Lenovo Purchase Switchbox Labs, Switchbox Co-founder Has Been A Senior Vice President

Friday, January 30th, 2009

It’s always fascinating when stealthy technology companies get acquired before announcing what they are doing. It happened earlier this month when eBay quietly purchased Positronic, a Seattle startup led by former Microsoft search chief Christopher Payne. And now it has happened again with yet another former Microsoft big shot.
Lenovo Group Ltd., China’s biggest personal-computer maker, [...]

IdeaPad Lenovo Y650: the Lightest, Thinnest 16-inch Notebook

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Brief: Behold the latest and super-slim notebooks from Lenovo, with the IdeaPad Y650, Y550 and Y450. So what’s new here? Well 3 PCs with 3 different screen size (16, 15 and 14”) all with a 16:9 aspect ratio, up to 500GB of HDD and 4GB of RAM, optional NVidia GFX video card, multi-touch touchpad, JBL [...]

Laptops overtake desktop computers for the first time in 3rd quarter of 2008

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Brief: Worldwide laptop shipments topped those of desktops for the first time ever in the third quarter, according to the research group iSuppli.
Over the past quarter, PC makers shipped more notebook PCs than desktops for the first day ever, marking a major milestone in the industry, according to market research firm iSuppli. While the number [...]

ThinkPad W700ds: Lenovo to Release a Laptop with Two LCD Screens

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Lenovo has started a new milestone in the computing industry by introducing a ThinkPad laptop that features two LCD screens. This new ThinkPad W700ds appears to be the first laptop ever that has two LCD screens, a 17-in primary screen and a smaller 10.6-in secondary display panel.
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OPhone: Lenovo’s Android Phone was prepared

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Lenovo is known for its laptops and desktop PCs. However, Lenovo also makes mobile phones (take P960, for example), and right now it’s working on an Android one called Ophone. We’ve heard about it before, when reports about a collaboration between Lenovo and China Mobile appeared, but there were no details on the handset’s design.

This [...]