Sprint PCS now has its own equity analyst following (32), more than parent Sprint (28).
The real threat may come when Acer incorporates its new technology into all its PCs.
Overall, 60% of all homes have PCs, but the rate of expansion is slowing.
What is also clear is that people do not want to use cut-down PCs.
Research firm IDC says net margins on business PCs are at 5%, down from 20% in 1995.
Smith dropped some distributors of N-case, but the pestware still clings to millions of PCs.
The screens of these gadgets are much smaller compared with traditional PCs or laptops.
The subscription includes software for up to 5 devices, including Windows PCs and tablets and Macs.
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Lots of unbacked-up PCs are going to die a quiet death in people's houses.
And the growth is not limited, as was the case with PCs, to more developed markets.
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At that price, PCs become commodities, bled dry of profits and, thus, new innovation.
About 25% are mobile devices, not PCs, and 33% use operating systems other than Microsoft.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said the half-day strike caused "massive disruption".
Sales of PCs to consumers fell 2%, including a 41% decline in netbook sales.
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But Dreamcast has another major trend to fight: really cheap, really powerful desktop PCs.
So high that they are approaching 10% of the average sales price of PCs, Chanos explained.
But most of those PCs are likely controlled by spam-sending cyber-criminals, not foreign militaries.
Imagine that a contractor needs to buy 10 bulldozers or 1, 000 PCs to finish a job.
Compaq, using Dell-inspired quick inventory turns, still manages to eke out a profit in PCs.
Microsoft estimates that a full 50% of consumers use their home PCs for playing games.
When the capital bust finally arrived in 1985, there was a sudden universal loathing of PCs.
Lenovo's first home server - the IdeaCentre D400 - makes managing content across several PCs simple.
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The challenge is further complicated by the perception of Windows as functional software for PCs.
Americans are also gulping video entertainment on their laptops and PCs (including the iPad).
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This is why the company has always insisted on charging a premium for its PCs.
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On PCs, she says they always called it the personal systems group, not PCs per se.
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She says they are shifting resources within the business, from PCs to tablets, etc.
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The new data from IDC show the steepest decline for PCs in one quarter.
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Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy PCs Hughes and Bone "exemplified the very best of British policing".
However, in the very long-term the two year cycle is bound to lengthen similar to PCs.
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