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AMD: Chips shipped in record numbers
News The company shipped a record eight million Athlon and Duron processors in the quarter, slightly more than in the fourth quarter. AMD posted another record for processor shipments -- a milestone that let the company beat analysts' financial...
[April 18, 2002, 9:13]
PC industry faces worst year since dot-com bust
News At the end of this year, the number of PCs shipped will be lower than the previous year, iSuppli has predicted. A report released on Tuesday by market-research firm iSuppli is projecting that 287.3 million PCs will be shipped in 2009, a four...
[July 15, 2009, 16:01]
PCs: More than one billion served
News So far, most of the PCs shipped have gone into developed nations. Approximately one billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a study released on Sunday by consulting firm Gartner.
[July 1, 2002, 9:08]
'Super drive' tapes sell well
News More than 10 million data-storage tape cartridges with the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium format have been shipped since late 2000, a group of companies behind the standard said on Tuesday. Quantum on Tuesday wouldn't say how many SDLT-format...
[July 23, 2003, 9:08]
Apple takes early DVD lead
News Apple Computer on Monday said it had shipped nearly half a million computers with DVD recording drives capable of making movies that consumers can play in home DVD players. The company also said it had shipped more than 2 million DVD recording discs.
[April 9, 2002, 9:38]
HP leads in soft printer market
News Printer makers shipped more units in the third quarter than in the same period last year, but saw fewer dollars amid stiff price competition, according to a new report from Gartner Dataquest. About 96,000 colour printers were shipped to businesses...
[November 28, 2002, 10:01]
Openmoko ships Neo FreeRunner Linux phone
News Openmoko's Neo FreeRunner open-source handset has finally shipped to distributors, marking an attempt by the mobile Linux company to move towards the mass market. Although it will soon reach other parts of the world, the device has initially been...
[June 26, 2008, 12:21]
Dell recalls 27,000 notebook batteries
News Dell Computer announced Friday that it is recalling 27,000 batteries shipped in some Latitude and Inspiron notebooks. Dell said it is recalling batteries shipped from 22 June through 15 September into North, Central and South America, and from 22...
[October 13, 2000, 14:54]
Vista vs XP
Blog Comment The PCs are shipped with no XP license, but XP preloaded? Does that imply that they are in fact still shipped with the dual Vista Business / XP Professional license? Hmmm. That one just escapes me, maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way.
[August 12, 2008, 13:03]
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]
Sony promises to ship 10 million PS2s by 1 April
News Sony insisted Monday that a total of ten million PlayStation2 units will be shipped worldwide by the end of March 2001, even though it will have to double its production rate to succeed. Since April 2000 it has only shipped five million, and is...
[January 15, 2001, 15:45]
Symbian smartphone shipments surge
News Symbian's licensees shipped nearly four million high-end mobile phones running the company's operating system during the third quarter of this year, which ended on 30 September, the company said on Thursday -- nearly quadrupling last year's figures.
[November 20, 2003, 13:20]
A Year Ago: IBM finds gold in copper
News Big Blue says it's shipped its one-millionth copper chip, and the industry is finally showing interest in the technology. Two years ago, IBM invested in performance-improving copper interconnect technology, and Thursday said it had shipped its one...
[September 25, 2000, 7:01]
Dell and Toshiba squeeze HP laptop lead
News Dell shipped the most PC units overall, including desktops, notebooks and servers priced less than $25,000, during the first quarter. The PC giant shipped more notebooks worldwide during the first quarter of 2003 than any other manufacturer...
[June 3, 2003, 12:44]
Handspring ships one millionth Visor
News Handspring announced Wednesday it shipped its one millionth Visor PDA. While Handspring has shipped a million units, Palm claims 9 million PDAs in the market. To celebrate, the company is going to offer up the unit, a Visor Prism, and the first...
[December 7, 2000, 8:29]
We're selling more X86 than AMD - Cyrix
News For the quarter ended September 30, 1997 the Texan firm said it shipped 1.3 million chips; AMD claims to have shipped a little less than a million parts for the same period. Cyrix revenues were up 182 per cent year-on-year for the quarter to $93.2...
[October 17, 1997, 11:04]
SanDisk drops launch software from USB keys
News SanDisk withheld the U3 "smart drive" technology from its new line of Crossfire USB drives that shipped last week, despite announcing support for the technology at the Consumer Electronics Show. A limited number of Cruzer Micro drives shipped with...
[March 28, 2006, 14:15]
Media?
Talkback Our Dells only shipped with Vista media, so re-installing XP (which was pre-installed) is impossible without resorting to another license key. It does seem to be vague as to whether CDs will be shipped with forthcoming Dells.
[April 29, 2008, 8:22]
Acer sails past Dell in PC shipments
News 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. The IDC report for the third quarter of 2009, released on Wednesday afternoon, also saw HP remain...
[October 15, 2009, 9:42]
Safety scare over G4 batteries
News Apple is recalling 128,000 batteries that were shipped in its PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 laptops over the past eight months, marking the second time since last summer that it has issued such a warning.
[May 23, 2005, 9:15]
