School Time Chalking Up Laptop Sales (Investor's Business Daily)

School Time Chalking Up Laptop Sales (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - The back-to-school shopping season typically gives a nice boost to PC sales, especially notebooks. Retailers, though, also focus nowadays on selling a bunch of electronics and accessories.

Dell Gives Trialware the Heave-Ho (PC World)
PC World - Not interested in all of the trial software that clutters up new PCs? You're not alone: According to Dell's recent research in both focus groups and broader surveys, small-business users overwhelmingly view trialware as an irritant, not a benefit. That research has led Dell to axe the extras from its new Vostro line of small-business desktop PCs and laptops. Eliminating demo applications is a major step for Dell, which has caught flack for the quantity of trialware on its consumer PCs. (One frustrated customer went so far as to develop a "Decrapifier" utility. ...

Why 1.0.2 is Interesting
Apple is definitely not going to be a niche player in the business either. Just like they now sell one out of every 5 notebook computers sold, I would predict that if they continue to "do the right things" and take advantage of these inherent capabilities of their platform and

Sony Powers Walkman With Sugar-Based Battery (PC World)
PC World - A year ago it seemed Sony Corp. couldn't even get a laptop battery right. A massive recall of lithium-ion cells tainted its image and had the company scrambling, but on Thursday it reported a sweet breakthrough in bio battery technology.