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Acer sees decline in global notebook market share due to lower sales of Aspire One netbooks in US

While Asus seems to be doing pretty good in terms of Eee PC shipments, both HP and Acer suffered a decline in their global notebook market share during the 1st quarter of 2011. To be more specific, HP’s global notebook market share went from 20.2% to 18.5%, while Acer’s dipped from 14.9% to 14.8%. Meanwhile, [...]

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Analyst predicts Amazon’s downfall in e-book market due to competition

Despite the fact that Amazon was the first to launch a dedicated e-book reader and its device’s perfectly acceptable performance so far, one analyst has predicted that in the next five years, it will have to share the e-book market to competitors like Apple and Google. Apple’s iPad may be all-purpose, but with its large [...]

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Windows dominance in netbook market spells doom for Linux and its prospects

When netbooks were first introduced to market, a lot of people didn’t know where these devices were headed. After all, it was a time when many were rocking OS X and Windows Vista with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, then netbooks came along with a lightweight flavor of Linux and low-power Celeron chips. Slowly but [...]

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Worldwide PC Sales Grew, Thanks to Netbooks

If the worldwide growth in the PC market was not due to the resurging sales and popularity of netbooks, then what else could have propel such growth? According to reports, PC shipments during the last quarter grew by 15% as compared to the sales in the same quarter last year. PC Manufacturer HP was able [...]

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