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Lenovo Posts Record Financial Results for Q3 FY 2011

Lenovo has again posted its financial results and, as has become easy to expect from this particular IT player, its evolution during the latest quarter was positive indeed. Lenovo wasn't much of a PC brand name a few years ago, but it soon became one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world. This situ...

9 February 2012
02:48 GMT

Ultrabook Prices Go Down As the Second Generation Nears

There seems to be quite a bit of fuss about ultrabooks, just as Intel hoped for, and the latest reports on the matter should be just what prospective customers want. Ultrabooks have begun to steadily drop in price, according to a recent report posted by news and rumor site Digitimes. HP, Lenovo and Acer have are a...

7 February 2012
14:01 GMT

Acer Sues Former CEO Gianfranco Lanci

One might say that it was only a matter of time before something like this happened, even though it has definitely been a while since the motive behind Acer's latest action arose. Basically, Acer has sued former chief executive officer Gianfranco Lanci over alleged breaching of a non-compete clause. Details ...

7 February 2012
13:01 GMT

BIOS of the Day 02/07/2012

Tomorrow we'll list the BIOS (and drivers) for Gigabyte's two new AM3+ motherboards, as promised. After almost a month with close to no new releases from major manufacturers, we're still bringing you new stuff. And since we started to list drivers for Lenovo's nice array of notebooks, here's...

7 February 2012
11:26 GMT

Lenovo Confirms Android 4.0 Update for the ThinkPad Tablet Will Arrive in May

If that Q2 estimate was a bit to sketchy for you, Lenovo now returned with a more definitive release date for the ThinkPad Tablet Android 4.0 update. According to the outfit, this is expected to arrive over-the-air in about three months from now, in May to be more precise. For those of you in need of a quick refre...

7 February 2012
04:50 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Will Get Android 4.0 ICS in Q2 2012

The list of devices that are supposed to receive an Android 4.0 upgrade in the near future has just grown by one, as Lenovo has recently announced that its ThinkPad Tablet will soon get an ICS port. According to SlashGear, this is bound to happen in the second quarter of this year, which will hopefully give Lenovo e...

31 January 2012
03:17 GMT

Lenovo IdeaPad Y470p 14-Inch Laptop Sports Quad-Core Intel CPU and Discrete GPU

Lenovo keeps expanding its notebook lineup with new models, the latest offering to be added by the company to its Website being the IdeaPad Y470p 14-inch laptop which despite its compact size features a top of the line configuration. Housed in a case less than one inch thick, the Y470p packs a quad-core Intel Sandy ...

30 January 2012
04:28 GMT

Lenovo Believes Tablet Hybrids Can Be Very Disruptive

It wasn't so long ago that we wrote about the IdeaPad Yoga tablet/ultrabook hybrid and, now, Lenovo has expressed its belief as to what this device type will accomplish. IdeaPad Yoga is a sort of merger between a tablet and a super-thin and light mobile personal computer, hence its “hybrid” status...

30 January 2012
04:08 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad X130e Available for Pre-Order Starting at $429 (327 EUR)

Announced in December 2011, Lenovo’s ThinkPad X130e educational notebook has now become available for pre-order from the company’s website with shipments being expected to begin on February 10. Since the X130e is built especially for education, Lenovo concentrated on making its new ThinkPad tougher than ...

27 January 2012
02:49 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Rooted, ClockworkMod Also Works

Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet has certainly been a tough nut to crack, but hackers have finally managed to root the slate and unlock its bootloader, so you can now install custom recovery apps or other software. Put together by security researcher Dan Rosenberg, the hack is pretty straightforward, if you already in...

24 January 2012
15:21 GMT

Acer, Lenovo and ASUS Decide to Give Thunderbolt to Ultrabooks

Yet again a rumor has sprouted about the newly-created ultrabook market, this time involving Acer, ASUS and Lenovo. Ultrabook market seems to be very keen on putting on a good show for those customers that are open to the idea of buying ultrabooks. They are so keen, in fact, that they will even outfit their super-...

20 January 2012
07:35 GMT

Toshiba and Lenovo Get Quanta to Make Their Windows on ARM Tablets

Looks like Quanta has scored manufacturing deals with Lenovo and Toshiba for the production of their tablets, which have ARM as a hardware platform and Windows 8 as the operating system. As previously reported, sales will only begin at some point during the first quarter of 2013. In the meantime, the companies are ...

19 January 2012
10:57 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Gets McAfee Mobile Security

Lenovo and McAfee have just tightened their partnership, the former having chosen the latter's Mobile Security solutions for its ThinkPad Android tablet. This is one of, if not the first concrete step forward in McAfee's quest to become a main player in the field of mobile security. On that note, this al...

