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Lenovo To Drop IBM Brand
News Lenovo plans to stop using the IBM logo on its products, with a complete switchover before next summer's Beijing Olympics. By making substantial progress on all of our critical priorities over the past few quarters, we're now a stronger, healthier...
[November 2, 2007, 16:22]
Lenovo: Where To Now?
News The new Lenovo wants to shake up the PC market's status quo. Lenovo Group, China's top PC maker, is moving ahead with its plans to acquire and incorporate IBM's PC business, despite the deal being the subject of an ongoing review by the Committee...
[March 4, 2005, 13:30]
Lenovo To Launch Super 3G Laptops
News Lenovo has become the latest IT vendor to begin integrating high-speed mobile data into its laptops. On Tuesday the company announced that it had signed a deal with Vodafone to allow Lenovo laptops to carry 3G, GPRS and, in the future, HSPDA...
[February 1, 2006, 17:10]
Lenovo Denies Ditching Linux
News Chinese computer supplier Lenovo has denied a report that it is planning to stop offering Linux on its range of PCs and laptops. On Friday, CRN reported that Frank Kardonski, Lenovo's worldwide product manager for its 3000 series, had indicated...
[June 5, 2006, 16:25]
Lenovo To Reveal New 'Ideas' For PC Market
News Lenovo is moving away from its business origins with the launch of a new consumer-oriented PC line, dubbed the "Idea" range, later this month. Lenovo's move may also be driven by the strong growth in the global consumer PC market: industry analyst...
[January 17, 2008, 10:00]
Lenovo Expands Use Of AMD Chips
News Lenovo is expanding its use of AMD chips with the introduction of a second line of AMD-based desktop computers. The new A60 series is the first ThinkCentre-branded desktop personal line with an AMD processor to be made available worldwide, a Lenovo...
[August 8, 2006, 10:50]
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]
Lenovo Trumps Apple In Green-tech Ranking
News Chinese manufacturer Lenovo has gone from being the least environmentally friendly technology company to top of the list of 14 in Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics. The guide ranks Lenovo as number one out of 14 global manufacturers and the...
[April 5, 2007, 9:22]
Lenovo Inks Blade Desktop Deal
News Lenovo will resell blade desktop systems from ClearCube Technologies as the Chinese giant kicks off its effort to woo the international set. Under the deal, the two companies will cooperate to sell ClearCube's blade systems, initially to the...
[July 11, 2005, 9:15]
Lenovo Deal Could Open Doors For JDS
Talkback I really hope Lenovo PCs start pre-installing Sun's Java Desktop System (JDS) linux. I've been using Sun's JDS Linux R2 for the last 6 months and I'm very happy with it. It certainly is the easiest-to-use Linux that I've used (and I've used SUSE in...
[December 11, 2004, 1:41]
Lenovo Recalls Laptop Batteries Over Fire Risk
News Lenovo will recall 526,000 notebook batteries due to faulty batteries, the company said on Thursday. The batteries were designed by Lenovo, but Sony produced the lithium ion cell. The recall affects notebooks produced from February 2005 to...
[September 29, 2006, 8:40]
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]
Lenovo Recalls 205,000 ThinkPad Batteries
News Lenovo is recalling hundreds of thousands of laptop batteries from customers around the world after several reported that their products had overheated. Lenovo is offering to replace, for free, 205,000 extended-life nine-cell batteries that shipped...
[March 1, 2007, 14:51]
Lenovo Debuts New Small-business Notebooks And Services
Blog With Intel and Vodafone along for the ride, Lenovo today launched a brand-new SL range of small-business-focussed ThinkPads, refreshed the T series (performance), R series (mainstream) and X series (ultraportable) notebooks, and introduced the W...
[July 15, 2008, 16:02]
Lenovo Completes IBM Acquisition
News Lenovo has completed its $1.75bn (£920m) purchase of IBM's PC division, creating the world's third-largest PC maker, the companies said on Sunday. Within weeks, we will be introducing new products as the new Lenovo," Stephen Ward, Lenovo's chief...
[May 3, 2005, 9:30]
Lenovo Unveils Its Smallest Desktop PC Yet
News Lenovo has unveiled its smallest and most energy-efficient desktop yet. The ThinkCentre A61e takes up 25 percent less space than previous Lenovo models, and is the manufacturer's first product to achieve the top-ranking gold status on the...
[September 13, 2007, 16:52]
Lenovo To Make And Sell IBM XServers
News IBM has licensed its xSeries server technology to Lenovo so the Chinese manufacturer can make its own Intel-based servers, but resellers are expressing doubts over the move. Lenovo will sell IBM-based x86 servers to small and medium-sized...
[January 25, 2008, 15:31]
Lenovo To Launch Linux ThinkPads
News Lenovo is to offer a Linux operating system pre-installed on its ThinkPad notebooks. Lenovo will provide support for the operating system and its applications, which include the open-source application suite OpenOffice.
[August 7, 2007, 9:20]
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]
Lenovo Launches Global Assault
News Lenovo launches global assault Lenovo waded into the global computer market without its ThinkPad life preserver on Thursday, banking on easy-to-use PCs as its edge over better-known rivals. The Chinese company introduced its Lenovo 3000 series PCs...
[February 24, 2006, 8:50]
