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The world's second largest PC manufacturer, Taiwan-based Acer Inc, said Wednesday it will unveil its first tablet computer next month due to the growing demand for them. Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci said the tablet device will be revealed in New York and sold for between 300 and 700 dollars. Sales of tablet computers globally are expected to grow from the nearly 20 million units sold this year to 55 million next year and more than 208 million by 2014, according to market research firm Gartner. A...

A senior company official said on Wednesday that Hewlett-Packard Co. will introduce smartphones in early 2011 using the webOS software it acquired from Palm during its $1.2 billion buy out earlier this year. "You will see us coming early next year with new phones," Senior Vice President Eric Cador told an industry conference.HP purchased Palm to help it step into the fast-growing smartphone industry and get access to Palm's acclaimed webOS operating system. "More importantly we...

DALLAS, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today announced the expansion of its netbook and notebook lineup, offering customers more choice with three new devices that can access the nation's fastest mobile broadband network. As an added value, AT&T is also offering - for the first time for netbooks and notebooks - AT&T DataConnect Pass pay as you go service - the pay-as-you-need it data service that does not require a long-term contract. The full lineup of netbooks and notebooks is...

BRUSSELS, September 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Acer and European Schoolnet are happy to announce their partnership on the Collaborative Learning Award. This category will reward the best use of web 2.0 learning activities, such as the use of wikis, blogs and social networks for learning. The eLearning Awards, Europe's leading competition to reward excellence for the best use of technology in education, is organised for the 10th consecutive year by European Schoolnet. It aims to...

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: Google's "doodle" (those periodic, often artistic changes to the Google logo on their homepage) Saturday, September 4th played homage to the discovery of Buckyballs, sometimes called Fullerenes, approximately 25 years ago that date. While the discovery was a breakthrough, Google's tribute to it was anything but. The interactive graphic was designed in such a way that it took a bizarrely high amount of computing power and by extension electricity to...

SHENZHEN, China, July 19 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Huntkey Enterprise Group expands their product line for consumer products and launches the latest adapter for laptops worldwide -- the 90W Slim Universal Notebook Adapter. It specially targets fashionable and business people or traveler groups. 90W slim features as slim and light design technology and three other multi-functions: adjustable voltage function, 5V USB charger function and universal compatibility function. "Huntkey's 90W...

Market research group IDC announced on Wednesday that international shipments of personal computers jumped 22.4 percent in the second quarter as businesses replaced aging computers and consumers continued to show interest in inexpensive laptops. The growth was only slightly less than IDC predicted because of slightly lower PC shipments in the U.S. and Asia.  IDC analyst Lorean Loverde told The Associated Press (AP) that the group will likely reduce estimates for the current quarter and the...

Toshiba recently announced the launch of their dual-screened mini notebook PC that can be used as an e-book reader, stepping into a market quickly dominated by Apple's iPad. The new device will go on sale in Japan in late August and later in Europe, the U.S. and other markets. Toshiba unveiled the Libretto W100 at a lavish event in Tokyo that also marked a quarter century since it launched the world's first laptop in 1985.  The company expects its PC division to break even in the year to...

WiLAN Inc., a Canadian-based company, said Thursday that it filed suit against Acer, Apple, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Sony, Toshiba and 14 other top technology firms, accusing them of patent infringement. The company filed suit on Wednesday against the 20 U.S. and Asian companies in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas. The Ottawa-based WiLAN has accused the companies of violating a patent it holds on Bluetooth technology, which is a wireless communications system that...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030904/USCSCLOGO) Name of product: Certain Acer Aspire-series Notebook Computers Units: About 22,000 Manufacturer: Acer America Corporation, of San Jose,...