The worldwide PC market will enjoy a slight recovery in 2019, with shipments of desktops, notebooks and two-in-ones set for 0.3% growth after seven years of decline. APAC will be a key driver as the industry turns to the region in the face of fa...
Canalys estimates show the global enterprise endpoint security market grew 4.2% in the second quarter of 2018. Overall, total investment reached US$1.2 billion. Most investment is still focused on protecting PCs, but virtual and physical se...
The latest research from analysts at Canalys reveals that the importance of IT vendor programs to channel partners in 2018 has fallen compared with 2016. 77% of those surveyed in August 2018 rated partner programs as important when evaluating ve...
The worldwide smart speaker market grew 187% in Q2 2018, with shipments reaching 16.8 million units. Google retained its first-place position from the previous quarter, with 5.4 million shipments of its Google Home models. It defended its positi...
Huawei is in het tweede kwartaal van 2018 uitgegroeid tot de op één na grootste smartphonefabrikant wereldwijd. Het bedrijf verscheepte 54 miljoen handsets, wat 41% meer is dan in het tweede kwartaal van 2017. Dit blijkt uit cijfers van...
Cloud infrastructure services spend reached US$20 billion in Q2 2018, up 47% on the same quarter in 2017. Amazon Web Services (AWS) remained the largest provider, accounting for 31% of the total market. It grew 48% during the quarter. Microsoft Azure...
Canalys expects the smart speaker installed base will approach the 100-million barrier by the end of this year, making it almost 2.5 times bigger than at the end of 2017. The installed base will keep growing, more than doubling in size to r...
Wearable band shipments grew 35% year on year to 20.5 million units in Q1 2018, driven by strong demand for health-centric devices. Smartwatches accounted for 80% of wearable band revenue, up from 74% in Q1 2017. In terms of shipped units, smart...
Smart speakers continue to be the world’s fastest-growing consumer technology segment, with year-on-year growth in Q1 2018 of 210% as shipments reached 9 million units. Google took the top spot, beating Amazon for the first time, shipping ...
Consumer refresh cycles have finally started to stabilize, and the largest PC vendors have focused on new, fast-growing categories, such as gaming PCs, Chromebooks and convertibles. On the commercial side, Windows 10 migration remains a driver for ha...
