ACER secured the top position in the Philippine personal computer market in the first quarter of 2025, with a 35.7 percent total market share, a 34.2 percent share in consumer notebooks, and an ...

INTRO Computer cost and performance eventually reached the point where personal computing became viable. But, it's hard to define exactly when that happened. There's no one point in time.

The personal computer industry began in 1977, when Apple, Radio Shack and Commodore introduced off-the-shelf computers as consumer products. Known as the "1977 Trinity," the Apple II, Radio Shack ...

The personal computer is in crisis, and getting little help from Microsoft's Windows 8 software once seen as a possible savior. Research firm IDC issued an alarming report Wednesday for PC makers ...

One of only ten surviving Kenbak-1 personal computers from 1971 has sold at auction for €34,000 (US$36,500). Judged the "first commercially available personal computer" in 1987 by a panel at the ...

On this day, August 12 in 1981, the biggest shake-up in the history of computing took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City: The IBM Personal Computer model 5150 was released. There ...

Aug. 10 -- Look at almost any personal computer today and it’s not hard to see a lineage that dates back to that clunky box introduced by IBM 20 years ago. Sure, some computers have broken away ...

Meanwhile, the growth of videogame systems was effectively flat in the same households over the past year. Nearly four in 10 (39.7 percent) of households with personal computers and kids owned a ...