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...plan has worked particularly well in Europe, where Gianfranco Lanci, now Acer's president, carved out a growing business by selling lower-priced laptop PCs to consumers. Without the burden of costly assembly lines and inventories, Acer can reduce the price of its PCs quickly. Rolling out new technology happens faster, too. Earlier this year, Acer started selling laptops with Intel's Sonoma chipset a month ahead of the competition. The company is also able to focus on creating innovative, consumer-friendly designs, such as snazzy, red, Ferrari-branded laptops that are proving popular in Western Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Revive A Fading Brand | 6/25/2005 | See Source »

...deals on airfare and hotel rooms-but only SideStep includes Orbitz.com listings in its search results. If you're picky about your plane seat assignment, Seat Guru provides detailed information (material, amount of legroom, location of video monitors and exit rows, whether there's a power port for your laptop nearby, etc.) by airline and type of aircraft. Mouse over icons on seating charts to get the lay of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 50 Coolest Websites 2005: Shopping | 6/22/2005 | See Source »

...Latin American art museum in New York City. Criss-crossing the world between his five homes, Botero ships all his work to Zurich to be stored until it is exhibited or sold. He has no assistant, preferring to catalog the work himself on his Palm Pilot and Apple laptop, constant items in his luggage. He has a fully equipped studio near each of his homes, including on Paris' Left Bank and New York City's Park Avenue, and in villas in Colombia and Pietrasanta, Italy. The late Prince Rainier of Monaco gave Botero a studio in Monte Carlo, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Round Figures | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

...month, Jonathan A. Murstein ’05 lost a flip-flop, tennis shoe, and laptop. He thought he was losing his mind. The footwear turned up on top of a vending machine and in the men’s bathroom. His computer appeared on his Greenough floormate’s desk. In a single week, Murstein’s lock was jammed with plastic five times, including the night before an Ec10 hourly when he waited until 7:15 a.m. to get back into his room...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel and Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: For Four Years, Crimson Crimes Bordered on the Bizarre | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...final straw came when Murstein’s laptop was stolen. He ordered a new one and when the replacement arrived, his “friend” Brian Wan ’05-’08 offered to retrieve and set up the computer for him. But the computer Wan set up turned out to be the one that had been stolen. Adding insult to injury, Wan informed his proctor that Murstein had faked the whole theft just to collect the insurance money for what Wan claimed was Murstein’s drug habit. Wan confessed to making...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel and Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: For Four Years, Crimson Crimes Bordered on the Bizarre | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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