IDC changes IT market forecast

IDC has made dramatic changes to its forecast for the overall IT market, especially the hardware sector, which is the worst-hit segment, reports Gulfnews.

"In the past five years, the Gulf region had tremendous growth in PC market. In certain markets PCs were growing more than 100% year-on-year in terms of notebooks adoption,” says Omar Shihab, research manager, PCs and systems, IDC Middle East and Africa.

“The key trends in the past few years were that vendors were very aggressive and companies were replacing desktops with notebooks and there was a very strong consumer demand due to the strong intake by SMEs," Shihib adds.

Lexar Media, a global provider of memory products for digital media, has released a full line of Crucial memory products that are compliant with the country of origin requirements of the Trade Agreements Act (TAA) of 1979, reports Computer Technology Review.

The new TAA compliant memory offering includes DDR, DDR2, and DDR3 memory modules for servers, desktops, and notebooks.

Lexar Media is a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of NAND flash and DRAM memory products under the Lexar and Crucial brand names.

HP India has unveiled a slew of products for customers' business requirements in Maharashtra, Goa and Chhattisgarh, reports Sakaal Times.

The new products are targeting key sectors like SMEs, government, manufacturing and education.

The products are the HP DC7900 Business Desktop PC, HP ProBook notebook PC, Z series Workstations and Edu Thin Clients.