Black Friday, Cyber Monday 2011 To Be Biggest Yet For Mobile Shoppers, Study Finds
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are typically two of the biggest shopping days of the year, and as consumers continue to use mobile devices more…
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Nokia Responds To Windows 8 Tablet Rumors, Says It Has No Announcements To Make
Nokia on Wednesday commented on a report suggesting the Finnish vendor had plans to launch a Windows 8 tablet in June 2012. The company would…
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Dell Reports Stagnant Q3 Revenue, CFO Says Prices May Increase
Dell reported its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, noting that its revenue of $15.4 billion was flat compared to the same period last year. GAAP earnings…
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iPad Demand Said To Be Fading As Competition Heats Up
Demand for Apple's iPad tablet is said to be in decline as competition finally heats up thanks to the $199 Kindle Fire from Amazon, and…
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Asus And Acer Scale Back Intel Ultrabook Orders By 40%
Weak sales of the Acer S3 and Asus Zenbook series Ultrabooks have forced both Acer and Asus to scale back orders by 40%, DigiTimes reported on…
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Thailand Floods May Hurt Shipments, Increase Prices For PC Makers
The devastating flooding in Thailand could hurt HP, Lenovo, Dell and Microsoft during the fourth quarter of this year, IDC said in a recent report.…
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Kindle Fire Could Be Hotter Than iPad This Holiday Season, Study Finds
Amazon's upcoming Kindle Fire could be the hottest tablet on the market this holiday season, with demand that may even surpass Apple's blockbuster slate, the…
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Kindle Fire Demand Surpasses iPad Ahead Of Launch, Could Be A Threat
Amazon is seeing huge pent-up demand for its Kindle Fire tablet ahead of launch according to data from a recent study. Market research firm ChangeWave…
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iOS Market Share Balloons In October, Android Climbs To No. 2 Mobile OS
Propelled by the popularity of its iPad tablet and the successful launch of the latest iPhone, Apple's share of the mobile operating system market jumped…
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Apple May Be Building Ultra-Thin 15-Inch MacBook
Apple is designing a new 15-inch MacBook model that will offer an ultra-thin MacBook Air-like design, Macotakara said recently. We heard a similar rumor in…
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HTC Reports Record Q3, Smartphone Shipments Up 93%
HTC on Monday reported a record third quarter that saw profit grow 68% on shipments of 13.2 million handsets, up 93% from the same quarter…
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HP Will Not Spin Off PC Business
After announcing this past August that it was considering a spin off of its PC business, HP confirmed on Thursday that it would keep its…
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Android Usage Poised To Pass Symbian In Nokia's Backyard; iOS Already No. 1
Usage of Android-based devices has exploded in Nordic countries over the past few months and is set to push Symbian into the No. 3 spot…
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Apple's MacBook Pro Line Gets Quiet Spec Bump
Apple on Monday quietly updated its line of MacBook Pro notebook computers with faster processors and more storage. The late-2011 MacBook bump comes a bit…
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ABI: Tablet Shipments Exploded In Q2 To Surpass Netbooks For The First Time
Global tablet sales into channels exploded in the second quarter of 2011 to surpass netbooks for the first time in the emerging category's young history.…
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Android 4.0 'Still Not Strong Enough' To Compete With iPad, Vendors Fear
Google unveiled Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich alongside the Galaxy Nexus earlier this week and while initial responses have been fairly positive, vendors reportedly believe…
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In-Stat: 4G LTE Handset Shipments To Top 154 Million In 2015
One in five smartphones sold in the United States during the second quarter was 4G LTE-enabled according to The NPD Group, and the market for…
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Dell CEO: Android Cannot Compete With The iPad On Tablets, Windows 8 Has Best Shot
Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Inc., said on Tuesday that Android tablets have failed to gain significant traction in a market dominated by…
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Acer Founder: Android Will Beat Apple
Acer founder Stan Shih thinks Apple's days at the top are numbered, and Google's Android operating system will be the victor in the industry's heated…
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Judge Says Samsung Tablet Infringes Apple Patents, Taunts Samsung Attorney
United States District Judge Lucy Koh on Thursday ruled that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet does infringe on multiple Apple patents. ...
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Gartner: Global PC Shipments Jump Just 3% In Q3 2011
Global shipments of PCs grew slightly but less than analysts had predicted during the third quarter of 2011, Gartner said recently, citing preliminary findings of…
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Quad-Core Asus Eee Pad Transformer 2 Tablet May Be Set For November 7th Launch
Asus's followup to the popular Eee Pad Transformer tablet maybe be set for a launch early next month. The LambdaTek Component Shop currently lists the…
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T-Mobile Unveils Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, T-Mobile SpringBoard Tablets
T-Mobile continues to bolster its device portfolio in anticipation of the fast-approaching holiday season — when it will be the only major carrier in the…
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Berg: Mobile App Downloads To Grow 57% Annually, 98 Billion In 2015
Arguments have been made that web apps will gain momentum as mobile browsers become more capable, but not everyone sees mobile apps losing momentum any…
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HP To Decide Fate Of PC Division This Month
HP's newly appointed CEO Meg Whitman said the company will decide this month whether or not it is going to spin off its personal systems…
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Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Reach 95,000 Units On Day One, Market Research Firm Says
Amazon reportedly sold 95,000 Kindle Fire tablets during the device's first day of pre-sales availability alone. According to estimates from market research and intelligence firm…
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RIM Calls PlayBook Discontinuation 'Pure Fiction'
Research In Motion on Thursday responded to a market rumor suggesting that production of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet had been stopped, and it was considering…
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