Acer rode the netbook wave to coast past Dell in the global PC market in 2009, but its stay at the number two spot was brief as Dell came back in the second quarter of 2010 to retake that position. If one fad led to Acer’s sudden rise in 2009, another triggered its slide past Dell in 2010. [......]
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Perhaps Apple chose the wrong time to get out of the server market. The company stopped selling Xserve at the end of January[......]
Western Digital and Seagate have been jockeying for the top spot in the global hard drive market, and the two swapped places in 2010. According to data provided by The Information Network, Seagate's market share dipped from 31.2 percent in 2009 to 29.9 percent in 2010, while Western Digital went from 29.6 percent to 31.4 percent in the same time frame. Western Digital was finally able to overcome Seagate's market share lead by focusing its attention on non-desktop applications, and particularly the 2.5-inch form factor for mobile and consumer electronic (CE) devices[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Market research group In-Stat has published the results of its annual assessment of U.S. broadband speeds , which found that the nation's average downstream speed increased by 34% over the course of 2010. In-Stat says the average downlink speed for broadband subscribers is 9.54 Mbps, up from the 2009 average 7.12 Mbps, which was itself up from 2008 average of 3.8 Mbps [......]
According to new data by iSuppli , Google's Android Market partied like a rock star in 2010. [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Eurostat, the European Union's office of statistics, Monday said that 31% of all Internet users in the 27 EU member nations had contracted a computer virus that resulted in "loss of information or time" in the second quarter of 2010. Eurostat found that 3% of all users suffered some kind of financial loss related to phishing/pharming attacks or fraudulent credit card use, and 4% of all users reported an abuse related to personal information and privacy. On a country by country basis, Lativa (8%), The UK (7%), Malta and Austria (5%) were the worst areas for financial loss, and Bulgaria and Spain (7%) and Italy and the Netherlands (6%) were the worst areas for privacy violations[......]
Console price cuts are coming! Console price cuts are coming! That's the message from Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, who says it's high time for Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony to all three mark down their respective gaming consoles, CNet reports . "After maintaining console prices at historically high points throughout 2010, all three console manufacturers appear to us to be poised for price cuts in 2011," Pachter wrote in a note to investors[......]
Worldwide semiconductor sales ratcheted up nearly 32 percent year-on-year in 2010 and reached a record $298.3 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. "Semiconductor sales are a bright spot in our current economic picture, delivering a record high in the billions[......]
Tapping into its repository of "thousands upon thousands of tech deals" posted over the past couple of years, DealNews made some seemingly bold pricing predictions for 12 different electronic gadgets for 2011. [......]
Intel on Thursday reported full-year revenue of $43.6 billion, operating income of $15.9 billion, net income of $11.7 billion, and EPS of $2.05 billion. Can you guess what they all have in common[......]
Back in the summer of 2010, we awarded OCZ's Vertex 2 100GB SSD a 9-verdict and our coveted "Kick Ass!" award because of its "blazing fast" performance. We hope to see more of the same from OCZ's newly announced Vertex 3 pro SSD being showed off at CES[......]
We're getting mixed signals from the SEMI Industry Research and Statistics group. Just over a month ago, the firm reported that wafer fab capacity was back in the black with an 8 percent annual growth rate for both 2010 and 2011, and about 9 percent for 2012[......]
Google's Chrome browser is now the go-to browser for 1 out of every 10 PC users, suggests new data by Net Market Share . Let's put that in perspective[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews 2010 was a big year for Google's Android mobile operating system, as it moved at a lightning pace from a minority position into the position of most popular operating system in the United States . Still, when retrospectives are put together for "best apps of the year" lists, editors often make choices that seem obvious. We've put one together for 2010 that hopefully avoids the more self-explanatory choices[......]
