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Lenovo is almost as entrenched in China as the Great Wall, with more than 9,000 retail stores and other sales outlets, giving it an indisputable advantage over its competition in the world's fastest-growing economy. Lenovo owns 35% of the market, according to tech consulting firm IDC. (Dell, the largest foreign player, is No. 3, with 10%.) Chinese consider Lenovo one of the country's most trustworthy brands and a symbol of Chinese entrepreneurship...
...Richard Shim, a PC industry analyst at IDC, says that the recall itself could be Dell's voluntary response to a well-publicized laptop fire that occurred earlier this summer at a business meeting in Osaka, Japan. Shim says that Dell, hit by bad publicity that could harm consumer sales, took this opportunity to reach out to its customers. "It's part of a long-term strategy to build back the trust of consumers," he says...
...icons of photography as we knew it tumbled. Polaroid went bust in 2001. Kodak stopped making film cameras in 2004. Now, however, it's the sellers of digital cameras themselves who have to worry about possible extinction. With the summer photo-snapping season in full swing, market-research firm IDC is predicting that consumers in Japan and Western Europe will buy fewer digital cameras this year than they did last year (in fact, the numbers already declined in Japan in 2005). Around the world, [an error occurred while processing this directive] they'll purchase only 10% more cameras than...
...dslr will whet the appetites of gadget lovers who will eat up higher-margin aftermarket treats, like lenses, flashes and cases. Sony, for one, offers 21 lenses for its new Alpha. Skeptics say that dslrs are a false hope, because most people consider them too complicated, big or pricey. IDC pegs them at around 4% of the market today, growing to only around 5.5% by 2010. Fujifilm, which in January overhauled its camera division to offset declining profits, is avoiding entry-level dslrs altogether because, notes Fujifilm U.K.'s director of photo products Adrian Clarke, the market is "fiercely competitive...
...which generate 80% of its sales. But the business market is becoming more commoditized, and prices are in a free fall. So everyday shoppers are powering the industry's growth. The consumer market grew at twice the pace of the enterprise market last year, according to technology-research firm IDC. Result: Dell's stock has plummeted 52% in the past year. The company's sales grew a lackluster (for Dell) 14%, to $56 billion, in fiscal year 2006. Last Friday, Dell stunned Wall Street by warning that its second quarter would be a dog, sending the stock down 10% that...