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JPR: Nvidia GPU shipments are up despite turbulent PC market
- Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its first quarter estimates for the graphics processor market, reckoning the three month period as disappointing for Intel, but overall encouraging for Nvidia and AMD on the desktop. The company’s report tracks both integrated…
Windows Phone shipments surpassed BlackBerry last quarter
- When people think of smartphones, iOS and Android are the first operating systems that generally come to mind. The two have a stranglehold on the market, but there are still smaller battles occurring on the lower end of the sales…
Strategy Analytics: iOS leads tablet market, Windows jumps to 7.5% share
- Microsoft made a big bet on tablets last year, releasing its own hardware and tailoring Windows 8 / RT for the rising form factor. So how has the company fared so far? According to data from research firm Strategy Analytics,…
AT&T adds six 4G LTE markets, 77 more planned this summer
- AT&T announced today (pdf) the welcome addition of six new areas covered by its 4G LTE network. The carrier also reminded us that 77 more markets are slated to receive some 4G love as soon as this summer.
Windows 8 adoption at 2.79%, not growing as fast as Windows 7
- Windows 8 continued its slow but steady growth in February grabbing 2.26 percent of the operating system market share, up from 1.72 percent in December and 1.09 percent in November according to Net Applications. During the month Windows 7 also…
Samsung overtakes Apple as top semiconductor buyer in 2012
- Samsung has vaulted past Apple to become the world’s biggest buyer of semiconductors, according to new data from Gartner. The two were virtually tied for semiconductor purchases in 2011, but last year the scale tipped slightly to the South Korean…
Report: iPhone responsible for half of all U.S. smartphone sales
- Last week speculation surfaced suggesting demand for Apple’s popular iPhone may be slowing. That thought process was at least partially based on a report from the Wall Street Journal claiming Apple may have overestimated demand and is in the process…
Windows 8 continues to gain market share, closes in on Mac OS X 10.8
- It was recently revealed that Windows 8 was running on 1.64 percent of all computers worldwide as of December according to data from Net Applications. Here we are just a couple of weeks later and that figure has already jumped…
Gartner: PC shipments decline as market shifts to personal tablets, shared PCs
- IDC reported similar findings on Friday, and now Gartner has chimed in with its own figures suggesting the PC industry continues to decline in the face of smaller, cheaper, and more portable computing devices. The research firm says worldwide PC…
Global PC sales fell in Q4 2012 despite Windows 8, holiday deals
- A quarterly report from industry analyst IDC indicates that PC shipments have been unusually soft. According to the group, PC sales dipped 6.4 percent in Q4 2012 when compared to the same period last year. Additionally, Q4 led to a 4.5…
Jelly Bean is now on 10 percent of Android devices
- Google has updated its Android Developer Dashboard site with data about the percentage of active devices running a given version of its mobile operating system. Unsurprisingly, the holiday season marked a few shifts in the version distribution of the platform,…
Windows market share up following six months of decline
- Microsoft recently received some promising news in terms of market share as both Windows 7 and Windows 8 saw notable gains as 2012 came to a close. According to Net Applications, Windows 8 gained 0.66 percentage points in December, bringing…
iPhone surpasses 50 percent US market share for the first time
- Apple and Google have been battling head-to-head for smartphone supremacy for quite some time now but it looks like Cupertino recently came out on top, at least for the time being. According to a new report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech,…
Infographic: The state of Android and its rise to smartphone domination
- Android has quickly become a force to be reckoned with. It currently stands as the most popular smartphone OS worldwide and is on the right path to keep growing as users move away from feature phones in the years to…
Tablets expected to outpace laptop sales this year
- North American sales of tablets are poised to surpass laptop sales for the first time, claims industry analyst NPD DisplaySearch. The firm points out that sinking tablet prices (e.g. Nexus 7 @ $199, Amazon Kindle Fire @ $159) and ever-increasing…
Paul Thurott: Windows 8 sales "well below" Microsoft's projections
- Despite Microsoft's excitement at selling four million Windows 8 upgrades in four days, well-known industry blogger Paul Thurott says sales of the OS are "well below" Microsoft's internal projections. Get your salt shakers ready, but Thurott cites ones of his…
Gmail finally overtakes Hotmail as world's top email service
- Internet analytics firm comScore is putting an end to any disputes about Gmail's dominance in the webmail market -- in case you were keeping scores. According to their traffic data for October, Google’s email service has finally overtaken Hotmail with…
Samsung ships twice as many smartphones as Apple in Q3
- Samsung continued to lead the smartphone market in the third quarter of 2012, with an estimated 56.3 million devices shipped worldwide according to IDC. That’s a massive 31.3% share of the 179.7 million units shipped during the quarter, up from…
Yandex releases browser to challenge Google, maintain market share
- Russian-based Internet search engine Yandex have released their own web browser in an effort to compete with Google and defend its market share. The browser is based on the WebKit platform and Google’s Chromium code and also borrows components from…
Steam posts hardware and software survey results for June 2012
- Steam has published the results of its June 2012 hardware and software survey, providing some interesting -- albeit hardly surprising -- views at the technology people using Valve’s digital distribution platform are relying on. When it comes to CPUs, for…
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