IDC: The PC Market Will Deteriorate Even More Than Expected This Year
Every time you think that the PC market may have bottomed out, it just keeps getting worse. IDC came out with new PC shipment numbers…
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Lenovo Now Installing Old-Fashioned Start Menus On Windows 8 PCs
Although Microsoft is indeed bringing back a version of the Start button with its upcoming Windows 8.1 update, it's still not bringing back the full…
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PC Sales Still Smashing Tablets On College Campuses
There is absolutely no question at this point that tablets are responsible for the global decline in PC sales. This was an inevitability that top…
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Every Major PC Vendor Except Lenovo Is In Free Fall
Throughout this year of gloomy PC sales, one constant has remained: Lenovo has been the only vendor whose shipments have either held steady or have…
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Lenovo Is Now The World's Top PC Vendor
It may not be as big of an honor as it was five years ago, but Lenovo can now proudly say that it's the world's…
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Apple's Latest Move Worries PC Vendor Rivals
Apple recently filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a new type of computer port that combines a memory card…
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Gartner Cuts Global IT Spending Growth Forecast In Half As PC Sales Slump
Slowing PC sales forced market research firm Gartner to cut its forecast for 2013 global IT spending growth in half. The company announced this week…
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Interest In Large Tablets Fades As Focus Shifts To iPad Mini, Others
Consumers are still buying larger tablets but it seems as though they're now more drawn to cheaper, smaller models such as the iPad mini and…
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Tablet Sales Are The Only Thing Keeping PC Vendors Alive
PC sales are in free fall and could decline nearly 10% in 2013 by some estimates. Consumers are increasingly turning to tablets, which are expected to grow…
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Acer Chairman Knocks Windows RT Yet Again
Acer doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind about Microsoft and its new platforms. Top executives from the company have called Windows…
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Samsung Takes On Google And Apple With Highest-Resolution Notebook Display In The World
Samsung on Monday announced a new super-high resolution display for laptop computers. The company revealed a 13.3-inch QHD display with a resolution of 3200 x…
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Dell's Experimental 'Computer-On-A-Stick' Shipping To Developers In July
One of the most intriguing concepts for the future of the PC industry we've heard lately has been Dell's Project Ophelia, a USB thumb drive-sized…
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Samsung Will Reportedly Launch An Android Notebook In The Coming Months
Earlier reports have indicated that Google and its partners are preparing to launch Android-powered notebooks that could debut later this year. Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities…
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New Devices Said To Debut At WWDC, But No iPhone 5S In Sight
While software is expected to take center stage at Apple's WWDC keynote this year, a new report claims that we'll still see some new hardware…
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Microsoft Offsets Tanking PC Sales With Windows 8 Upgrades, Surface Sales
Despite PC sales recently experiencing their steepest decline ever in a single quarter, Microsoft managed to increase overall revenues from its Windows division. The company…
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Microsoft Partners Say Windows 8 Caused 'Millions Of Customers' To Switch To Apple
With PC sales crashing and burning, it's not surprising that several PC OEMs are still fuming about Windows 8, the operating system that has so…
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HP's Latest Plan To Boost PC Sales: Integrating Leap Motion 3D Motion Control Sensors
Things haven't been going well for PC vendors as of late with sales recently experiencing their steepest decline ever in a single quarter. HP is…
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Raspberry Pi Sales Soar Past 1 Million As U.K Production Tops 500,000 Units
The bulk of Raspberry Pi production moved from China last September to one of Sony's factories in Wales. The Raspberry Pi Foundation this week announced that…
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Why Lenovo Has Been The Only OEM To Weather The Great PC Collapse So Far
The Wednesday IDC report on the disastrous state of the PC industry had one very interesting tidbit that many overlooked: Namely, that while companies such…
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IDC: Windows 8 Has Actually Made PCs 'A Less Attractive Alternative To Tablets'
While Microsoft's (MSFT) launch of Windows 8 was supposed to be the big change that the company needed to help personal computers keep pace with…
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Dell Admits Being A PC Maker Is A Dead End In New SEC Filing
There's a good reason Dell (DELL) wants to go private and back out of the traditional PC business: Because it thinks selling computers based on…
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Microsoft To Debut Windows Blue Preview This Summer
Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to announce the next generation of the Windows operating system later this year. According to The Verge, the company began working…
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PC Shipments Could Sink By Double-Digit Percentage In Q1 2013
It's not easy being a PC vendor right now and the latest report issued by IDC indicates that it won't get easier anytime soon. In particular, IDC…
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13-Inch Retina-Equipped MacBook Pro Bests Rivals In Battery Life Test
If having a long-lasting battery is your most important consideration when buying a laptop, then you really don't have much of an option besides the…
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Samsung Exec Calls Windows 8 'No Better Than' Vista
It's safe to say that Jun Dong-soo, the head of Samsung's (005930) memory chip business, won't be getting a Christmas card from Steve Ballmer this year.…
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Google Unveils $1,300 Touch-Enabled Chromebook Pixel [Video]
Like Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG) is in a period of transition. Both companies cut their teeth in software and grew to lead their respective industries,…
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128GB Surface Pro Only Has Slightly Less Usable Storage Than 128GB MacBook Air
One of the reported downsides to the 128GB Microsoft (MSFT) Surface Pro is that only around 70% of its advertised storage can actually be used…
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