Acer Working on WiMax-Ready Aspire 5920 for Sprint
	Acer has just introduced its upcoming Aspire 5920 series of notebooks equipped with a built-in WiMax module. The Taiwanese computer manufacturer plans to sell the new notebook offering through Sprint Nextel and other retail partners. According to the company, the new Acer Aspire 5920 notebook will be sold in a manner that is strikingly similar to the way mobile phones are. The units will be sold as mere terminal upon subscri ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer's Low-Cost PC, Cheaper than Austek's Eee 2.0
	Acer plans on tightening the competition on the low-cost ultra-mobile PC market with the advent of its newest 8.9-inch sub-notebook. According to sources quoted by the tech site Digitimes, Acer's low-cost offering is expected to sell $50 less than the free-on-board (FOB) price for Asustek Computer's second-gen ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 17:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer: No Gaming Console, Just a High-End PC
	If you are one of the users hardly waiting for Acer's promised gaming console, you might want to re-consider your options, as the company just made it clear that there won't be any. The Taiwanese PC manufacturer claims that the rumors that broke last week ar ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Plans to Release Gaming Desktop PCs
	Taiwanese notebook PC vendor will start manufacturing Acer-branded desktop computers, as well as fully-fledged gaming systems. The situation may seem a little confusing, given the fact that Acer has been associated with notebook PCs, but the company starts pitching at the desktop market as well. The news have been broken by Acer's senior vice president, James T. Wong, who admitted that the company is seriously thinking to ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2008, 12:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Unveils Blu-Ray-Equipped Multimedia Notebooks
	Notebook vendor Acer has just introduced on the market two new notebook models that feature Blu-Ray optical units along with their extremely unconventional design details. If you plan on impressing your colleagues without spending huge amounts of money on a MacBook Air, then the Gemstone notebooks are the right choice. The new Gemstone notebooks are extremely scalable, in order to offer the best price and performance ratio. Fo ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2008, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Becomes World's Number Two Notebook Vendor, Waves Good-Bye at Dell
	Notebook manufacturing is serious business, given the fact that 2007 is the first year when mobile systems defeated desktop computers in terms of sales. The competition in harsh, with well-delimited markets, measured in the number of notebooks shipped. Market research firm DisplaySearch issued a report that unveils the fact that the notebook market is undergoing major changes that will shift the power balance between the top ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2008, 04:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Enters the Smartphone Business and Buys E-ten
	Acer, the third largest computer manufacturer in the world (after Hewlett Packard and Dell), announced it will buy E-ten, the Taiwan-based company that produces the Glofiish series of Windows Mobile powered smartphones. The acquisition, which w ... [read more >>]
	04 March 2008, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Will Focus on Selling Low-Cost Notebooks
	World's number 3 computer vendor, the Taiwanese company Acer will start selling low-cost notebooks later this year. The company's shift from the mid-range market to the low-end segment is motivated by the continuous demand in affordable notebooks. Other PC vendors, such as Asustek for instance, have sold millions of units and they are still facing strong demands. Acer has previously stated that it won't enter on ... [read more >>]
	13 February 2008, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HP Steps on Dell's Neck as Worldwide PC Shipments Reach 270 Million
	The PC industry is continuously cooking and shipping more and more units in order to meet the increased demand on the market. It seems that the industry has set a new record for the last year, or at least, that is what market analyst Gartner wants us to believe. Worldwide PC shipments reached 75.9 million units in the last quarter of 2007, which accounts for a 13.1 percent increase over the same quarter in 2006. Gartner also e ... [read more >>]
	07 February 2008, 06:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer to Snatch Three Quarters of Packard Bell's Shares
	Acer has just struck a deal with European electronics maker Packard Bell and purchased 75 percent of it in an attempt to increase its brand awareness in Europe. It seems that Acer is constantly shopping in order to consolidate its position outside the Taiwanese market. The 75 percent of Packard Bell cost Acer $45.8 million, according to the company's statement at the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The deal is aimed at keeping the ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

CES 2008: Gateway to Introduce P-Series 8800M GTS Notebooks
	Gateway has shown the world its latest P-series FX notebooks at CES with immediate availability within the United States. The new series of notebooks is designed for various tasks, such as gaming, digital media, and other advanced applications. The notebooks are built around the Intel Centrino technology and Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Extreme processors. All the notebooks come with Nvidia's GeForce 8800M GTS 512MB GDDR3 dedicated ... [read more >>]
	09 January 2008, 04:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI to Jump In the Low-Cost PC Bandwagon
