Caris & Company analyst Robert Cihra says growth in the overall personal computer market for 2010 is trending upwards of 15 to 20%, fueled by greater than 90% growth in combined sales of netbooks and notebooks. However, it’s the iMac that will account for 25% of worldwide desktop growth, he says.
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Purple Ghost Software has released Key Ace (ttp://www.purpleghost.com/news.php), an US$9.99 hotkey utility for Mac OS X that lets you assign actions to various key combinations.
You can configure shortcuts for daily tasks such as opening browsers or controlling play, pause and stop functions on iTunes. ou can specify any key combination to be used as the hotkey to activate the specified action.
Read MoreApple has added features to its iWork.com public beta. It’s a service Apple is developing to share iWork ’09 documents online.
Using your Apple ID, just click the iWork.com icon in the Keynote, Pages or Numbers toolbar to upload your document and invite others to view it online. Viewers can provide comments and notes, and download a copy of your document in iWork, Microsoft Office or PDF formats. A consolidated online list of all your shared documents indicates when your viewers have posted comments.
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The global mobile apps economy is set to be worth $17.5billion by 2012, according to an independent report commissioned by GetJar (http://www.getjar.com/), the world’s second largest app store.
Mobile app downloads across all types of handset are also expected to increase from over seven billion downloads in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012 — a year-on-year growth rate of 92%.
This would mean that the value of apps sold would be greater than the value of CDs sold in 2012 ($13.83 billion).
Satmetrix (http://www.satmetrix.com), which specializes in customer experience programs, has released its 2010 Net Promoter Industry Benchmarks for the technology, insurance, financial services, airlines, telecommunications, retail and online services industries. Leaders included well-known brands such as Apple, USAA, Charles Schwab, JetBlue, Verizon Wireless, Trader Joe’s, Costco and Amazon.com.
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