Acer CEO J.T. Wang is resigning from his post at the Taiwanese PC maker and will be replaced by president Jim Wong as part of a corporate restructuring that will try to revitalize the company's lagging fortunes. Citing the company's ...
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Third quarter (July-September) of 2013, the Global tablet PC shipments (Express value) was 47.6 million units, an increase of 36.7 percent, an increase of 7.0% M-O-M. Support the market growth is equipped with Google "android" system of the ...
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According to the data from Gartner, the global PC shipments will continue to decline in 2013. Gartner notebook PC is defined as desktop computer, traditional concepts, and hybrid tablet such as portable PC, they predict such PC shipments ...
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The PC market remained weak in the third quarter, but the expiration of Microsoft’s support for Windows XP in April next year may have prompted users to look at upgrades, which eased the slump. About 81.6 million PCs shipped during ...
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According to IDC, PC shipments in Russia in the second quarter of 2013 continued their steep decline, with volume slipping by 37.3% on year to a total of 2.47 million units. The notebook market suffered a contraction of 45.3% on year to ...
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Intel’s dominance of the chip market is starting to wane as PC shipments slump and smartphone and tablet adoption grows, but the manufacturer will try to prove it can make fast and power-efficient processors for mobile devices at its ...
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Worldwide PC shipments are now expected to fall by -9.7 percent in 2013, further deepening what is already the longest market contraction on record, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. The ...
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Smartphones with screen sizes of 5- to just under 7-inch, colloquially known as phablets, overtook shipments of each of the portable PC and tablet device categories in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) in the second quarter of 2013, according ...
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Microsoft got some good news Sunday as metrics company Net Applications said Windows 8′s user share in August is now larger than Vista's at the same point in the latter's post-launch timeline. Windows 8′s user share of all PCs ...
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PC sales in Western Europe crashed by 20 per cent in the second quarter, according to analyst group Gartner, with Acer and Asus experiencing crushing falls in sales of more than 40 per cent. Gartner's Meike Escherich, principal research ...
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Windows 8's user share growth slowed significantly last month, hinting at further trouble for the struggling operating system, new statistics from an analytics company showed today. The operating system's user share grew by the smallest ...
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Intel reported another drop in profits for the second quarter and narrowed its sales outlook for the full year, as the declining PC market continues to eat away at its business. Intel's profit for the quarter, ended June 29, was down 29 ...
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Microsoft's Business Division (MBD), the company's biggest money maker for 10 out of the last 11 quarters thanks to its Office cash cow, was not immune to the historic decline in PC sales, Microsoft acknowledged Thursday. MBD recorded ...
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Although a historic downturn in PC shipments has made headlines since April, "Peak PC" -- the moment when personal computers crested -- was two years ago, according to data from researcher IDC. In the third quarter of 2011, global PC ...
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Companies buying new PCs to avoid the end of support for Windows XP helped the computer industry dodge an even gloomier quarter, IDC said Thursday. Although the research firm was unable to quantify the impact that migrations had on PC ...
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