Samsung shipped 2 million Galaxy Tab tablets as alternatives to Apple’s iPad, but not all of them went to consumers. Moreover, consumers are returning the devices. – Samsung’s Galaxy Tab isn’t selling quite as well as the
company and media have initially portrayed, a company official acknowledged.
Moreover, there is some evidence that the 7-inch tablets
based on Google’s Android operating system are making a round trip from
retailers to consumers and back.
…
Automobile major Maruti Suzuki registered a 14.74 percent rise in its sales at 109,743 units in January as against 95,649 units during the like period of 2010. The sales include 9,321 units of exports during the month, the company said in a statement. The company had sold a total of 95,649 vehicles in January 2010, [...]
Verizon iPhone could sell 25 million units in 2011, according to an analyst. That number is a substantial rise over other analyst estimates for the smartphone. – How many units
will the Verizon iPhone sell?
William Power,
an analyst with R.W. Baird amp; Co., is reportedly suggesting some 25 million
iPhones will be activated by the carrier in 2011, a number deduced from a
1,000-person survey. That includes not only current Verizon smartphone users
swit…
Signing in on paper may soon be history in medical facilities as electronic kiosks similar to those at the bank or airport take over the job usually done by an army of registration clerks. – We’ve seen self-service kiosks become ubiquitous at banks
and at airports. Now they’re reaching the waiting room of doctor’s offices.
CTS (Connected Technology
Solutions), which makes the Patient PassPort Express kiosk, reports that it
has achieved 5 million patient check-ins on its machines f…
Microsofts Windows Phone 7 has shipped 2 million units to carriers, but the number of those sold to consumers remains unclear. – So, how many Windows Phone 7 devices have sold to consumers?
Thats the multibillion-dollar question without an official answer. During this Januarys Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Microsoft executive told eWEEK that the company had never made a regular habit of releasing comprehensive sa…
A new In-Stat report expects smartphone shipments to keep climbing, hitting 850 million units by 2015, on the way to the 1 billion mark. – Smartphone sales are on the rise, with no plans for slowing
down, research firm In-Stat announced in a Jan.
25 report on the evolving smartphone space.
With smartphones robust processing power and memory, large
screens and open operating systems attracting ever-greater numbers of consumers,
In-…
Pioneer is a big name in the aftermarket world for car speakers and head units. The latest offerings from the company have cool LCD screens, support the iPhone, and include the MVH-8300BT and the MVH-7300. Over 10 million iPhone 5 smartphones have been ordered according to reports. Pegatron has also boosted production to meet the [...]
Boustead Singapore says wholly-owned subsidiary, Boustead Salcon Water Solutions, the water and wastewater engineering specialist, has won a $25 million contract to design, engineer and construct a demineralisation plant at the Tembusu multi-utilities complex owned by Tuas Power.
Boustead Salcon will partner Boustead Projects, the specialist in industrial real-estate solutions to deliver the Demin plant.
RIM PlayBook and Motorola Xoom tablet orders to Taiwanese hardware makers point to 2 million in first-quarter shipments for the Apple iPad challengers. – Demand and expectations are indeed high for tablet computers that aren’t
branded iPad, according to reports from component makers out of Taiwan.
Digitimes reported that Quanta Computer has begun
producing 1 million Research In Motion PlayBook tablets for the first
quarter, underscoring pent-up…
The company announced the creation of a single Public-Large Enterprise business unit, headed by Paul Bell. –
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Dell announced it would
consolidate its Public and Large Enterprise business units into a single
organization, and Paul Bell will serve as president of the c…
Financial analysts are clamoring to place their bets on how many Apple iPhones Verizon Wireless will sell in 2011. The range: a modest 9 million to a whopping 15 million units. – That’s the top question being asked in the wake of invites sent to media for a Jan. 11 event in New York City that the
blogosphere claims will concern the launch of the popular Apple handset on the
No. 1 U.S. wireless network.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster acknowledges that he may have forec…
Samsung reports its Galaxy S smartphone has shipped 10 million units, meeting its sales target for the Android-based device. – Samsungs Galaxy S smartphone has shipped some 10 million
units since its June 2010 release date, according to the company. That meets
Samsungs sales target for the device, which faces stiff competition not only
from the Apple iPhone but other Android offerings.
“Based on their brand power and th…
CapitaLand China Holdings, the wholly-owned subsidiary of CapitaLand, says 60% of the 220 units in the Phase 2 launch of The Beaufort condominium in Beijing have been sold at an average price of around RMB38,500 ($7,500) per square metre over the Christmas weekend.
One- and two-bedroom apartments at The Beaufort were priced at between RMB2.3 million and RMB4.1 million each.
Amazon.com will sell more than 8 million Kindle e-readers in 2010, according to unnamed sources talking to Bloomberg. That would greatly outpace 2009s predicted figures. – Amazon.com could sell more than 8 million Kindle e-readers
in 2010, according to a new report from Bloomberg. That would outpace earlier
estimates that placed device sales in the 5-million range.
Amazon has traditionally been reluctant to share sales
figures for the device, which it touts as one…
Microsoft claims manufacturers sold 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices in six weeks, but actual customer sales remain a question. – Microsoft is claiming sales of 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 smartphones in
the platform’s first six weeks of release, reversing the company’s previous
reluctance to discuss anything numbers-related. However, the number of devices
actually sold to customers remains unclear.
Microsoft hopes th…
Apple is reporting 1 million Apple TV units sold in the device’s first two and a half months of release. Apple TV is competing with Google TV for the digital living room. – Not to be outdone by its rivals in the consumer-electronics
segment, Apple reported Dec. 21 that it expects sales of its Apple TV to exceed
1 million units this week. It took the
company a little over two and a half months to reach that milestone.
Apple could have timed the announcement to dig …
Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia-Herzegovina leader said that country should be organized into four federal units. Čović made the statement in Banja Luka, RS, a suggested the seats of these units to be in Sarajevo, Banjaluka, Mostar and Tuzla.
Samsung confirmed it has sold more than 1 million Apple iPad rival Galaxy Tab tablet computers worldwide, up from 600,000 just two weeks ago. The holiday rush helped sales. – Samsung has sold more than 1 million Apple iPad rival Galaxy Tab tablet
computers worldwide, a significant jump for a product that notched 600,000
units sold two weeks ago before the Thanksgiving holiday rush.
Samsung spokesperson Kim Titus confirmed the milestone to eWEEK Dec. 3, but
declined m…
