Most news services repeated the IDC-selected headline about smartphone volume overtaking feature phone volumes in 2013.

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"You just haven't seen any sort of cohesive strategy articulated, " says Douglas Chandler, computer services analyst with IDC.

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Analysts IDC predicted that from 2012-2016 public IT cloud services will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 26.4%, some five times the growth of the IT industry overall.

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There were an estimated 150, 000 subscribers to paid music-download services at the end of 2001, according to IDC, with the number expected to rise to 10 million by 2005.

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According to market research firm IDC, the number of U.S. subscribers to residential VoIP services will grow from 3 million this year to 27 million by the end of 2009.

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"The ever-growing number of mobile and content capture devices using cloud services is fueling the growth of digital content, " according to John Rydning, IDC's research vice president, for hard drives and semiconductors.

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