	Micro-Star International (MSI) is munching over the idea of introducing a new line of low-cost PCs. According to Sambora Chen, director of Greater China sales, the company will introduce its first new products in June this year at the earliest, with more of them to arrive afterwards. More and more companies have jumped in the low-cost PC bandwagon, as this kind of computers have a tremendous appeal to the public, mostly becaus ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 11:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asus to Split the Company In Three Entities
	Back in July, Asus announced that the company will be divided into two different entities, that will allow it to separate Asustek's branded business from its manufacturing operations. Back then, worldwide analysts totally agreed that the move is for the company's best. The split is effective as of the first day of the year. "It should be positive to the company," stated Jerry Chang, product development mana ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Penryn Notebooks Information, Leaked Just Before the CES
	Intel's series of 45-nanometer processors, codenamed " Penryn" has been unveiled back in November with all the due fuss. Back then, Intel promised notebooks built around Penryns to emerge on January the 6th. More to the point, the announced headlines were the Core 2 Duo T8100, T8300, T9300, T9500 and Core 2 Xtreme X9000, with frequencies ranging from 2.1GHz on the T8100 on up to 2.8GHz on the X9000. Despite Inte ... [read more >>]
	03 January 2008, 08:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer to Take a Grip at the SMB Market
	The Taiwanese PC vendor Acer has shifted its attention from the consumer market to the small- and midsized-business sector with its low-cost Extensa 4620 notebook. Surprisingly, the notebook has been first released on the North American market. The 14.1-inch low-cost notebook comes in two flavors: the Intel Core 2 Duo and the Pentium dual-core processor. Acer is trying to get back its market share in the US and has adopted a ... [read more >>]
	28 December 2007, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gateway Head to Step Down After Company Fusion
	Ed Coleman, Gateway Corporate Executive Officer has resigned, three months after he coordinated the sale of his company to Taiwanese PC maker Acer. Coleman started his career at Gateway in September 2006, and announced that he would terminate his contract at the end of January next year. Gateway has lost much of its glitter over time, but in its heydays it was a sharp competitor to heavy brands in the computer industry, such ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell Notebooks, Retailed through BestBuy
	Dell announced that their notebooks and desktop systems will be available for sale at BestBuy, starting the next few weeks. The company's bestsellers will be distributed at 900 BestBuy locations: the XPS M1330 in white, the Inspiron 1521 in blue and black, the Inspiron 1420 in black, and the all-in-one XPS One desktop. According to Dell, the Inspiron 530, 531, and 531s models will hit the BestBuy shelves in the next months. [ADMARK ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer and HP to Tread Over Dell's Neck
	Despite Dell's efforts in consolidating their sales with campaigns aimed at specific consumer sectors (such as the Dell XPS One or XPS M1730 models), the company continues to lose important market share to competitors. Not even the aggressive moves into retail channels around the world could stop them from the third-quarter sales free-fall. iSuppi has revealed that during the last quarter, Hewlett-Packard has taken advantage of an inc ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 11:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asustek Is Heading Towards Bestseller: 5 Million Eees
	The Taiwanese computer manufacturer Asustek is not at all modest. Recent success in dominating the low-end notebook PC market made the company estimate their next year sales at 5 million new Eee PCs worldwide. The laptop manufacturer estimated global laptop shipments of 120 million units for the industry next year. Vice President Kevin Lin said that Asustek was selling around 20,000 Eee PCs per month and estimated that, next y ... [read more >>]
	28 November 2007, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Division to Munch Upon the Low-Budget Alternative
	Immediately after Asus made a point in the low-budget sector with their Eee notebook, Acer has begun taking things seriously. According to the president of Acer Taiwanese division, Scott Lin, the company has formed a group of experts to sketch a project aiming at the low-end sector. The facts stop here for the moment, sustains Lin, as the company hasn't elaborated a research and development budget yet, since the company' ... [read more >>]
	23 November 2007, 10:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Declares Profit
	Acer has recently posted a $90 million profit for the 2007 third quarter and it’s beginning to take control of the computer market because it is very likely that the company could now be the third largest computer manufacturer in the world. Acer’s recent growth was generated, in part, by the purchase of Gateway and PackardBell earlier this year. It is known that the company paid $710 million for Gateway but at the same time has g ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 06:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Launches a Desktop PC with Blu-ray and HD DVD Capabilities
	There are two popular formats nowadays that battle for supremacy when it comes to optical discs and multimedia content. On one side we have the Blu-ray format and on the other side there is HV DVD, both offering similar capabilities and resolutions. As the two formats are each supported by groups made up of big players on the consumer electronics market segment, the battle between them is likely to take a little while to settle. ... [read more >>]
	10 October 2007, 09:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Get Paid Handsomely for Fighting Windows Preloaded on OEM Machines
	Microsoft currently dominates that operating system market with Windows, as the ubiquitous platform has the lion's share with in excess of 93%. A large part of this percentage is intimately connected with the fact that Microsoft has partnered with the world's top original equipment manufacturers and system builders in order to preinstall the Windows operating system and sell it concomitantly with new machines. In th ... [read more >>]
