A new analysis of non-avian dinosaur diversity shows they were not in decline and were still capable of generating new species at the time of their extinction by the Chicxulub asteroid hit 66 million years ago (Cretaceous period). Bonsor et al. refute claim that non-avian dinosaurs were in decline before …
Read More »Microsoft’s guidance for Windows PCs in 2017 won’t reverse sales decline
Microsoft has unveiled its own wish list for its OEM partners in 2017, highlighting the features the company wants companies like HP, Dell, and Asus to emphasize and the hardware designs it thinks are most likely to be attractive to customers. Some of the design emphases make sense — 2-in-1 …
Read More »The PC market just fell for the fifth straight year as unit shipments continue to decline
Gartner and IDC have both turned in their estimates for how many PCs were sold in Q4 2016, and the data isn’t good no matter where you look. While the two companies are characterizing their findings differently — IDC calls its 1.6% decline a “stabilization,” while Gartner charted a 3.7% …
Read More »Apple just posted its first quarterly sales decline in 13 years
Apple’s results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016 are just in, and the company’s reign as a near-invincible titan of Wall Street is, in the words of Nathan Fillion, “certainly coming to a middle.” On the one hand, the company just posted its first year-on-year quarterly decline in …
Read More »‘Unacceptable’ decline
Image copyright AllSport/Getty Image caption Could results be improved with more time aiming at an A than a goal? In the 1980s, Australia started calling itself “the clever country”. Not just a lucky place blessed by minerals, climate and farmland, but a place of innovation and inventiveness, all backed by …
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