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Is The PC Dead?

by Roger Kay on March 27, 2011 in Personal Computing

Smart Devices Will Lap PCs in 2011 This post first appeared in Forbes.com Feb. 28, 2011. Smartphones are upon us, and so are tablets, and some other new ways individuals can get on the Internet are likely to arrive in the next few years as well.  So, will the PC remain central, play some sort [...]

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Is an iPad a PC?

by Rob Enderle on March 4, 2011 in Mobile Technology

Boy this sounds like a simple question doesn’t it because we know an iPad is basically a big iPod Touch and there is no doubt an iPod touch isn’t a PC right?   But now think how it is being used, over the last week two of the analysts sitting with me had left their PCs [...]

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Why Windows 8 Can Stop the iPad

by Rob Enderle on March 4, 2011 in Personal Computing

We tend to be a species that likes flashy things and the latest flashy thing is the iPad and heck even I want one. But one thing analysts are supposed to do is look at historic trends and looking back the flashiest thing doesn’t always win out. Recall Client/Server computing and UNIX? It was the [...]

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