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Wonder if This Has Something to Do With Those Laptop Hunter Ads…

John Paczkowski in News on July 23, 2009 at 8:50 am PT

The high-end PC market is not a bad place to be. Just ask Apple, which rules it and with great financial success. According to new stats from NPD Group, Apple now claims 91 percent of the U.S. retail market for personal computers costing more than $1,000. Nine out of 10 dollars spent on such machines in June went to Cupertino.

Uninstall Microsoft Workforce Service Pack?

John Paczkowski in News on December 22, 2008 at 3:05 pm PT

Tech may be done with layoffs for 2008, but 2009 is another matter entirely. Now that the souring economy has had its way with Yahoo and AMD and Palm and Sun and Nortel, it’s moving on to bigger fare. We’ve already heard predictions that Google will sack as much as 15 percent of its workforce next year. Now come rumors that Microsoft is steeling itself for large-scale job cuts as well.