Tag archive: EMEA

During the current economic downturn, about the only bright spot in computer sales has been netbooks, those infamously low-cost, under-powered mini-notebooks that offer users an inexpensive way to deal with email and the Web…and, typically, very little else. Now the DisplaySearch arm of retail analysis group NPD is reporting that sales of netbooks are even hotter than expected: the firm expects nearly 33 million netbooks will be… Read More

“Overall fourth quarter 2004 PC sales were in line with projections, despite some weakness in the U.S. and EMEA consumer markets,” said Charles Smulders, vice president of Gartner's Computing Platforms Worldwide Group. “Lower prices, better performance and wireless accessibility accelerated mobile sales.” Dell strengthened its lead in the worldwide vendor market (see Table 1) with solid performance in all… Read More