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Global spending on IT is trending down, with the technology analyst firm IDC says it now expects a drop of 5.1% to US$2.25 trillion due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A number of indicators for IT spending backs forecasts that while 2020 may see a decrease in overall tech spending, there is scope for short-term investments by businesses as part of their response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus outbreak will severely affect China’s smart devices market including smartphone and PC shipments, according to analyst firm Canalys which says it has dramatically revised previous forecasts of a 7% decline in smartphone shipments to a 40% to-50% drop for smartphones and 20% for PCs - with the proviso that the situation recovers to pre-outbreak levels by the end of February.

The global share of 5G smartphones will grow from 12% in 2020 to 43% in 2022, the technology research firm Gartner has forecast, with the entire mobile phone market poised to grow 1.7% this year.

Lenovo sees IoT as the next big thing, and is developing products for deployment at the edge and in backend systems.

Australian-operated, Thai-owned rural and regional satellite internet service provider IPSTAR Broadband is offering unmetered and non-speed-restricted data to Internet users in regional Australia - via Skymuster satellite - for essential services including emails, general browsing and social media.

Apple has bought a majority stake in Intel's smartphone modem business for US$1 billion and about 2200 Intel employees will move to the Cupertino-based iPhone maker, along with intellectual property, equipment and leases.

Worldwide shipments of PCs grew just 0.1% in the third quarter of 2018 compared to the corresponding quarter last year, to hit the 67.2 million unit mark, according to a new report from global analyst firm Gartner.

Shipments of PCs in 2019 will show a small uptick in the Asia-Pacific and North America regions compared to 2018, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, with overall global growth forecast to be about 0.3%.

For some reason that is difficult to fathom, Microsoft has suddenly wheeled out its PR spinners to try and paint Windows — yes, the bug-ridden operating system that earned the company the epithet Typhoid Mary of the Internet — as something that top-notch experts are securing against attack.

A survey of the cyber security practices of lawyers in Western Australia has found that they often expose confidential and sensitive client data to the possibility of being exfiltrated.

Technology spending in Australia is forecast to grow 2.3% to reach A$84.5 billion in 2018, as the latest forecasts for global technology spending have been revised upwards by 1.8% to 6.2% – or US$3.7 trillion for 2018.

Mobile video plays topped 60% globally for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2017 – garnering a 60.3% share of all video starts, according to new research published by Telstra subsidiary and video software and services vendor Ooyala.

As sales of PCs decline for 11 straight quarters, with Gartner stats showing a further 4.2% decline in Q2 2017, and IDC a 3.3% decline in the same period, Mac marketshare is up.

Lenovo has moved Brendan Lau to a newly created position as PC and smart devices consumer and SMB director for the Australian and New Zealand markets.

Hackers targeting people in Ukraine have come up with something unusual: they use the microphones on Windows PCs to steal audio recordings of conversations, screenshots, documents and passwords.

Federal Parliament’s new streaming video service has been pulling bigger audiences than some PayTV programmes, claims Australian video streaming technology company, SwitchMedia, which developed the new webcasting service.

Worldwide shipments of PCs, mobile phones, tablets and ultramobiles are expected to decline for a second consecutive year, according to the latest devices market report from analyst firm Gartner.

Revenue declines and an erosion of profits in an “over-penetrated” PC market leave PC vendors with two choices – overhaul their businesses or leave the PC market by 2020, according to global analyst firm Gartner.

The Asia Pacific region suffered a decline of 6.3% in PC shipments in the second quarter this year as worldwide shipments of PCs also declined for the seventh consecutive quarter, despite showing signs of improvement, according to global analyst firm Gartner.