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Apple iPad hits over half a billion in lifetime sales
A new Apple iPad Pro, featuring 5G connectivity, was announced at an event last night (20/04/2020) Apple iPad sales spiked in 2020, as lockdown measures forced people worldwide to switch to working and educating at home. The surge in demand for iPad tablets, especially in the last quarter of the year,…
4 in 10 home workers planning to work ‘Al Desko’ this summer
More than four in 10 home workers are planning to go ‘Al Desko’ this year - moving their laptop into their garden when the weather improves, research has revealed. A survey of 1,000 UK adults working from home found 45 per cent have struggled with their mental health more during the third lockdown compared to…
Chromebook sales up 74% in 2020, driven by distance learning
As remote, or distance, learning became the new normal in 2020, demand for Google Chromebook rose to a record high. According to the research data analyzed and published by Finaria, Chromebook shipments grew by 74% to 29.6 million units in 2020. Growth is expected to carry into 2021, with total shipments estimated at 40 million, up…
PC market sees highest growth levels in 10 years
Worldwide PC shipments totalled 79.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2020, a 10.7% increase from the fourth quarter of 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. For the year, PC shipments reached 275 million units in 2020, a 4.8% increase from 2019 and the highest growth in ten years. “The worldwide PC…
CES 2021: Lenovo unveils new smart glasses
At CES 2021, Lenovo introduced its ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses for applications such as 3D visualisation and augmented reality to assist workflows and immersive training for remote workers. Designed for business use, the ThinkReality A3 is a versatile, portable device that fits like sunglasses and can be enhanced with industrial frame options for safer and…
The Digest: Lenovo rumoured to be buying BlackBerry (again)… and 5 other things people are talking about this morning
[nextpage title="Next"] Industry rumours suggest Lenovo is looking to expand its smartphone operations by buying BlackBerry, says a report at ExpertReviews: "The rumours boosted share prices for BlackBerry this week, a much needed increase following lukewarm reception to the company's Passport smartphone earlier in the year. BlackBerry handsets used to be widely used by business…
Lenovo announce three new “Yoga” Windows/Android tablets
Lenovo has announced three new tablets. The company claims that one of them has been designed by "Product Engineer" Ashton Kutcher. Yes, that one. The star of "Dude, where's my car?" has "designed" the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro. The entertainment-focused device is 13", has a built-in projector (!) and has an 8-watt sound system with…
Samsung and Lenovo announce new Android tablets
You wait for one Android tablet to come along… and a whole bunch of fairly similar devices come along at the same time. Samsung and South Korea have both officially announced new Android devices that both run KitKat, the latest…
IFA 2013: Lenovo launches Google Nexus rival, the S5000
From Lenovo comes a new Google Nexus 7 rival, the S5000. Unveiled at IFA 2013 in Berlin, the compact 7inch tablet measures just 7.9mm and is also quite light tipping the scales at 246 grammes. Running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean),…
PC shipments continue to slide as tablets and smartphone sales soar
PC shipments worldwide continue to slide in the wake of the tablet and smartphone revolution, with the first quarter of 2013 seeing only 76.3 million machines ship, resulting in the PC market's biggest ever decline. IDC, which has tracked PC…
