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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is gearing up for the release of Windows 8, its next-generation operating system, and it expects the OS to turn into a great success, it seems. In fact, the company sees the upcoming platform loaded on almost half a billion computers next year, which would indeed translate int... |
23 May 2012
05:51 GMT |
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It looks like the so-called “slow season” is upon the laptop market.
Digitimes says that most companies charged with making laptops expect April to be a particularly slow month.
As Intel's Ivy Bridge launch draws near, companies are scrambling to exhaust their Sandy Bridge laptop inventories.
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17 April 2012
09:13 GMT |
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Even though the first quarter of every year is considered the “slow” season in terms of product sales, the PC market somehow managed to exceed forecasts.
Originally, Gartner expected shipments of personal computers to decrease by 1.2% in Q1, 2012 compared to the same period of 2011.
Now, though, prelim... |
12 April 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The International Data Corporation (IDC) took the liberty of analyzing the progress of the personal computer market over the course of 2011.Its findings are not encouraging but not discouraging either, which is more than other segments of IT can claim.Long story short, the PC market grew by 1.8% in terms of shipment... |
20 March 2012
12:05 GMT |
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LTE smartphones are picking up pace. The first handsets to offer support for this 4G technology have landed on shelves roughly a year ago, and they have become increasingly popular since.
During 2012, smartphones that offer support for 4G LTE connectivity are expected to account for around 5 percent of the total sma... |
17 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Galaxy Note has managed to appeal to a lot of people, and Samsung has just confirmed that over one million devices have been already sold.
The handset was unveiled to the world in early September and reached shelves in late October, but showed good performance for a phone / tablet hybrid device.
At the moment, the... |
29 December 2011
01:51 GMT |
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Apparently, sales of Nokia's Lumia Windows Phones have kicked off great for the company, and more devices that initially expected have started to be produced.
Reports emerged on the company placing orders for mode handsets with Compal Communications, so as to manage to meet demand that the newly released devi... |
22 November 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Anyone worrying that tablets may be losing their groove can sit back and relax because at least one analyst thinks shipment levels will rise massively in 2012.
The way things are going, some might start to think that maybe tablets aren't going to keep growing in sales much.
After all, the fourth quarter is s... |
11 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Users, or some of them, will no doubt have learned by now that the PC market isn't doing too well, financially speaking, and it looks like big brands are all eyeing the same more or less newer potential business outlet.
The PC industry is being faced with a continuous drop in demand on the part of customers,... |
12 September 2011
10:13 GMT |
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Ultrabooks may be doing fine, but the overall PC industry doesn't appear to have such a pleasant picture painted ahead of it, at least according to a certain market analyst firm.
The PC market is the central pillar of the worldwide consumer IT industry and has been so ever since the first PC was first invent... |
8 September 2011
05:06 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has just confirmed that it managed to ship a number of over 5 million Galaxy S II devices in about 85 days after it made the handset available for purchase.
The Galaxy S II, the company's latest Android-based flagship device, is proving to be fastest sellin... |
27 July 2011
04:50 GMT |
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If the words of on IT market analyst firm aren't enough, users can rest assured that the PC industry really is on the rise again, now that Gartner has published a press release with similar findings.Users may or may not have learned, about a day ago or so, that market analysts had finished checking what had hap... |
15 July 2011
09:24 GMT |
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Analysts have once again looked at the notebook market, and it looks like the findings suggest a significant increase in the standard performance of mainstream machines compared to previous years.The laptop market is one that has grown substantially ever since the first mobile computers were developed and sent out i... |
13 July 2011
09:52 GMT |
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While the IT market goes through all the shifts and turns caused, directly or indirectly, by the evolution of the tablet, it looks like not all companies are reaping the same benefits, if any.With all the new mobile processors running around, and with new concepts like the thin but powerful Sony VAIO Z coming forth,... |
5 July 2011
09:33 GMT |
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Analysts are always studying the IT market to see what has changed and what hasn't, and it appears this is an occasion where the memory market has fallen under scrutiny, though findings aren't particularly shocking.
