{"id":116710,"date":"2015-01-13T07:40:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T05:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=116710"},"modified":"2015-01-13T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T05:42:20","slug":"pc-market-still-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/116710-pc-market-still-weak.html","title":{"rendered":"PC market still weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global market for personal computers is still weak, after two years of declining sales, although researchers cited some positive signs in a pair of sales reports issued Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The IDC research firm says total PC shipments were down 2.4 percent in the fourth quarter of last year &#8211; though not as bad as the 4.8 percent drop the company predicted. IDC also says shipments for the year fell 2.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers at another firm, Gartner, estimate PC shipments rose 1 percent in the last quarter, while shipments for the year are down less than 1 percent. Each firm uses different methods of estimating computer shipments by manufacturers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Both firms say it appears the long-running slump in computer sales began to level off last year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More tech news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/116614-eskom-must-sort-out-its-problems-finance-minister.html\">Eskom must sort out its problems: Finance minister<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/116620-e-toll-panel-says-no-to-fuel-levy-report.html\">E-toll panel says no to fuel levy: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/116622-illegal-migrants-plan-their-trips-on-facebook.html\">Illegal migrants plan their trips on Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global market for personal computers is still weak, after two years of declining sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":90143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19023,7979],"class_list":["post-116710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-pc-sales","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}