by Anmol
2 weeks
The New Year brought bad news for PC manufacturers as shipments dropped by 4.3% in Q4 of 2018 and 1.3% for the year. The report was published by Gartner earlier today which noted a significant drop in the shipments. According to...
by Surur
4 weeks
Loup Ventures have published the results of their semi-annual IQ test of digital assistants/ smart speakers, using a battery of 800 typical questions, and have found the speakers continue to get smarter and smarter. The analysts c...
1 month
First phones were small. Then big and wide. Then thin and tall. Then they were notched. From next year, they will bend and flex into all sorts of shapes and sizes. Flexible displays are a new technology to enable a new form factor...
by Surur
2 months
UK regulator Ofcom has published the result of its annual survey, and it makes interesting reading for those interested in the future of consumer computing. The face-to-face survey of around 3,750 adults shows that the home compu...
by Surur
3 months
It turns out there are plusses and minuses to having a powerful updating system as is built into Windows 10. The plus is that it is easy to keep a large installed base of devices up to date. The negative is that bad updates can ...
by Surur
5 months
This month’s Netmarketshare numbers for August 2018 are out and they contain a mix of good and bad news for Microsoft. On the pleasant side, in August Windows 10 showed strong growth, growing from 36.58% to 37.8% of the desk...
by Surur
5 months
Lenovo is the number one PC OEM in Q2 2018, according to Gartner, pipping HP to the post, but remarkably the company did not do this by sacrificing profitability. In their quarterly earnings press release, posted today, the compan...
by Surur
6 months
Microsoft has become an increasingly enterprise-focused company, but part of the reason for this may be that it is mainly consumers who are moving away from Microsoft operating systems and services. Companies, always Microsoft&#...
by Surur
8 months
The prognosticators at analyst company the IDC do not currently see a bright future for traditional PCs and notebooks. In their Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, they predict the PC market will decline 1.8% o...
8 months
This year, users began to notice a change in Google’s design ethos for apps and services. No longer did the software maker stick to the same old tired Material Design system. Rather, it opted for a new style, it chose a new ...