When the DDR4 memory specification was finalized, it became obvious that the days of DDR... |
27 June 2011
10:22 GMT |
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It appears that, even though the ongoing year isn't shaping up to be the most favorable in laptop history, the situation will start to recover in those to come, at least according to reports.By now, end-users will no doubt have learned that laptops have been decreasing in terms of sales because of the tablet ma... |
1 June 2011
10:26 GMT |
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It seems that the first quarter of the ongoing year proved to be quite lucrative for the server industry, as there was a significant upwards evolution in terms of sales and finances, though not exactly equal.With all the new connected electronics getting released and sold, the strain on the existing web infrastructu... |
27 May 2011
07:53 GMT |
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It appears that Lenovo has concluded its latest fiscal year on a highly optimistic note, having experienced a rapid business growth, especially during the fourth quarter, ended March 31, 2011.With all the things happening on the IT market, some companies have been seeing their businesses going through financial decl... |
26 May 2011
07:25 GMT |
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It appears that a new study of the PC market has been completed, and the finding are mixed, with sales slipping as tablet shipments continue to escalate, so, naturally, the iPad is seen as at least marginally responsible.The exact effect that tablets have been having on the PC market is not easy to quantify, es... |
25 May 2011
10:02 GMT |
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Not counting the Apple iPad, tablets may not be selling that well at the moment, but it is generally accepted that this won't last long, although slates with PC-like feature sets are said to not have a very high marketing potential.At the present time, the word tablet is used to describe what some see as two di... |
20 May 2011
04:31 GMT |
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Financial details always trickle over to the web regarding the performance of any and all IT companies, and ASUS seems to be doing more or less well on the mainboard front.The first quarter of the year was a bit troublesome for mainboard makers, what with the infamous design flaw in the Intel 6-Series chipset.Nevert... |
9 May 2011
06:01 GMT |
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That PC sales would be hit by the flaw found in Intel chipsets months ago was an obvious consequence, but it looks like it was not the only, or even the main, cause behind strained PC shipments in the EMEA region.IDC decided to take a look at how the PC market progressed in the EMEA region (short for the part of the... |
22 April 2011
07:32 GMT |
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While Intel is enjoying the feeling of amazement at once again breaking its quarterly revenue record, Western Digital is facing a decline, although it didn't suffer enough to lose ground and hand the leading position back to Seagate.Western Digital may have sealed a deal with Hitachi, through which it completel... |
21 April 2011
05:37 GMT |
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It looks like the most recent piece of news on Acer's part is 50% good and 50% bad, or so some might say, considering that the company seems to have chosen a direction but will have its work cut out for it, what with the sharp drop in PC sales.Acer has been without a so-called permanent CEO (Chief Executive Off... |
19 April 2011
09:52 GMT |
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It appears that the rapid surge of e-reader sales led to an even faster rise in the sale of e-books, to the point where paper books lost a lot of their prospective purchasers, although this all is hardly a surprise.E-readers were one of the two fastest growing product categories in terms of sales, early last year, t... |
16 April 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Now that a certain chipset issue is resolved, IT players are hoping to make up for their losses during the second quarter of 2011, ASUS being especially optimistic about its motherboard business outlet.As some end-users know, saying that motherboards and notebooks did not sell especially well during the first quarte... |
7 April 2011
08:01 GMT |
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One of the grating parts about the IT market is that it has been kind of slow over the past quarter, but it looks like things are finally starting to look up, especially now that PC vendors are getting past the defective Intel chipset issue.Intel was quite eager to score huge shipments when it released the Sandy Bri... |
23 March 2011
06:29 GMT |
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Market analysts have already started to say how tablets are eating away at the netbook, notebook and, according to some, even the desktop market share, but IDC Canada claims to have found only minor consequences in terms of PC shipments.The Mobile World Congress expo in Barcelona, Spain, saw the launch of quite a fe... |
18 February 2011
04:29 GMT |
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There has already been much talk of the tablet market and, while the general consensus is that only good times lie ahead, at least for a while, not many numerical estimates have been made, so Corning figured it would provide one.Tablets could be seen as one of the more surprising inventions of the past decade, and t... |
5 February 2011
05:47 GMT |
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That didn't take long. Only a few hours after it made the iPhone 4 available for pre-order on its website, Verizon Wireless announced that it was no longer accepting reservations for the device.
