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HP buys Palm for $1.2 billion

Computer maker and online retailer Hewlett-Packard has agreed to acquire smartphone provider Palm Inc. for $1.2 billion in cash.

Posted 04/29/2010Internet RetailerPost a comment

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For 41% of consumers, their next mobile phone purchase will be a smartphone

And by 2013, 38% of all mobile phones in the U.S. will be PC-like, web-enabled smartphones, according to new research. This bodes well for m-commerce as smartphone users use the mobile web far more often than their conventional phone-owning counterparts.

Posted 06/11/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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Apple leads in visits to computer hardware sites in August

Apple Computer Inc. recorded the most traffic of the top 10 computer hardware sites in August, with visits increasing 45% to 36.6 million from 25.3 million a year earlier, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

Posted 09/29/2006Paul DemeryPost a comment

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Traffic surges at leading computer hardware manufacturer sites

Visits to six of the top 10 hardware manufacturer sites increased by double-digits in October, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Epson led the group, with visits increasing 70% to 1.7 million from 1 million a year earlier.

Posted 11/18/2005Paul DemeryPost a comment

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Double-digit increase in visits at 7 of top 10 computer hardware sites

Visits to six of the top 10 online hardware manufacturers sites increased by double digits in May, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Intel led the group with a 56% increase to 1.36 million visits from 870,000 in May 2004.

Posted 07/01/2005Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Mylinks, Playstation lead computer sites in traffic growth

Two of the ten top online hardware manufacturers in March had triple-digit growth but fell into the bottom half in terms of site visitors, Nielsen/NetRatings said.

Posted 04/29/2005Kurt PetersPost a comment

Sharp gains put MyInks, PrintPal into top 10 computer hardware sites

With their February traffic up nearly three and four times respectively since a year ago, printer supplies retailers PrintPal.com and MyInks.com joined the top 10 computer hardware e-commerce sites, Nielsen/NetRatings reports.

Posted 03/25/2005Paul DemeryPost a comment

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PrintPal, Toshiba join top 10 computer hardware sites in number of visitors

Apple led in the number of visitors to computer hardware sites in January, with 28.54 million, up 31% over January ’03. PrintPal and Toshiba joined the top 10 sites with traffic of 1.38 million and 1.33 million respectively, Nielsen/NetRatings reports.

Posted 02/25/2005Kurt PetersPost a comment