FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Initial results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) 2016 Global IoT Decision Maker Survey show that the market is pivoting away from proof of concept ...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Worldwide shipments of Virtual Reality (VR) hardware will skyrocket in 2016, with total volumes reaching 9.6 million units. Led by key products from Samsung, Sony, ...

The wearable smartwatch market will continue to grow for the foreseeable future, research firm IDC believes, with the Apple Watch forecast to continue earning the most sales through the year 2020. IDC ...

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IDC’s latest report is out today with new estimates based on worldwide wearable shipments, and in it is a prediction that Apple Watch will hold the market lead this year and through 2020 as ...

A new analysis combining PCs, tablets and smartphones into one category of "smart connected devices" projects iOS devices will grow from a 14.6 percent share of the market in 2011 to 17.3 percent in ...

*Apple sold 78.3 million smartphones worldwide in the December-ending quarter, IDC says. Samsung sold 77.5 million. *IDC preliminary data shows smartphone vendors together shipped a total of 428.5 ...

With 2016 now starting to draw to a close, there are a number of reports beginning to emerge on how the year as a whole will likely look once all is said and done. For instance, the IDC released a new ...

Meanwhile, IDC projects that the global market for mobile phones will grow just 4% this year from 2011, the slowest growth rate since 2009. IDC expects global sales of close to 1.8 billion phones, up ...

According to IDC’s estimates, 916 million smart connected devices were sold worldwide in 2011, but huge growth in smartphone sales is expected to cause the total to reach 1.84 billion by 2016.

A new report from the IDC research firm is getting lot of attention for saying that Google’s Android is reaching its peak in the worldwide smartphone market this year, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone is ...