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Notebook Shipments Facing Decline

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Notebook Shipments Facing Decline

DRAMeXchange says W.W February notebook shipments decline by 21.8% compared to January, due to Asus' outsourcing, February being the year's shortest month and flawed Intel Sandy Bridge chips.

Quanta and Compal report falling behind expectations (with shipments of 3.2m and 2.7m respectively) while Pegatron's February shipments drop by around 50% month over month.

The analyst does predict a 40-50% rebound for March (as compared to February's low numbers)-- but thanks to sandy Bridge delays and decreasing Continue reading...

Kinect Enters the Record Books

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Kinect Enters the Record Books

Microsoft's gesture-sensing 360 console  add-on, the Kinect, enters the Guinness World Book of Records-- not for being the device most likely to cause its users to make fools of themselves, but as fastest selling CE device ever. So far, at least.

Beating even the continually fast selling iDevices, the Kinect sold an average of 133333 units a day W.W. in its first 60 days of sale-- a total of 8m units sold from 4 November 2010 to 3 January 2011.

Microsoft has every reason to be happy with the Kinect-- Continue reading...

Tablets Disrupting PC Refresh Cycle

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Tablets Disrupting PC Refresh Cycle

Canalys estimates a Y-o-Y growth of 14% for the W.W. PC market-- with much of the growth coming from tablet device shipments.

The analyst predicts tablet shipments will grow to 52m in 2011-- with Apple, predictably, taking the winner's crown, as it accounts for over 75% of tablets (leaving 12m units' worth of shipments to be split between other tablet vendors).

The "traditional" PC companies (Microsoft, Intel and AMD in particular) are to lose market share to Apple-- especially with the iPad2 Continue reading...

Digital Music's Revenue Growth

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Digital Music's Revenue Growth

Ovum forecasts the digital music industry's WW revenues will reach $20bn by 2015-- showing CAGR of 24% from 2011 to 2015.

What will drive such growth? According to Ovum, it'll be strong growth in subscription-based music services.

However Ovum also says the industry is not doing enough to maximise its revenue potential-- due to free online radio services (Pandora and Grooveshark) and "freemium" services (Spotify). The analyst suggst such sites should maximise their advertising and premium subscription Continue reading...

PC Gaming Spending To Boost Up

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PC Gaming Spending To Boost Up

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) predicts WW PC gaming hardware spending will get a welcome +27% gain this year, jumping to over $22b across the entire market.

The analyst says such a jump is due to a number of influences-- the natural PC harware purchase cycle (as seen from historical inflection points), modern PC games' increasing system demands, cheaper high-resolution displays, SSDs, and digital distribution services' (like Steam and Direct2Drive) convenience.

Gamers are also tiring of current consoles' Continue reading...

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