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		<title>White Iphone 4 Finally Arrives In The United Kingdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vodafone has 24 -, 18 &#8211; and 12-month contracts. You can take the phone for free over 24 months, 45 pounds per month. If you are looking for something shorter and less expensive, you can get a 12 month, £ 35 per month deal, although you&#8217;ll have to stump up £ 299 in the front. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vodafone has 24 -, 18 &#8211; and 12-month contracts. You can take the phone for free over 24 months, 45 pounds per month. If you are looking for something shorter and less expensive, you can get a 12 month, £ 35 per month deal, although you&#8217;ll have to stump up £ 299 in the front.</p>
<p>O2 rates from £ 21.50 per month on a 24 month contract with 100 minutes, 500 texts, 20 mm, and 500 MB of data, and an initial cost of £ 304.99. O2 has also connected as standard. However, you can purchase the <a href="http://www.hightechideas.com/20110428/white-iphone-4-finally-arrives-in-the-united-kingdom.html">white iPhone 4</a> in O2 stores and not online.</p>
<p>Offers three 24-month contracts from £ 25 per month or the plan only £ 35 per month including unlimited data, the network of 2,000 minutes, 5,000 minutes for three mobile phones and other texts of 5000. There are also &#8220;pay-as-you-go&#8221; plans.</p>
<p>To date, the off-line Apple Store, then no doubt that the iPhone white 4 is added.</p>
<p>It remains unclear whether T-Mobile and Orange offer the iPhone white 4 &#8211; neither company has released an official statement. There is no sign on the <a href="http://www.hightechideas.com/20110428/white-iphone-4-finally-arrives-in-the-united-kingdom.html">white iPhone 4</a> on the Orange website and even if you can see on the site of T-Mobile, it is not available as an option.</p>
<p>Neither company has yet to respond to a request for comment.</p>
<p>It is believed that many manufacturing problems delayed the launch of the iPhone Blanco 4, which was set up with the black iPhone July 4, 2010, including peeling paint in extreme heat.</p>
<p>Steve Wozniak has also speculated that the painting was part of the problem in January, although Woz thought he was letting too much light in the phone itself, destroyed the photos and videos captured by the camera device .</p>
<p>The iPhone will also launch white 4 in Germany, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Macao, Netherlands, New Zealand , Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States today.</p>
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		<title>Android Phones Now More Desirable Than The IPhones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iPhone is smartphone choice, right, the object of desire of everyone? Wrong. We are a fickle band, it seems, and the latest figures from Nielsen show that Android phones are now more desirable. Between July and September last year, says Nielsen, 33 percent of U.S. mobile consumers hankered after the iPhone, which has 26 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The iPhone is smartphone choice, right, the object of desire of everyone? Wrong.</p>
<p>We are a fickle band, it seems, and the latest figures from Nielsen show that Android phones are now more desirable.</p>
<p>Between July and September last year, says Nielsen, 33 percent of U.S. mobile consumers hankered after the iPhone, which has 26 percent want an Android phone and 13 percent of the Blackberry.</p>
<p>But things have changed. Figures for January to March this year show that Android is now the most desirable operating at 31 per cent, pipping Apple 30 per cent.</p>
<p>Blackberry has fallen to 11 percent and 20 percent say they do not know what they want. And when it comes to recent acquisitions, twice as many people opt for Android Apple choolsing IOS.</p>
<p>&#8220;These dynamics have already been translated into sales,&#8221; says the company. &#8220;Half of those surveyed in March 2011, which reported that it had bought a smartphone in six months, said the choice of an Android device.</p>
<p>It has gained a quarter of them said they bought the iPhone, and 15 percent said they took his BlackBerry phone.</p>
<p>&#8221; If the results are a statistical anomaly, put the lie to the idea that people who can afford an iPhone do with Android, the poor relation.</p>
<p>There can be periodically traditional explanation for the slow iPhone sales &#8211; is nothing around the corner &#8211; to hold water. If this were the case, people will say even more eager for a new iPhone.</p>
<p>No, it may be that the smartphone is here and objects rather than a status symbol, and people just want a model that best suits them &#8211; and that could be some problems with Apple&#8217;s marketing department, to say the least.</p>
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		<title>Sony To Launch Android Tablets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony has announced its intention to launch two tablet computers running the operating system Google Android. The devices, called S1 and S2 code will be available later this year. Android is now the platform for growth, and it is envisaged that a market share of 38% in 2015. Sony entered the market tablet was awaited, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sony has announced its intention to launch two tablet computers running the operating system Google Android.</p>
