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HP issues worldwide recall of 50,000 laptop batteries over fire risk
The company said it had received eight reports of those batteries "overheating, melting, or charring." Those reports included property damage and burns.1 3313
Lenovo sees profit growth dip in Q2
Lenovo said its net profit for the fiscal second quarter increased by only 13 percent year-over-year, marking a shift from …
Asus unveils Windows 8 line-up
Asus today unveiled a completely new line-up of Windows 8 products, including notebooks, tablets, all-in-one PCs and a unique dual-screen …
Acer Q3 profit up from previous year’s financial loss, but revenue down
Taiwanese PC maker Acer reported a small profit in the third quarter, after a larger loss a year earlier. However, …
Enterprise tools added to Google Search Appliance
Google upgraded its Search Appliance for the enterprise to help workers find information stored anywhere in their organisations. Google …
AMD to lay off 15 percent of workforce
Chip company Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it would lay off 15 percent of its workforce as it tries …
Lenovo tops HP in PC sales, says Gartner
Lenovo has stripped HP of its title as the world’s top seller of PCs, research firm Gartner said in a …
Samsung begins producing next-gen DRAM for mobile
Samsung Electronics has started mass production of a new type of memory chip for mobile devices, LPDDR3, that will dramatically …
Apple remains number 1 in customer satisfaction
Apple retained the top spot in a survey released by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, which also found that the …
A sign of the post-PC era: DRAM sales down
For the first time in a generation, PCs in the second quarter of the year didn’t account for the majority …