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Dell, HP, Lenovo Back Linux With Driver Promise
News Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for Linux. Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware...
[May 2, 2008, 8:18]
First Wireless USB Products Certified
News Certification has been awarded to consumer wireless USB products for the first time, with Dell and Lenovo both announcing notebook computers using the technology. These include Dell's Inspiron 1720 notebook and Lenovo's ThinkPad T61/T61p notebooks...
[July 25, 2007, 11:45]
Laptop Makers Push Pre-standard Wireless
News Lenovo, Dell and Acer have all chosen Broadcom to supply the chips. Lenovo is the latest notebook supplier to build a high-speed Wi-Fi radio into its notebooks. Lenovo, which acquired IBM's laptop business in 2005, will offer an 802.11n radio...
[November 10, 2006, 13:56]
IBM-Lenovo Deal 'will Never Work'
News The deal that will let China's Lenovo acquire IBM's PC unit will work about as well as other mergers in the industry, Michael Dell said - that is, not well at all. During a question-and-answer session Tuesday at Oracle's OpenWorld conference, the...
[December 8, 2004, 10:40]
HP Details Latest Notebook Range
News The launch in Shanghai, featuring a monster 20-inch screen, entertainment-oriented product known as "The Dragon", comes as major rivals Dell and Lenovo also add to their PC laptop ranges. Meanwhile, sitting in China, home to Lenovo, which two years...
[May 10, 2007, 12:24]
Lenovo Chief Executive Steps Down
News Stephen Ward, the IBM PC executive who became the chief executive of Lenovo last year, has stepped down and will be replaced by William Amelio, one of Dell's senior executives for Asia. Some analysts felt that cultural issues, branding and...
[December 21, 2005, 8:05]
Dell To Ramp Up Scottish Operations
News It appears to have been IBM's decision to sell its PC business to Lenovo in December 2004 that prompted Dell to move in. This was around the time IBM announced it was selling its PC business, part of which was based in Scotland, to Lenovo.
[June 19, 2006, 14:25]
PC Vendors Snub Antitrust Altered Windows
News Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Fujitsu Siemens all claimed to have no firm plans to install Windows XP N, citing a lack of customer demand. Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo, which last month completed its purchase of IBM's PC division, echoed similar...
[June 15, 2005, 14:35]
Lenovo: Where To Now?
News Lenovo is set to become the world's third-largest PC maker, after Dell and HP, when the multibillion-dollar deal, announced last December, is completed. The new Lenovo, as its executives have referred to it, aims to combine its own business in...
[March 4, 2005, 13:30]
Meet Lenovo's New CEO
News So Ward maintains that Lenovo will keep all of its employees and its manufacturing capacity in order to take aim at Dell and HP. Meet one of the faces of the new Lenovo. Stephen Ward, general manager of IBM's Personal Systems Group, has been...
[December 10, 2004, 17:25]
ThinkPad Confirmed As Burning Laptop
News At the time of the Dell and Apple recalls, Lenovo took great pains to distance itself from its competitors, saying it uses a different charging voltage in its notebooks and has a different design for its battery casing.
[September 21, 2006, 10:50]
Dell: Hitting The $80bn Target
News At the same time, Dell sees opportunities in the uncertainties created by rival HP's recent change in leadership and IBM's decision to sell its PC business to Lenovo Group. Main rivals HP and IBM - whose PCs will soon be in the hands of Lenovo...
[April 8, 2005, 17:25]
Greenpeace Highlights Apple, Lenovo Rise
News The company in third place, Lenovo, made better progress than any other company. Lenovo's support for precautionary policies and legislation making producers responsible for their products at the end of their lifetime mean high marks for them...
[June 28, 2007, 15:57]
Sony: Apple And Dell Recalls Are The Last
News Sony assured Lenovo that its technology was implemented differently from Apple's or Dell's, a company representative said. Lenovo provided a little more detail, saying that while it uses the same Sony battery cells, it relies on a different...
[August 25, 2006, 8:30]
Fiorina's Departure: The Beginning Of The End?
News Bob Wayman, HP's CFO and interim CEO, said the company doesn't intend to alter its fundamental structure, suggesting that radical measures such as spinning off HP's PC business -- a measure that, like IBM's plan to sell its PC business to Lenovo...
[February 10, 2005, 13:45]
Deadline Looms For Demise Of Windows XP
News Unlike the HP, Lenovo and Acer, Dell plans to stop selling standard XP machines via its website on Wednesday. A spokesperson for Lenovo said: "In line with our agreement with Microsoft, Lenovo will not offer any PC's preloaded with XP after June 30...
[June 17, 2008, 9:12]
Dell Launches Linux PCs In The UK
News Earlier on Tuesday, rival PC manufacturer Lenovo said it would offer ThinkPad notebooks with Linux pre-installed in the fourth quarter of this year. Lenovo has chosen Novell's Suse distribution for the notebooks.
[August 7, 2007, 15:19]
HP Strides Ahead Of Dell In PC Shipments
News Acer also moved tantalisingly close to its goal of overtaking Lenovo for the number-three spot in PCs. Acer, however, saw shipments grow by 41.4 percent while Lenovo grew by 17.4 percent. HP is growing rapidly in PCs and Dell is shrinking...
[April 19, 2007, 12:57]
Laptop Makers Adopt 3G Gobi Chipset
News Dell, HP and Lenovo are to incorporate Qualcomm's Gobi chipset into their laptops later this year. We are pleased that Dell will be [using] the flexibility and efficiency Gobi provides to meet the growing needs of mobile data users.
[April 4, 2008, 14:57]
Strengths Of Open Source Opposing Microsoft Patent Threats
Blog Comment An alternative would be two of those computers from Lenovo or Dell without and OS preinstalled. Sponsorship: I think we should ask for sponsorship and presence from companies such as AMD, Intel, nVidia, ZDNet, Dell, Lenovo since they will be...
[June 8, 2007, 0:26]
