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Ahead of the first anniversary of the launch of Windows 7 on Friday, Microsoft has posted some stats about the first year. Writing on The Windows Blog, a perceptibly triumphant Brandon LeBlanc, a Windows Communications Manager at Microsoft, revealed…
The latest global PC shipment numbers from Gartner and IDC have probably confirmed recent fears that tablets (effectively the iPad for now) are eating into secondary PC sales. Gartner expects media tablets to get even more ravenous as time goes on. …
Both IDC and Gartner have released their third-quarter PC shipment numbers. While their figures may be contrasting, they paint identical pictures of a quarter that saw underwhelming growth in PC shipments. According to IDC, global PC shipments grew 1…
If you recently bought a smartphone, there’s a solid chance it was an Android device. According to some new numbers from Nielsen Research, In August 2010, 32% of smartphone buyers went with phones running Google’s Android mobile operating system. That’…
Well, physical game discs, it was a good game. You fought hard and had a nice, long reign, but now you’re relics — destined to be excavated millennia from now and presented as evidence of our time period’s ingenious developments in Frisbee tech…
File this one under ‘A’ for “alleged,” but according to one pissed off cell phone service subscriber who wrote into The Consumerist, AT&T’s store employees have a history of telling bold faced lies to boost their commission.
That’s quite the accusa…
Doom and gloom in the computer industry is usually a troubling sign for the economy as a whole, but if you’re on the market for new hardware this fall it could translate into some pretty big savings for you! According to the Associated Press Intel h…
Sometimes it escapes our attention that people are still buying huge numbers of PCs these days. Intel’s quarterly profit announcement reminded everyone of that today with news that the chip maker had record profits of $2.9 billion. Not to belabor th…