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Samsung Now The Number One Smartphone Company In Australia

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4:30PM December 21, 2011 | Nick Broughall

If you believe the analysts at IDC, Samsung has taken pole position in the Australian smartphone race, overtaking Apple for the first time in the third quarter of this year. More »


Acer Leapfrogs Dell To #2 Globally, But Dell And HP Still Rule The US

12:59AM October 16, 2009 | Danny Allen

Acer rightly cops a lot of stick about build quality, but as predicted, they’ve passed Dell to second spot in worldwide sales. Separate research from Gartner and IDC also ranks Acer third in the US, ahead of Apple in fourth place. More »


Science

More Digital Bits in the World than Stars in the Universe

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2:04PM March 13, 2008 | Nathan Taylor

We’re really not sure why people spend time developing these kinds of stats, but we’re happy to exploit them when they do.

EMC and IDC have put out a joint study revealing that there are more bits of data in the digital universe than there are stars in the actual universe. And according to the study, the number of bits is growing at a rate of about 60% per year.

 

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