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• Acer about to offer Ubuntu pre-loads?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:38 am

  Tags: Acer, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Linux, Ubuntu

  still no official word, an Acer advert in Singapore offers their 15.4-inch Aspire 5710Z laptop pre-loaded with none other than the Ubuntu distro for SG$999 or about $660 of that US green stuff. However, we're not 100% clear whether the pre-load comes from Acer direct or via some third party tinkerer. Still, we wouldn't be surprised in the least

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• In Brief: If you're a Linux fan, then your options ...

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:54 am

  Tags: Acer, Laptop, Linux, Quicklink, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Preloaded

  If you're a Linux fan, then your options just got bigger. It seems like Acer are following in Dell's footsteps, and starting to offer Ubuntu preloaded on some machines. [Hardware Zone]

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• Acer's 4710 and 5920 Gemstones officially available in North America

  Published: August 1, 2007, 6:36 pm

  Tags: 4710, 5920, Acer, Aspire, Gemstone, Launch, Official

  was making its way out, but Acer has finally (read: officially) cast two new Gemstones into the North American market. As you so very well know, the 5920 offers up a 15.4-inch display and an HD DVD drive for high-definition film watching on the go, and the slightly smaller (14.1-inches for those counting) 4710 packs a Core 2 Duo processor, a

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• Lenovo, Acer reportedly sizing up Packard Bell

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:35 pm

  Tags: Acer, Acquisition, Lenovo, Packard Bell, Packardbell

  other company in the mix is Acer which, as Reuters reports, said in April that it was planning to buy a PC company in three to five months. Recent speculation, however, has pegged Packard Bell as Acer's target, although it has yet to get as official as Lenovo with its intent.Read - Reuters, "PC makers Lenovo, Acer eyeing Packard Bell:

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• Acer's Aspire 5520 laptop looks suspiciously familiar

  Published: August 21, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: 5520, Acer, Amd, As5520, Aspire, Gemstone, Porsche, Turion

  the new "Porsche designed" Acer Aspire 5520 and thinking it looks a little bit familiar -- take heart -- you've seen this guy before, when it was called the Gemstone. Apparently, Acer has axed the Gemstone's (AKA AS5920) Intel processor, dropped in an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-58 (at 1.8GHz), and badged this baby up with a new number sequence. The

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• Acer to acquire Gateway: so long cow spots?

  Published: August 27, 2007, 7:27 am

  Tags: Acer, Acquisition, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Emachines, Gateway

  finally giving Taiwan's Acer a dominant position in the Americas to match their aggressive growth in Europe and Asia. From the looks of the press release, it would appear that the Gateway (and eMachines) brands will continue under Acer's new "multi-branded company." Fine, but could we now get rid of the cow spots, please? It's not 1985

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• Poll: Banish Gateway's spotted cow branding?

  Published: August 27, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Acer, Cow, Gateway, Poll

  morning's announcement about Acer's acquisition of Gateway left us wondering about the fate of Gateway's Holstein branding in the hands of Taiwan's Acer. Those spots were once proudly synonymous with Gateway's unexpectedly low-tech, Iowa roots -- an idea worn thin after the dot com bust. So what's your take, bring out the sledgehammer or spare

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• Gateway plans to acquire Packard Bell BV

  Published: August 27, 2007, 1:56 pm

  Tags: Acer, Gateway, Lap Shun John Hui, Lapshunjohnhui, Packard Bell Bv, Packardbellbv, Pb Holding Company, Pbholdingcompany, Right Of First Refusal, Rightoffirstrefusal

  becoming clear to us now... Acer is interested in purchasing Gateway so they can get to the diamond-in-the-rough that is Packard Bell! Very sneaky guys. Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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• Acer and China Huala Group announce Blu-ray allegiance

  Published: August 31, 2007, 8:28 am

  Tags: Acer, Blu Ray Disc Association, Blu Raydiscassociation, China, China Huala Group, Chinahualagroup, Format War, Formatwar, Ifa, Ifa 2007, Ifa2007, Piracy

  BD camp. Reportedly, both Acer and China Huala Group have joined on as hardware partners, and the latter is supposedly looking to establish a "Blu-ray Disc authoring center in China." The announcements were purportedly made by the Blu-ray Disc Association while in Berlin, and while we're not exactly sure how long Acer will make us wait for

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• Mediostream sues Apple, Acer, Dell and Gateway

  Published: September 4, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Acer, Apple, Dell, Gateway, Lawsuit, Mediostream, Patent, Patent Infringement, Patentinfringement

  by none other than Apple, Acer, Dell, and Gateway. According to The Inquirer, Mediostream says those companies infringed on patent number 7,009,655-B2, which was issued to the company on March 7, 2006 and describes a "method and system for direct recording of video information onto a disk medium." While Mediostream doesn't seem to have a

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• Before the bell: AAPL, HPQ, GM, MSFT, YHOO ...

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:25 am

  Tags: Aapl, Acer, Dell, Gtw, Hpq, Msft, Yhoo

  copyrightable under the Act. Acer Inc.'s shares fell sharply today after announcing it would acquire Gateway Inc. (NYSE: GTW) for $710 million despite pushing the combined company past China's Lenovo Group Ltd. to third place worldwide as vendor of personal computers, behind Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL). Acer may be paying

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• Acer intros new P Series widescreen LCDs

  Published: September 12, 2007, 2:36 pm

  Tags: Acer, Lcd, Monitor, P Series, Pseries

  above is in fact one of Acer's new P Series displays, which come in 19, 20, 22, and 24-inch varieties. From the looks of it, there's nothing too remarkable here, with the 19-inch P191Wd boasting a 1440 x 900 resolution and 2,000:1 contrast ratio, and the 20-inch P201Wd and 22-inch P221Wd upping things to the standard 1680 x 1050 resolution

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• Unhappy Gateway shareholders sue over Acer's buyout

  Published: September 13, 2007, 4:12 am

  Tags: Acer, Buyout, Gateway, Legal

  unhappy with the $710M Acer's paying for the company, two different groups of Gateway shareholders have filed suit, alleging that company executives should have held out for more scratch. Acer was planning using the Gateway acquisition to greatly expand its US presence, so it should be interesting to see how both companies react to these

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• Acer's next Aspire desktops to sport Blu-ray and HD DVD players

  Published: September 20, 2007, 6:20 am

  Tags: Acer, Aspire, Blu Ray, Hd Dvd, Hddvd, Rumor, Super Multi Blue, Supermultiblue

  Desktops You didn't think Acer's recent deal with the Blu-ray camp was an exclusive arrangement did you? No sir-e, not if this product sheet is to be believed. Though the details are hard to make out, those Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD logos make it pretty clear that the Aspire line-up of multimedia desktops are about to go both ways. The desktop

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• EUROASIA: Europeans Versus The Rest Of The World [VIDEO]

  Published: September 20, 2007, 8:56 am

  Tags: Ues, Energy Market, Gazprom, Edf, Monopoly, Sergei Kupriyanov, Acer, Vasily Osmakov, Gdf, Alexander Shaahin, Protectionist Policy, Bajaenergy Tv, Rwe, European Commission, Eon, Endesa

  Europe Drops Energy Curtain What s going on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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