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Lenovo to pour £500m into smartphone R&D hub

The PC maker has announced plans to build a development and production facility in... Read more

8 May, 2012 by Kevin Kwang

Dell eyes return to tablet market in late 2012

...mixed reviews and met its demise last month. But the once-dominant PC maker has learned from the mistakes of other tablet makers and has... Read more

11 January, 2012 by Steven Musil

Dell paints anaemic picture in third-quarter results

...an anaemic revenue growth picture for the fiscal year. On Tuesday the PC maker gave fiscal third-quarter earnings of $893m (£567m), or 49 cents... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Asus sneaks into top five of PC makers

...its second-quarter results. For the second quarter of 2010, the Eee PC maker shipped 4.3 million PCs, good enough for 5.3 percent... Read more

15 July, 2010 by Erica Ogg

Dell hit with $100m fine over accounting fraud

...as a result of the federal investigation of accounting fraud at the PC maker. Dell and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed on the... Read more

11 June, 2010 by Erica Ogg

HP to put WebOS on personal computers

The PC maker, which picked up WebOS in its purchase of handset maker Palm... Read more

10 February, 2011 by Ben Woods
CES: Asus launches Honeycomb tablets

CES: Asus launches Honeycomb tablets

The Taiwanese PC maker aims to take on Apple's iPad with three Android 3... Read more

5 January, 2011 by Simon Bisson

Photos: Asus screen tech and latest tablet line-up

CeBIT 2011 picture round-up of the PC maker's experimental screens and slates... PC maker Asus is at CeBIT... Read more

2 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Windows 8 on ARM almost ready for developers

...some hands-on time with a high-profile device from a major PC maker, adding that Windows 8 was impressive and stable. "In October of... Read more

30 January, 2012 by Brooke Crothers

Can Intel save PCs from crapware?

...include as adding value for the buyer (although the value to the PC maker themself is something like $90 per notebook in payments from the... Read more

6 October, 2011

Photos: 19 dual-core tablets - from iPads to ViewPads

Acer Iconia Tab A100 PC maker Acer has jumped aboard the tablet bandwagon with both feet. Pictured... Read more

29 September, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

HP kills WebOS, may sell off PC division

Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest IT company, announced moderate financial results tonight -- quarterly turnover up... Read more

18 August, 2011
Acer Aspire Ethos adds removable touchpad

Acer Aspire Ethos adds removable touchpad

...used horizontally or vertically. The design is the latest attempt by a PC maker to differentiate its devices using an unusual form factor. For example... Read more

7 June, 2011 by Ben Woods

Lenovo sees dividends in emerging markets

...the US while attacking emerging markets appears to be working well. The PC maker reported fourth-quarter earnings of $42m (£25.5m) on sales of... Read more

27 May, 2011 by Larry Dignan

IE 10: decoding native, predicting tablet

Microsoft ruffled a few feathers in the browser community this week by seemingly inventing a new term; native HTML. "The... Read more

16 April, 2011

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