Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 2 at 9:33 am PT
Palmisano will be remembered as the man who sold IBM’s PC division to China’s Lenovo. Seven years later, it seems to have been a good trade for both parties.
John Paczkowski in News on November 18, 2011 at 3:17 am PT
Buoyed by increasing sales in enterprise and explosive growth in the Asia Pacific, the company’s share of the global PC market passed the 5 percent mark last quarter, for the first time in 15 years.
Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 10, 2011 at 2:10 pm PT
The Taiwanese mobile device maker is trying to dominate the market for smartphones and tablets.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 31, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
A new deal bundling HP’s TouchPad tablet with its PCs is probably the device’s last hurrah. For real this time.
John Paczkowski in News on February 16, 2011 at 10:31 am PT
If the iPad truly is a PC and not the “media tablet” that some claim, then Apple is the largest mobile PC vendor in the world. According to DisplaySearch, Apple shipped 10.2 million mobile PCs in the fourth quarter of 2010–iPads, MacBooks and MacBook Pros–to claim a 17.2 percent share of the mobile PC market. That makes it the new global leader.
John Paczkowski in News on January 26, 2011 at 8:44 am PT
Stats on PC sales haven’t been including the iPad and other tablets, but research outfit Canalys says that’s old thinking and doesn’t accurately reflect Apple’s clout.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 13, 2011 at 8:28 am PT
As demand for PCs has slowed, so has demand for the memory chips that go into them. Good news for everyone but the companies that make memory.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm PT
Verizon showed off 10 devices coming in the first half of the year and said it will cover another 140 cities with the high-speed network by year’s end.
John Paczkowski in News on December 15, 2010 at 3:30 am PT
If the tablet PC (which has so far been defined by the iPad) isn’t entirely the notebook cannibal it’s often seen as, it certainly has some cannibalistic tendencies. And those are growing stronger as devices like the iPad begin finding more traction among the production-oriented users that were expected to ignore them.