17 January 2012
03:37 GMT

McAfee Mobile Security Begins to Encompass Android Tablets

McAfee, the world renowned security solutions provider, revealed its agreement with Lenovo as a result of which the latter’s ThinkPad tablet will benefit from the protection offered by McAfee’s Mobile Security software. The Android-based device comes preloaded with the security suit that encapsulates Vir...

17 January 2012
03:27 GMT

Lenovo IdeaCentre B340 and B540 AIOs Pack Nvidia GT 600-Series GPUs

Outside of the usual assortment of notebooks and tablets, Lenovo has also introduced during this year’s CES fair a new series of all-in-one computers, the IdeaCentre B340 and B540, using Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors and Nvidia discrete graphics.The two IdeaCentre AIO systems are based on a Full HD (192...

16 January 2012
05:49 GMT

CES 2012: Lenovo Classmate+ Laptops Are More Rugged, Offer Higher Battery Life

Lenovo has just introduced the company’s second generation Classmate+ laptops destined to be used in the education environment that promise to bring a tougher design and up to 10 hours of battery life to the table.First introduced early last year, the Classmate+ laptops has now received a new case that features...

12 January 2012
03:42 GMT

CES 2012: Lenovo Also Unveils 27-Inch All-in-One with Adjustable Hinge

Like so many other companies, Lenovo is present at the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, eagerly showing off its products, such as the A720 all-in-one. The IdeaPad Yoga Ultrabook/Tablet Hybrid may end up stealing the attention of most people visiting Lenovo's booth in Las Vegas, Nevada. That doe...

10 January 2012
12:51 GMT

CES 2012: Lenovo Intros IdeaPad Yoga Ultrabook/Tablet Hybrid

Ultrabooks are supposed to help secure the notebook market against the so-called tablet onslaught, but Lenovo may have just thrown a wrench in Intel's plans. Intel advertises Ultrabooks as the new incarnation of notebooks, so to speak. Their key selling point is the decent performance in a package that is no ...

10 January 2012
09:13 GMT

First Android 4.0 Lenovo 3D Smart TV Controlled by Voice

Like so many other companies, Lenovo will be present at this year's CES, one of its products being a special Smart TV that runs the latest version of Android. IT companies seldom miss an opportunity to claim that one their devices is the world's best in one or more areas, or the first to exhibit a certain...

9 January 2012
07:11 GMT

CES 2012: Lenovo S2 Smartphone with Gingerbread Unveiled

Chinese company Lenovo plans to conquer the Android smartphone market with the new S2 Smartphone. Although the device was officially unveiled last month in China, it appears that the handset maker decided to go international with the smartphone.   The Android-powered device is already available for purchase in C...

9 January 2012
05:22 GMT

Lenovo Announces IdeaTab S2 Android 4.0 on ARM Tablet

Lenovo has just made the official introduction of a tablet whose battery life may just be the longest that tablets have flaunted so far. Lenovo recently issued an official press release in which, among other things, it speaks of the IdeaTab S2 tablet. On the surface, the device is not overly outstanding, save for ...

9 January 2012
02:26 GMT

Lenovo Announces Thunderbolt-Equipped ThinkPad Edge S430 Notebook

Together with its business-centered ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook, Lenovo has also announced today a new 14-inch Edge S430 laptop that is targeting the same market segment but comes with a more advanced set of features.Designed around a 14-inch screen, Lenovo’s creation is powered by the “latest Intel Core&ldq...

5 January 2012
16:01 GMT

Lenovo Unveils ThinkPad X1 Hybrid Laptop Packing Secondary ARM SoC

Earlier today, Lenovo has announced the new ThinkPad X1 Hybrid laptop that was designed to sport a secondary operating system and an ARM-based Qualcomm SoC in order to deliver up to 10 hours of battery life to its users. This system is called the Instant Media Mode, IMM for short, by Lenovo and runs a Linux-based OS ...

5 January 2012
10:53 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook Packs Nvidia Discrete Graphics

Tired of waiting for CES 2012 to open its gates, Lenovo has introduced a new Ultrabook computer called the ThinkPad T430u that has business users in its sight and comes equipped with a discrete graphics card built by Nvidia.This will be available as an option as users can still chose to rely on Intel’s integrat...

5 January 2012
05:45 GMT

Acer and Lenovo Prepare Clover Trail Windows 8 Tablets for Q3 2012

On the tablet front, Intel has yet to impress anyone, but a true impact may finally be made in the third quarter of 2012, provided Acer and Lenovo are really doing what reports say. The rumor mill has been wrong before, but the one Digitimes has just started about Acer and Lenovo may be on to something. According ...

