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Dell left the DAP market in 2003 after poor sales
Apple is by far the 700-pound gorilla in the digital audio player (DAP) market. Apple’s lead in the field is staggering, according to analyst firm NPD Group Apple holds a massive 71% of the U.S. MP3 player market.

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Dell is going small - really small.
The computer maker today unveiled a mini desktop PC that is 80 percent smaller than the average desktop minitower and uses 70 percent less energy. The Dell Studio Hybrid runs Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor and Microsoft’s Windows Vista.
“Our goal was to design a desktop that fits in the [...]

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Intel processor revenue share drops less than 1% as AMD’s share grows by more than 2%
AMD and Intel by far the two largest processor firms around and Intel is many times larger than AMD. Intel holds a huge percentage of the global processor market, while AMD is a distant second in both revenue [...]

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PC hardware distributor, Mittoni, has brought ATI chipset vendor, GeCube, on-board.
Mittoni CEO, Louis Mittoni, said the period of consolidation following AMD’s purchase of ATI in late 2006 was drawing to a close and he expected a shift in market share back towards the vendor.
“GeCube has been an ATI partner for a long time and has [...]

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Intel is counting on the emergence of a hit product to kick-start demand for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and spur sales of its Centrino Atom chip platform.
“By the end of this year, you will have seen a whole bunch of new MIDs coming out and we’ll see which ones are hits,” said Sean Maloney, executive [...]

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(Source: Getty Images)While some laud the move as a major success the numbers paint a mixed picture

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Microsoft sees the ultra-low cost PC market as a significant opportunity and plans to pursue it with vigor, according to Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s chief operating officer.
The market for ultra-low cost PCs (ULCPC) also is drawing heavy interest from vendors using the Linux operating system that are manufacturing computers and devices based on the open source [...]

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Hewlett-Packard unveiled a low-cost mini-laptop this week that’s aimed at the education market.
The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC, which has a starting price of less than US$500, is a rugged machine with an 8.9-in. diagonal WXGA display - three inches smaller than HP’s next smallest laptop screen. The full-featured laptop is aimed at education markets in [...]

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New PC market figures from IDC show strong consumer notebook sales and education spending in the desktop space made the last quarter of 2007 the strongest PC quarter of the year.
The overall PC hardware market in Q4 grew by 18.6 per cent year-on-year, PC hardware analyst, Liam Gunson, said.
“Notebook prices have [...]

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