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Lenovo experienced the strongest growth among the top five vendors. Its shipments grew 10.9 percent. Lenovo PC shipments in the first quarter of 2014 grew better than Dell and HP as compared with Q1 2013, says Gartner. While the end of XP support by Microsoft on April 8 played a role in the easing decline of PC shipments. Worldwide PC …

The technology era today has added another application to the already available cluster of applications for the tech savvy generation. The lightroom mobile, a companion app to lightroom desktop software will now be available through Adobe Creative Cloud. These new mobile capabilities bring powerful and familiar Lightroom tools to the iPad, delivering photography essentials — such as non-destructive processing of …

BIS has remained an issue not only for the market players from the IT industry but has become a cause of concern for the IT associations as well. Just when the IT is on the growth vortex and is realigning strategies for capacity building, the IT industry faces fresh challenges in the form of labeling requirements, augmented fee structures, standardization …

Organizations adopt cloud technologies to leverage both cost savings and technical expertise to focus on its core business. Hybrid cloud solution offers the features of both public cloud and private cloud to its customers. As the obstructions of public cloud are the same for hybrid cloud as well, vendors are confronted with the challenges of security and delivery of a …

The Indian General Election starting from 7th April to 12th May 2014 will surely going to be one of the most crucial elections in recent history. Talking of the present scenario, there is a huge pressure on India and its financial markets. While IT industry  is witnessing  dull years for quite a long time, with a sluggish economy, falling rupee …

While the growth in the consumer AV market was around 15 percent to 17 percent for the last couple of years, it has slowed down to 10 percent to 12 percent in 2013. However, there is a large opportunity to grab as still more than 80 percent of the PC consumers use free or downgraded versions or do not use …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has launched a process to transition the role of the United States Government relating to the Internet’s unique identifiers system. ICANN’s announcement comes on the heels of an announcement by the U.S. Government stating that it is ready to transfer its stewardship of the important Internet technical functions to the global …

The seventh edition of the annual Cyber Security for the next generation international student conference and the latest regional round saw brightest minds from Russia and CIS win their places in the 2014 global finals in Stockholm as well as cash prizes for further development of the project. A jury of Kaspersky lab antivirus analysts, industry experts, scientists and professors …

Worldwide tablet shipments continue to surge, growing 142.4% year over year in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13). Tablet shipments totaled 49.2 million units in 1Q13, surpassing that of the entire first half of 2012. With growth fueled by increased market demand for smaller screen devices, tablets have shown no sign of slowing down. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Tablet …

IDC 2014 Predictions – CIO Agenda, highlights the top 10 predictions for the CIOs through the year ahead.  The predictions provide insights on long-term industry trends along with new themes that may be on the horizon that will most impact the role of the CIO.  While the 3rd Platform of mobile, social, big data, and cloud services is just beginning …