3 January 2012
07:00 GMT

Lenovo Decides to Drop Netbooks Too

The Ideapad S110 laptops that Lenovo has just revealed has some major implications that may not be apparent at first glance. As we already covered here, the item is a netbook in all but name. Lenovo chose to dub it a mini-notebook instead, even though the screen size (10.1 inches) and the rest of the specs clearl...

30 December 2011
18:01 GMT

Lenovo Teases Cedar Trail Packing Ideapad S110 Netbook, Calls It a Mini-Notebook

Now that Intel has started shipping the Cedar Trail Atom platform, notebook makers have begun to tout their next year’s gadgets sporting these chips, including Lenovo which presented the Ideapad S110.The mini-notebook, as Lenovo likes to call its new contraption, will be available in four fabulous colors and on...

30 December 2011
03:56 GMT

Lenovo IdeaPad U260 Laptop Drops from $1,199 to $599 (926 vs 463 Euro)

The Lenovo IdeaPad U260 laptop is definitely not a new product (it originally came out in 2010) but we figured we should still pass the word about its sudden price drop. Sure, this is a temporary bargain, but when a notebook goes from $1,199 (926 Euro) to half of that ($599 / 463 Euro), lights start flashing. The...

30 December 2011
02:22 GMT

Lenovo IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook Arrives in Stock at Newegg

After becoming available for pre-order on Lenovo’s website at the beginning of this month, the IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook has now arrived in stock at Newegg where is listed at a rather pricy $1,599.99, roughly 1,109 EUR.Newegg has actually two U300s models available, both featuring the same configuration, but the ...

23 December 2011
16:31 GMT

Lenovo Expects to Ship 300,000 U300 Ultrabooks in Q4 2011

Lenovo seems quite confident in the success of its U300 Ultrabook as the company expects by the end of Q4 2011 to sell between 200,000 and 300,000 units making it one of the most popular laptops in its category.Lenovo made public these estimates during the U300’s launch in China, according to a Chinese-language...

23 December 2011
02:48 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad X130e End-User Availability Delayed to February 2012

When it announced the ThinkPad X130e at the beginning of this month, Lenovo said that this rugged educational notebook will be available for individual purchase starting December 20, but it now looks like shipments have been delayed to February of 2012.As engadget has found out, Lenovo blames this on the educator&rsq...

21 December 2011
07:11 GMT

Lenovo Orders More Quad-Core Tablets from Pegatron

Going with its agenda to prove resourceful on every market segment it tackles, Lenovo has been aggressively placing tablet orders. As some may or may not know, Lenovo wants to be big on the tablet like it wants preeminence on the PC field. Whether or not it is going to achieve this goal is something that remains ...

19 December 2011
17:41 GMT

Lenovo IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook Up For Pre-Order with $500 Rebate (€385)

Lenovo has a great promotion going on in its Website that allows customers to pre-order the IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook for “just” $1499 (1,153 EUR), $500 less than the ultra-thin’s $1999 base price.The promotion was so successful that the Ultrabook quickly went on back-order after being listed, accordi...

15 December 2011
04:49 GMT

Lenovo LePad S2005 Now Available for Pre-Order in China for $390 (295 EUR)

Lenovo announced its LePad S2005 in China about two weeks and confirmed that the smartphone will be exclusively available in the Mainland. Anyway, the smartphone is now up for pre-order at China Unicom for RMB 2,499 (390 USD or 300 EUR). Customers who want to wait until the phone goes live should know that the L...

13 December 2011
17:11 GMT

Apple Will Lose to Lenovo in All-in-Ones

After a time of leadership on the market of all-in-one personal computers, Apple could be forced to cede victory to a different company in 2012. Apple is a company that sells products primarily to those customers with financial income to spare. As such, with all-in-one systems offering just compactness as an incen...

8 December 2011
08:56 GMT

Lenovo Targets the Education Market with Rugged ThinkPad X130e Notebook

Intel’s Classmate series of notebooks have been so far pretty much the only classroom-ready laptop alternative available to schools, but this isn’t the case anymore as Lenovo has just announced the ThinkPad X130e notebook that seems to be a direct competitor for Intel's Classmate project.Since the X1...

6 December 2011
03:30 GMT

Lenovo Confirms Plans for a Windows Phone in 2012

Yesterday Chinese company Lenovo announced its new lineup of Android smartphones and tablets, which are mostly aimed at the Chinese market.   During the launch event, Lenovo’s Product Manager, Chen Yue, confirmed the company’s plans to release a Windows Phone device in the second half of next year. ...

