Apple's share of 'ultrabook' market to plummet, analyst predicts

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	Apple's share of 'ultrabook' market set to plummet, analyst predicts Although Apple will sell an increasing number of MacBook Airs over the next two years, its share of the light-and-thin notebook market will fall as computer makers crank out Windows-powered competitors, an analyst said. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Converge Your Networks for Flexibility Cisco Unified Fabric offers the industry's largest and first fully interoperable portfolio of Fiber Channel integrating storage and data networking to deliver transparent convergence, massive three-dimensional scalability and sophisticated intelligence. It also reduces your costs up to 45%. Learn More In this Issue Apple wins import block on some HTC devices Jonny Evans: Apple beats HTC/Android in iPhone UI ITC skirmish Sotheby's sells Apple founding contract for $1.6M Steve Jobs, Google+ and iPhone top Google's 2011 search list Apple supplier Pegatron reports blast at China plant Samsung files four more patent claims against Apple Jonny Evans: iPad 3 production begins, iPhone takes UK top spot Jonny Evans: Apple iPad to play with Fire; Samsung keeps A5 Jonny Evans: Opinion: Why Apps devs choose Apple's iPhone 5 Jonny Evans: Apple wins: Flash is dead as BBC goes iOS online IT Blogwatch: HTC and Apple BOTH claim victory: Come again? WHITE PAPER: VCE/VMware The Evolution of Virtualized Desktops The virtual client computing (VCC) market has grown rapidly, despite the economic downturn over the past few years. The centralized virtual desktop (CVD, aka virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI) segment has led the way in facilitating this growth. IDC expects to see significant production deployments of centralized virtualized desktops. Learn More Apple wins import block on some HTC devices The U.S. International Trade Commission will block the importation of some HTC products starting next April 19 after it found that the company infringed Apple patents. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple beats HTC/Android in iPhone UI ITC skirmish Apple has won an anti-Android victory at home in the US, with HTC required to remove some of its handsets from sale because they used ideas patented within the iPhone. Read More Sotheby's sells Apple founding contract for $1.6M The contract that founded Apple was purchased Tuesday for nearly $1.6 million, far above the estimate of $100,000 to $150,000 put on the 35-year-old document by Sotheby's. Read More Steve Jobs, Google+ and iPhone top Google's 2011 search list Google offers its take on what technology and technologists most interested the online world this year. Read More Apple supplier Pegatron reports blast at China plant Apple supplier Pegatron reported that an explosion occurred at a subsidiary company in China, with Shanghai authorities stating that 61 workers were sent to hospital. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning The term virtualization refers to the creation of virtual machines, virtual networks, and virtual disks, (logical images of physical resources) that can execute work and then be returned to a shared resource pool. Cloud computing makes use of virtualization, but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. Read Now Samsung files four more patent claims against Apple Samsung Electronics filed four additional patent claims against Apple on Friday in a German court while also going to trial over three other patents that the Korean company alleges are infringed by Apple. Read More Jonny Evans: iPad 3 production begins, iPhone takes UK top spot iPad 3 development continues with an explosion at a Pegatron factory hinting at production challenges as Apple [AAPL] inches toward its anticipated March 2012 launch. In other news, Apple has seized over a third of all UK mobile sales. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple iPad to play with Fire; Samsung keeps A5 Apple's plan for a 7-inch iPad to take on Amazon's Kindle Fire seems to be moving along; meanwhile we learn its current generation A5 processors are being built at a multi-billion dollar factory in Texas -- by Samsung. Read More Jonny Evans: Opinion: Why Apps devs choose Apple's iPhone 5 Developers, developers, developers: you're going to make more money building apps for Apple and iOS than you'll gather building for Android, fresh research claims. Read More Jonny Evans: Apple wins: Flash is dead as BBC goes iOS online The Steve Jobs-vindicating news was officially delivered by the BBC last night in a muted message that video from the UK's public broadcaster's online site is now being made available for playback on iOS devices. Read More IT Blogwatch: HTC and Apple BOTH claim victory: Come again? The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has decided that some HTC (TPE:2498) phones violate one Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) patent. But HTC is celebrating, because it was cleared of violating the other 19 patents that Apple cited. The company also says the workaround is easy. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers weigh the claims. Not to mention: Fat Joe is Not So Fat Now... Read More
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