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New RIM chief: BlackBerry must chase consumers

...Motion boss Thorsten Heins has said BlackBerry must focus more on the consumer market. Image credit: RIM Heins, who took over from co-chief executives... Read more

23 January, 2012 by Ben Woods
BMC Service Request Catalog as an iPhone App

BMC Service Request Catalog as an iPhone App

...popularity of Apple's iPhone (and iPad) is not limited to the consumer market. Many IT organizations capitalize on the slick device to reduce help... Read more

3 August, 2010
A Survey on Multi-Channel Based, Digital Media-Driven 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks

A Survey on Multi-Channel Based, Digital Media-Driven 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks

The 802.11 hardware has ultimately made its way into the electronic consumer market. But, especially in home networks, it clashes with high quality demands... Read more

11 July, 2010
RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths

RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths

...will be chosen by consumers and used at work, isn't the consumer market important?I was talking about the consumer value of services and... Read more

7 May, 2012 by Mary Branscombe

UK PC market grows as Western Europe declines

...5 percent to 236,000 units. This reflects increased targeting of the consumer market for low-price PCs, where Acer saw UK shipments fall by... Read more

11 May, 2012

HP commits to mobility and long-term R&D

...likely to be geared towards small businesses and enterprises, rather than the consumer market. "We have a very, very deep focus on mobility," Todd Bradley... Read more

10 May, 2012 by Ben Woods

RIM juices BlackBerry enterprise, dilutes consumer

...devices. "The claim that RIM has said it will withdraw from the consumer market is wholly misleading," Patrick Spence, a top marketing executive at the... Read more

30 March, 2012 by David Meyer
Windows 8 Developer Preview

Windows 8 Developer Preview

Windows 8 introduces a new interface, Metro, with an 'immersive' look-and-feel that's designed to scale from smartphones to desktops. It's still pre-beta, but developers now have the tools to start creating applications and services to exploit it. Read more

13 September, 2011 by Simon Bisson

TP-Link TL-WR2843ND router

...expect to see more such high-speed wireless products appearing in the consumer market before they gradually work their way into businesses. Kelvyn Taylor Read more

18 January, 2011
BlackBerry Bold 9780

BlackBerry Bold 9780

...company has also made a reasonably successful move into the highly competitive consumer market. On rare occasions, RIM has lost sight of what it does... Read more

11 January, 2011 by Sandra Vogel
Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

Intel's victims: Eight would-be giant killers

...pocket calculator heritage.The only processor that made it into the mass consumer market, though, was the TMS9900, a 16-bit chip from 1976 that... Read more

4 December, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

PC market returns to growth in 2012's first quarter

...of 2012. While the results were better than predicted, Gartner said the consumer market was weak, and the US market saw another decline. Vendors experienced... Read more

13 April, 2012

Ex-Acer boss will run Europe for Lenovo

...Acer was based on shipping large volumes of cheap laptops into the consumer market, and riding the wave of netbooks with the Acer Aspire range... Read more

2 April, 2012

RIM: when 35.7% margin looks bad

RIM has cash ($2.1 billion), and cash flow ($1.1 billion), and margin (33.4% -a figure PC OEMs can only dream of) that... Read more

30 March, 2012

RIM: There is no 'enterprise' market

...been taken to mean the BlackBerry maker is moving out of the consumer market altogether. Not so. It's not even saying it has no... Read more

30 March, 2012

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