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You may have never heard of Lenovo, but you have seen their laptops. They are the company behind the IBM laptop line. If you didn't know, IBM licenses their name to Lenovo to produce ...READ»
To diversify your business activities or not. It's a tough decision. Carly Fiorina faced an uphill battle defending her controversial decision to acquire Compaq in 2002, after Hewlett-Packard announced an operating loss of $208 ...READ»
A Lenovo netbook with a nine-inch screen is making its way through FCC approval as we speak, according to several blogs. And unless Lenovo is populating a seriously redundant product line, this one probably has a new trick up its ...READ»
Sony is very proud of its Vaio P mini computer, teasing its release often, and refusing to classify it as a netbook, notebook or even UMPC--it's a "lifestyle" PC. But the supposed pocket-friendliness of the "P" ...READ»
A new day at the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference at the Columbia Business School, presented by Corante and the Center on Global Brand Leadership.
Our first session is a presentation by Deepak Advani CMO of Lenovo. ...READ»
At the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference, Deepak Advani, SVP and CMO of Lenovo, made the fundamental but oft-ignored point that brands are what you do, not what you say. Describing Lenovo's brand-building efforts at the Innovative ...READ»
They don't make rechargeable lithium-ion batteries like they used to.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced today that Lenovo and IBM are recalling an estimated 526,000 battery packs, after an overheated battery caused ...READ»
I grew up in a viral era.
I was born the same year the advertising
jingle “I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company” was reworked into
a top ten pop song. Years later, my room was decorated with posters of ...READ»
Lenovo [OTC:LNVGY] is releasing their first mobile phone, and apparently the company has seen fit to add a little perk heretofore unheard of in mobile handsets: a biometric fingerprint scanner. The P960, as they're calling it, makes ...READ»
Lenovo spent two years on the design of its new business laptop--but not on its internals. It took that long to tweak two keys on the keyboard. In this light, might it be time to ditch the old clickety-click of physical ...READ»
They're calling it the Ideapad S10, and with its 10-inch LED backlit screen and 2.4lb weight, Lenovo's [OTC:LNVGY] new ultra-portable is looking pretty spiffy. It measures just 9.8 x 7.2 inches and comes preloaded with Windows XP, ...READ»
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»
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»
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»
Listening to music gets easier just by using your iPhone or iPod Touch to remote control the Sonos multi-room music system, which controls all of the music around your house. And, electronic paper gets closer to real broadsheet displays. READ»
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»
For a long time Apple was king of the all-in-one PC game with the latest gen iMac being one of the slickest PC offerings out there: But this year there's been a lot of interest from other players, with Dell, Fujistu and Sony coming up ...READ»
You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in China.READ»
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»
From the Marketers Forum at the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference in New York, produced by Corante and Columbia Business School's Center on Global Brand Leadership.
Opening keynote speaker Deepak Advani, Senior Vice President and ...READ»
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»
Back in June we reported on what could be considered as the first real smartbook device--a hybrid smartphone/netbook machine that could be the next big thing in mobile computing. Now it looks like the xpPhone's ready for the ...READ»
