The owner of the Currys and PC World chains said that while trading had been slow in October and November as the eurozone crisis hit consumer confidence, spending recovered during the two weeks before Christmas, with combined sales of tablets and Apple’s iPads rocketing by 200 per cent. John Browett, the chief executive of Dixons [...]

Buffalo’s high-end external Blu-ray writer has a maximum write speed of 12-speed, which should be enough to burn a single-layer disc in 8 mins when connected to a PC via USB 3.0. The problem, for now, is that we’re limited to six-speed media – using which, its 10 mins 48 secs performance was the fastest [...]

As consoles become more like personal computers with their patches and their upgrades, so too do PCs become more like consoles, with more people using control pads and hooking them up to TVs than ever before. Alienware sees a market in this, with the launch of the X51, a small PC that looks, and is [...]

Hand-wringing at Hewlett-Packard over possibly shedding its PC unit, combined with growing consumer preferences for tablet computers, served up a double-whammy of damage to HP’s computer business. The company’s share of the U.S. personal computer market was down 26% last quarter compared with a year ago, according to Gartner . PC shipments nationwide were down [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire -01/17/12)- Simba Energy Inc. (the “Company”) (TSX-V: SMB.V – News) (Frankfurt: GDA.F – News) (OTC.BB: SMBZF.PK – News) is pleased to update its shareholders on the following activities. The Company announces it is now trading on the OTC market’s highest tier, OTCQX International, under the symbol SMBZF. The OTCQX, operated by OTC [...]