Worldwide PC shipments totalled 76.6 million units in the first quarter of 2014, a 1.7 percent decline from the first quarter of 2013, according to preliminary results by Gartner. The severity of the decline eased compared with the past ...
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There will be 61.42 million tablets shipped globally in the second quarter of 2014, increasing 4.9% on quarter and 30.9% on year, according to Digitimes Research. The shipments will consist of 13.5 million iPads, 24.62 million ...
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For fiscal second-quarter 2014 (ending 28 March), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $481m, down 4.8% on $505.2m last quarter but up 13% on $425.2m a ...
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Competition for higher price/performance ratios in China's smartphone space has continued to intensify and is likely to escalate into the mid-range to high-end segment, according to industry sources. Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad and Lenovo have ...
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Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM's profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier.? Sales also fell, sliding 4 percent from last year's first quarter to US$22.5 billion. The ...
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In case it wasn't clear already, Intel and Microsoft are no longer joined at the hip. Intel is trying desperately to grow its share of the tablet market, and with Windows flunking out on those devices, Android is the flavour of the month. ...
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China-based handset vendors, including Coolpad, Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo, Gionee, K-Touch and TCL, have each accelerated the launch of their 4G LTE smartphones in an attempt to grab market share from international players, notably Samsung ...
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Google reported a 19 percent increase in revenue for the first quarter, but results from its advertising business were mixed. Revenue for the quarter ended March 31 was US$15.42 billion, Google?reported?Wednesday. That was a healthy jump ...
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Lenovo is leading the world PC market with solid growth in shipments across the first quarter of the year, according to Gartner. All of the top five vendors, except Acer, registered year-on-year shipment growth, with the top three vendors ...
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Most Americans today still picture Shenzhen as the home of iPhone production, migrant workers, and a huge electronics component bazaar. Well, they’re not wrong. That Shenzhen is still here. However, the way people live, work, and ...
Tags: iPhone production, Huawei, 3D printers
Lenovo is buying up patents related to 3G and 4G technologies from U.S.-based Unwired Planet for US$100 million, as the company sets about expanding with its proposed Motorola Mobility acquisition. The 21 patent families Lenovo is ...
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There were 106.83 million handsets sold in the China market during fourth-quarter 2013, growing 4.1% sequentially and 54.8% on year. Smartphones accounted for 97.63 million units, increasing 4.9% sequentially and 71.4% on year, according to ...
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Efforts by China-based smartphone vendors to push sales through online trading is likely to result in significant impacts on sales volumes and vendor rankings in the China market in 2014 and beyond, according to industry watchers in Taiwan. ...
Tags: Online Smartphone, Huawei, Coolpad
Shipments of PC tablets into the Middle East and Africa expanded 111% year on year in the final quarter of 2013, according to the latest results released by IDC, as the overall MEA tablet market reached a total of 3.45 million units for the ...
Tags: Tablet, Computer, PC tablets
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 demonstrated some new trends of the tablet industry: tablets with phone functions are starting to catch attention from brand vendors; some major brand vendors are developing tablets for the niche market, ...