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Netbook shipments increase 79 percent in 2009

2009 was certainly a banner year for netbook shipments. According to Tony Smith of the Register Hardware website, 30.2 million netbook/mini-notebook units were shipped in 2009. That’s a 79 percent increase from 2008. Pit that number up against IDC’s 2009 PC shipment number of 294.2 million units and netbooks made up approximately 10 percent of all PCs sold for the year. Of course PC manufacturers aren’t particularly thrilled by those netbook numbers – especially when consumers are purchasing ...

Samsung’s Q4 financial report, another profitable quarter

"2009 was a really good year for almost all of Samsung's divisions. And as the just published financial report shows Q4 was just the icing of the cake. Quarter by quarter the number of shipped Samsung mobile phones grew and grew despite the world financial crisis. The summary shows that Samsung managed to ship nearly 227 million units, which is good 16% more than the 196 phones sold in 2008. Of those 68.8 million were shipped in Q4 alone. That is a 31% increase over the last quarter of 20...

2nd generation Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens

Canon introduces the new EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens. Built for the professional, the body structure of the new Canon lens has been enhanced to provide better durability and strength without a significant increase in weight. Canon has also improved optical performance by redesigning the internal elements. The lens features improved AF speed due to a new focusing algorithm and has reduced the minimum focusing distance to 3.9 feet (1.2 meters) through the entire zoom range. The lens is sche...

Gartner Q3 2009 Smartphone Sales Figures

"Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 308.9 million units in the third quarter of 2009, a 0.1 per cent increase from the third quarter of 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales surpassed 41 million units, a 12.8 per cent increase from the same period last year.“The third quarter of 2009 saw the announcement of many new mobile devices, including several Android smartphones ready for the holiday season in the fourth quarter, but hardware commoditisation and the growth in open platform...