Topic: Lenovo Group Ltd.

A Decent Battery

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»

Innovation That Matters

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»

Brands Are What You Do -- Lenovo's Story

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»

The More, the Better?

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»

Lenovo, The Company To Look Out For

Taken from Technology Should Be Simple 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»

Where's the Beef? Jumpstarting Your Next Viral Marketing Campaign

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 to Release 3G Netbook

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»

Lenovo Announces Ultra-Portable Notebook

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»

New Lenovo Handset Features Fingerprint Scan

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's "Pocket Yoga" Netbook: Om My!

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»

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China: The Next Big Bling

After Lenovo bought IBM's PC division, it learned that the Chinese treat their gizmos like your grandmother treats her furniture.READ»

It's Time to Ditch the Physical Keyboard

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»

Tech Watch: E-Ink, Sonos, and Linux on Lenovo: Multimedia Life Gets Lighter

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»

Lenovo Joins All-in-One PC Game With Slimmest Model

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»

Awareness Is Everything

Constant awareness of the world... in our pockets.READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in China

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»

Deepak Advani Interview: Driving Lenovo Awareness

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»

xpPhone Smartbook Is Real, Set for Global Release

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»

Lenovo's S12 Netbook Gets Big-Screen, Big Graphics Power from Nvidia

Lenovo's pulled the wraps off its S12, which is far more than a ho-hum addition to its long list of netbook PCs. It's got a 12-inch screen, and is the first netbook to use Nvidia's powerful Ion platform. The S12 is further ...READ»

Where Does Design "Live" in a Company?

Day two of the Corante Innovative Marketing Conference was kicked off by a talk from Deepak Advani, SVP and CMO of Lenovo. Advani was talking about how innovation works on a practical basis at Lenovo. As part of his answer came this ...READ»

Dell Launches Multi-Touch Laptops

Dell announced today that it will be launching new versions of its studio laptops, which were made famous by their multifarious artist-designed lids. The new version will feature another trending spec: multi-touch screens, according ...READ»

Dual Screen Laptops: Double the Pleasure for On-the-Go Geeks

Dual-screen notebooks are out there, and while they may not look as cool as this Asus concept, they have some serious appeal to coders, designers, and other nerd-types who need pixel real-estate to go. Want one? The company to ...READ»

Mongrel PCs

IBM's deal, announced yesterday, to sell its personal computer operations to China's Lenovo is completely fascinating. As others have observed, it represents a serious attempt by a formerly parochial Chinese manufacturer to go ...READ»

Survey: A Small World After All

Your competition is everywhere. And increasingly, "everywhere" includes emerging markets.READ»