Friday, March 6, 2009

PC sales to decline 11.9% in 2009

The PC industry will experience its sharpest unit decline in history, with PC shipments totaling 257 mln units in 2009, an 11.9% decline from 2008, according to Gartner. Previously, PC units experienced their worst decline in 2001 when unit shipments contracted 3.2%. Up to this point, emerging markets collectively recorded their lowest growth in 2002, 11.1%. Mature markets recorded...

Firefox 3.0.7 fixes 47 bugs, 17 critical...

The latest update to Firefox pushed out to users last night via automatic update addresses 47 bugs and enhancements, according to Mozilla. 17 bugs were marked as “critical” or higher.Five potential security vulnerabilities were patched including these 3 that were marked as “critical”: * MFSA 2009-10 Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards * MFSA 2009-08 Mozilla...