According to Gartner WW PC shipments for 2012 will total 368M units with 4.4% Y-o-Y growth, as the PC market remains weak in the face of variable economic and consumer dynamics.
"2011 redefined the landscape of the device market," Gartner says. Users are replacing PCs with tablets and smartphones, prefering such devices to access traditional PC applications such as e-mail, social networking and the internet.
Consumers will also make more use of personal cloud services-- challenging vendors even further.
Weakening the PC market further are economic and supply issues, even if Gartner says the change in consumer dynamics is a far greater issue.
The analyst expects ultrabooks to make waves-- or at least garner attention-- in H2 2012, together with the Windows 8 launch. Will the combination of different laptop format and new OS get the early adopters excited about PCs again? Perhaps, but replacements will continue driving mature PC markets (such as W. Europe), and as a result shipments will remain low.
Gartner predicts emerging markets will instead by "key" to driving both long- and short-term WW PC growth. According to the analyst, emerging markets make 50% of 2011 global PC shipments-- a figure set to reach nearly 70% by 2016.
Over the years, Google has created a rich seam of user-related data... data it can potentially (and very extensively!) mine, as seen in this illustration from Slovakia-based security vendor ESET.
The case was an appeal against an earlier, similar decision taken by the Munich Higher Regional Court. 
The microSIM slot hopefully lets the TrueSmart to fulfill the Dick Tracy promise, allowing users to make calls and send text messages directly from the device without need for tethering to a mobile device.
It also features a touchscreen, specifically a 720x720 3.5-inch number allowing for one-handed use together with the keyboard, as well as a trackpad and physical navigation keys. Inside are a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, 2GB RAM and 16GB storage (expandable to 128GB via microSD slot), as well as 8MP/2MP front- and rear-facing cameras.
