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Entry-level smartphones drive growth for manufacturers

Mobile devices are finding their way to more and more parts of the world, and the first phone most new users get will be a smartphone. Smartphones now outsell feature phones, and mobile phone manufacturers are finding that success in the entry-level market is...

Android, iOS trade places in tablet vendor rankings

Almost two-thirds of the tablets shipped worldwide in the third quarter were Android devices, according to the latest data from IDC. Meanwhile the iPad had less than one-third of the tablet market. During the last year, the two operating systems have traded places in...

Tablets, smartphones send global PC shipments down 3.2% in 2012

Although the fourth quarter of 2012 marked the launch of Microsoft Windows 8, it did not impact PC demand. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide PC shipments fell 6.4% in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the same quarter in 2011....

CES 2013 wrap-up: Intel eyes emerging markets; Lenovo launches tablet PC

With the Consumer Electronics Show underway in Las Vegas (CES 2013–check out all pieces), vendors and carriers are hurrying to announce their news for 2013. RCR Wireless News has gathered some of the biggest news released at the trade show on Monday and Tuesday: >>...

Brazil market shakeup: Lenovo to acquire CCE; Positivo to produce cellphones

Two events shook up the Brazilian computer manufacturing market on Tuesday. The Brazil's personal-computer maker Positivo Informática announced that it will start producing mobile phones and smartphones. On the same day, it was rumored that China's Lenovo Group Ltd. intends to acquire Brazil electronic goods...

Lenovo, SugarSync launch cloud storage service

Lenovo's cloud storage unit and SugarSync unveiled a cloud storage service that will be integrated into Lenovo’s personal computers and tablet devices. The solution is focused on consumers looking to access, sync and backup their files, photos, music and movies across their devices. Levono explained...

IBM to invest $20B in acquisitions through 2015

Following a decade of consolidating its portfolio to counter commoditization of its services and focus on more value-added solutions, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has an aggressive acquisition plan that includes investing $20 billion through 2015 in buying companies around the globe. The company noted that most of...

Worldwide PC sales drop 1.4% in Q4; emerging markets grew

Worldwide PC shipments declined 1.4% during the forth quarter compared to the same period 2010, totalling 92.2 million units, according to a report from Gartner. The drop followed two quarters of positive growth. For the year, worldwide PC shipments totaled 352.8 million units, a...

Lenovo overtakes Dell to become No. 2 PC maker; HP leads

As Dell was hosting its annual Dell World convention in Austin, news broke that China's Lenovo has overtaken Dell to become the world's number two personal computer maker for the first time. According to Gartner and IDC, HP grew 5.3%, faster than the industry...

Ericsson mobile broadband module in Lenovo ThinkPad tablet

Ericsson | August 31, 2011 | Press Release Lenovo’s Android-based ThinkPad Tablet – featuring Ericsson’s (NASDAQ: ERIC) F5521gw embedded HSPA Evolution mobile broadband module – offers users the fastest mobile broadband experience available for devices of this type. With download speeds of up to 21Mbps...

Lenovo announces three new tablets for Android, Windows OS

Tablet maker Lenovo today announced a trio of new 10.1-inch tablet devices, with two that run on Android 3.1 and one that operates on Windows 7. The Android-based tablets are marketed for consumers under the name IdeaPad Tablet K1 and for sold for business users...

Lenovo announces three new tablets for Android, Windows OS

Tablet maker Lenovo today announced a trio of new 10.1-inch tablet devices, with two that run on Android 3.1 and one that operates on Windows 7.

Siano Mobile Silicon receives $20M in funding, hopes to lead in North American market

Siano Mobile Silicon, supplier of mobile digital TV receiver chips, announced that it has completed a $20 million expansion capital financing round. The round was led by Israeli venture capital fund, Jerusalem Venture Partners. Gadi Tirosh, a General Partner at JVP, will be joining...

Intel and Lenovo present the new Classmate+ laptop for kids in developing countries

Tech Digest | March 10, 2011 | ShinyJess Together Intel the chipmaker and Lenovo the PC maker will deploy 158,000 laptops to students in Argentina. What started out as a reference design for affordable laptops for the developing world from Intel, will now be given a proper launch with Lenovo...

Analyst Angle: Tablets – The new strategic battleground

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.The tablet market is exploding, ignited by Apple Inc.'s iPad launch last April. By the...

NEC, Lenovo may extend venture to cover server sales

Taipei Times | February 9, 2011 NEC Corp is in talks with Lenovo Group Ltd to partner on server sales in China, a move that would extend the joint venture announced last month between the two PC makers. “There’s a complementary relationship,” Masato Yamamoto, head of...

Lenovo eyeing Japanese PC market

Trading Markets | January 24, 2011 BEIJING, Jan 24, 2011 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Lenovo Group Limited (SEHK: 0992) is eyeing the lucrative Japanese market through an investment deal. Two days ago, local media said by quoting the words of an insider of...

Lenovo Creates New Mobile Internet Business Group to Focus on Tablets, Smartphones and Smart TVs

Lenovo | January 18, 2011 | Press Release BEIJING – January 18, 2011: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced it is establishing a new business group, the Mobile Internet and Digital Home Business Group (MIDH), responsible for creating mobile Internet-focused devices, including tablets and...

Positivo Climbs Most in Nine Months on Takeover Talks

Bloomberg | January 17, 2011 | Francisco Marcelino Positivo Informatica SA, Brazil’s biggest computer maker, rose the most in nine months on speculation Lenovo Group Ltd. may acquire the company. Positivo jumped 6.4 percent, the most since April 7, to 10.50 reais at the close of...

Skype Co-Founder Visits China

Wall Street Journal | January 6, 2011 | Lorreta Chao Not long after Mark Zuckerberg paid visits to some of China’s biggest tech companies, another tech tycoon, Skype and Kazaa co-founder Niklas Zennström, is making the rounds as well. But unlike the young Facebook chief,...

CES 2011: Lenovo shows its first tablet, the LePad

As expected, tablets are already making news at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show with Lenovo showing off its LePad Tuesday night. Video via Network World

@CES: Lenovo shows off tablet/netbook hybrid

LAS VEGAS – "CES Unveiled" was a bit of a dismal affair Tuesday evening in the Las Vegas Venetian hotel, but RCR Wireless News was impressed by Lenovo Group Ltd.'s innovative take on tablet/netbook hybrids.Showing off both the LePad slate and the IdeaPad U1,...

Lenovo to launch LePad tablet PC within next few weeks

Lenovo, the world's No. 4 PC maker, expects its operating profit margin to trend upwards, helped by easing component shortages and an appreciating Chinese currency, its chief financial officersaid on Monday at the Reuters China Investment Summit. "With an appreciating RMB and...

China Mobile joins Linux Foundation

China Mobile Communications Corp. has joined the Linux Foundation, making it the first Chinese company to join the nonprofit organization.Having the world's largest telecom provider join as gold member (second tier) will definitely boost the Linux Foundation's clout as the operator continues to invest...