The pre-orders were halted at 8:00PM EST on Thursday. Both Apple and Verizon made the change on their respective w... |
4 February 2011
02:21 GMT |
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Since so many other companies have already let the world know about their performance during 2010, it is not too surprising to hear that Foxconn has done the same, and it seems that it still managed several million own-brand sales even despite its focus on OEM shipments.The past year seems to have been quite favorab... |
31 January 2011
06:48 GMT |
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While some market segments are flourishing, not all news seems to be positive, at least from consumers' point of view, especially if what certain reports say turns out to be true.As always, the web is full of rumors and reports about lawsuits, possible buyouts, collaborations , software and hardware, etc., happ... |
24 January 2011
06:36 GMT |
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Announced officially at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, the Motorola XOOM tablet PC, powered by Google's new Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform version, is expected to ship in around 800k units in the first quarter of the ongoing year alone. The new Android 3.0-based Xoom ta... |
10 January 2011
05:56 GMT |
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It appears that Dell Venue Pro was not delayed as much as some of the latest rumors on it suggested. Its maker is currently hard at work with ramping up production to meet demand, and says that the first back orders should start shipping as soon as Friday. This announcement should put to a rest various rumors regard... |
15 December 2010
12:11 GMT |
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It appears that the DRAM and NAND segments aren't the only markets performing less favorably than they'd like, as PC shipments are now also turning out to have been less promising than originally anticipated.Some time ago, market analyst firm Gartner predicted that PC shipments would grow by 17.9 percent t... |
29 November 2010
08:47 GMT |
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Smartphones, the fast growing segment of the mobile market, are expected to become increasingly popular among end users during the next few years, some of the latest reports around the web suggest. Not only would these devices be able to hit impressive volume shipments during the next year, but they are expected to ... |
19 November 2010
06:36 GMT |
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After the success of netbook last year, market analysts and PC makers alike thought that this market would grow at a rapid pace over the course of this year and the next, but it seems that tablets are already turning into a factor likely to negatively affect netbook sales.Netbooks managed to score heavy sales last y... |
16 October 2010
04:40 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia promised the first shipments of its Symbian^3 based Nokia N8 handset by the end of the third quarter of the ongoing year, but it seems that US users will have to wait a little longer than that to get their first N8 units. Although the company did manage to ship the N8 starting today,... |
30 September 2010
15:50 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced officially that the first Nokia N8 devices already started shipping to users out there. Those to pre-order it in Nokia Online Shops and Nokia retail stores will receive their units first.Of course, the exact availability of the phone would vary from country to countr... |
30 September 2010
02:58 GMT |
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Though the first and second quarters were reasonably productive for the IT market overall, it appears that, for Intel at least, the third quarter of the ongoing year won't be as lucrative, even prompting the Santa Clara, California-based company to lower its sales expectations.After the second quarter was over ... |
28 August 2010
04:34 GMT |
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Apparently mirroring the overall favorable performance of the PC market segment, the motherboard industry seems to have done well for itself during the first two quarters of 2010, with Gigabyte and ASRock scoring some fairly solid profits.The time to post financial results cones periodically, and while sometimes IT ... |
23 August 2010
07:07 GMT |
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With companies taking turns posting their financial results for the latest quarter, it was only a matter of time before market analysts found out just how the overall CPU market performed, and it seems that, while it lost some share in the server market, AMD gained some ground in the PC processor segment.Apparently,... |
21 August 2010
04:13 GMT |
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It appears that, even in spite of all the media coverage on the global economy and how seriously difficult a time it is going through, the IT industry seems to be recovering. Not only are companies making profits, but even entire segments are surging on-year. The Flat panel Display market, according to DisplaySearch... |
7 August 2010
06:18 GMT |
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Last year was a very slow year for the IT industry as a whole, but companies still managed to post on-year increases because 2008 was even worse in terms of marketing prowess. This year, with the economy on the mend, hardware makers and PC suppliers have been posting positive results with very few exceptions. This m... |
2 August 2010
09:29 GMT |
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Even though there are some complaints about weakened demand in Europe, because of the crisis that is being felt in that region, general forecasts for 2010 still seem to be favorable in most areas. On the consumer electronics front, things seem to be going especially well, at least that's what CEA (Consumer Elect... |
23 July 2010
10:08 GMT |
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The fourth quarter of Seagate's fiscal year 2010 ended on the second of July and, though it may have hoped for the chance to boast of an excellent three months, the company wasn't exactly in a position to do so. This is because its total revenues failed to actually meet the sum predicted back in April. Appa... |
21 July 2010
04:55 GMT |
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July 15 should bring a new reason to rejoice for some of Verizon Wireless' customers, as that is the day when the latest Android-based mobile phone for the carrier is put on sale. We're talking here about the Motorola DROID X, which was announced officially a few weeks ago, and which is already available f... |
7 July 2010
03:32 GMT |
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DROID Incredible by HTC was the third Android-based mobile phone wireless carrier Verizon added to its DROID series, following last year's release of DROID by Motorola and DROID Eris. Even if made available for purchase only about a couple of months ago, the handset seems to have already managed to reach the fi... |
6 July 2010
08:00 GMT |
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The rumors on the possibility that Apple might release on the market an iPhone model that would sport CDMA connectivity have been floating around for quite some time now, with newer and newer details being “unveiled” from time to time. Those rumors emerged once again recently, fueled by recent reports th... |
17 June 2010
09:18 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has started shipping out one of the latest devices it unveiled to the world during the ongoing year, namely the Sony Ericsson Vivaz pro. Powered by the Symbian operating system, the handset has arrived in select markets, and should soon become available for purchase ... |
26 May 2010
03:56 GMT |
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