Taipei: Acer Inc, the world's No.4 PC vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects notebook and tablet PC shipment to be flat in the second quarter from the first quarter, versus an prediction of 0-5 per cent growth made in April.
Acer Chairman JT Wang made the comment to reporters at the firm's annual shareholder meeting.
Early this month, Wang told Reuters in an interview that he expects up to 80 percent of Acer's products to have touch-screen technology by next year or the year after, hoping new tablets and touch-notebook computers will revive its sales in a PC market where quarterly shipments are at their lowest in nearly four years.
Acer said its sales were 19 per cent lower in the first five months than in the same period a year ago....
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04:11 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaica's twice Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was suspended by her national federation on Tuesday following a positive test for a banned diuretic at a meeting last month. "The Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) can now confirm that a case concerning Mrs Veronica Campbell-Brown is currently ongoing," the Jamaican governing body said in a statement. "She has been provisionally suspended from competition awaiting the outcome of a...
08:27 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Kingston: Twice Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown could avoid a maximum two-year doping ban because she declared a cream containing a banned diuretic, sources close to Jamaican athletics told Reuters on Tuesday. Jamaica's most successful female athlete tested positive for a diuretic, which can be used to mask the use of performance-enhancing drugs, at the International Invitational World Challenge on May 4. The sources said the banned drug was...
11:24 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: A day after the Congress party revamped its organisation, it is now likely that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi will reshuffle the Cabinet on Monday. The swearing in for the new set of Cabinet Ministers is scheduled for 5:30 pm on Monday at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. It is possibly the last such change before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The exit of the DMK...
09:03 AM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: Samsung's recently launched oversized phablet - the Galaxy Mega 6.3 - is now up for pre-order on the e-commerce site Flipkart.com for Rs 30,990. The phablet will be available by the end of June. The website lists that the device will be available by the "5th week of June". Interested buyers can also pre-book the Galaxy Mega 6.3 phablet on the Samsung India eStore. While Flipkart mentions the...
02:34 PM, Jun 16, 2013
Kingston: Jamaica's 200 metres world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has tested positive for a banned diuretic, sources close to Jamaican athletics said. The sources said the doping violation occurred at the Jamaica International Invitational meeting on May 4 in Kingston. Campbell-Brown, who won the Olympic 200 title in 2004 and 2008, is Jamaica's most successful female athlete and the biggest name in track and field to fall foul of the drug...
07:12 PM, Jun 15, 2013
New Delhi: Liverpool have expedited their attempts to rope in Sunderland goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, with an agreement of 10 million pounds close to being signed after extensive talks were reportedly held between the two parties in the last 48 hours. The Reds, according to reports, had made an initial offer of 8.5 million pounds that got rejected. Subsequently, they have decided to add 1.5 million pounds to their initial offer....
05:41 PM, Jun 15, 2013
London: Prince William, second-in-line to the throne, will be first British king with proven Indian ancestry, DNA analysis has revealed. The DNA analyses of saliva samples taken from the Duke of Cambridge's relatives have established a direct lineage between the 30-year-old prince and an Indian housekeeper on his mother Princess Diana's side. It is his only non-European DNA and means he will become the first Head of the Commonwealth with...
02:04 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Oslo: Olympic champion Usain Bolt responded to last week's surprise sprint defeat in Rome by storming to a world-leading time of 19.79 seconds over 200 metres at the Bislett Diamond League meeting on Thursday. The Jamaican world record holder, surprisingly beaten over 100 metres by American Justin Gatlin in Italy, streaked away from the field to win comfortably on a chilly night in his first competitive race over the distance...
09:36 AM, Jun 14, 2013
Mumbai: Online retailer Amazon, which recently announced its foray into India, said today it will introduce its Kindle range of products, including Fire and Paperwhite in the country by the end of this month. World's best-selling e-readers Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite are coming to Amazon.in, making it easier than ever for readers in India to discover Kindle, Amazon said in a statement. Kindle Fire HD (7-inch and 8.9-inch variants)...
05:58 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Kingston: Usain Bolt will have to qualify for the 100 metres at this year's world championships after Jamaican officials decided the country's automatic entry into the race should go to his training partner Yohan Blake. But Bolt was given his country's wild card entry into the 200m after the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) ruled in his favour for the longer sprint. The JAAA was forced to choose between its...
01:09 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: Amazon has announced to bring its Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablets to India. The company has priced the Kindle Fire HD (16GB) at Rs 15,999, while the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (16GB) will be available for Rs 21,999. The Kindle Fire HD has a 7-inch display. It is claimed to be world's first tablet with dual-band, dual-antenna Wi-Fi for faster downloads and streaming. The...
12:48 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Mumbai: Raveena Tandon's comeback film 'Shobhna's 7 Nights' might have won awards at various international film festivals, but the actress is not keen to sign more films unless something interesting comes up. "I have already finished one film called 'Shobhna's 7 Nights', which was actually made for international film festivals. It has already been released at festivals, it has won awards all over and now if something interesting comes around,...
09:29 AM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: Army's top secret details about operational plans and deployment along the India-China border could have been compromised and around six military personnel have been indicted by a Court of Inquiry (CoI) in this regard. Sources said the indicted personnel are in the process of facing disciplinary action on various counts in the incident which happened around a couple of years ago. The sensitive information could have been compromised...
09:39 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Mumbai: Saif Ali Khan has opted for a naturally tanned look instead of make-up to play a rural gangster in Tigmanshu Dhulia-directed 'Bullet Raja'. According to a source, the actor was required to get a tanned look for his character and to achieve that the 42-year-old would sit outside his van in the afternoon. "Saif really puts in a lot of effort to get into his character. Tigmanshu wanted a...
12:40 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Los Angeles The Duchess of Cambridge has been shopping for her nursery ahead of the arrival of her and Prince William's first child. The Duchess of Cambridge, whose maiden name is Kate Middleton, was spotted shopping at high-end fabric and soft furnishings store Bernard Thorp in Chelsea, London, on June 4, reports femalefirst.co.uk. The 31-year-old, who is believed to be due to give birth July 13, spent 45 minutes in...
02:17 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Madrid: Athletic Bilbao president Josu Urrutia said that Marcelo Bielsa will not continue as first team coach at the Spanish Primera Liga club next season. Urrutia gave the news in a press conference called at the club's offices on Friday evening, confirming the news which many had been expecting for several days, reports Xinhua. "We think it is in the best interests of the club to make the change," said...
06:21 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Dallas: A pregnant Texas actress who told FBI agents her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been arrested for orchestrating the scheme herself, a law enforcement official said on Friday. It was not immediately clear what charges would be filed against Shannon Guess Richardson of New Boston, Texas, a mother of five who has played bit roles in television shows....
01:27 AM, Jun 08, 2013
Chennai: National record holder triple jumper Renjith Maheswary became the second Indian athlete to qualify for this year's World Championship in Moscow as he clinched a gold on the final day the National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Chennai on Friday. Maheswary, representing the home state, crossed the World Championships B standard of 16.85m in his third attempt at the Nehru Stadium here to win the event with an effort of...
09:47 PM, Jun 07, 2013
