Market researchers Gartner Inc. and IDC said last week that PC sales were worse than expected in the third quarter.
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This week, the PC community turned in its worst performance since IDC and Gartner started counting.
Earlier this week, rival PC maker Dell reported an 11% drop in revenue and a 31% fall in quarterly profit.
Research firm Gartner said this week that global PC shipments fell 4.9% in the fourth quarter from a year ago.
Last week it emerged PC Jones had filed a compensation claim against Nuns' Bridges garage owner Steve Jones for failing to ensure she was "reasonably safe" while attending a suspected break-in on 25 August last year.
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Without a fix, it could get worse, with Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek writing in a note to investors this week that more PC makers could start to evaluate alternatives to Windows, such as Apple's OS X and Linux.
Earlier in the week analysts reported that PC sales grew 23.7% in the quarter.
In the Small Heath district of Birmingham, Pc Lee Woolman says that each week he has to recover CCTV images of fuel thefts from at least one of the three forecourts in his patch.
The flaw was spotted by Luxembourg-based security expert Eric Romang, when his PC was infected by Poison Ivy last week.
Digital World Tokyo got an early hands-on look at the Sony Vaio UX50 micro PC when launched in Tokyo earlier this week.
After stumbling in the mid-1990s, the company has reinvented itself--thanks to the return of Steve Jobs--passing PC giant Dell in market capitalization last week.
It was efficient for inventory, cash conversion and for customers who could get a PC to their specifications in less than a week.
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Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair earlier this week took a look at the PC sector and came away convinced that the troubles could get deeper still.
This is the main reason why HP decided last week to get out of the PC business and focus instead on software to power all these gadgets.
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For standard PC parts it can be as much as 1% a week, or 50% a year.
Much has been made about the death of the PC, but after Intel reported strong quarterly earnings earlier this week, some may be rethinking that thesis.
The challenge was taken up by David Herbick, a designer whose rsum includes stints at Newsweek and Business Week and the art director's job at PC Magazine and Civilization.
While we told you earlier this week that the Ion 2-powered ASUS Eee PC 1201PN wouldn't be arriving until late May, a number of European sites have gotten early review samples of the 12-inch "netbook" -- if you choose to call it that -- and have discovered that it doesn't use NVIDIA's Optimus automatic graphics switching technology.
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That's officially changed this week, as the company's announced its 2013 PC editions (standalone versions) of the A30 and A40 stereo headsets are now available.
But in a week packed with the furious skirmishes of a post-PC ground war, Apple is most likely refurbishing its computers and shaving a few inches off its tablet.
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The downgrade follow dismal earnings reports this week from both Dell and Hewlett-Packard, as PC sales sag amid a weak macro economy and competition from tablets and smartphones.
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My notebook PC, already about eight pounds before the show, gained weight this week.
Sony this week introduced RoomLink, a software that allows viewers to see PC content through their televisions.
Mick Philpott, 56, was described as "jovial" by PC Joanne Halford when she spoke to him at Royal Derby Hospital a week after the fire on 11 May.
An easier way to get your PC content on your TV might be the ZvBox, which we reviewed this week.
When I asked why, she simply said that Tuesday was the day the PC bus came to her school and that was what she looked forward to all week.
In a report last week tech tracker iSuppli found that rising sales of tablet computers are hurting notebook PC sales, resulting in a decline in sales of traditional hard disk drives which rely on spinning magnetic disks.
After stumbling in the mid-1990s, the company has reinvented itself--thanks to the return of Steve Jobs--passing PC giant Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) in market capitalization last week.
This week Korean automaker Hyundai unveiled a multi-rotor flying electric car for congested cities and SolarWorld and PC-Aero announced plans to launch two new solar-powered electric airplanes at an air show in Germany.
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