera cautare rapida si recuperare granulara pentru tot mediul colaborativ Microsoft. (continuare…)

   Bucuresti – 11 Ianuarie 2010 – Platforma Academis dedicata managementului universitar isi extinde aplicabilitatea prin integrarea noilor module: Module si Materiale Didactice. (continuare…)

   Bucuresti – 11 Ianuarie 2010 – TOPEX va participa la cel mai important eveniment din industria comunicaţiilor IP, la Miami Beach Convention Center, în ianuarie. (continuare…)

     Cluj Napoca – 11 Ianuarie 2010 – Dinamism, profesionalism, flexibilitate şi feedback activ la necesităţile clientilor – iată câteva puncte comune pe care companiile Mediacore şi misoft systems le-au identificat în activitatea lor şi le-au concluzionat firesc sub forma unui joint venture menit să ofere fiecărui client soluţia CRM potrivită. (continuare…)

Bucureşti – 08 Ianuarie 2010 – Acceleris System Integration SRL este una dintre primele companii din Romania care s-a alaturat cu un acord global programului nou structurat pentru parteneri Oracle, devenind “Oracle Gold Partner”. (continuare…)

     Bucuresti – 08 Ianuarie 2010 – Magister Software, una dintre cele mai importante companii producatoare de software dedicat managementului de magazin din Romania si-a inaugurat activitatea in 2010 intr-un nou sediu dotat si utilat conform necesitatilor companiei… (continuare…)

     CES, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – 07 Ianuarie 2010 – Preşedintele ASUS, Jonney Shih a dezvăluit inovaţiile recente ale companiei, inclusiv noile produse rezultate din colaborările cu doi celebri designeri internaţionali: notebook-ul ASUS NX90 Bang & Olufsen ICEpower, semnat de David Lewis şi colecţia Eee PC™ Seashell Karim Rashid. Preşedintele Shih a mai prezentat trei dispozitive conceptuale inspirate de Waveface, viziunea contextuală ASUS privind viaţa în compania echipamentelor digitale. (continuare…)

Bucuresti – 07 Ianuarie 2010 – Noua harta revolutioneaza felul in care utilizatorii de GPS se deplaseaza si acceseaza informatia. (continuare…)

     Bucuresti – 07 Ianuarie 2010 – La acest interesant inceput de an RomBit-Tel anunta lansarea serviciilor VoIP la calitate HD Voice. (continuare…)

Google employee Sara Rowghani stands next to an enlarged model of the Nexus One phone at a demo in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

If you thought that the world would change with the release of a Google-branded phone on Tuesday, be assured that sadly it did not.

At least not yet. It just got one more cool phone.

You can buy the Google Android OS phone, dubbed Nexus One, unlocked directly from Google, but in the U.S. the only place you can really take it is to the U.S.’s fourth largest carrier, T-Mobile. Or you can buy it through T-Mobile for a hair under $200 and pay about as much per month as a Palm Pre owner and about $20 a month less than an iPhone user.

What would have something revolutionary looked like?

How about a smart phone starter plan, deeply subsidized via ads, that offered with a cheap data plan to entice the “I don’t need a smartphone” crowd into joining the revolution? Even better, would have been an order form where you could buy the Google phone and then choose from three or more carriers who are competing to provide you with a data and voice plan — just like you do when you buy a laptop. Instead, there’s just the one option — T-Mobile, which costs basically the same as all the other smart phones.

Google clearly wants the mobile phone world to look different, it’s just not clear that this phone or its current manufacturing strategy will actually bring about the changes in the telecom world that Google is looking for. (continuare…)

     Bucuresti- 06 Ianuarie 2010 – Competitia DISKOBOLOS este considerata in regiunea sud-est europeana un echivalent al Premiilor Oscar in domeniul IT&C (continuare…)