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US trails Chinese PC shipments

Admire Moyo
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb news editor.
Johannesburg, 24 Aug 2011

US trails Chinese PC shipments

China has passed an important technological milestone to became the world's biggest consumer of PCs in the second quarter, according to new market research by IDC, writes the Associated Press.

Computer makers shipped about 18.5 million PCs in China in the second quarter, compared with 17.7 million in the US.

The US is still expected to be the world's largest market for the full year, but it will likely lose that distinction next year. IDC forecasts that 85.2 million PCs will be shipped in China, compared with 76.6 million in the US in 2012.

Facebook revamps privacy controls

Facebook has announced a major revamp of how users control their privacy on the site, states the BBC.

Among the changes, items posted online will each have their own sharing settings determining who can see them. It is the latest in a long line of attempts by Facebook to streamline how members manage their personal information.

In the past, the social network has been criticised for seeming to bury privacy settings in obscure menus.

Lenovo tosses iPad killer candidate

Mere days after HP threw its TouchPad tablet under the bus, Lenovo has tossed its new iPad killer candidate into the marketplace, notes The Register.

The 10.1-inch Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, which went on sale on Tuesday, has a focus and features that give it a far better chance than HP's megaflop to claw some market share away from Apple's 'magical and revolutionary' iPad.

While the HP TouchPad - and, for that matter, Apple's iPad - was aimed at a broad market, Lenovo is banging the business drum for the ThinkPad Tablet, calling it “the first true business-friendly tablet”, targeting it at “business users” and “mobile professionals”, and touting its “business tablet ecosystem”.

Updated BlackBerry Curves unveiled

Research In Motion has unveiled three new models in its popular low-end BlackBerry Curve range, featuring its new BlackBerry 7 operating system, reveals Forbes.com.

The company showed off high-end models updated with the new software three weeks ago.

The new Curve models - 9350, 9360 and 9370 - will go on sale in Canada this month and in the rest of the world in September.

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