The latest figures from IDC show that growth in Windows Phone helped Microsoft's mobile OS to jump to third place in global smartphone shipments, as BlackBerry market share fell from 6.4% to 2.9%. More...

If you're Apple, you're either celebrating or accepting that you're part of the trend. Gartner and IDC have released sales figures showing Apple's US PC shipments is both up and down respectively. More...

New research has discovered that Apple's iPhone 5 and 4S both outsold the Galaxy S III globally in Q4 2012, which is the first time ever. Sales of iPhones now account for one in five phones sold. More...

DisplaySearch, for the first time ever, has reported tablet display shipments have exceeded that of traditional laptop displays. Tablets for Xmas presents have been pinpointed as a posssible reason. More...

Shipments of PC hard drives worldwide have recovered from 2011's shortages and a new report predicts the launch of Windows 8 will boost hard drive supplies even more. More...

The IDC has put out their Q2 report that highlights that Samsung is surging in the smartphone market and Apple is still making considerable gains but Nokia and HTC are still having a hard time. More...

Canalys, the independent technology focused analyst house, revealed today that Google's Android platform had shipped a whopping 33.3 million units in Q4 of 2010, overtaking Nokia's Symbian platform as the most popular smartphone platform, and... More...

With 3rd quarter sales, revenue, and earnings posted and evaluated, several surprising facts come into play. iSuppli, a market research firm, has evaluated desktop and laptop sales, and for the first time ever, laptop shipments... More...

According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, PC shipments grew by 15.5% in the fourth quarter of 2007, compared to the 20% growth in 3Q07, driven by the back-to-school rush. Nevertheless, shipments outpaced growth in... More...

Due to the trend of notebooks replacing desktop PCs, first-tier motherboard makers except Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) saw their November motherboard shipments drop on month, according to sources at the makers. Asustek Computer announced November... More...

In its quarterly report, Research firm IDC has concluded that camera makers shipped 8.4 million units (a 22% rise over the last quarter) to the United States, fuelled by customers replacing older models at discounted... More...

According to research firms IDC and Gartner Inc., computer shipments rose at the fastest rate in nearly two years during Q3 of this year, a development which raises expectations for another strong performance during this... More...

Asustek Computer will begin shipping its ultra low-cost notebook, the Eee PC, simultaneously to clients in the US, Europe, China as well as Taiwan, in mid-September, with the first-round shipments targeting 20,000 units, according to... More...

In reports similar to those for server platforms, Intel plans to ramp up its 45nm mobile processors (Penryn) and related platforms to account for over 50% of the company's total notebook shipments in the second... More...

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 61.1 million units in the second quarter of 2007, an increase of 11.7% on year, according to preliminary results gathered by research firm Gartner. Figures from International Data Corporation (IDC) put... More...

Taiwan-based PC maker Acer outpaced all other vendors in the fourth quarter of 2006, as its worldwide shipment of notebooks increased by more than 45% (about 3.4 million notebooks) compared to the third quarter (2.3... More...

The worldwide PC TV tuner market will grow from about 15 million units 2006 to 41 million units in 2011, according to ABI Research. Although this represents a solid growth curve, the TV tuner card... More...

During a presentation at the Bank of America technology conference, Stacy Smith, vice president and assistant of chief financial officer at Intel, announced that in Q4 2006 over 50% of the CPUs that the company... More...

Before Intel will start gearing up to push its new Bearlake-series chipsets in the second quarter of 2007, the US chipmaking giant plans to increase shipments of 965-series chipsets by 50% in the first quarter... More...

Due to a problem with chipset drivers, motherboard makers cannot start shipping products utilizing Intel's G965 Express chipset, sources at Taiwan's motherboard industry indicated. Expecting new drivers to be released in October, the makers accordingly... More...

The worldwide PC market continued its solid expansion, in the first quarter of 2006, with year-on-year growth of 12.9%, despite an expected decline from growth of 15.9% in 2005, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).... More...

Limited shipments of the first nextgen DVD player, Toshiba's HD-A1 HD-DVD player, have started to slowly hit store shelves. Most noteably, in the United States, Best Buy locations received small inital shipments, with BestBuy.com ... More...

Microsoft Corp.'s software platform for personal digital assistants took over the market lead from PalmSource Inc. for the first time in the third quarter, according to market research released Friday. Microsoft's Windows CE operating... More...

FINANCIAL ANALYSTS queued up to listen to Robert Rivet and Hector Ruiz, beancounter and boss respectively, chat about their Q3 earnings the firm reported last night. Ruiz said that AMD improved gross margin and grew... More...

Intel Corporation has initiated shipments of its recently announced Pentium 4 3.60GHz processor also known as Intel Pentium 4 560. Announced in mid-June, the chip did not immediately make appearance in retail and personal computers... More...

According to a website called VR-Zone AMD has started shipments of its 90nm Microprocessors. Winchester is the processor rumored to be shipping. Winchester is expected to have "512KB of L2 cache, but it... More...

Based on the restored demand for enterprise servers that began late last year, researchers at IDC are predicting strong growth for server systems through 2008, especially for Linux- and Windows-based boxes. "There... More...

Games releasing on May 28 will come in a bundle. Soon to come games are Gran Turismo 4 Prologue (PS2), Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition (PS2), Red Dead Revolver (PS2, Xbox), Disgaea: Hour... More...

The two-screen Nintendo DS console is unlikely to be as profitable from the outset as the Game Boy Advance was, company president Satoru Iwata has warned, with the complex design of the handheld presenting both... More...

Lite-On IT, Taiwan's largest producer of optical disc drives, will begin to deliver 8x half-height (H/H) DVD Dual burners to Sony in February, according to the company. Sony, because of uncompetitive costs, stopped own production... More...

VIA Technologies aims to ship as many as 5.5 million CPUs this year, up 50% from about 3.6 million last year, said Steven Lee, special assistant to VIA president Chen Wen-chi, yesterday following the company's... More...

Intel is likely to start shipping its new 865 (Springdale), 875 (Canterwood) chipsets and the 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) Pentium 4 processors in March at the earliest, according to industry sources. The official launch date... More...

Researchers say that Bluetooth is finally taking off, signalling more products on the market and a wider choice of devices for buyers. Three separate market reports are giving encouraging news for Bluetooth,... More...

CORPORATE USERS wanting to buy Itanium machines are being told that the processors are going through rigorous testing but the INQUIRER can now confirm there is a serious bug with 733MHz and 800MHz versions of... More...