{"id":9733,"date":"2009-09-23T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-23T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T11:30:00","slug":"computer-sales-recovering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/9733-computer-sales-recovering.html","title":{"rendered":"Computer sales recovering"},"content":{"rendered":"

“PC (personal computer) demand appears to be running much stronger than we expected back in June, especially in the United States and China,” said Gartner research director George Shiffler.<\/p>\n

“Mobile PC shipments have regained substantial momentum, especially in emerging markets, and the decline in desk-based PC shipments is slowing down. We think shipments are likely to to be growing again in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared with the fourth quarter of 2008.”<\/p>\n

Sales are expected to grow 12.6 percent in 2010.<\/p>\n

In first half of this year, sales fell 4.4 percent.<\/p>\n

Computing Sales<\/strong><\/a> – comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The global computer market is showing signs of recovery, with sales forecast to decline just 2.0 percent to 285 million this year, much better than a June prediction of 6.0 percent, the Gartner research group said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}