Eric Johnson in News on April 20, 2013 at 12:00 pm PT
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Ina Fried in News on January 20, 2012 at 5:00 am PT
A year ago, the diminutive laptops made up 8 percent of the PC market, according to Microsoft. Last quarter, that figure was just 2 percent. Hello, iPad effect.
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Lauren Goode in News on December 16, 2011 at 4:45 pm PT
Dell has said it is no longer going to be making consumer netbooks, as the computer maker — and others — shift toward the emerging category of thin, powerful ultrabooks. Netbooks, which first debuted in 2007 and are typically smaller and less powerful than traditional notebooks, saw their day in the sun quickly fade following the advent of tablets. Though Dell is ditching the Inspiron Mini netbook, the company is still selling the business-aimed Latitude netbooks on Dell.com, as pointed out by
The Verge.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 16, 2011 at 9:11 am PT
Three weeks after deciding to keep its PC business, Hewlett-Packard offers up its first Ultrabook.
John Paczkowski in News on April 1, 2011 at 9:07 am PT
CEO Gianfranco Lanci’s departure from Acer yesterday was both sudden and unexpected. What precipitated it? The company line says it was his differences with the Acer’s board of directors. But over what, specifically? Evidently, Lanci grievously misjudged the impact that tablets would have on the company’s core business.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 21, 2011 at 11:42 am PT
The onetime rising star who ran Intel’s hugely successful Centrino platform last decade couldn’t work the same magic with Atom, which has not yet lived up to expectations.
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.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 31, 2010 at 10:39 am PT
Much as they were in 2010, tablet sales will be a high point of 2011–but even more so. According to Caris & Co. analyst Robert Cihra, tablet sales will more than triple, rising 226 percent to 54 million units. And of those, Cihra believes Apple will claim 67 percent.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 14, 2010 at 10:42 am PT
The founder of Gmail is taking a dim view of Google’s Chrome OS, predicting that by next year the project will either have been killed or merged with Android. In a series of posts on FriendFeed, Paul Buchheit argues that the Web-based operating system brings little to the table that Android can’t do better.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 9, 2010 at 6:42 pm PT
Plus, e-books, electric cars and Internet TV cross over into the mainstream. Analyst Mark Anderson makes his annual predictions for the tech economy in 2011.