Prices for subnotebooks are headed south at record speed. The catch: It's likely that a $100 netbook would come with a pretty hefty two-year mobile broadband contract
Unit shipments of PCs in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region rose almost 17 per cent to 14.9 million in the first quarter of 2004, but the dollar value of resulting sales remained flat and related revenue even decreased in local currency terms, according to preliminary figures for the quarter, Gartner Inc. said Thursday.
A forecast of Canada's IT industry predicts that infrastructure upgrades and web services should shake the industry out of its current economic malaise.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) continues to lead the European PC market, with about two million shipments in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in the first quarter of 2003, IDC said in its preliminary results Web conference Thursday.