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...globally recognized brand. It was an ambitious vision for a start-up founded in a small Taipei apartment, but Shih, who's known as the father of Taiwan's formidable technology industry, eventually got his wish. Acer now ranks behind only industry giant Hewlett-Packard in the global notebook-PC market, with a 19% share, and is poised to overtake Dell as the second largest computer seller in the world. (Read "New Netbooks Debut at Taiwan Computer Show...
...infomercial. But others point to video-game research that suggests digital diversions have many advantages over similar analog training tools. "Video games are very integrative in nature. You have to multitask a lot," says Chandramallika Basak, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. In the PC-based game Rise of Nations, on which Basak published a paper last year in Psychology and Aging, multitasking involves managing an empire with multiple cities and simultaneously defending one locale from attack while reviving the sinking economy of another. But the question is whether learning how to play Rise...
...Google's move into the operating-system space, long dominated by Microsoft, is not good news for Redmond, Wash. The last thing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer needs is to compete against Google's (presumably) free operating system, which supposedly can drive anything from a netbook to a PC...
...been a grim recession for computer companies. First-quarter PC shipments were down 8.1% from last year's levels and down 14% from the prior quarter. But that's what happens in a recession. The newer data, though, says green shoots are sprouting, with important implications for business and investors...
...believe that global PC shipments are near the bottom (of the cycle) and that we are approaching the beginning of the next, long-awaited PC-replacement cycle," Morgan's report said. Supporting that notion, a release on June 22 from a meeting of the Global Technology Distribution Council, whose member companies handle more than $100 billion in global technology sales, said that "the worst may be over...