<p>The devices, called S1 and S2 code will be available later this year.</p>
<p>Android is now the platform for growth, and it is envisaged that a market share of 38% in 2015.</p>
<p>Sony entered the market tablet was awaited, but appears relatively late in the day compared to other manufacturers.</p>
<p>Apple has released its first version of the IPAD industry leader in April 2010.</p>
<p>His IOS should remain dominant for several years now, but with a smaller proportion of sales.</p>
<p>Sony says its first tablets come in two form factors: it has a touch screen of 9.4 inches regularly, while the second will contain two 5.5-inch screens flip closed.</p>
<p>In addition, the bottom honeycomb Android operating system, Sony will bring many of its features like the ability to transfer video and music to TVs and stereos using the DLNA standard for wireless streaming.</p>
<p>The company claimed that it would be a sort of integration of the PlayStation Network and the possibility of gambling activities.</p>
<p>Branding Issues</p>
<p>The strength of the Sony name, probably will help the electronics giant to gain some traction in the tablet market fragmented.</p>
<p>Faced with a large number of similar devices using the Android software itself, renowned brands have become an important means of quality differentiation.</p>
<p>However, Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi tablet expressed surprise at the company&#8217;s decision to identify as purely Sony devices.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s interesting that come with Sony rather than Sony Ericsson,&#8221; he told the BBC.</p>
<p>&#8220;This raises questions about what to do to connect your tablet to your operating system for smart phones as users want the same tablet experience.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms. Milanesi suggested that the success of Sony tablet depends on whether the technical specifications considered good when the devices can operate as they do now.</p>
<p>He said several manufacturers, including HP, had fallen into the trap of making known the machines that beat their competitors, only to discover that were less competitive when they went on sale.</p>
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		<title>Google Defends Way You Get Phone Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mid increase control of their practices, Google Inc. has defended the way to collect location data from Android phones, while Apple Inc. has remained silent for a third day. Smartphone companies regularly refer to the websites of Google&#8217;s servers and Apple for the information and documents were analyzed by the Wall Street Journal. The study [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mid increase control of their practices, Google Inc. has defended the way to collect location data from Android phones, while Apple Inc. has remained silent for a third day.</p>
<p>Smartphone companies regularly refer to the websites of Google&#8217;s servers and Apple for the information and documents were analyzed by the Wall Street Journal.</p>
<p>The study is a security analyst this week said that the Android phone location data collected every few seconds and sends it to Google several times an hour. Apple announces a letter to Congress last year that mobile &#8220;from time to time&#8221; to collect data and position the company received twice a day.</p>
<p>Both companies have said, users can prevent the collection of data by turning off the location-based services, although this limit functionality such as maps.</p>
<p>On Friday, said a spokesman for Google, &#8220;all shared location on Android is opt-in by the user.&#8221;</p>
<p>This definition of &#8220;opt-in&#8221; does not mean that the system is disabled by default, people who use a typical android creation.</p>
<p>Rather, when the user activates the Android phone, you tell Google service offering location-based applications and that collects anonymous data even if the applications are running.</p>
<p>Check the box to accept this default, but you can remove it. Users who ignore this process completely, location services are not enabled.</p>
<p>&#8220;We advise users and control the collection, sharing and use of location data to obtain a better mobile experience on Android,&#8221; Google spokesman said.</p>
<p>He added that &#8220;all the location data that is sent to Google the location of the server is anonymous and not linked or traced to a specific user.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tests have demonstrated Android phone accompanied by a unique ID, which is connected to the phone. Google says that this is associated with the position and information of other users. You can change this number &#8220;reset&#8221; is a device that removes the data on your phone.</p>
<p>Google has long defended its collection of useful place in providing services such as traffic maps correct and its position has not changed in the middle of recent revelations.</p>
<p>Apple, which has also been under investigation this week when scientists revealed the iPhone store location information for months, did not respond to requests for comment.</p>
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		<title>IPhone Tracking The Tip Of The Iceberg Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revelations that iPhone data stores where users were in the device and the equipment used to synchronize the iPhone to be less revealing than required. Alex Levinson, a senior forensic engineer Katana and the developer of a coroner iOS foreground application, said the discovery called forward at the Where 2.0 conference on Wednesday, has [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The revelations that iPhone data stores where users were in the device and the equipment used to synchronize the iPhone to be less revealing than required.</p>
