Michelle Maisto

For graphics chip makers, the worst is over, says a July 16 report from Jon Peddie Research. Global graphics chip shipments for 2009 will see the “worst ever year-over-year drop in shipments,” the firm reported, but a comeback is expected for 2010. JPR lists the annual percentage growth for the market at 11.1 percent in […]

Palm’s Mojo Software Development Kit is now available to application developers. The SDK can be downloaded by any developer with a valid e-mail address at developer.palm.com. The App Catalog submission process will be open to all developers in the fall, according to a July 16 post on the Palm blog. This is good news for […]

Dell has extended its Vostro line, designed for small businesses, with the introduction of the All-In-One, the line’s first all-in-one desktop computer.The desktop offers a range of Intel processors, including Celeron, Pentium, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad chips. Additionally, it can be paired with a VESA flexible mount, which, according to Dell, can […]

The Palm Pre’s ability to sync with Apple’s iTunes is no more. On Wednesday, July 15, Apple updated iTunes and put a stop to this capability. According to the Associated Press, Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said the iTunes update “disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre.” Additionally, the AP reports that […]

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, Garter is reporting. The number represents a 5 percent decline from the second quarter of 2008.IDC, in a separate July 15 report, estimates second quarter 2009 numbers – including desktops and portable PCs but excluding x86 servers – are down just 3.1 […]

AT&T and Sony Ericsson have announced that come July 19, they’ll be delivering up the new C905a Cyber-shot phone and W518a Walkman phone.Both are consumer-focused and multimedia-driven. The C905a Cyber-shot is a slider phone – a straightforward keypad slides down – with a 2.4-inch QVGA scratch-resistant mineral glass screen.The 4.8-ounce phone is slightly thick by […]

Security concerns have long led enterprises to shun employee-owned devices, but a new report from Forrester, “Technology Populism Fuels Mobile Collaboration,” suggests that a more effective route is to acknowledge the devices and attach to them a “personal responsibility policy.”While more than half of the 2,300-plus IT decision makers Forrester surveyed in the United States […]

For the first time since the dot-com bust of 2001, the PC market will see a contraction in unit shipments in 2009, according to a new report from research firm iSuppli.The research firm blames falling IT spending and plunging desktop computer sales-shipments of which are likely to decline by 18.1 percent, or to 124.4 million […]

On the same day that Apple announced its App Store had passed 1.5 billion downloads, Juniper Research is reporting that it expects mobile application downloads to approach nearly 20 billion per year by 2014.“The increasing deployment of app stores targeted at mass market handsets, allied to enhancements in storefront interfaces and an ever increasing array […]

Apple has announced that, in just one year, customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications from its App Store. According to Apple, the App Store currently has more than 65,000 apps and more than 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer Program.“The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both […]