Research firm IDC says net margins on business PCs are at 5%, down from 20% in 1995.
By contrast, IDC reports that just 66.9 million personal computers were sold during the same period.
This week, the PC community turned in its worst performance since IDC and Gartner started counting.
According to IDC, 75 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile by 2013.
Also this week, IDC predicted tablet sales would triple in the coming year.
"Their products are pretty old compared to other manufacturers', " says IDC imaging analyst Ron Glaz.
For Cisco, those customers represent 75% of the company's revenue, according to research firm IDC.
The International Data Corporation (IDC) puts the number of mobile workers worldwide at 1.3 billion.
"You need to have that critical data stored somewhere else, " said IDC research director Charles Kolodgy.
The new data from IDC show the steepest decline for PCs in one quarter.
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Most news services repeated the IDC-selected headline about smartphone volume overtaking feature phone volumes in 2013.
According to IDC, there were 49.2 million tablets shipped in January, February and March.
By 2015, IDC expects Windows Phone to be number 2 operating system worldwide behind Android.
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It more than doubled to 49.2 million units during the first quarter, according to IDC's estimate.
Research firm IDC estimates that 75% of U.S. workers will be mobile by 2013.
"Windows 95 will be a huge success, no doubt about that, " says IDC's Stephen.
"I've never had a client complain about Amazon outages, " says Joe Pucciarelli of IDC.
For 2012 through 2015, IDC still sees growth in the 10 to 11% range.
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My employer, the technology research firm IDC was going through a general layoff for financial reasons.
That's just one of the surprising revelations in a research report by IDC released Wednesday.
Gartner and IDC alike agree that Acer, Dell and HP all took a drubbing.
The personal market appears to be shrinking, according to the market research firms Gartner and IDC.
In the U.S., said Steve Conway, a supercomputer analyst at market researcher IDC, in Framingham, Mass.
Market researcher IDC now places Apple third in the U.S. computer market, tied with Gateway.
Research firm IDC expects BlackBerry to lose business market share for the first time this year.
According to IDC's Giusto, a major challenge for IBM is Dell's increasing dominance in the market.
Tech tracker IDC estimates 2.5 million tablet computers will be sold in China this year.
Total volume for the quarter was between 327 million (Strategy Analytics) and 340.5 million (IDC).
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"It's given the industry a jolt, " said Chris Chute, research manager at IDC's digital-imaging practice.
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