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Acer moves to top position in EMEA

Acer increases its long track record of successes within the PC industry by achieving historical result during the third quarter of 2008. According to the worldwide market data released by analyst firm IDC, Acer reached the...

Acer Moves to Top Position in EMEA

DUBAI - Acer increases its long track record of successes within the PC industry by achieving historical result during the third quarter of 2008. According to the worldwide market data released by analyst firm IDC, Acer reached...

Lenovo's Q2 plummets 78 percent

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd <0992.HK>, the world' No. 4 PC maker, posted a 78 percent plunge in quarterly earnings on slower shipments and lower margins, as the global financial crisis crimps appetite for...

Lenovo Q2 slumps, shares dive

Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's No.4 PC maker, posted a sharp drop in quarterly profit and warned of tough conditions as consumers and businesses cut back on technology spending, sending its stock down 20 percent.

Eric Crown: The Swirling Computer Business of the Roaring '90s

For alumnus Eric Crown, his induction into the W. P. Carey School's Hall of Fame is sweet vindication. While pursuing a degree in computer information systems, Crown, 46, wrote a paper on a potential mail-order business that...

Acer tops Emea PC market sales

Acer climbed to first place in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (Emea) desktop and laptop PC market in the third quarter of this year, according to IDC analysts. PC shipments in Emea totalled more than 27.8 million units in...

Taiwan PC makers ready to challenge Silicon Valley

First came the slim fashion models, hugging the slim new laptops. Then a tuxedo-clad Jerry Shen, chief executive of Asus, stepped onto the stage last month to introduce his company's new S101 mini-laptop to a horde of...

TPV, Samsung top LCD monitor SI, brand shipments

Owing to a shaky global economy, Top 10 monitor brand vendors are viewing market demand cautiously during 4Q08 TAIPEI, TAIWAN: According to WitsView's survey, TPV topped the list of LCD monitor SIs with 3.7 million monitor...

Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99

Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-note will soon cost as little as $99. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that HP is already talking to carriers about such an arrangement but didn't say which carriers. That discount brings...

Windows Gurus: May We Help You?

Microsoft has come up with a toolkit consisting of Windows Gurus and Windows store-within-a-store kiosks at major retail stores to boost the image of Windows Vista. Will the effort be enough? by Scott Bekker A new and growing...

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