Officeworks is feeling the impact of "challenging" trading conditions with a meagre 0.3 per cent increase in sales in the first quarter. Total sales for the quarter were $362 million, up from $361 million reported for the previous ...
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After a month on the market, Windows 8's usage uptake resembles 2007's Vista -- ultimately a poor performer for Microsoft -- rather than the eventually successful Windows 7, a Web measurement company said Saturday. According to Net ...
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Computerworld-More than a month after Apple unveiled new all-in-one desktops,the company today started selling its redesigned iMacs. The 21.5-in.iMac,with standard configurations prices at$1,299 and$1,499,will ship in one to three days ...
PC manufacturers always look forward to a new Windows release, as it invariably boosts sales. Not this time it seems. Compared with 2011, laptop sales for the three-week period following October 26 2012 - when Windows 8 was launched - ...
IDG News Service-Lenovo has delayed shipment of the highly anticipated ThinkPad Tablet 2,which will now become available to buyers in December. The 10.1-inch tablet,which comes with Microsoft's Windows 8 and an Intel Atom Z2760 ...
Computerworld - Windows 8 has delivered no bump to flagging consumer PC sales in the U.S., a retail research analyst said today. "There wasn't any pop at all," said Steven Baker of the NPD Group. "The hope was that Windows 8 would shift ...
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A senior Microsoft executive on Tuesday said the company has sold 40 million licenses for Windows 8,essentially matching the first month performance of Windows 7 in late 2009. "We have sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses so far,"said Tami ...
Microsoft on Thursday set pricing for its Surface Pro 10.6-in.tablet with a starting price of$899 for a 64 GB version and$999 for a 128 GB version. The tablet,formally called Surface with Windows 8 Pro,will ship sometime in January.No ...
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After months of experimenting,Dell took the wraps off a thin-and-light XPS 13 laptop with the Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS,an OS that is code-named Precise Pangolin. The XPS 13 with Ubuntu was developed as part of an internal Dell project ...
Microsoft has revealed to many of its partners a price increase that will see user client access licences (CALs) rising by 15 per cent. From December 1 2012, Microsoft will increase the price of user CALs, which allow an individual user ...
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Taipei, Nov. 8, 2012 (CENS)--To further expand touch-module production capacity at its Vietnamese factory, Taiwan-based Wintek Corp. is raising NT$10 billion (US$333.3 million) in a syndicated bank loan, saying it is scheduled to raise ...
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Taipei, Oct. 31, 2012 (CENS)--Asustek Computer Inc. scored record quarterly after-tax net income of NT$6.7 billion (US$231 million at US$1: NT$29), or NT$8.92 per share, in the third quarter, surging 39% from the second quarter, according ...
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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 ...
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Far from tanking–or failing to live up to expectations–as many had speculated,Microsoft has sold some 40 million licences for its new operating system,Windows 8. The claims were made by Tami Reller,finance and marketing head ...
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Early uptake of Windows 8 appears to be lagging behind that of Windows 7 in the period after the older OS's launch back in 2009. A survey of online activity carried out by marketing intelligence firm NetApplications found that just one ...
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