<p>Alex Levinson, a senior forensic engineer Katana and the developer of a coroner iOS foreground application, said the discovery called forward at the Where 2.0 conference on Wednesday, has been known for months. Levinson has contributed to a book &#8211; iPhone Forensics Ios, iPod touch and iPhone, launched in December 2010 &#8211; detailing the database used to store location data on the iPhone and iTunes.</p>
<p>However, if the risk for the presence of data privacy database backup of the iPhone and iPhone can be less than the researchers, the reports this week have suggested, however, requires a concern for regulators and business people .</p>
<p>Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) wrote a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, get clarification on how the iPhone location data are processed, the data is not encrypted, and the management of Apple of this data is authorized under its privacy policy. Congressman Ed Markey (Mass.) sent a similar letter to employment requiring a response before May 12 &#8211; despite the fact that Apple has already explained its policy of tracking data for Markey in a letter in July last year. And the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection has expressed interest in the details of Apple, according to Reuters.<br />
Apple has a legal cover for their actions under its license agreement iPhone 4, which reads: &#8220;Apple and its partners and licensees may transmit, collect, store, process and use your location data, including geographic location in real time iPhone and the location search queries.</p>
<p>&#8220;However, the company may be forced to change its shape and / or provide a clearer explanation of maintaining location information on the iPhone and iPhone backup database if not, that because the maintenance of this information about children can not be legally risky.</p>
<p>Apple did not respond to requests for comment.</p>
<p>Although surveys of regulators, it sounds like opportunism more than anything, the data storage system Apple deserves a closer look. Companies that issue iPads iPhone or employees, or allowing employees to use these devices to do business, the issue goes beyond what Apple does not provide specific reasons for how and where the data from the software store in the clear. The question is whether the iPhone, as well as other mobile devices, it is not very safe.</p>
<p>For example, a security firm Zscaler security researcher Michael Sutton on Thursday revealed that JotNot Scanner Pro, IOS application that stores passwords for other applications without any protection from the backup of the iTunes database. In the blog, Sutton said: &#8220;Unfortunately, the password is stored in Evernote, Google Docs, Apple&#8217;s iDisk, and all of a WebDAV server is stored in plain text format. Therefore, all those who had access to this backup would then have a username / password for these services. &#8221;</p>
<p>Mobile devices are a unique security challenge, especially because they are often at the same time consumers and businesses. This is not an insurmountable challenge.</p>
<p>Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy for Ipswitch, maker of network security software, says his experience with companies that implement the iPhone leads you to believe that access to location data of users are pretty well covered when organizations to block computers carefully.</p>
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		<title>Apple Crushes Forecasts Again, IPAD Waiting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Reuters) &#8211; Results from Apple broke Wall Street expectations after the iPhone and Mac sales scale new heights while supplies IPAD could not keep a roaring global demand. Shares of the world&#8217;s most precious Technology Corporation rose 3 percent after announcing a record 18.65 million units in the category-defining iPhone &#8211; its flagship product &#8211; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Results from Apple broke Wall Street expectations after the iPhone and Mac sales scale new heights while supplies IPAD could not keep a roaring global demand.</p>
<p>Shares of the world&#8217;s most precious Technology Corporation rose 3 percent after announcing a record 18.65 million units in the category-defining iPhone &#8211; its flagship product &#8211; proposes that the March quarter, surpassing the 16 million as planned.</p>
<p>Apple has only sold 4.69 million iPads &#8211; which represent a share of 80 percent of a booming market tablet, where Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics are also in competition &#8211; but said that investors would not affect the strong demand in the long term.</p>
<p>But investors have ignored the lower projected sales for the quarter iPads, business leaders said they were trying to say &#8220;amazing&#8221; were strongly demand and waiting time.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will not predict when supply and demand balance,&#8221; said Tim Cook chief operating officer. &#8220;I can only have confidence in the offer.&#8221;</p>