1 December 2011
20:01 GMT

HP May Lose to Lenovo Any Quarter Now

It was already known that Lenovo had secured the second spot on the worldwide PC market, overcoming Dell and going up and up until the difference in market share with the holder of the top spot was of under 5%. There is progress and there is fast progress, and then there is Lenovo, a company that earned the title o...

1 December 2011
10:31 GMT

Lenovo LePhone K2 Emerges with a 4.3’’ IPS Screen

Lenovo seems set to bring to shelves some appealing new handsets in the near future, and the recently spotted Lenovo LePhone K2 is one of them. The mobile phone should make an appearance on the market in the not-too-distant future, though only users in China might be able to benefit from its capabilities. The new...

1 December 2011
06:41 GMT

Lenovo IdeaTab S2005 Launched in China with 5-inch Display and Dual-Core CPU

A new Dell Streak clone has just been launched in China, the Lenovo IdeaTab S2005. The smartphone will be available within the next few days via China Unicom carrier.   According to the folks over at Engadget, the tablet will be launched as LePad S2005 and is powered by Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread.   In addit...

29 November 2011
18:01 GMT

Quad-Core Lenovo and Acer Tablets Appear in Q1, 2012

ASUS's Eee Pad Transformer will soon stop being the only Tegra 3 tablet, since Lenovo and Acer both mean to launch products of that sort as soon as possible. Of course, that ASUS would not be the only company with Tegra 3 devices on sale for long was obvious. The opposite would imply that the ARM-based quad-...

29 November 2011
05:27 GMT

Lenovo Unveils 10.1-Inch LePad S2010 Android Tablet with 1.5GHz Dual-Core SoC

Outside of the Ice Cream Sandwich powered IdeaTab K2 that we have talked about earlier this month, Lenovo also plans to launch the LePad S2010 Android tablet that will feature a similar form factor but lower specs.This 10.1-inch LePad tablet was specifically designed for the Chinese market and at its heart stands a d...

29 November 2011
04:39 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Sketched by FCC

The Federal Communications Commission reviewed, or previewed, yet another device, a tablet this once (not that there weren't any of those listings before). In this case, it is Lenovo's ThinkPad tablet that got analyzed, being one of those gadgets that need its certification before everyone knows it will w...

24 November 2011
08:48 GMT

World's Smallest PC Costs $349, Was Made by Lenovo (259 Euro)

If there is anyone out there eager to have a computer that was easier to carry around than any laptop, Lenovo has what they need. The IdeaCentre Q180 is a name that some may associate with big and imposing systems. Turns out that the opposite is true of the new computer that Lenovo created, with 'computer...

23 November 2011
03:36 GMT

Lenovo Reportedly Planning 5-Inch Android Tablet

Tablet PCs are highly popular these days, especially those powered by Google's Android operating system, and it seems that Lenovo plans on getting a piece of the market for itself. The company is reportedly aiming at bringing to the market an Android tablet that would feature a 5-inch screen, and which is expe...

22 November 2011
16:11 GMT

Lenovo LePad K2 Nvidia Tegra 3 Tablet Benchmarked, Lags Behind the iPad 2

The GL Benchmark test suite seems to become a major source of leaks for the performance of upcoming tablet models as recently a new set of results, this time for Lenovo's LePad K2 Nvidia Tegra 3 based slate, made their appearance in the benchmark's database.Every time someone runs the free edition of GL Ben...

18 November 2011
06:11 GMT

Lenovo Readies Laptops for SITEX 2011

Though the year is almost over, there is still time for an IT expo, so Singapore will host the SITEX, where Lenovo, along with many others, will show off some year-end devices. The SITEX 2011 show will take place between November 24 and 27 and will be a sort of preparatory event for consumers getting ready to enter...

17 November 2011
05:55 GMT

Lenovo Preparing Some Ultrabooks for May, 2012

Looks like Lenovo is going to join the Ultrabook fleet, even if not from the first boat, according to what reports are saying on the web. Based on the same source that told us Lenovo was preparing an Android-Windows laptop, the company is making some Ultrabooks as well. Unfortunately, there's no evidence tha...

14 November 2011
17:01 GMT

Some Details on Lenovo's Upcoming Tegra 3 Tablet

The web is the place where some information surfaced on a future tablet that may or may not turn out to be the same as the Lenovo ThinkPad X1. Engadget claims to have gotten an exclusive scoop at what will, eventually, be Lenovo's Kal-El-powered tablet. This also seems to be a somewhat more informative leak ...

14 November 2011
08:39 GMT

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Hybrid Makes Android Help Windows

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 was impressive enough, until you ran into that problem where it tended to die at the worst times, so Lenovo figured it would fix that. The evidence of an impending update has been removed already, of course, or at least Lenovo tried to erase it. Engadget was able to spot and point it out, t...

14 November 2011
04:57 GMT


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