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Article | 15/05/2013 Lenovo and Apple grew as bottom fell out of PC market in Western Europe
PC shipments in Western Europe declined by 20.5 percent during the first quarter: The only vendors to see shipments grow were Lenovo and Apple, which ...
Article | 14/05/2013 Tablet v PC - Asus straddles the fuzzy divide
In the face of a slump in PC sales and industry debate over whether the smartphone or tablet is now the preferred tool for a large segment of domestic...
Article | 7/05/2013 HP turns to design for reversal of PC fortunes
Hewlett-Packard is barely holding on to the top spot in the laptop and desktop market, but hopes a renewed vigor regarding product design will help re...
Article | 6/05/2013 Tablet shipments to outpace laptops in 2013, NPD says
New tablet shipments will outnumber laptops for the first time in 2013, as touch display capabilities drive buying patterns rather than new operating ...
Article | 6/05/2013 Asus to launch Chromebook in second half of 2013
Taiwanese PC maker Asus plans on getting behind Google's Chrome OS and will launch a notebook running the OS in the second half of this year, said com...
Article | 6/05/2013 HP announces new ProBooks, including touchscreen model
Hewlett-Packard has kicked off a series of upcoming PC announcements with new ProBook 400 series laptops, including a 15.6-inch model with a touchscre...
Article | 3/05/2013 Acer waits for Windows RT 8.1 to make tablet decision
Acer is waiting for the next version of Windows RT, due in the second half of this year, before deciding whether to release a tablet that runs on that...
Article | 3/05/2013 Acer introduces $169 Android tablet
Acer has placed its bet in the tablet wars on low pricing, introducing a $US169 Android tablet with a 7.9-inch screen.
Article | 2/05/2013 New Chromebooks coming this year from Asus and Acer, report suggests
Hard on the heels of the news that the Linux kernel itself has now added Chromebook support, other reports this week suggest that the ongoing populari...
Article | 2/05/2013 Intel's Haswell gets massive graphics performance boost
Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already re...
Article | 23/04/2013 Western Digital rolls out ultra-slim 5mm Ultrabook drives
The drive towards dirt-cheap Ultrabooks is getting a big boost with the release of Western Digital's new ultra-slim spinning hard drive, a barely ther...
Article | 18/04/2013 Product snapshot: Toshiba KIRA, a high-resolution luxury Ultrabook
Toshiba has unveiled the KIRA Ultrabook, which is described as being the company's first "high resolution premium Ultrabook". It's a 13.3in Ultrabook ...
Article | 11/04/2013 Wall Street Beat: Weak PC sales rain on tech stocks' parade
Just as tech stocks were starting to rise this week, dismal PC sales reports for the first quarter burst the very short-lived bubble, causing shares o...
Article | 11/04/2013 Products with faster USB speeds to reach market in 2014
Products based on a USB specification that will double the data transfer rates between host devices and peripherals will reach the market in late 2014...
Article | 11/04/2013 End is in sight for Intel's Atom netbook-specific processors
Intel's Atom processors designed for netbooks could be on their last leg, with analysts saying that the chip maker could be tweaking its product road ...