Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on October 13, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
The latest market data shows that HP’s personal computer business improved relative to most competitors during the last quarter. What then, happens to those spinoff plans?
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 17, 2011 at 4:00 am PT
The Mac has been on a growth tear for a few years now, outperforming the broader PC market in most every sector. Indeed, December 2010 marked the 19th straight quarter that it did so.
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 Mobile on January 27, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
It’s indisputable that Verizon is going to sell a lot of iPhones when the device finally arrives on its network. The question is how many? And the answer is as varied as the research houses trying to pinpoint it. On the low end, analysts have been calling for nine million, and at the highest end, 12 million. Until today, when R.W. Baird & Co. analyst William Power reset those parameters with a bullish new potentiality.
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Voices in News on January 27, 2011 at 3:20 am PT
Nokia shares sagged this morning as the world’s largest mobile phone maker posted a 20 percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit to 742 million euros ($1.02 billion) for adjusted earnings of 22 cents a share–not quite as bad as analysts had expected–but also reported shrinking operating margins, a three percent drop in handset shipments and a weak outlook for Q1. CEO Stephen Elop said Nokia “faces some significant challenges in our competitiveness.”
John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 21, 2011 at 12:44 pm PT
With the first-year anniversaries of the iPad and iPhone 4 fast approaching, and both devices destined for an update per Apple’s annual mobile device refresh cycle, the Apple rumor mill is undergoing a refresh of its own.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 21, 2011 at 10:17 am PT
The surging smartphone market allowed the Taiwanese cellphone maker to report solid quarterly results and offer a prediction of more to come, but some analysts had been looking for an even rosier prediction. The Android and Windows phone maker expects to sell 8.5 million smartphones in the January quarter.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 12, 2011 at 4:20 pm PT
PC sales were weaker than expected in the fourth quarter. Might it have a little something do with the iPad? Yes.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 15, 2010 at 9:35 am PT
The market for microprocessors is at what research firm iSuppli calls “a stalemate,” with Intel gaining slightly. And there’s good news for hard-drive makers: Shipment are up.
