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  1. IBM CEO: the PC era ended three years ago

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    But one area where IBM won’t compete with HP is personal computers. In 2005, IBM sold its PC business to China’s Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion. The PC era, Mr. Palmisano said Tuesday, ended three or four years ago. “We…

  2. What Apple and Android owe to Symbian and RIM

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    Following up on survey data showing that up to 25 percent of Americans have moved to smartphones, here is another survey (Comscore) which shows that US smartphone users are at about 23 percent. Comscore also surveyed…

  3. Per Lindberg predicts things

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    “The N8 is certainly a step in the right direction, it’s much more multimedia,” Per Lindberg, an independent technology analyst at MF Global in London, told Marayam Nemazee on Bloomberg Television’s “Countdown.” “But…

  4. When will the smartphone become a commodity?

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    I am taking a comment thread and promoting it to an article so as to expose it to a larger audience. There are two points of view: Ariel writes: I believe that next year and perhaps the year after that will see intense…