| Global personal computer shipments rose sharply in the first quarter, according to industry estimates released on Wednesday, as businesses finally began to spend again on technology equipment.
Industry tracker IDC said PC shipments rose 24.2 percent in the January-March period to 79.1 million units, while Gartner put growth at 27.4 percent in the quarter.
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| If you once tweeted it, Google will find it. It'll replay it, too.
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) on Tuesday confirmed a new search function that presents archived Twitter content as a timeline, meaning that users will be able to search for topics and see Twitter tweets related to those topics, organized in a scrolling list by day.
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| Lots of people wear dark glasses while watching the Masters golf tournament, but usually they’re out on the course.
Yesterday, dozens of bespectacled fans gathered at the Boston Harbor Hotel instead, to see the first round of the legendary tournament in 3-D. Comcast Corp., the nation’s biggest cable provider, will present two hours of 3-D broadcasts from the Augusta National Golf Club each day of the tournament.
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| Businesses are finally prying their hands from Microsoft 's Windows XP as they warm to Windows 7 .
"Over the years, IT has had a real love affair with XP," said Diane Hagglund, an analyst at Dimensional Research, which surveyed 923 IT professionals about their Windows operating system adoption plans in January. "It was just a great OS. It just worked for them. But that feeling is going away."
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| The touch-screen capabilities of the Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) iPad will overcome the lack of support for Adobe (NSDQ:ADBE) Flash and result in shipments of more than 7 million of the new devices in 2010, according to a new report by research firm iSuppli.
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