While the PC market has seen declining growth in recent years, smartphones have generally been a bright spot: phone makers have been selling more smartphones each year than the last. But that kind of growth might not last much longer. Research from Gartner shows a slowdown in the worldwide growth rate of smartphone sales. Sure, […]
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PC shipments dropped last quarter, but there were winners and losers
Researchers at Gartner and IDC have released separate reports that reach the same basic conclusion: PC sales in the first quarter of 2015 were lower than during the same period a year earlier. But the reports aren’t all bad news for computer makers: A few companies also shipped more computers this year, and the launch […]
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PC market shows signs of recovery
Research firms Gartner and IDC both released reports this week looking at PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2014. While the reports don’t quite agree on the exact numbers of PCs shipped, they do both suggest one thing: things aren’t look as bad as they had been for the past few quarters. According to […]
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Lilbits (3-27-2014): Amazon TV box launching April 2nd?
Amazon’s almost certainly working on a set-top box that will let you stream videos, play games, and possibly run other apps on your TV.  Details about the device have been leaking for months… and now it looks like Amazon might be getting ready to put the rumors to rest and officially unveil its TV box. The […]
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Gartner: Nearly 200 million tablets sold in 2013, mostly Android
Research firm Gartner reports that more than 195 million tablets were sold in 2013, and for the first time since the introduction of Apple’s first iPad, most of the tablets sold were running Google Android software. According to Gartner, Android grabbed about 62 percent of the market for a total of nearly 121 million tablets. […]
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Reports: PC sales decline by 10% but Chromebooks climb 112%
There’s good news and bad news for PC makers in the latest reports from research firms IDC, Gartner, and NPD. The bad news is that most reports suggest PC sales in 2013 were down about 10 percent from the previous year, with 4th quarter/holiday shipments down about 6 percent from 2013. The good news is that’s […]
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Gartner analysts claim Android is snappier on Arm than Windows 7 on Atom
Several computer makers were showing off netbook and smartbook prototypes running Google Android at the Computex trade show earlier this month. While the operating system was originally designed for cellphones with small screens and relatively slow processors, Google Android can be tweaked to play well with larger displays, and a decent array of processors. And […]
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Gartner: 2009 is the “year of the mini-notebook” in Asia Pacific
Research firm Gartner has put out a report claiming that this will be the “year of the mini-notebook” in the Asia Pacific region, with netbook shipments expected to grow by 82 percent from last year. You’ll have to pony up $1295 to read the full report, but the Cliff Notes version is available in the […]
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Gartner: PC sales revenue is down, but netbook sales are up
Research firm Gartner says PC shipments were up about 1% during the 4th quarter of 2008. But revenue from computer sales was down by as much as 20%. According to Computer World, that’s because low cost netbooks are cannibalizing sales of more expensive computers. But I’m not sure that’s the only conclusion that can be […]
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Gartner: We won’t see $100 laptops for 3 more years
It’s been a while since anyone referred to the OLPC XO Laptop as the $100 laptop. You know, unless they were joking. But once upon a time, that was Nicholas Negroponte’s dream: to produce a notebook for under $100. Now, the OLPC project never planned to make a profit off of these notebooks, but a […]