	26 September 2007, 11:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Plans to Raise PC Price Tags
	The computer hardware manufacturing market is one of the most volatile segments of the entire industry and this is especially true for the branded computer systems that are made in big quantities while providing users with a rather limited set of options and customizable features. One of the companies that try really hard to force their way among the first few manufacturers of the world is Acer and as it just completed a huge acquisition a ... [read more >>]
	26 September 2007, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lenovo Still Interested in Packard Bell
	The Chinese computer manufacturing company Lenovo is not one to let its plans go awry so easily, nor does it accept defeat without a serious fight. Even as the company still has yet to completely integrate the European arm of the former IBM personal computer and notebook producing division, Lenovo still has many more expansion plans as it tries to break free from the Asian market and migrate to Europe and the United States. In ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 10:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Talks About Its Global Strategy
	Gianfranco Lanci, Acer's president and chief executive officer, outlined his company's global strategy for the near future at a global press conference that took place in Madrid. This conference was aimed at shedding some light on Acer's global business strategy for the upcoming year and at the same time to offer a number of details about the recent acquisition. Recently Acer announced two bold acquisition plans [ADMARK=1 ... [read more >>]
	24 September 2007, 09:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Rolls Out The Ferrari 1100 Notebook
	Acer announced the launch of a new mobile computing platform, the Ferrari 1100 series of laptops, which comes with an entirely new concept of portability, style and power. Coming as the latest Ferrari-branded notebook series, the Acer 1100 model is based on technologies pioneered by its predecessors, the Ferrari 5000 and Ferrari 1000 notebook families. The new Acer Ferrari 1100 laptop is combining portability, style and rich multimedia ... [read more >>]
	24 September 2007, 02:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Acer, Gateway Deal Rolls Along
	Almost a month ago the Asian computer manufacturing company Acer publicly announced its plan to acquire the American system integrator Gateway for a sum of $710 million and after some legal problems with Gateway's investors the deal is one step closer to completion now. According to the news site ... [read more >>]
	20 September 2007, 10:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Acer-Gateway Deal in Tatters?
	One of the biggest hardware acquisitions of this summer was the Acer and Gateway deal that promoted the Asian company Acer to a strong position on the computer market in the United States as it purchased the ailing Gateway, once one of the largest American computer hardware companies. While this acquisition may instill a new life in the American company, not all investors are happy with the current state of affairs as a couple of lawsuits ... [read more >>]
	13 September 2007, 11:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Panoramic Acer LCD Monitors Announced
	Acer America Corporation announced the launch of a new series of high end LCD computer monitors which are aimed at both home users and professional computer users. The new P series of Acer made LCD screens is shipped under the emblem of a stylish and high quality product that aims to present precise and top of the line images, being the ideal tool for viewing multimedia content, gaming and creating video content. The new Acer P series c ... [read more >>]
	13 September 2007, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lenovo Beats Acer
	Competition on the global computer market is fierce and it gets worse as you climb closer to the very top. While getting on top of the market is hard, staying there is even harder as there are constantly aggressive companies coming from behind that seek to make their way to the top. While HP remains the incontestable leader of all computer manufacturers, a battle is in progress for the third place in line, a battle between two Asian compan ... [read more >>]
	07 September 2007, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Eyes the Chinese Market
	After a number of failed attempts at dominating the Chinese mobile computing market Acer decided now to try yet another time, this time through the acquisition of a Chinese based computer manufacturing company. As Acer already established a strong presence in the United States after its decision to buy Gateway, it looks as if the key to the Chinese computer market it is another Chinese company. Acer chief executive, Wang Jen-t ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 06:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Wants Gateway
	Acer announced today its intentions of buying the hardware manufacturing company Gateway, the fourth largest computer producer and vendor in the United States. The definitive agreement between Acer and Gateway will lead to a better market position in the U.S. for Acer and it will create a multi brand company with revenues that top $15 billion and unit shipments in excess of 20 million per year. In order to complete the purchas ... [read more >>]
	27 August 2007, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer's Aspire 5520 Laptop Launched
	As the mobile computing market is demanding more and more laptops and notebooks from the computer hardware manufacturers and vendors, some companies are trying to cut cost and production times and come up with revamped versions of earlier models of their offerings. It looks like this is the case with the newest Acer laptop the Aspire 5520 machine that is very similar in design terms with the Gemstone line of products fro the ... [read more >>]
