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...The PC industry has been in a downturn for two years and has yet to show a robust recovery despite the recent buzz about AI-powered PCs....
...China has introduced new guidelines that will mean US microprocessors from Intel and AMD are phased out of government PCs and servers in its most significant step yet in replacing foreign technology with...
...After the US settled its antitrust case with Microsoft more than 20 years ago, the software company was subjected to years of technical monitoring to stop it using technical tie-ins to its PC monopoly to...
...Those contracts illegally shut out competitors, according to DoJ, which has compared them to the contracts Microsoft signed with PC makers to promote its Internet Explorer browser and crush Netscape....
...This is a far cry from the far more overt strong-arming that Microsoft used to force PC makers to carry its internet browser in the 1990s — the basis of the antitrust case it faced a quarter of a century...
...That dropped to 28 years at the PC peak in 1983, lowered by genuine newcomers such as Apple, which had been founded seven years earlier, and Tandon (eight)....
...After helping Michael Dell privatise his PC company in 2013 to the complaint of billionaire Carl Icahn, Silver Lake is well practised in navigating controversial takeovers....
...But, faced with an orange traffic cone deliberately placed on the hood, the cars experience the robotaxi equivalent of a PC screen turning blue: they become paralysed and clog up traffic....
...The Menlo Park-based investment group is best known for partnering with personal computer billionaire Michael Dell on the $24bn buyout of his eponymous PC company in 2013, then acquiring EMC Corporation...
...Sales of PCs are slowing and businesses are trimming IT spending....
...Microsoft’s second weapon is a familiar one: its ubiquity on PCs. The battle this week has been cast as a rerun of the long-running — and one-sided — Google vs Bing rivalry....
...Microsoft’s dominance in the PC era, like Apple’s leadership in smartphones, owed more to successfully repackaging technologies invented elsewhere than in conducting advanced R&D....
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...Today, [unlike on PC and console] the vast majority of mobile games are single player games. What happens with multiplayer games is you get a dramatic increase in engagement....
...AMD, a perennial also-ran against Intel in PC and server processors, has seen a similar bounce and is within spitting distance of overtaking its longtime nemesis....
...A continuation of the buoyant demand for the underlying technologies that support the digital economy — cloud computing services, along with PCs and smartphones — meant that “the 2022 growth runway looks...
...also recruited Louis Cheung, a former president and chief financial officer at Ping An, China’s largest insurance group, and Mary Ma, who was finance chief at Lenovo when the Chinese company bought IBM’s PC...
...Even the market for PCs, which had been in decline, saw a strong rebound, with unit sales leaping by around a third in the first quarter, raising earnings at Microsoft....
...Revenues from PC chips rose 9 per cent, to $10.9bn. Richard Waters sees the trend continuing in the next two weeks with Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft reporting....
...Tech tools — Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold “The world’s first foldable PC,” says Lenovo of the ThinkPad X1 Fold. “It doesn’t get more revolutionary than this.” Or pricier? — the Fold starts at $2,499....
...His intervention comes as Intel faces a critical decision over its future as a leading-edge manufacturer of semiconductors — a position it has held for decades, and the source of its dominance in the PC...
...working-from-home problem though: you may be like me in having a secure laptop supplied by your employer, but preferring to work mainly on a big monitor or two attached to your less well-protected home PC...
...Those trusts were broken up using lawsuits based on the 1890 Sherman antitrust act, which the DoJ also employed when it tried to penalise Microsoft for abusing its dominance in PCs....
...The allegations mirror the 1998 Microsoft case, which claimed the software company had unlawfully excluded Netscape by insisting PC makers pre-installed Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer browser....
...They range from the Linux open-source operating system, which was based on the Unix code developed at AT&T, to the early PCs that were cloned to operate like the first personal computer from IBM....
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