As we enter 2012 and the thunder around tablets starts to increase we once again offer some results that show that the industry is not in as dire shape as some would believe. Today, NPD released the 2011 results from our sales tracking in the U.S. Reseller market (primarily DMRs) and through major broad line distributors - and surprise - the PC market performed pretty well.
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Tags: commerical reseller, desktops, distributor, DMR, IT, notebooks, PC market, SMB
Commercial Technology | Stephen Baker, Vice President, Industry Analysis | 
January 25, 2012 6:16 am | 
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In the first significant shake-up of the mobile data market, AT&T has revamped data plan offers for smartphones and tablets. The general impact of the changes (to be launched on Sunday) is to increase the general bucket sizes that customers must purchase (with a price increase to go along with it).
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