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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...

35,000 Sign Petition Calling For Apple To Stop Worker Abuse In Chinese Factories

Foxconn_WorkerIt seems that lengthy report looking into the poor working conditions in Chinese factories assembling Apple products is going to haunt the Cupertino company for some time yet. The latest backlash comes from consumer group SumOfUs, which has launched a petition calling for Apple...

How Apple gets away with lower R&D spending

For a company that manages to debut a new product line every few years that seizes the public's attention worldwide, it is rather amazing to see how little Apple spends on research and development as a percentage of its sales compared to its peers.

Gartner: No one in the world uses more semiconductors than Apple

With the growing sales of Apple’s mobile devices and the ever-increasing popularity of smartphones (analysts projected 30+ million iPhones for today’s holiday quarter earnings call), it is no surprise that the Mac-maker is rising up the chip-purchasing ladder. According to research firm Gartner, Apple is now the world’s largest buyer of silicon parts, spending an astounding $17 billion on semiconductors...

Mac sales zigged as Windows PC sales sagged in Q4

Apple is the only bright spot in the industry's worst quarter in a decade

Source: Gartner. Chart: PED

Fourth quarter personal computer numbers for the U.S. market came in from Gartner and IDC Wednesday and for the second quarter in a row, Apple (AAPL) sales grew like gangbusters while the Microsoft (MSFT) Windows PC market actually shrank.

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Dell Tablet Plans To Go Up Against iPad In 2012

Photo by 아우크소(Auxo.co.kr) - http://flic.kr/p/9RZDSgRemember Dell’s Streak tablet? Even though the device was just a blip in the minds of consumers, the PC maker wants to take another whack at going up against the iPad. The company is being coy with details, saying they...

Dell kills off its last Android tablet in the US

Dell has taken its 7-inch Streak Android tablet out of commission, according to its website. While some retail sites still have stock, the company no longer offers the Streak for sale from its own website...

‘Pure’ PC makers reportedly fleeing the tablet market

Likely to leave the field to Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble, according to DigiTimes

Source: Company reports

Taipei-based DigiTimes, which has been churning out rumors from Asian electronics parts suppliers as fast as its correspondents can type, reported Thursday that unnamed "sources from upstream supply chain" believe that PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard (HPC), Dell (DELL), Acer and...

Gartner: Apple and Asus were the big winners in Europe in Q3

Their PC shipments grew by double digits while the broader market fell more than 11%

Even without counting the iPad, Apple (AAPL) gained smartly on the major personal computer vendors in Europe last quarter according to a report issued Monday by Gartner, Inc.

While the broader market for PCs fell 11.4% in the quarter, Apple's Mac shipments...

Morgan Stanley: Apple’s share of world’s largest PC market — China — set to grow from 5% to 21%

Chinese consumers rate Macs as most desirable, although only 7% can afford one

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In August, according to IDC, China overtook the U.S. as the world's largest consumer of personal computers.

On Wednesday, Morgan Stanley issued the results of a survey suggesting that Apple (AAPL) is the best positioned of all PC manufacturers to capitalize on...

HP, Dell and Apple move ahead in Greenpeace’s gadget guide

Greenpeace has used competition and public shaming to nudge consumer electronics makers to be greener and on Wednesday is releasing its latest version of its green gadget list. Nokia yields the top spot to HP, while Dell and Apple gain ground.

The greening of Apple Inc.

Jumps to 4th place in the latest Greenpeace survey of electronics manufacturers

Click to enlarge. Source: Greenpeace

Apple (AAPL) has come a long way in the eyes of the environmental activitsts at Greenpeace since they painted Steve Jobs as a hypocrite for promising "a greener Apple" in May 2007 and delivering an iPhone the next month laced...