PC ownership to &#39;double by 2010&#39;
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The number of personal computers worldwide is expected to double by 2010 to 1.3 billion machines, according to a report by analysts Forrester Research.
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Makers of PCs will ship 191.4 million units in 2004, a 13.4 percent increase from a year ago, according to research company iSuppli.
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Hewlett-Packard Co , the world&#39;s  largest personal computer maker, said on Wednesday it will  double its Taiwan headcount between now and 2009 as part of its  strategy to expand its product development on the island.
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U.S. spending on prescription drugs,  hospital care and other health services is expected to double  to $4.1 trillion over the next decade, up from $2.1 trillion in  2006, a government report released on Wednesday found.
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Hewlett-Packard surged ahead in the PC market last year a new report confirms.
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End-user adoption of Linux servers for enterprise workloads hosting ISV applications and databases is ramping up rapidly, with newly published data indicating that uptake of the operating system has doubled over the past year.
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Hewlett-Packard maintained its lead over Dell as the world&#39;s largest PC supplier in the third quarter of 2007, extending&#160;a slim margin it established last year, market researcher IDC said Wednesday.HP&#39;s PC market share increased in the U.S., fast approaching leader Dell, whose market share fell, according to IDC&#39;s quarterly report of PC unit shipments.The number of PCs shipped worldwide was 66.85 million, a 15.5 percent year-over-year increase. The jump was attributed to a strong demand for portable computers, including laptops and ultraportables, and PC demand in the SMB market. While adoption of laptops and ultraportables increased worldwide, desktop shipments decreased in the U.S., the survey said.HP shipped 13.1 million PCs worldwide in the third quarter, a 19.6 percent market share and a 33 percent year-over-year increase. Dell followed in second place, shipping 10.18 million units, a 3.8 percent increase over the previous year, IDC said. Lenovo, Acer, and Toshiba. followed in the third, fourth and fifth spots, respectively.Acer, which became the world&#39;s third-largest PC vendor when&#160;it acquired Gateway on Wednesday, recorded a 59.2 percent increase in worldwide PC shipments. These quarterly figures are before the acquisition was final.In the U.S., Dell shipped 5.01 million PCs in the third quarter, a 4.8 percent drop compared to last year. HP&#39;s PC shipments increased 16.9 percent to 4.35 million, accounting for 24.3 percent of the market. In third place was Apple, whose year-over-year shipments increased 15.9 percent to 1.13 million. Gateway, which shipped 865,000 PCs, recorded a 14.2 percent year-over-year fall.HP has momentum on its side, while Dell is in the process of restructuring, said Loren Loverde, program director at IDC. At the same time, many users are making the conversion from desktops to laptops as they get more experience using PCs, Loverde said.The survey defined PCs as desktops, notebooks, ultraportables, and Intel-based servers. The statistics do not include handhelds or smartphones, according to IDC.Demand for PCs over the next few years will continue to increase due to vendor competition and increased commercial spending, IDC projected.
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On 7 December 2004, IBM and China&#39;s Lenovo announced that Lenovo will acquire IBM&#39;s PC business for a total of $1.75 billion in cash and shares.
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much more so than the average home PC user realizes. That notion, widely held in the tech industry, is borne out
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Sales of music downloads in the final week of 2007 are twice the total recorded in the same period last year.
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Internet advertising and access  spending by U.S. consumers will rise each year by double digits  on average through 2011, fuelled by high-speed connections and  social networking and entertainment sites, according to a  forecast released on Thursday.
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Blade server market to be worth $11bn by 2010 The blade server market will be worth $11bn worldwide by 2010, according to IBM, with SMEs being a particularly fruitful market.â¦
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Strange that it should take so long for something like this to happen. After all, it&#39;s been years since those of us using Microsoft&#39;s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows OS have had to put up
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Apple has been gaining share in the higher-margin laptop business, and its iPod franchise is a hit, but the company&#39;s worldwide market share in PCs fell from a peak of 9.6 percent in 1991 to 2 percent last year.
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The company spends the big bucks on an acquisition that will double its annual revenues.
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The combined worldwide market for desktops, servers and packaged software running on Linux is forecast to grow at a 2003-2008 compound annual growth rate of 25.9 percent worldwide, reaching $35.7 billion by 2008.
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Q2 forces down full year forecast Growth in the worldwide PC market dipped below 10 per cent in the second quarter of 2006, according to latest figures from IDC.â¦