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...recent high-profile examples: Chinese computer giant Lenovo three months ago announced that American Stephen Ward, a senior vice president at IBM, would become its new CEO as part of its acquisition of IBM's PC-manufacturing business. When the deal is complete, Ward, a 26-year IBM veteran, will run Lenovo from his headquarters outside New York City, far from Lenovo's home base in Beijing. In September, Acer, Taiwan's best-known computer maker, tapped Italian Gianfranco Lanci to be its president. Lanci earned the post after spearheading a major turnaround of Acer's business in Western Europe...
WHEN WILL WE SEE A REAL MARRIAGE BETWEEN TV AND PC...
...coming in the next few years, though it may not fully mature for five years. In places like Japan, you can literally plug your PC into a set-top box, and some of what's on your computer is accessible to your television...
...iRadio software will let you listen to your favorite MP3s and Internet radio files on your cell phone, at right--or even stream them to your car stereo. But there's a catch: to make your music mobile, first you'll need to move it from your home PC to your cell phone, and that means you'll need a phone with lots of storage space for music. Still, iRadio--due in the fall--is a novel alternative to the iPod...
Those odds got a lot sharper during her burnt-earth campaign to acquire Compaq in 2002. To Fiorina, combining the two plodding PC businesses was the only way to improve profitability and take on the low-cost, direct-sales monster called Dell. To critics, merging two lousy operations had limited appeal. Director Walter Hewlett, a Stanford music professor and son of the co-founder, led a public proxy fight against the deal. Although Fiorina prevailed, the cost was high. Within months, Compaq CEO Michael Capellas, who was supposed to run the computer division, was out the door. Others followed...