posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Apr 2009 10:47 UTC
The world's largest netbook manufacturer, Acer, has just presented its forecasts for its own second quarter, as well as the rest of the year, and it is very positive about the netbook market and its own part in that market. In line with IDC predictions, the company predicts a 100 growth in 2009 for the netbook market, and predicts its own notebook and netbook shipments to rise with 35-40% this quarter.Acer chairman J.T. Wang said that 100% growth in the netbook market over 2009 should not be a problem. Aer knows a thing or two about netbooks, as its Aspire One machine has become a massive success, pushing Asus' Eee line from the top spot. Thanks to its Aspire One line, Acer saw its overall market share grow 3 percentage points last year.
In the current quarter, which is still underway for Acer, the company expects a growth in its overall shipments of about 25-30%. This growth solely consists of notebook sales, as they are expected to rise by 35-40%, whereas desktop PC shipments are expected to drop 5-10%.
Acer will try to further cement its strong position by releasing a number of laptops based on Intel's CULV chips, which are positioned to fill the gap between normal notebook chips and the Atom line of processors used in most netbooks. Acer will be the first manufacturer to ship these new intel chips. They are expected to be launched today.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/19/10 18:59 UTC
"Many of us who tried out the Windows Phone 7 simulator were disappointed to discover the simulator didnât contain a lot of the functionality that was being shown off at Mix10. It turns out Dan Ardelean has published a modified or 'unlocked' version of the simulator that contains virtually everything that was displayed. The front page is now full of apps that work, the settings menu is a long list of options for those apps. Unfortunately the download of the .bin file has now been pulled, but I was lucky enough to get a copy. Check out the 10 minute video of Windows Phone 7 [plus another video]." It even has a nice task manager and file explorer - undoubtedly for testing purposes. It's Windows CE 6.0, after all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/19/10 18:50 UTC
"Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, fell the most in more than 15 months in Nasdaq trading after forecasting sales this quarter that were less than half of analysts' estimates. Revenue in the period ending in May will be less than USD 150 million, Chief Financial Officer Doug Jeffries said yesterday on Palm's third-quarter conference call, compared with the USD 300 million average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The company also reported its 11th straight quarterly loss."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/19/10 18:47 UTC
"There has been much speculation over what OS 6.0 could possibly look like. We were recently hit with these images of what appear to be of a device running OS 6.0 with a similar screen resolution of a storm or storm2. These spy shot images come highly regarded as real from one our best connects. We're hoping to see it soon on a physical device and so until then take from it what you will."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/19/10 13:00 UTC, submitted by Jim Lynch
"With chip makers continuing to increase the number of cores they include on each new generation of their processors, perhaps it's time to rethink the basic architecture of today's operating systems, suggested Dave Probert, a kernel architect within the Windows core operating systems division at Microsoft."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/19/10 9:48 UTC
"The city of Amsterdam has been involved for several years in building Citynet, a partnership between the city and two private investors to wire 40000 Amsterdam buildings with fiber. And it's not just fiber, it's open access fiber - any ISP can sign up to use the infrastructure and deliver ultra-fast Internet access. In 2008, the European Union ruled that the city's involvement in the project was in fact legal, and that it was not improperly interfering in the market. We asked Herman Wagter, CEO of the company that built Citynet fiber project, to talk about how he got the job done, and to explain the challenges of rolling out fiber in a densely crowded European city." In case you're wondering: no, I don't live in Amsterdam. My small hick town has plans for fibre too, however.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/18/10 22:44 UTC, submitted by twitterfire
"With the release of hundreds of pages of court documents in the legal dispute between Google and Viacom over the presence of copyright material on YouTube, Google has released a statement on the case. The statement was attributed to Zahavah Levine, YouTube chief counsel."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/18/10 22:39 UTC, submitted by dizmal
Two days ago, Technologizer revealed a new Marevell android tablet. Today, Marvell published a press release with more details on specs and price; apparently the Moby tablet wil cost USD 99 and is targeting education. Here is
ARMdevices' take on this new Armada 600 powered tablet.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/18/10 22:35 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"We're announcing an update to Windows XP Mode today that will make it a more accessible to PCs in small and midsize businesses who want to migrate to Windows 7 Professional but have applications that still require Windows XP. Windows XP Mode will no longer require hardware virtualization technology to run. This change makes it extremely easy for businesses to use Windows XP Mode to address any application incompatibility roadblocks they might have in migrating to Windows 7."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/18/10 22:30 UTC, submitted by Tam Hanna
"Being the developer of a Qt-based mobile solution is really really nice nowadays â" especially as Android support is well on its way. For all those of you new to the topic: the moment Qt has been ported, you can run your Qt-based applications on the operating system. Bogdan Vatra [is] the brain behind the Qt port - let's see what he has to say!"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 03/18/10 8:24 UTC
"Google is working to bring Web software to televisions through a partnership with Intel, Sony and Logitech, according to two people involved in the discussions with the companies. The project, called Google TV, uses Intel chips, with Switzerland's Logitech developing a keyboard that operates as a remote control, said one of the people, who declined to be named because the matter isn't public."