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• Preview: Acer Iconia A510

  The Acer Iconia Tab A510 promises 15 hours of battery life.

• Acer Q1 profit falls by 72 per cent

  Taiwanese PC maker Acer's first-quarter net profit dropped 72.1 per cent year-on-year, while revenue slumped 11.4 percent.

• Acer ships desktops with quad-core Ivy Bridge chips

  Acer on Monday started shipping desktops that are among the first PCs available with Intel's third-generaton Core processors, code-named Ivy Bridge.

• Acer announces first quad-core tablet Iconia Tab A510

  Acer has announced the Iconia Tab A510 tablet with Android 4.0, joining the growing market of device makers releasing quad-core tablets.

• What do you get with an ultrabook?

  A new category of thin and light Windows 7 laptops called ultrabooks has emerged in the past few months, but questions remain about whether the time is ripe to buy or to wait for Windows 8 models with features like touchscreens.

• Hands-on with Huawei's MediaPad 10 FHD

  The much-rumored Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD got a soft launch at about the same time the company was announcing its Ascend D series of smartphones.

• Lenovo looks to build brand as it reaches for top PC vendor spot

  China's Lenovo, already a top brand in its home country, is focused on becoming a household name in major foreign markets as the company faces the prospect of becoming the world's largest PC vendor for the first time in its history.

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  Acer upgrades Iconia Tab tablets to Android 4.0

  Acer is upgrading all of its Iconia Tab tablets to Google's latest Android 4.0 OS, with updates due to be completed by the end of April, the company said.

• Google looks for fix to Chromebook Wi-Fi 'disconnect bugs'

  Google is making changes to its Chrome OS to reduce the number of times that Chromebooks drop their connections to Wi-Fi networks, an issue some users have complained about for months.

• Acer sees profit in Q4 after reporting losses in previous two quarters

  Acer reported fourth quarter profit of US$2.4 million, a financial turnaround after the company faced back-to-back losses in the previous two quarters.

• Acer sues former CEO Lanci for breach of contract

  Acer has sued its former CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci in Italian courts for allegedly violating a non-compete clause, the company said Tuesday.

• Apple drubs all rivals in U.S. system shipment gains

  Apple was the only top-five computer maker to post shipment gains in the U.S. during the final quarter of 2011, a pair of research firms said this week.

• Android device makers chase Apple with cloud strategies

  The importance of bundling services and software with mobile devices is finally resonating with Android device makers as they compete with Apple, and some of them outlined their cloud strategies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

• Buyers hang on for cheaper, faster Windows 8 ultrabooks

  Ultrabooks are attracting admirers at the Consumer Electronics Show, but some attendees are waiting to buy the thin laptops until prices drop and Windows 8 is released later this year.

• Nvidia shows quad-core tablet prototype running Windows 8

  LAS VEGAS -- Nvidia showed tablets using its Tegra 3 quad-core processors at CES, including a developer prototype that was running Windows 8.