Tag: PC

The personal computer (PC) industry celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2015. Back in the early days, PC was considered to be a highly technical device meant to be handled by experts only. Today it has become an integral part of the personal and professional life. In 1975, less than 50,000 PCs were sold with a value of about $60 million....

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) continues to lead the global PC market, which includes tablets, notebooks and desktop computers, with a market share of 14%. Tablet sales, however, which constitute a majority of PC sales are on a steady decline since the last two quarters, giving the edge to traditional desktop and notebook PC manufacturers such as Lenovo Group Limited (ADR) (OTCMKTS:LNVGY) and Dell...

Windows 8.1 has finally overtaken its predecessor Windows 8 in terms of monthly market share. According to Net Applications research, for May 2014, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) maintained its dominance in desktop operating system market with 90.87% share, while Windows 8.1 leapfrogged Windows 8 to achieve the fourth spot with 6.35% market share. Where Are Windows XP users Moving To? Despite Microsoft urging users...

The ever-growing smart devices’ market is undergoing yet another change lately. Earlier this year, we saw a plethora of devices, notably, the 5+ inch smartphones, also known as phablets launched by various manufacturers that have been instrumental in bringing about this change. International Data Corporation (IDC) has recently forecasted that the worldwide smart-devices market, comprised of PCs, tablets, and...

It’s a PC lover’s nightmare!The growing popularity of new and compact devices like smartphones and tablets among the masses since the past couple of years has gravely affected the PC market lately. The industry had been losing sales in mature markets steadily since the dawn of smartphones and majority of its sales came from emerging markets. Analysts had forecast...

In spite of explosive growth in indian Smartphone and Tablet industry the PC sales in India have stood at 3.53 million units by the end of second quarter 2013, marking a growth of 240% over the year and surged about 30.2% over the quarter. These figures have surprised the market, facing tough completion from smart phones and phablets a...

In Q2, 2013 Global PC market has remained flat despite 42.9% growth in the tablets. Nearly 109 million PCs (includes Desktops, netbooks and tablets) were shipped in Q2, 2013 with a negligible growth of 0.3% compare to a year back quarter. We can now surely say the world is under the process of a makeover; the huge 42.9% growth...

Emergence of touch-based devices and low-priced ultrabook continued their effect on declining worldwide PC shipments in Q2 2013. According to latest IDC report, total 75.7 million units were shipped during the second quarter of the year, a straight 11.4% decline compare to the same quarter in 2012. However, analysts find the growth quite satisfactory, as it remained slightly higher...

Google Inc's (GOOG) Android is growing faster than ever; it has now infiltrated the desktop too, and this was expected and it was just a matter of time.All-in-one desktop computing is all the rage, with space and portability of computers gaining lot of importance; it looks like Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) got a cue at the right time as it...

We are part of a generation who are blessed with mind boggling technologies; our predecessors never had any options to choose from, however on the contrary we are spoiled with number of privileges to choose from. It’s a known fact that today without Internet and gadgets our life seems to be very incomplete. Mobiles (Smartphones and Tablets) are certainly the most celebrated...

PCs Sales have tragically come down as tablets rule in the first quarter (calendar) of 2013. PC sales dropped by 13.9% after selling 76.3 million units worldwide. Unfortunately, this decline was worse than the IDC’s earlier forecast of 7.7% decline.Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) shipped highest number of desktop PCs and laptops in this quarter. In spite of that it registered 24% drop...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd ( KRX:005930), the world's two biggest giants in smartphone segment, are now head-to-head in smart connected device shipments. According to a IDC's recent report, in 2012, Samsung and Apple fought neck-to-neck in terms of smart connected device shipments. Here, smart connected devices comprise desktop PCs, Portable PCs, tablets and smartphones combined....

Twitter, the micro-blogging site is growing in a lightening speed, here is a good glimpse at  Twitter stats 2012 and how it grew to this point.Between Q2 and Q4, account ownerships grew from 408 million to 485 million. Active users mounted from 208 million to 288 million in the same period.GlobalWebIndex created an infographic which shows the Twitter growth between Q2 and...

Of course, Microsoft is finally going to launch Windows 8 on October 25 and the company has a huge expectation from its innovative OS. But this time, businesses are reluctant to adopt Windows 8 OS immediately after its release. According to Forrester analyst--Frank Gillett--, Windows 8 will get slow start in 2013; It will "just stop shrinking", but demand...

Apple's iPhone 5 is now available in the worldwide market and the company shipped 2 million iPhones in just 24 hours since its availability. Likewise, a sequence of high-end smartphone and Tablets are on the highway to be launched later this year. The scenario has steadily been changing since last couple of years; Now, users in the matured markets are...

There's no discrepancy in the thoughts that digital lifestyle is changing every day and now, users are more preferring Tablet device instead of bulky PC devices. The days went off when we were seeking to a bulky PC devices for larger data storage, but the induction of cloud services have swallowed the dependency on large internal hard disk. Now,...