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Gartner: PC shipments slip 1.7% to 76.6M units in Q1 2014, as end of Windows XP support boosts replacement sales

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 8:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet In Los Angeles
Although the PC market continues to fall, having now seen its eighth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 76.6 million units in the first quarter of 2014, according to Gartner, a 1.7 percent decrease from the same period last year. That’s still a drop, but a significantly smaller one: in Q1 2013, the PC shipment decline was a whopping 13.9 percent, followed by drops of 10.9 percent, 8.6 percent, and 6.9 percent for the remaining quarters of last year. Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Asus all…

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Gartner: PC shipments slip 1.7% to 76.6M units in Q1 2014, as end of Windows XP support boosts replacement sales

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 8:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet In Los Angeles
Although the PC market continues to fall, having now seen its eighth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 76.6 million units in the first quarter of 2014, according to Gartner, a 1.7 percent decrease from the same period last year. Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Asus all managed to grow their respective shares in Q1, although this was still not enough to offset the losses seen by Acer and the rest of the market: Lenovo saw the strongest shipment growth among the top five vendors: up…

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Hands-on with Mailbox for Android: Auto-swipe will auto-organize your life

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 7:52 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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After being acquired by Dropbox, the company finally announced that Mailbox has officially arrived on Android. For those of you who’ve been waiting over a year to see what the fuss is about, here’s a run through of the features included. Swipe gestures When you first launch the app, it will prompt you to log into your Gmail or iCloud account. The team says it will be adding support for other services soon, so those with Yahoo mail or Hotmail accounts will have to sit tight. After a few seconds of syncing, the app walks you through a few key…

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Hands-on with Mailbox for Android: Auto-swipe will auto-organize your life

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 7:52 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Apps, Around the Web, Insider

mailbox
After being acquired by Dropbox, the company finally announced that Mailbox has officially arrived on Android. For those of you who’ve been waiting over a year to see what the fuss is about, here’s a run through of the features included. Swipe gestures When you first launch the app, it will prompt you to log into your Gmail or iCloud account. The team says it will be adding support for other services soon, so those with Yahoo mail or Hotmail accounts will have to sit tight. After a few seconds of syncing, the app walks you through a few key…

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This is the best Les Misérables parody from Microsoft you’ll ever see

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 6:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables

Microsoft’s OneNote engineering team was very excited with their slew of announcements last month, including the release of a free OneNote for Mac app and a freemium OneNote for Windows app. In fact, the members were so excited, they decided to sing about it: In case you’re not aware, this is a parody of One Day More from Les Misérables. You can watch the original over on YouTube. See also – Microsoft launches free OneNote for Mac, freemium OneNote for Windows, and OneNote cloud API for apps and Office Lens lets you scan documents and whiteboards with your Windows Phone…

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