Acer Rumour: R&D Guy To Run PC Sales Unit
That’s a switch. Instead of salesmen messing with the tech, the techies may actually produce what consumers want… Perhaps Acer could leave M$ in its wake of innovation. We shall see. “Acer reportedly...
View ArticleIt’s a New Year For */Linux
January 1 of 2013, StatCounter showed */Linux as 2.06% (1.25% Android/Linux + 0.8% GNU/Linux + 0.01 ChromeOS/Linux) January 1 of 2014, it’s 4.9% (3.47% Android/Linux + 1.3% GNU/Linux + 0.13%...
View ArticleSamsung And Everyone Else To Flood Markets With Tablets
Well, as remarkable as shipments of Android/Linux were in 2013, that was just a trickle compared to what’s in store for 2014. Now that the sharks have tasted blood a feeding frenzy of OEMs seeking out...
View ArticleAcer Evolves
After being just another loyal soldier of Wintel, Acer intends to assert its own identity in future to give consumers what they want, not what M$ wants… “In the future, all of Acer’s businesses...
View ArticleWintel Fragments
“Revenue in Devices & Consumer, which includes everything from consumer Windows licenses to Surface, Xbox and Bing, grew 13 percent to $11.91 billion.Though Windows revenue from manufacturers...
View ArticleMore Decay Of Wintel Seen In 2014
One of the key elements of the Wintel plan for monopoly for desktops, bundling the OS with every PC shipped is coming undone.“Scheduling delays and weakened consumer demand for notebook PC replacements...
View ArticleChromebooks: The New Thin CLient?
I have long been an advocate of GNU/Linux thin clients for efficient IT.“Her complaints have come down to zero ever since she switched to Chromebooks. So something is working right for her. So what...
View ArticleAcer And Australia Are Loving FLOSS
Australia has been dragging its feet in adoption of FLOSS but that is changing.“Acer also revealed to ARN that it has also just picked up the contract for Victoria’s police force, providing 12,500...
View ArticleChromebooks Accelerate
“Acer has seen booming sales of Chromebooks, including government procurement orders for educational purposes in many countries, and therefore has asked supply chains to increase production to reduce...
View ArticleAcer Returns To Profitability
Remember the netbook? It’s not dead. I noticed Acer has returned to profitability and thought I would check out its Aspire line… 29 models selling with GNU/Linux. 17 with that other OS. Hmmm… Maybe...
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