BUSINESS BRIEFING / COMPUTERS
Times Staff and Wire Reports
Global shipments of personal computers posted their first quarterly decline in six years during the last three months of 2008 as consumers and businesses alike gripped their wallets in fear of further economic turmoil, a technology research group reported.
IDC, of Framingham, Mass., said worldwide shipments slipped 0.4% from the October-December quarter in 2007. In the U.S., PC shipments sank 3.5% from a year earlier.
The last time worldwide shipments declined was during the second quarter of 2002.
