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Lenovo's Next Expansion Plan: Games Consoles

Lenovo, one of the world's biggest computer manufacturers, has already diversified into producing smartphones, and now it's looking for even fresher markets: It's going to produce a games console. READ»

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Apple Files Patent for Swiveling, Touchscreen iMac

As with all patent filings, we shouldn't be tempted into thinking this touchscreen iMac is necessarily real. But man, is it tempting.READ»

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Intel's Sales Jump 34%, Its Best Quarter Ever, Buoyed by Sales From the High- and Low-End

Intel posted a whopping 34% jump in sales in the second quarter of this year, which makes it the chip giant's most profitable quarter ever. Isn't this supposed to be a recession?READ»

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Why Apple Hasn't Succeeded in China ... Yet

Apple isn't doing as well as it could in China. Why? The chairman of China's tech giant Lenovo thinks it's largely down to Steve Jobs himself, as the killer quote in the Financial Times article which is the source of this discussion ...READ»

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Cisco Cius: A Business-Focused Android Tablet for Teleconferencing on the Go

Cisco today announced the Cius, a 7-inch Android tablet with some pretty advanced teleconferencing capabilities. It could well become indispensable to business users.READ»

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Intel and Qualcomm Introduce New Processors, Including Intel's "World's Thinnest" Netbook Platform

The Computex trade show in Taiwan is the venue of choice for new processor announcements from Intel and Qualcomm. Intel's includes the world's thinnest netbook platform, and Qualcomm's announces the company as the smartphone chipmaker to beat.READ»

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Intel Introduces Core Processors for Ultrathin Laptops: Get Ready for a Super-Fast MacBook Air

Intel yesterday introduced a new, lower-voltage version of its Core line of processors designed for ultrathin laptops like Apple's MacBook Air. If they deliver on these promises, we're in for some amazing new kit.READ»

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HP Agrees to Buy Struggling Palm for $1.2 Billion

Out of nowhere, HP announced that they will acquire the struggling smartphone maker Palm. Great news for Palm--what does this mean for the company's long-standing reputation and future prospects?READ»

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Jilted by HTC, Divvying Up Palm May Be Rubinstein's Only Option

Palm's options are somewhat thin on the ground, following today's news that HTC has lost interest in the struggling smartphone manufacturer. The firm best known for its Android handsets was thought of as the best hope for Jon ...READ»

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Lenovo's L Series: The Greenest Laptops on the Market?

There is no shortage of sustainable laptops on store shelves--Apple claims that its MacBooks make up the world's green line of notebooks and Sony has a laptop with a plastic enclosure made out of recycled CDs--but now Lenovo claims ...READ»

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Lenovo Wants in on Smartphone Biz, Acquiring Palm Could Be the Ticket

Computing giant Lenovo hopes that within five years, up to 20% of its revenues may come from mobile Internet devices. Could Lenovo buy Palm?Lenovo's president and COO Rory Read made his points pretty clearly--he noted that his company ...READ»

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Underage, Underpaid Workers, Sexually Predatory Security Guards at Troubled Chinese Microsoft Supplier

Underage, underpaid workers working 15-hour shifts, sexually predatory security guards, hourly pay of just 52 cents per hour after deductions for the canteen food. No talking during work hours, no listening to music, no bathroom ...READ»

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HTC May Buy (and Save) Palm

The struggling smartphone maker Palm has, according to Bloomberg sources, put itself up for sale. Potential buyers include HTC and Lenovo, and a sale to either would completely shake up the smartphone industry.READ»

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Intel's Revamped Classmate Goes the Convertible Tablet Route

Intel announced their newest version of the education-focused budget laptop (netbook, really) called the Classmate. It's not the cheapest netbook around, but it's packing some features that definitely endear it to the education ...READ»

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E-Readers and Tablet PCs Are About to Get Screen-Tastic

Developing screens for computers and cell phones may sound like boring business, but, as customer demand for portable devices that can handle HD video, e-books, and Web browsing increases, the need for screens that are both awesome ...READ»

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A Layman's Guide to the Tablet PCs of 2010 [With Video]

2010 has already been dubbed the "year of the tablet." And while the tablet PC concept is not new, the hype surrounding Apple's imminent iSlate--and the craze for touchscreens--has put the slab-form computer front and center. Every ...READ»

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Google China May Be Shut Down: Bad for Android, Good for Apple?

After Google's surprising move to un-censor its Chinese search engine yesterday, the issue has literally exploded all over the news. But it now looks like China will end up forcing Google to close Google.cn, as suspected. And that ...READ»

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Tablet Tabula Rasa

Despite having used and abandoned multiple tablets over the years, I'm still looking forward to Apple's much anticipated iSlate Tablet (or whatever it will be called). Of course those old tablets were used primarily for ...READ»

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Icon Wasteland: the Madness of Multiple Desktops

Everywhere we look, we are surrounded by desktops. Once it was merely our laptops and PCs, and then it was our companion netbooks, too. Then our Web 2.0 accounts: Facebook, MobileMe, Google apps. After that, our phones got smart ...READ»

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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS GOING GREEN AWARDS

Unveiled in conjunction with the start of the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, the 14th version of Greenpeace's guide has added a new rating criteria: Support for revisions to the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive that would ban PVC vinyl plastic, brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and chlorinated flame retardants from electronics.READ»

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What Did Microsoft's CES Keynote Reveal? Not the Courier Slate PC

Steve Ballmer had a lot to say about Windows 7 during his keynote address at the start of CES 2010, and gave a sneak peek at the swanky machines it is--and will be--running on. And that's about all he did. From a techy-consumer's ...READ»

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Why Does Everything at CES Look Like an Android Phone?

The look and feel of electronics always coalesces into "standards": the beige PC, the pyramid-backed tube TV, the two-button mouse. At CES this year, we're seeing a new decade of visual language emerge--and it's all about touch. Sure, ...READ»

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CES's Preemptive iSlate Competitors

The Consumer Electronics Show doesn't really kick off until tomorrow, but already there's a host of new stuff out. Today there's a mystifyingly wonderful crop of new gear that seems to be preemptive competition for Apple's ...READ»

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Pre-CES Surprise Gadget News Round-Up

So with the Consumer Electronics Show starting in just under two days, you might expect that companies are keeping their products under lock and key, to maximize PR effect. Nope. Lots of stuff's leaked already, some of it ...READ»