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Acer sues former chief exec Lanci – UPDATED

February 7, 2012 12:54 pm by Robin Kwong

Acer and its former chief executive Gianfranco Lanci may have parted ways for almost a year now, but it is apparently not quite water under the bridge between the two sides.

The Taiwanese company said on Tuesday that it has initiated legal action in Mr Lanci’s home country of Italy, alleging that Mr Lanci violated non-compete clauses in the contract he signed with Acer upon leaving in Febuary 2011 – Mr Lanci joined Lenovo as a consultant in September, and the Chinese company last month announced Mr Lanci would head its Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, effective April.

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Tags: Acer, lawsuit, Lenovo
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Wikipedia goes dark, Google logo blacked out

January 18, 2012 5:50 am by Robin Kwong

This screen on the left is what greeted visitors to Wikipedia on Wednesday, as the online encyclopedia site began its ‘blackout’ protest of two controversial intellectual property bills currently being discussed in the US Congress.

For 24 hours starting from 5am GMT on Wednesday, Wikipedia blocked users from viewing or editing all of its English-language pages except for the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act, the bills it is protesting against.

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Tags: google, online, protests, rupert murdoch, SOPA, Wikipedia
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Lenovo appoints former Acer chief to boost Europe operations

January 6, 2012 11:05 am by Robin Kwong

When Acer last March unceremoniously ousted its then-chief executive Gianfranco Lanci, it was not an amicable parting, with both sides apportioning blame on the other for the split.

But if the Taiwanese company had thought they were rid of Mr Lanci by forcing his resignation, then they are sorely mistaken. Mr Lanci was this week appointed the head of Europe, Middle East and Africa by none other Lenovo, Acer’s Chinese rival.

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Tags: Acer, Europe, Lenovo, PC
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Schmidt says governments, not Google, should help ease bandwidth squeeze

November 9, 2011 10:18 am by Robin Kwong

When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Wednesday addressed a Taiwanese audience for the first time, he was in some sense preaching to the choir.

As Mr Schmidt noted, Taiwan already fared better than the US in terms of broadband penetration, the speed of its internet, and the percentage of its people with smartphones. Yet there was still one looming problem, he noted, and that was the rising cost of building more advanced telecommunications networks.

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Tags: google, government policy, infrastructure, Mobile
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Quanta takes on HP and IBM in servers

October 31, 2011 3:10 pm by Robin Kwong

When Taiwan’s Quanta landed orders from Facebook and Google to help custom-build their data centres earlier this year, it was the first step into a new industry for the world’s biggest contract maker of notebooks.

Quanta chairman Barry Lam’s said on Monday, however, that his ambitions go further than just completing built-to-order projects for tech companies. Quanta will instead look to offer a full turnkey solution for servers, he said for the first time. It is a move that will put it into direct competition with industry leaders like HP, Dell, IBM and Sun Microsystems.

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Tags: cloud computing, data centres, Facebook, google, HP, IBM, Quanta, servers, sun microsystems
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HTC warns of weaker fourth quarter

October 31, 2011 2:37 pm by Robin Kwong

HTC has had an amazing run as it grew from anonymity to one of the top Android phonemakers. This has been reflected in its shipments, which have been record-breaking for the Taiwanese company for each of the last six quarters.

But is that run about to end, amid intensifying competition and a weak global economy? HTC said on Monday that it expects fourth-quarter shipments, and revenues, to be down slightly from the third quarter.

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Tags: Asia, htc, Mobile, smartphones
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From beyondbrics October 25, 2011

EM consumers: ‘fatscreen’ is the new flatscreen

Over the past decade, technological advancements have made televisions thinner and thinner, with giant cathode ray tube sets replaced by flatscreen TVs whose thickness are now measured in millimeters.

Starting next year, however, ‘fatter’ flatscreen TVs may be making a comeback in emerging markets, according to one screen maker.

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Tags: AU Optronics, Hardware, LCD, television
Posted in Asia, Consumer Electronics, Hardware | Permalink

HTC buys Zoodles for the kids

October 18, 2011 12:53 pm by Robin Kwong

When HTC chief executive Peter Chou said this month that he was on the lookout for further acquisitions, he wasn’t kidding. The Taiwanese smartphone company on Tuesday announced it had acquired Inquisitive Minds, a US company that developed Zoodles, a kids-friendly browser designed to give children a safe browsing environment.

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Tags: htc, mergers and acquisitions, smartphones, Tablets, Zoodles
Posted in Asia, Digital media, Mobile, Software | Permalink

Google invests in Asia data centres

September 28, 2011 8:05 am by Robin Kwong

Google announced on Wednesday that it is spending more than $200m to build its first proprietary data centres in Asia, a move that reflects the growth in demand for internet and cloud-based services in the region.

These are not, of course, Google’s first servers in Asia, though they are the first in the region where Google is publicly disclosing their locations. They will also be the first that Google will build from the ground up, from acquiring the land to designing the customised servers.

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Tags: Asia, data centres, google, Hardware, Quanta
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