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Former Acer <2353.TW> Chief Executive Gianfranco Lanci was appointed on Monday as chief of Lenovo's <0992.HK> operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and said he aims to break into the top three in the region by next year.

Gone will be the days when the mainstream tablet market would be just confined to Android and iOS credibility or on the less thriving RIM's Playbooks.

Despite experiencing macro-economic challenges in 2011 due to component shortage and fierce price wars among global vendors, Taiwan-based computer manufacturer Acer Inc successfully claimed the number one position in the desktop category in India during the year.

Two new Chinese LCD screens in Beijing's imposing Great Hall of the People will replace screens made by a Japanese competitor, in a sign of resolve to supply the world with Chinese brands and not just Made in China products.

The global PC market should expand 4.4 percent in 2012, greatly exceeding 2011’s anemic 0.5 percent, gain market researcher Gartner (NYSE: IT) predicted.

Shares of Dell, the No. 3 PC maker, look likely to fall sharply Wednesday after the company reported earnings below estimates and issued a dismal forecast.

Dell reported a fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $764 million, or 43 cents a share, compared with a profit of $927 million or 48 cents a share for the year-earlier period, weighed down by weak consumer PC sales, pricing and supply issues caused by the floods in Thailand.

Shares of Dell, the No. 3 PC supplier, have surged nearly 25 percent this year. Could investors be looking for the company to start surging in the services sector?

Japan's largest IT services vendor Fujitsu plans to launch a wide range of smartphone and tablet devices for the first time in Europe, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

Apple Inc's legal row over its iPad trademark in China creates a window of opportunity for rivals such as Lenovo Group Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as they try to chip away at the U.S. firm's dominance of the potentially vast Chinese tablet market.

Apple Inc's legal row over its iPad trademark in China creates a window of opportunity for rivals such as Lenovo Group Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as they try to chip away at the U.S. firm's dominance of the potentially vast Chinese tablet market.

Japan's largest IT services vendor Fujitsu plans to launch a wide range of smartphone and tablet devices for the first time in Europe, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

Both the Asus Eee Pad Transformer and the Archos G9 tablets will be updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the next two weeks, so here is how the tablets compare. Archos will start updating their G9 10-inch tablet soon, but no exact date has been given. However, online retailer Dynamism is promising a ship date of March for the eight gigabyte variant with ICS on-board.

China's Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC maker, plans to sell smart televisions in China and has no immediate plans to ship overseas due to a lack of content, CEO Yang Yuanqing said on Thursday.

China's Lenovo Group Ltd beat market forecasts on Thursday with its third-quarter net profit thanks to its fast expanding market share.