All-in-one sales expected to pick up again
Published in AI
Friday, 10 February 2017 11:24

All-in-one sales expected to pick up again


After three years of slump

Analysts are predicting that All-in-one PC sales will pick up a bit this year after a dismal performance for the last three years.

Apple’s hardware sales fall behind rivals
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Thursday, 26 January 2017 11:03

Apple’s hardware sales fall behind rivals


Market leaders grew while Jobs’ Mob fell


The fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple has really dropped the ball when it comes to hardware and is rapidly losing ground to rivals.

Less PCs means less openness
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Monday, 16 January 2017 12:09

Less PCs means less openness


Consequences of the "death of the PC"

While there are many who want to see the end of the PC, its replacements are killing off some of the nicer aspects of that revolution, its openness and ability to program.

Apple CEO was spinning like crazy over PCs
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Wednesday, 21 December 2016 11:38

Apple CEO was spinning like crazy over PCs


Insiders say Job’s Mob does not care about Macintosh any more

Yesterday the Tame Apple Press was full of stories about how Tim Cook really loved the Macintosh and was going to release new and important hardware updates in the future.

Oculus splits into Mobile and PC
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Wednesday, 14 December 2016 12:00

Oculus splits into Mobile and PC


Co-founder heads to PC

Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus, is no longer the CEO of the company he created with Palmer Luckey four years ago.

PC shipments pulling out of the tarpit
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Thursday, 01 December 2016 11:45

PC shipments pulling out of the tarpit


Latest IDC report

While PC shipments are set to decline in 2016, beancounters at IDC think that the drop will be better than expected and there will be an improvement in 2017.

Samsung rumoured to be offloading its PC division
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Lenovo named as the buyer

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Samsung Electronics is about to flog off its PC division to Lenovo.

Fujitsu denies PC ninjutsu
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Wednesday, 16 November 2016 12:12

Fujitsu denies PC ninjutsu


We are not bumping off PCs

Fujitsu has denied exiting the PC market despite chatting to Chinese rival Lenovo about selling its devices unit.

Asustek is doing well
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Monday, 14 November 2016 10:59

Asustek is doing well


Back to black 

Asustek has reported net profits of $187.75 million for the third quarter of 2016, up 45 percent on the last quarter and 42 percent on last year.  This could be a sign that the bad-old-days of poor PC sales are fading.

PC memory shortage predicted
Published in Cloud
Tuesday, 25 October 2016 12:34

PC memory shortage predicted


Next month

There could be a memory shortage for PC vendors brewing, after aggressive short-term orders coming in from smartphone vendors.