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After selling 500 million PCs over the past 20 years, the computer industry is seeing sales decline for the first time ever. Before Sept. 11, research firm IDC was predicting unit shipments in 2001 would slide 6.3% from last year, to 45.3 million, and the terrorist attacks could push fall sales down further. Dell, Compaq and the rest of the PC companies have so far cut--or announced plans to cut--46,000 jobs this year, or about 12% of the industry's payroll. Chipmakers have it worse. Their worldwide revenue is expected to plunge 20% to 30% this year...
...share of Latin American households that own a personal computer, now only 5%, grew 30% last year and could grow that fast again this year, according to the analysis firm IDC Latin America, based in Miami. By 2005, about 75 million of Latin America's 500 million people could be online...
Manufacturers hoping to boost a sagging PC market are racing to equip computers for wireless networking. "It's considered something of vast importance, given the economic slowdown," says International Data Corp. (IDC) analyst Jason Smolek. Compaq, Gateway and Dell are all selling computers with built-in wireless networking capabilities. IBM launched a top-line Wi-Fi equipped laptop named ThinkPad T23 in late July that offers enhanced security features. Apple, which virtually pioneered wireless home networking when it launched AirPort in 1999, is ahead of the pack. All its computers have been WLAN-ready since then...
...little headway with consumers so inextricably hooked to their cell phones. But in China, sophisticated wireless PDAs are shaping up as a potentially important way to access the Internet. Already, China has quietly become the second-largest market in the world for handheld computers, according to market research outfit IDC. Last year, close to 1.5 million PDAs were sold, a number expected to double in 2001. Add in cheap but popular electronic organizers, and the number swells to around 4 million. The dominant maker, says IDC, is Hi-Tech Wealth, which has a 40% share. "It's a very significant...
...Companies like Intelliseek, BrightPlanet and Moreover (see box) are part of a business intelligence technology market that will grow, according to the technology research firm IDC, from $3.6 billion this year to $11.9 billion in 2005. They are not necessarily a threat to traditional data-peddlers, such as Dialog and Lexis-Nexis, which have been delivering information to businesses since before the World Wide Web was invented and have archives stretching back decades. But their focus on the flickering, free or low-cost information of the here and now is something the old guard will have to respond...