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Apple portable computers set to dominate the rest of 2011
Especially if you throw in iPad sales, as yet another Wall Street analyst has done
If you look closely at the chart at right, taken from a note to clients issued Monday by Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore, you'll see that it has two entries for the second quarter of 2011.
Both show notebook computer sales as reported by the six largest vendors. The difference -- which Whitmore has highlighted with an orange MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 8, 2011 7:09 AM ETPosted in: Acer, Apple, Asus, Dell, Deutsche Bank, Hewlett-Packard, HP, iOS, iPad, Market Share, Microsoft, notebooks, PCs, Samsung, Tablets, Ultrabooks, Windows -
Video: German Apple store site defaced with Windows logo
A well-documented piece of street art appeared Friday at a Hamburg construction site
A group calling itself the .Wav Collective, after a Windows audio file format, has posted a video showing a pair of street artists disguised as workmen cordoning off a section of the Jungfernstieg in downtown Hamburg Friday morning, hoisting a ladder against the construction barricade at the site of Apple's (AAPL) newest retail in the city, and calmly MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 5, 2011 6:13 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple Store, Germany, Hamburg, Microsoft Windows, Retail, Street Art, WAV, Windows -
Today in Tech: Windows 8 teaser
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* Microsoft teased Windows 8 yesterday at All Things D's D9 conference, unveiling a versatile user interface heavily inspired by its Windows Phone 7 platform. While users will be able to access the classic Windows desktop experience they'll also experience the Start screen above, which presents users' apps MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 2, 2011 10:24 AM ET -
Mixed reviews for the latest 'I'm a PC' television ads
Microsoft's new marketing campaign seems to be stuck in a time warp of Apple's making
Reactions to the new Microsoft TV ads -- the first of which aired Monday night (video below the fold) and featured a young woman who is persuaded to accept a free state-of-the-art Windows 7 PC by a salesman who secretly built a computer store in her home -- run, like water faucets, either hot or cold.
Half MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 10, 2011 11:11 AM ETPosted in: Advertising, Apple, Get a Mac, I'm a PC, iPad, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, PCs, Personal computer, TV, Windows -
Apple malware: 6 years of crying wolf
A collection of dire warnings from the past puts this week's alarms into perspective
Three days after ZDNet ran a piece entitled "Coming Soon to a Mac Near You: Serious Malware": Daring Fireball's John Gruber has posted, under the headline "Wolf!" more than a dozen variations on the same theme.
They date back to 2004 and all sound a familiar warning: Apple (AAPL), having achieved critical mass in the market place, is MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 5, 2011 7:41 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Daring Fireball, iPods, John Gruber, Macintosh, malware, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, PCs, Tablets, Trojan, Virus, Windows, Worm -
The problem with Microsoft...
No one questions CEO Steve Ballmer's drive or intentions - but is his devotion to the company and its Windows business hurting its ability to innovate?
By Gary Rivlin, contributor
It seemed a little like love when a blogger named The Paperboy got his hands on a secret device being developed inside Microsoft under the code name Courier. With its icon-rich user interface and multitouch, stylus-friendly screens, Courier represented "an astonishing take MORE
Mar 29, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Bill Gates, cloud computing, Enterprise, Google, Kin, Kinect, Microsoft, Mobile, PCs, Steve Ballmer, Tablets, Vista, Windows, Xbox, Zune -
Today in Tech: Facebook email rolling out, NokSoft's $1 billion deal
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Microsoft is paying Nokia $1 billion to develop and market Windows Phone 7 smartphones. In exchange, Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows Phone 7 used on its devices, and those costs will likely be offset as the company downsizes its internal MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 8, 2011 6:00 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Charlie Sheen, comScore, Google, Hitachi, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, News Corp., Nokia, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter, Windows, Windows Phone 7, YouTube -
Gartner: iPad is 'dramatically' slowing mainstream mobile PC sales
The research firm blames devices like Apple's for a 34% drop in its 2010 growth estimates
"We expect growing consumer enthusiasm for mobile PC alternatives, such as the iPad and other media tablets, to dramatically slow home mobile PC sales, especially in mature markets."
That's George Shiffler, research director at Gartner, Inc., giving his clients the bad news that the 15.9% growth his company had projected for notebook computer sales MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 4, 2011 11:30 AM ET -
That old Mac malware canard
Why would Symantec's CEO suggest that Macs are just as vulnerable as Windows PCs?
Maybe to sell more anti-viral software.
That's the only explanation I can give for Enrique Salem's performance in a video posted on CNNMoney Thursday entitled "Macs are no safer than PCs." (Video below the fold.)
Fortune's Adam Lashinsky asked Symantec's (SYMC) CEO several different ways whether a Mac was as likely to get attacked by malware as a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 17, 2011 2:40 PM ETPosted in: Adam Lashinsky, Enrique Salem, Mac, malware, Microsoft, PC, Symantec, Virus, Vista, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP -
Google: ChromeOS could immediately replace 60% of Windows desktops
..and might replace some IT workers too.
Linus Upson, Google's (GOOG) vice president for engineering in charge of Chrome had some big words for the NYTimes on their soon-to-be-released OS. "ChromeOS machines could immediately replace 60% of the Windows desktops in the corporate market," he said.
That's quite a big chunk of Microsoft's (MSFT) business if it is in fact true. I'm assuming Google has done due diligence and found that those MORE
Seth Weintraub - Nov 25, 2010 4:40 PM ET
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| EMC Corp | 24.18 | -1.28 | -5.03% |
| Hewlett-Packard Co | 21.74 | 0.66 | 3.13% |
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