Gartner has lowered its laptop-sales forecast for this year and the next, predicting that the popularity of tablets and smartphones will slow laptop sales. Gartner expects worldwide laptop sales to increase 11% this year and an…
News Corp. has launched The Daily, a newspaper specifically designed for the Apple iPad and other tablet computers. The e-paper’s premier edition has attracted kudos for visuals, but mixed reviews on content. The burning questi…
Investors are buying into the meme that Windows is dying — and therefore Microsoft is as well. While tablets are clearly cutting into the giant’s core PC business, Microsoft is also showing remarkable agility in building new f…
It’s the season for reviewing the year that’s ending and making predictions for the one ahead. On Tuesday, venture capitalist and DailyFinance columnist Peter Cohan was part of a TV panel that was asked: Who was the person of t…
Forecasting which technologies will succeed is always hazardous, but it proved especially difficult in 2010, a year full of surprises — and also several disappointments. Facebook blew away even the most optimistic expectations…