Apple is the only PC brand making progress in Europe (and that’s without iPad)
Research firm Gartner just released their estimates for PC shipments in the Western Europe region during the holiday quarter. Only Apple and Asus made any meaningful progress, with Apple recording the strongest gains in France and the United Kingdom. While the Mac maker remained absent from the top 5 rankings in Western Europe and Germany, it was...
Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months
The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012, the K...
Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months
The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012, the K...
"Ultra" in name only: the failures of Intel’s Ultrabook rules
Ultrabooks were the fashionable product to launch at CES this year. But the new Ultrabooks, meant to be PC competitors to the MacBook Air, seemed suspiciously fat. And heavy. And lacking in solid-state drives. Despite...
Acer iCloud Alternative Promotion Blatantly Borrows Apple Images [CES 2012]
All that was missing was Steve Jobs. That’s how close Acer’s promotion of its new AcerCloud service was to Apple’s iCloud. Although imitation is flattering, some observers charged Acer of a ‘blatant ripoff’ of iCloud – down to even the promotion images...Acer AcerCloud promo images look just like iCloud
Wow, what a surprising turn of events! Yet another consumer electronics manufacturer has unveiled something "new" that appears to be a blatant copy of something that Apple created. In this case, the guilty party is Taiwanese computer manufacturer ...
Acer unveils thinnest ever Ultrabook alongside new HD tablet
At CES today, Acer introduced a new Ultrabook model that it’s calling the thinnest Ultrabook yet, along with a high-definition Iconia Tab tablet. The company also announced a new cloud storage service named AcerCloud...
Windows PCs with Thunderbolt ports on track for early 2012
2012 may be the year that Thunderbolt finally comes into its own, with a new report suggesting PC vendors will launch products with support for the new high-bandwidth connectivity standard as early as April next year. Apple was t......
Hitting all the right marks: Acer Aspire S3 ultrabook review
Acer has entered its version of an ultrabook, the Aspire S3, into Intel's race to the top. While the computer doesn't have much merit in the way of design and makes some compromises, it's a...
Acer’s At It Again: Now The Mac Is Predicted To Go Belly-Up
Acer is prognosticating again – hide the babies and keep your tin-foil hats firmly in place. The netbook maker’s chairman now expects Apple’s Mac sales will run out of steam by 2014, deflated by Intel’s ultrabook. This after...Merrill Lynch calls 2012 ‘the year of the tablet shakeout’
Bank of America's brokerage division picks winners and losers for the year ahead
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The tablet market is "still in its infancy," writes Merrill Lynch's Scott Craig in a note to clients Wednesday, with "years of solid growth ahead."
But that growth is not evenly distributed, and in his report Craig and his colleagues single out...
