Chinese firm Lenovo has overtaken Acer in the volume of EMEA PC sales made by quarter, to become the second biggest PC maker in the region, behind HP. According to figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 from analysts IDC, a sustained ...
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How Dell will fare in private hands – if a buyout is indeed imminent – depends entirely on how the company’s management will react to the declining revenues from its PC business, and how it will develop other areas of its ...
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In its battle for the top spot in the rocky PC industry, Hewlett-Packard has edged out rival Lenovo to take back its leadership position. Last October, HP, which had long held the No. 1 position in the worldwide PC market, suddenly had a ...
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Despite a major push by rival Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard has held onto its position as the top seller of PCs worldwide, according to IDC. The researcher Thursday reported that HP maintained its worldwide PC lead in the fourth quarter despite ...
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PCs were upstaged by tablets, smartphones and TVs at this year's International CES show, with some companies maintaining a smaller presence or holding back product announcements for a later date. There were fewer product announcements ...
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Intel expects to see more innovation in PC design in the next year than there has been since the mid-1990s. That's the take of Navin Shenoy, Intel vice president and general manager, who is focused on thin and lightweight ultrabooks and ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system failed to provide a spark to PC sales during last year's fourth quarter, with worldwide unit shipments falling by 6.4% compared to the same quarter in 2011, according to research by ...
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Despite a major push by rival Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard has held onto its position as the top seller of PCs worldwide, according to IDC. The researcher Thursday reported that HP maintained its worldwide PC lead in the fourth quarter despite ...
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Computerworld - The holiday slump in PC sales -- down 11% compared to 2011 -- means that PC makers must raise prices, not continue a race to the bottom, an analyst argued today. Windows 8 failed to turn around slumping PC sales during the ...
Computerworld - After sparring for users' attention and wallets, PCs and mobile devices are starting to converge in size, style and how they are used. That convergence will start to play out at the International CES show in Las Vegas next ...
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SanDisk is kicking off the new year with two new solid-state disk drives (SSDs) that should bring performance boosts for PC users. Both the Ultra Plus, which is targeted at consumers, and the X110, which is targeted at PC and server ...
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IDG News Service - SanDisk is kicking off the new year with two new solid-state disk drives (SSDs) that should bring performance boosts for PC users. Both the Ultra Plus, which is targeted at consumers, and the X110, which is targeted at ...
Think your high-definition TV is hot stuff - as sharp as it gets? At the biggest trade show in the Americas, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas, TV makers will be doing their best to convince you that HDTVs are old hat, and should make ...
With less than a week to go before this year's International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it's unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, ...
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Computerworld-The PC industry got another does of sour news Friday when Intel announced it's cutting its third-quarter revenue outlook. The world's largest chip maker lowered its revenue forecast from an expected$13.8 billion to$14.8 ...
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