PC maker Lenovo bucked the trend in the ailing desktop market, showing a 13% increase in profits for the second quarter of $162m (£101m). But the Q2 results represent a slow-down in the Chinese PC manufacturer's growth, having ...
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Lenovo reported record sales of $8.4bn during its fiscal third quarter 2012, an increase of 44% year-over-year, in its latest results. Lenovo said it experienced increased demand in commercial PC opportunities across Western Europe and ...
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Acer saw sales stalll in its second quarter, down 2.2% compared to the first three months of the year. The Taiwanese company said it didn’t expect revenue to pick up until its fourth quarter. But Acer will start shipping ...
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IDG News Service - This year at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin vendors introduced and demonstrated a plethora of ultra-high resolution TVs, hybrid tablets based on Microsoft's upcoming operating systems, as well as the first ...
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Lenovo said on Thursday the company was not worried about Microsoft's new Surface tablet, with its CEO stating the PC maker is confident it provides better hardware than its competitors including Microsoft. "They (Microsoft) are strong in ...
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Apple's personal computers remained fixed in fourth place during 2012's second quarter, a spot it's occupied most of the year, a technical support franchise said today. The cause, ironically, was the very success that Apple has had ...
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One Laptop Per Child is redesigning its venerable XO-1.75 laptop, by adding a touchscreen, the nonprofit organization said in a blog post late last week. The next version, called XO Touch, will have a "tablet mode," the organization said ...
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Acer on Thursday announced the Oct. 26 availability of the Iconia W700 tablet, which will come with an 11.6-inch screen and Windows 8, and will start at $799. The Iconia W700 is less than 0.5 inches (1.27 centimeters) thick and weighs ...
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Tech stocks have been climbing recently as key vendors such as Cisco and Lenovo report positive quarterly earnings and the U.S. economy offers glimpses of good news. So far this year, shares in IT companies rose steadily until April and ...
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Lenovo has announced it will open its first computer manufacturing plant in the U.S., where it will make laptops, PCs and tablets sold under its Think brand. Lenovo will open the factory early next year in Whitsett, North Carolina, where ...
Lenovo has announced a new range of Windows 8 and RT hybrid computing devices that can function as tablets or laptops. The devices include the IdeaPad Yoga 11, which is the company’s first hybrid laptop/tablet with an ARM processor ...
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Lenovo’s highly anticipated ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 will be priced starting at US$629, the company said. The tablet will have a 10.1-inch screen and become available on Oct. 26, alongside Microsoft’s launch Windows 8 ...
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Looking beyond PCs and tablets, Lenovo yesterday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group, which deals in servers, storage, networking and software. The ThinkServer TD330 is a tower server based on ...
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Lenovo has stripped HP of its title as the world’s top seller of PCs, research firm Gartner said in a study released Wednesday. Lenovo took the top spot during a quarter in which PC shipments dropped due to a weak economy and ...
IBM has combined a number of its online marketing software programmes into a unified service, called the IBM Marketing Centre. IBM has designed the service, an IBM Smarter Commerce offering, for organisations to outsource their online ...
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