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Analysts: Mobile shipments down 9pc this year
News Mobile-phone shipments will be down 9.1 percent this year compared with 2008, analysts at Ovum have predicted. Shipments will start to recover from 2010 onwards, although it will take until 2012 before global volumes are back to the level seen in...
[May 19, 2009, 13:14]
News Burst: IDC says initial Win98 shipments won't come close to Win95
News Shipments of Microsoft's Windows 98 operating system during the second half of this year won't come anywhere close to the volume of shipments for its predecessor, Windows 95, during its first months of availability, International Data Corp...
[May 13, 1998, 15:34]
PlayStation2 shipments top 50 million
News Sony announced on Thursday that worldwide shipments of its PlayStation2 video game console have surpassed 50 million units, broadening the electronics giant's lead over rivals Microsoft and Nintendo. Sony said that since the console was introduced...
[January 17, 2003, 7:58]
Small PC makers lose out as shipments surge
News Gartner's estimates for PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for the second quarter of this year, released on Wednesday, show the market had grown by 13 percent compared with the same quarter in 2002, boosted by better-than...
[July 17, 2003, 9:01]
PC shipments beat expectations
News HP's shipments increased slightly faster than Dell, stemming — at least for now — what had become a widening gap between number one Dell and number two HP. Shipments of computers grew by 17.1 percent during the third quarter of 2005, according to...
[October 18, 2005, 17:05]
Symbian smartphone shipments surge
News Smartphones, which combine handheld computer-like features with conventional mobile phones, as yet only make up a small portion of the huge worldwide mobile market, but shipments are already approaching those of conventional PDAs.
[November 20, 2003, 13:20]
HP strides ahead of Dell in PC shipments
News HP, the world's number-one PC maker, saw PC shipments rise 28.2 percent in the first quarter, compared with the same period a year ago — a boost that lifted its market share from 16.5 percent worldwide to 19.1 percent, according to IDC.
[April 19, 2007, 12:57]
Symbian shipments rise amid doubts over future
News Symbian, the UK mobile-phone software maker, said on Monday that more than two million Symbian-powered handsets shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2003, with the total for the year reaching 6.67 million, which is more than three times 2002...
[February 23, 2004, 11:10]
Dell gains as PC shipments fall
News Computer shipments have declined for the second time in the industry's history, though Dell Computer and the Asian market continue to expand their influence. Shipments of PCs declined 5.1 percent worldwide in 2001 compared with the previous year...
[January 18, 2002, 10:35]
Bluetooth shipments take off
News Analysts projected that chipset shipments of Bluetooth, the short-range radio technology for connecting PCs, consumer gadgets and peripherals, will push above five million this year, with some estimates topping 13 million units.
[December 3, 2001, 13:33]
Symbian upbeat as shipments treble
News Smartphone operating system firm Symbian has seen shipments of handsets using its operating system triple over the last year. Although we are delighted by Symbian's H1 performance, shipments of Symbian OS phones remain small relative to the overall...
[August 19, 2005, 10:00]
Itanium shipments begin to slip
News In a keynote address yesterday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, Mike Fister, general manager of the enterprise platforms group, said manufacturers would begin shipments of Itanium-based computers in the second quarter -- but that "broader...
[March 2, 2001, 7:50]
Acer sails past Dell in PC shipments
News CNET News has the full Acer overtakes Dell in PC shipments story. Acer has become the number-two producer of PCs in the world for the first time, with 14 percent of PCs shipped, according to IDC's PC tracker report.
[October 15, 2009, 9:42]
Tablet PC shipments fizzle out
News The nascent tablet PC market is underperforming even the most conservative expectations, according to a report published late on Tuesday, with shipments in the second quarter of this year 23 percent lower than in the first quarter even though more...
[July 30, 2003, 12:45]
European PC shipments fall below forecasts
News Europe's PC shipments for the end of last year were expected to be poor, in light of profit warnings by several global PC and microprocessor manufacturers, and new research has confirmed it: the market grew only 5.3 percent year-on-year in the...
[January 23, 2001, 12:55]
Notebook shipments exceed desktops for first time
News Notebook PC shipments rose nearly 40 percent in the third quarter of 2008, compared with the same period of 2007, to reach 38.6 million units. Desktop PC shipments declined by 1.3 percent, over the same period, to 38.5 million units.
[December 24, 2008, 10:11]
Boom in Symbian handset shipments
News Research earlier this month showed that smartphones are eating into the market for handheld PCs, leading to a second straight year of decline in organiser shipments. Sales of Symbian smartphones have gone through the roof in recent months, giving...
[August 21, 2003, 17:55]
Handheld shipments increasing
News Worldwide handheld shipments inched up 0.9 percent in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, according to a new report from Dataquest. Overall, the US handheld market grew 4.5 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, with...
[October 29, 2002, 11:12]
IT shipments drop 10 percent
News In a discouraging sign for the IT industry, shipments of computers and related products dropped 10.5 percent from July to August, the US Department of Commerce said on Thursday. August shipments totalled $7.67bn (£4.61bn), and new orders were...
[September 26, 2003, 12:15]
European server shipments soar
News Compared to the previous year, the overall value of servers shipped increased by 17.5 percent to $4.2bn (£2.3bn) and unit shipments increased by 28.8 percent to 416,637. Although IBM enjoyed revenue growth of 30.5 percent, to $1.75bn, and grabbed...
[March 4, 2004, 13:50]
