This should be good news for the Mac and the iPad: the global market for personal computing devices, including personal computers and tablets, is set to grow 3.8% in 2024, reaching 403.5 million units, according to the latest forecast from (IDC) Worldwide ...

The post-PC era is not yet upon us, executives from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices insisted this week in conference calls to discuss their earnings, where the impact of tablets on their businesses was the big question. The impact of tablets was felt more ...

PC and tablet sales have been hit by the economic downturn, but innovation and good-value deals are helping to keep people keen on new devices -- especially tablets. At the end of last year, Canalys, Gartner, and IDC data indicated that PC shipments fell ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― Gartner research on Wednesday reported that worldwide sales of personal computers slowed in the recently ended quarter as people opted to spend money on smartphones or tablet computers. The number of personal computers shipped in ...

The growing demand for tablet computers continued to eat into the sales of netbooks and laptops during the third quarter, analysts said on Wednesday. The impact of tablets was most severe on netbooks, whose proportion of overall mobile computer shipments ...