	22 August 2007, 11:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lenovo Wants Packard Bell
	Lenovo is currently one of the top computer hardware manufacturers and vendors in the world and the Chinese company is constantly expanding its market reach and status. The newest market where Lenovo hopes to gain a strong foothold is the European one that even if it doesn’t expand as rapidly as the Chinese market, it’s much more receptive to high end computer systems, both desktop and mobile, that are Lenovo's specialty. ... [read more >>]
	08 August 2007, 08:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Chinese Market Is Hard for Acer
	Acer is one of the top laptop system manufacturers and vendors in the world and while it never made it to the first place in top, it has still a solid market position that looks as if it just got better in Europe and North America. And slided downhill in China. As the Chinese computer market is one of the fastest growing and expanding markets in the world, most hardware manufacturers and vendors like Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo [AD ... [read more >>]
	04 August 2007, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Designs for The Acer Laptops
	Acer America Corporation announced that two new laptops from the Gemstone PC family are now available to consumers. Built around Intel's latest Centrino technology, the 5920 and 4710 Gemstone laptops are the latest notebooks from Acer. According to the manufacturing company ... [read more >>]
	03 August 2007, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Will Not Release a Linux-Based Machine for UK
	Acer Taiwan-based company considered following Dell's footsteps and included in its offer an Ubuntu-based machine. Despite the fact that the sales for the Ubuntu system went quite well in Asia, Acer said it would not release Linux-based machines for UK, Europe. According to a statement an Acer official made for ZDNet.co ... [read more >>]
	03 August 2007, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lenovo's Winning Hand
	Lenovo Group can truly say that its efforts to cut costs and operate more efficiently yielded the expected results as the company's profit during the first fiscal quarter rose steadily. The company's net profits rose even faster, reaching "$67.8 million, an increase of 1,184 percent over the same period last year", according to the news site ... [read more >>]
	02 August 2007, 10:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

U.K. Doesn't Like Linux Laptops
	Dell started a trend among the desktop and laptop manufacturers and vendors that, for the first time ever, threatened Windows’ position on the OEM market. Dell did the unthinkable and launched several types of computers not with Microsoft Windows installed, but with a Linux distribution named Ubuntu, that is very popular among Linux savvy users. As Dell’s initiative was very well received by customers, other system vendors are trying to gr ... [read more >>]
	01 August 2007, 05:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Vista – A Huge Disappointment – SP1 Will Change Nothing
	Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista, made available to businesses in November 2006 and to the general public in January 2007 is nothing more than a huge disappointment. At least this is the perspective of Gianfranco Lanci, President of Acer. Lanci is the head of the world's fourth largest computer manufacturer. With an annual revenue of over $11.3 billion, Acer is topped only by Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo. Fr ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 03:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell Turns Green with Envy
	Most major PC vendors reported an increase in PC shipments all across the world, except Dell that loses market shares, as it shipped 4.9 percent fewer PCs during these last months as it did in the same years period in 2006. Well, Dell is known for its unexciting boxes, some lines of Linux PCs and a supply chain shot to ribbons, so this doesn't come exactly as a big surprise. In the meantime, Dell struggles to do an " ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 02:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ferrari Goes GPS with Some Help from Acer
	It's quite a well-known fact that Acer is one of the sponsors of Ferrari's Formula 1 racing team. This is the reason why they've already launched 2 Ferrari-branded products up until now, an LCD monitor and a laptop, which proved to be quite successful with the fans (especially hardcore Ferrari fans, that is). However, it seems that the company has decided to extend its partnership to an area more related to automobiles, and ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2007, 08:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dolby Technology to Empower the Next-generation Acer Aspire Notebooks
	It clearly looks like Dolby will finally take over the world, so to speak. During a press conference in San Francisco, Dolby laboratories have announced the new deal they've made with Acer for the next line of Aspire notebooks. These new computers will all sport a most alluring array of Dolby technologies, all included in the Dolby Home Theater suite. As notebooks are becoming more and more popular, the multimedia demands ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2007, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acer Follows in the Footsteps of Sony
	Remember not so long ago, a massive battery recall from Sony turned the notebook world upside down and shook it really, really hard. Everybody was amazed that such a mishap will come, yet alone believe that Sony was behind the dreaded, exploding, notebook batteries. But, then again, they tried to make it up to the buyers by replacing, for free, all of the batteries from that series, whether faulty or not. The people that got a tr ... [read more >>]
	27 April 2007, 11:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia