01/19/2011
Faster Forward
Acer has sent out a press release saying it will not be phasing out netbooks, denying the comments from a sales manager that we reported earlier this week.
“As PCs are no longer only used to create content but are more and more becoming consumption tools, new devices and new form factors are appearing,” [...]
11/29/2010
CNET News.com
Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci thinks there’s plenty of room to take on the iPad with an Android tablet. Just not yet.
Although Lanci is talking tough about the opportunity to rival Apple’s hit, he’s also the one who announced–then delayed–an Android tablet originally slated to be released this year.
“We could have an Android tablet already [...]
10/29/2010
PC World – Online
Acer plans to launch “multiple” tablet devices at an event in New York on Nov. 23, with different OSes and multiple form factors, the company’s CEO said Friday.
The market has been waiting for version 3.0 of Google’s Android mobile software for use in tablets, said Gianfranco Lanci, president and CEO of [...]
12/10/2009
IDG News Service – TAIPEI BUREAU
IDG News Service – Acer plans to launch as many as six new smartphones with Google’s Android mobile operating system in the first half of next year, a company executive said today.
The world’s second largest PC vendor this week started rolling out its first Android handset, the Liquid smartphone. [...]
