Sales of high-end,touchscreen PCs running Windows 8 have been running"well above forecast",according to Erik Dithmer,vice president of end user computing at hardware vendor Dell. According to Dithmer,sales of the Windows 8-based Dell ...
Tags: Windows 8 PCs, sell well, Dell, touch-screen capabilities
HP claims to have been wilfully misled by'former'members of Autonomy's management team in the lead up to its acquisition and has now written$8.8bn off of the company's value. The announcement of the write down came in the firm's fourth ...
Tags: HP, Autonomy's management team, SEC, Meg Whitman
IDG News Service-Though U.S.political leaders managed to spark some good news for the economy Friday,technology stocks are down for the week,showing a continued lack of confidence in the sector. The problem has been earnings.Tech ...
Tags: technology stocks, enterprise spending, Nasdaq, chip makers
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced this evening that Steven Sinofsky -- long rumored as Ballmer's replacement, and the man who fixed the Windows Vista debacle and championed the radical and largely unloved overhaul that became Windows 8 ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8, operating system
Taipei, Oct.24, 2012 (CENS)--Acer Inc. recently issued an unexpectedly dismal financial report for the third quarter, with consolidated revenue dropping 5.6% quarter on quarter (QoQ) to NT$104.4 billion (US$3.48 billion) and earnings per ...
Lenovo said Thursday its net profit for the fiscal second quarter increased by only 13% year-over-year, marking a shift from the high profit growth the company has previously seen. For the fiscal second quarter ending on Sept. 30, ...
Tags: Lenovo, PC, smartphones, laptops
Apple is growing increasingly confident that its own chip designs will be used to replace Intel processors in its Mac personal computers. Apple engineers, who began using Intel chips for Macs in 2005, believe that the ARM-based ...
Computerworld - The Windows division's share of Microsoft's revenue last quarter dropped to a four-year low as Windows 7 sales stalled before the launch of Windows 8, financial data released by Microsoft yesterday showed. The Windows and ...
Software giant Microsoft has posted first quarter fiscal revenues down 7.9 per cent to$16bn(£10bn),from$17.372bn(£10.8bn)achieved in the same period a year earlier. The company claimed that the results partly reflected a ...
Tags: Microsoft, first quarter revenues, Windows and Office sales, PC sales
Computerworld-Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that owners of Windows RT hardware,including the company's own Surface RT,must acquire a commercial license for Office 2013 to use those devices'bundled Office apps at and for work. The ...
Tags: Windows RT hardware, Microsoft, commercial license, touch-enabled apps
HP has lost its title as the world's biggest PC vendor after new quarterly figures from analyst group Gartner showed that it had been overtaken by rival Lenovo. According to Gartner's figures,Lenovo edged ahead in the third quarter with a ...
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Chip manufacturer Intel is to let go of a "small percentage" of the workforce at its McAfee computer security business. Intel completed its acquisition of McAfee in February 2011 for $7.7bn (£4.8bn). At the time, Renée James, ...
Tags: Intel, Mcafee, Atom Z2760, chip manufacturer
Taipei,Oct.4,2012(CENS)--With ever more people choosing all-in-one(AIO)personal computers(PC)instead of traditional desktop PCs in recent years,shipments of AIO PCs will likely outstrip 20%growth year on year(YoY)in 2013,driving up revenues ...
Microsoft's range of Windows 8 tablets has been delayed due to a hold-up in the development of power conservation features on new Intel"Clover Trail"microprocessors.This line is intended for Windows 8-based touchpads competing against the ...
Tags: Intel chip, Windows 8 tablets
Dell has completed its acquisition of management software vendor Quest Software, the firm has announced. The final stage of the move comes almost three months after it was first revealed that Dell planned to acquire Quest for $2.4bn ...
Tags: Dell, Quest Software, AppAssure, Marius Haas