<p>Apple iPad 2 has dominated the emerging market for tablets with competing products such as Research In Motion playbook receive bad reviews from customers and experts.</p>
<p>The stellar results on Wednesday came as concern grows about how the components supply constraints after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan may reduce margins and sales of the iPhone and iPad restriction in the coming months.</p>
<p>&#8220;Dynamite numbers across the board. The only hiccup is less than the number anticipated for the iPad,&#8221; said Capital Advisors Growth Fund Portfolio Manager at Channing Smith.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can attribute some of the weaknesses of the issue of storage of certain stores and of course, issues of supply chain in Japan. Unfortunately, the problem of the supply chain is likely to persist for months come, but once we get past summer and the issues of supply chain are solved, it is all systems go back to Apple. &#8221;</p>
<p>Apple executives told analysts during a conference call that they expected a blow to revenues this quarter of about U.S. $ 200 million &#8211; less than 1 percent of global sales of quarterly projections &#8211; but s waits for no financial implications.</p>
<p>The company is known for a close relationship with Asian suppliers, standing head electronics, even if the supply crisis will continue. Japan accounts for about 6 percent of total revenues.</p>
<p>&#8220;We source hundreds, hundreds of items from Japan, and they range from components such as LCD monitors, optical drives, NAND flash and DRAM, with basic materials such as resins, coatings,&#8221; said M . Cook.</p>
<p>Apple does not see revenue impact of the crisis in the second quarter, but it was not material to the results, Cook said, adding that he sees no unsolvable problems in the disaster.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the price of memory chips increases, Cook said he felt &#8220;good&#8221; in the third quarter, the company would not normally buy in the spot market.</p>
<p>&#8220;Beyond Q3, I say I&#8217;m not sure because it is difficult to see far,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>SALE IPAD MISS TARGETS</p>
<p>Since the March quarter was the first report of Apple, led by Cook after CEO Steve Jobs went on sick leave on January 3.</p>
<p>Cook, known as an expert in operations and supply chain, said his boss &#8211; who underwent a liver transplant and survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer &#8211; has always played an active role in important decisions .</p>
<p>&#8220;He is still sick, but we do see regularly. He continues to participate in major policy decisions. I know he wants to be back full time when he can,&#8221; Cook told analysts.</p>
<p>Apple iPad sales during the quarter were well below expectations of Wall Street analysts had expected some shipments closer, or more than EUR 6 million euros for the Tablet PC launched on 11 March.</p>
<p>But the number lower than expected due to the fact that Apple recognizes revenue from its stores where customers receive their products. The initial period of waiting for the IPAD 2 was four to five weeks.</p>
<p>&#8220;We sold each IPAD 2, we could do, and demand was great,&#8221; Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer told Reuters in an interview.</p>
<p>Apple&#8217;s profit to come is preparing to build the next iPhone model a faster processor, which begins shipping in September, three people direct knowledge of the supply chain of the company, said Wednesday.</p>
<p>Cook declined to comment on plans to launch the next iPhone.<br />
And &#8216;net income of $ 5990000000, or $ 6.40 per share, while revenues increased by 83 percent to 24.67 billion U.S. dollars. That exceeded expectations of $ 5.37 and revenue of 23.4 billion U.S. dollars revenue.</p>
<p>A large peak sales of Mac computers, which are driven by updated MacBook Pro, improved results in the March quarter. Apple shipped 3,760,000 Mac as much as 28 percent a year earlier.</p>
<p>Gross margin in the second fiscal quarter was 41.4 percent, which exceeded Wall Street&#8217;s average forecast for 39.03 per cent.</p>
<p>Apple, which usually provides a projection of ultra-conservative, said he expected June quarter earnings of 5.03 cents per share on revenue of approximately $ 23 billion.</p>
<p>&#8220;Transfers IPAD were significantly lower than my estimates, I think because of supply constraints,&#8221; said Gabelli &#038; Co. analyst Hendi Susanto. &#8220;What impressed me was the gross margin.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shares of Apple rose 3 percent to $ 353.67, after hours, the regular session at the end of $ 342.41 on Nasdaq. They had lost over 3 per cent from the Japanese earthquake.</p>
<p>Shares of the company &#8211; which trades at 18 times forward earnings, against 19 times for Google and 10 times for Microsoft &#8211; is considered a must-have in any portfolio of technologies.</p>
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		<title>Intel Q1 Net Up 29% To 3.16 Billion U.S. Dollars On Higher Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK: The chip maker Intel Corp has reported a 29 percent increase in net profit to 3.16 billion USD in the first quarter of 2011 on higher sales in its product line with strong growth in all areas. In the period a year ago, the company posted a net profit of 2.44 billion, Intel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NEW YORK: The chip maker Intel Corp has reported a 29 percent increase in net profit to 3.16 billion USD in the first quarter of 2011 on higher sales in its product line with strong growth in all areas.</p>
