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Catching up on college rivalries is the least of the challenges facing Lenovo's managers. Once little known outside China, Lenovo catapulted to No. 3 in the world PC market (after Dell and Hewlett-Packard) with its $1.75 billion IBM purchase. The acquisition, the most high-profile overseas grab by a Chinese firm, horrified many Americans, who saw a rising China set to gobble up flagship industries in the U.S. After all, IBM virtually invented the PC 25 years...
...Xiamen has rediscovered its cosmopolitan roots. The city has a tradition of international trade that dates back centuries. More recently, companies like Kodak and Dell have set up shop. Fiona can send her kids to an international school, and the sisters dine out at a French restaurant where the chef is Israeli...
...Novelist? Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni has expanded his public duties to include exploring his private fantasies. No, not those fantasies. Veltroni is too smart and ambitious a public servant - he is often mentioned as a future Italian Prime Minister - to write anything racy. Still, his new book La Scoperta dell'Alba (Discovering the Dawn) has an intimate feel, following a 40-something's search for the cause of his father's disappearance during his childhood. "A mother can't abandon her child, but a father can. And many do. Men are scared of other people's pain," he writes. Veltroni...
...Numbers 4.1 million Number of lithium-ion batteries recalled by Dell, the world's largest PC maker, over fears they could cause laptop computers to burst into flames $400 million Maximum estimated cost of the recall, which Dell will share with the batteries' manufacturer, Sony Corp...
...Battery recalls are nothing new - Hewlett-Packard is also in the middle of one right now (click here to check your system) - but Dell's is considered the largest in consumer-electronics history, affecting 15% of its laptops sold in the past two years. Shim and Enderle agree that it is prudent to visit Dell's website and check to see if your battery is on the list. Says Shim: "Only 6 computers out of 4 million have been hit - those are terrible Vegas odds - but I wouldn't want to be the guy that it happens...