Annual worldwide smartphone unit sales growth is expected to decelerate to 12.9% in 2016, Nomura Securities predicted Tuesday. That’s down from the 14.4% growth forecast for 2015 and 28.6% growth in 2014. Smartphone sales are expected to rise to 1.61 billion units next year from 1.42 billion this year, Nomura said. Smartphones will account for 82% of handset sales next year and should surpass 88% in 2017, it says. Smartphones will represent about
Closing the book on the 76-year legacy of Hewlett-Packard Co., Meg Whitman continued with Volume II Tuesday by chairing both successor companies and disclosing that the former company’s final Q4 earnings missed Wall Street projections. But she also guided one of the successor company’s fiscal 2016 forecasts higher than Wall Street estimates. Thus, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) stock was up 2.5% in after-hours trading, after the earnings
If you or someone on your gift list has an aging laptop or tablet or doesn’t own a portable, the holidays are a great time to rectify that situation. Here are several, in different price ranges, that we tested: If budget constraints are an issue, consider giving a laptop that primarily operates in the cloud (i.e., via the Internet). These devices have, and need, only a modest amount of memory and storage, as they’re designed to use cloud-based