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...Selling computers is a tough business at the best of times. These are the worst of times - global computer sales slumped nearly 7% in the first quarter of 2009. But PC maker Acer has bucked the trend. According to research firm IDC, Acer's PC shipments rose 10% in the first quarter of 2009 from the same period a year earlier, lifting Acer's global market share to 11.9%, up from 10.1% the year before. In notebook computers - Acer's speciality - the company claimed 17% of the world market in the first quarter, enough to make it the world...
...announcement left computer manufacturers scrambling to work out how to comply, and what the implications might be for their sales in China's fast-growing market. "It totally blindsided the industry," says Bryan Ma, a Singapore-based senior researcher with industry analysts IDC. Some computer makers aren't sure they can meet the July 1 starting date. "It'll be interesting to see what happens if some people say they can't physically get it done in time," Ma says...
...dark about the details: how the software will be installed, whether it was possible to remove it from computers, whether scofflaws will be penalized and how the rules would be enforced. "The biggest challenge right now is that we don't have any details," says Ma of IDC...
...also possible that administrative overzealousness might be a factor, given similar past decisions by MIIT. Ma of IDC says the episode is an "eerie reminder" of the move in late 2003 by the government to require manufacturers of wireless networking products to adopt a Chinese standard called WAPI for encryption of wi-fi wireless communications, even though there was a widely adopted international standard. In that case, howls of protest from manufacturers, not to mention intervention by then Secretary of State Colin Powell, forced Beijing to back down...
Despite the stomach churning stock plunges, the situation with insurance companies simply doesn't compare with the failed banks, says financial analyst Barry Rabkin of Financial Insights, an IDC company. "They're solvent - solidly solvent" thanks to conservative investments and tight state regulator oversight. The big companies are "not going anywhere...