<p>In the period a year ago, the company posted a net profit of 2.44 billion, Intel said in a statement.</p>
<p>Its total sales increased 25 percent compared to last year, 12.8 billion for the quarter ended April 2, 2011.</p>
<p>&#8220;The turnover in the first quarter was a record of all time for Intel powered by a double-digit growth in annual revenues in all segments and in all areas,&#8221; Intel CEO Paul Otellini, president and said in a statement.</p>
<p>In terms of geography, Asia and the Pacific was the main contributor with a total turnover of USD 7.26 billion, up 23 percent from the year-year basis.</p>
<p>Revenues from sales in the Americas increased by 43 percent to 2.71 billion U.S. dollars in Europe by (17 percent to 1.64 billion dollars) and Japan (11.3 percent to 1.22 billion dollars).</p>
<p>The chip maker has experienced growth in all segments during the quarter. Turnover of PC Client Group grew 17 percent and the Data Center Group&#8217;s revenue was 32 percent.</p>
<p>In addition, Intel group revenues rose by 70 percent.</p>
<p>For the future, the company expects a turnover of USD 12.8 million about $ 500 million in the second quarter, the statement said.</p>
<p>&#8220;These excellent results, coupled with our outlook for the second quarter position us to over 20 per cent annual growth in turnover,&#8221; said Otellini.</p>
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		<title>So Long, Google Video. Google Cements Finally Coffin Pounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has finally decided to put off the misery of Google Video. From what I hear? Silence? Yes, people sound. Starting at $ 29 in April site does not host the video more, users do not exist many rooms in his disappearance. E-mail sent to users to download videos and re-upload them to YouTube if [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google has finally decided to put off the misery of Google Video. From what I hear? Silence? Yes, people sound.</p>
<p>Starting at $ 29 in April site does not host the video more, users do not exist many rooms in his disappearance. E-mail sent to users to download videos and re-upload them to YouTube if they want to save the video on the Internet for posterity. Cat videos are from YouTube, Google Video is not.</p>
<p>Google Video was launched in 2005 when it was launched in direct competition with YouTube. Finally, YouTube has proven to be the best of them all that Google Video makes it look like a straw fire. Google has decided that if you can not beat them, you might as well buy them, grabbing YouTube for $ 1.6 million during the second half of 2006.<br />
Although Google Video no longer be able to download videos from two years, many people like me, confused as to why Google Video held painfully. It is assumed that anyone, really, especially when it quickly became clear that YouTube would be the favorite child success.</p>
<p>Oh, it was a ball that should have been much earlier. It all started with a bang but ended with a whimper.</p>
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		<title>PC Sales Have Passed The Peak &#8216;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Garcia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PC market, there are signs that have passed its peak. The decline in consumer demand for PCs combined with Apple&#8217;s switch to tablets as iPad meant that PC shipments worldwide declined over the same period in 2010, according to two leading research groups. According to research group Gartner, PC shipments were just 84.3m units in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PC market, there are signs that have passed its peak. The decline in consumer demand for PCs combined with Apple&#8217;s switch to tablets as iPad meant that PC shipments worldwide declined over the same period in 2010, according to two leading research groups. </p>
<p>According to research group Gartner, PC shipments were just 84.3m units in the first quarter of 2011 to 1.1% year-over-year decline (from 85.1m units), which was particularly strong in the United States, where it decreased by 6.1%.</p>
<p>Another research group IDC, which uses slightly different methods, said global shipments was 80.56m, a year on year decrease of 3.2% from 83.2mi first quarter of 2010 and down more than 10% in the United States.</p>
<p>This has had a domino effect on Microsoft&#8217;s quarterly results, expected to be announced April 28. Calculations by the tutor according to the results of Microsoft seven years financial suggest that this level of sales, Microsoft Windows shows the division of benefits between 2.8 million and U.S. $ 3.0 billion, depending on whether the estimate is used IDC or Gartner &#8211; results that will be slightly down or flat compared with last year&#8217;s quarterly profit in this division for $ 3.06bn.<br />
Apple is due to publish its interim report on April 20, including a section on the number of iPads sold &#8211; that some analysts view &#8216;, could reach nearly 15 million fourth year.</p>
<p>Consumers anticipate the launch of Apple iPad 2 and Xoom other tablets such as Motorola and Samsung range, meant that they held off buying a PC. &#8220;We want to know if this trend should have a long-term effect on the PC market,&#8221; said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner.</p>
