Category Archives: PC

BlackBerry set to unveil Apple-gnawing ‘BlackPad’ next week

Blackberry owner Research In Motion’s moves to claw back share from arch rival Apple are about to become a whole lot more aggressive in light of a report that says that RIM will be unveiling its new tablet computer and the operating system that will power it as early as next week.

We wrote in May that BlackBerry had designs on the tablet market, since when little detail has surfaced. But according to a piece in the Wall Street Journal, the firm is set to reveal more at a developers’ conference in San Francisco. Read More »

New Figures Suggest iPad Is Killing Netbook

iPad vs Netbook

In a report of global and US PC sales released by UK research company Gartner, growth of netbook sales slowed significantly in the second quarter of 2010, the same period that Apple’s ‘magical and revolutionary’ touch-screen device dropped from the skies. Read More »

Microsoft announces tablet launch and world yawns

Microsoft's Steve Baller with a HP Slate; Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has announced that consumers can expect to see a raft of Microsoft tablets and smart devices launched into the Apple-dominated tablet market, a range of products that even the hyperactive CEO described as just “quite impressive”. Read More »

Top customer tip from Dell Global Chief Marketing Officer: talk to your customers

“I listen to a customer call every day.  Every single day.”   Dell Global Chief Marketing Officer- Paul-Henri Ferrand.

I am impressed: I have met hundreds of heads of marketing and never has any of them told me they devote this much time to actual customer contact. Read More »