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Archive for August 28th, 2007

Acer Agrees to Acquire Gateway

Posted by: ADMIN on: August 28, 2007

Taiwan’s Acer said it will buy Gateway for $710-million.  Gateway Inc is the third-largest PC company in the US and a leading retail PC provider.  The combination of Acer and Gateway will create a multi-branded PC company with revenue of over $15 billion and shipments of more than 20 million PCs per year.
The acquisition has been [...]

Intel boosts vPro security

Posted by: ADMIN on: August 28, 2007

Intel Corporation further reinforced desktop PC security by unveiling the newest generation of Intel vPro processor technology for businesses and IT with new innovations that add better protection against hacking, viruses and other threats.
Intel vPro processor technology packages a powerful new Intel Core 2 Duo processor, Intel Q35 Express chipset and several technology innovations [...]

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. announced the estimated direct costs related to product advisory on Nokia-branded BL-5C lithium-ion battery pack units manufactured between December 2005 and November 2006 by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd., its consolidated subsidiary will amount to $172 million (approximately 10 billion yen and 20 billion yen).
As announced by Nokia on [...]

Yahoo to offer text messaging from Yahoo Mail

Posted by: ADMIN on: August 28, 2007

Yahoo offers more functionality to their Yahoo Mail service by allowing the users of the Yahoo Mail service to send text messages to mobile phones.
Yahoo would begin by offering this service to Yahoo Mail users in United States, Canada, India and the Philippines.