<p>Both Gartner and IDC said PC makers are now facing serious competition in the market for the tablet, but noted that other factors may be involved: &#8220;While it is tempting to blame the fall in complete growth media tablets, we believe that other factors, including PC life extended and lack of experience compelling new team, have played an equally important role, &#8220;said Bob O&#8217;Donnell, vice president. IDC program had provided only a slight increase in sales &#8211; 1.5% &#8211; but was surprised by the fall.</p>
<p>Kitagawa said: &#8220;As the global market, the PC market in the United States has been affected by the publicity surrounding the media tablets This was the third consecutive quarter of decline in shipments of mobile PCs in the U.S. She noted that U.S. business PCs have grown steadily in all sectors &#8211; but the consumer and the public sector were much lower.</p>
<p>Gartner said companies just to buy new machines has kept the market in a serious slowdown, &#8220;Without the growth of the professional segment, the PC market may have experienced one of the worst declines in recent history,&#8221; said Kitagawa.</p>
<p>Although both analysts expect the PC market to grow slightly this year, may slow in almost all areas means that PC sales will never see the strong growth of previous years.</p>
<p>The top three PC vendors &#8211; HP, Acer and Dell &#8211; have seen the decline in shipments, which was more marked in the Acer, down from 12.2% (Gartner), 15.8% (IDC), while HP and Dell fell 3.4% and 2.2% respectively (Gartner), 2.8% and 1.8% (IDC). The big winners were Lenovo and Toshiba &#8211; best known for its range of phones &#8211; which have increased by 16.6% and 5.3% respectively (Gartner), 16.3% and 3.8% (IDC).</p>
<p>Problems with the two largest companies in several HP fought the Asia / Pacific, where Dell has seen weak demand in the United States. Landing was the first in six quarters, but at the same market as Apple saw strong growth &#8211; 18.9% &#8211; after updating its MacBook Pro product line in February.</p>
<p>North America and Europe are making a litigation against the flow of tablet PC media. PC sales, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) declined by 2.8%, only the areas that are still growing PC sales in Asia / Pacific and Latin America</p>
<p>&#8220;The long-term success will depend on the hardware manufacturers are able to articulate a message that goes beyond simple equipment specifications,&#8221; said Jay Chou, senior research analyst at IDC. &#8220;Good enough Calculus&#8217; has become a firm reality, illustrated for the first time for mini-notebooks and tablet media now. Macroeconomic forces may explain some of the ups and downs of the business PC, but PC vendors in question must consider is how to allow users a compelling experience that can justify the expenditure of extra energy. &#8221;</p>
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		<title>Flip Video: Cisco Kills Popular Camcorders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Garcia</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Cisco Systems said in February took over his business consumer &#8220;next level&#8221;, some suspicion in order to bury our loved ones Flip Video 6 Feet Under.</p>
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<p>The death of the video camera was announced Tuesday as part of the company in San Jose on the network &#8220;deep portfolio analysis&#8221; and &#8220;comprehensive plan to align their operations,&#8221; said a company statement. In addition to the valve closing, 550 employees, most based in the United States, will be abandoned in the fourth quarter of the company, which began in May. Other &#8220;aspects of Cisco&#8217;s consumer business&#8221; will follow shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to significantly reduce the investment in the consumer market as a separate business and invest in it only in conjunction with businesses and service providers to customers,&#8221; said company spokeswoman Karen Tillman.</p>
<p>The news came as a shock to fans of the Flip, which began in a small office of the department store Gump San Francisco Union Square and has become &#8211; and remains &#8211; the largest selling line of video cameras in the country, strike big boys like Sony, Canon and JVC with its collective ear.</p>
<p>But it was not so much a surprise to analysts, Cisco, especially after the disputed letter CEO, John Chambers, to employees last week, noting the company&#8217;s recent financial results, &#8220;has lost its credibility&#8221; and warning &#8221; difficult decisions next week. &#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;Cisco has had to make decisions quickly, and this is not the last transaction could close,&#8221; said Brent bracelet, a senior research analyst at the office of San Francisco at Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, Oregon, investment bank technology .</p>
<p>In reality, the fate of your Flip came in February, when the Cisco consumer products director Jonathan Kaplan resigned to continue the &#8220;other career opportunities.&#8221; Kaplan was the founder and CEO of Pure Digital Technologies, which introduced its low cost, simple to use Flip-in 2007, and was ranked by Deloitte is one of the fastest computer companies before being acquired by Cisco in 2009, $ 590,000,000.</p>
<p>&#8220;It could have gone to the public&#8221; bracelet said.</p>
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