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Server shipments: Revenue for IBM, Dell up, HP down, Oracle flat

Stamford (ip-192.com): Worldwide server shipments in the third quarter of 2011 grew 7.2 percent, compared to the same period in 2010, while revenue increased 5.2 percent year-on-year. “The third quarter of 2011 produced growth on a global level but there was some significant variation in growth by region,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at [...]

Europe: Weak demand for PC’s, mini-notebooks

Stamford (ip-192.com): PC shipments in Western Europe totaled 12.7 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a decline of 18.9 percent from the same period in 2010. The mobile PC market was particularly hit hard with a 20.4 percent decline, as mini-notebook shipments decreased 53 percent, according to Gartner, Inc, an information technology research [...]

WebOS based: HP TouchPad comes in July

Palo Alto (ip-192.com): The Wi-Fi version of HP's first webOS tablet will go on sale in the U.S. on July 1 and a few days later in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Germany. Powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, the TouchPad features a 9.7-inch (25 centimeter) screen and runs on webOS version 3.0. [...]

Server shipments up 8.5 percent

Stamford (ip-192.com): In the first quarter of 2011, worldwide server shipments grew 8.5 percent year-on-year, while revenue increased 17.3 percent, according to Gartner, Inc. From the regional standpoint, Eastern Europe grew the most significantly in shipments with a 21.1 percent increase. Eastern Europe also posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 36.0 percent for the [...]