Lenovo Targets Rural China With Basic PC
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| Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday it will sell a basic personal computer aimed at
| China's vast but poor rural market and priced as low as $199.
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-China-Lenovo-Cheap-PC.html?ex=1343793600&en=7d8ff5a00c3ed57c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
US needs to increase piracy to decrease Vista pricing
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| Well, in China Microsoft has dropped their prices on Windows Vista by as much
| as 67%. Of course they hope that at least some people will buy their product
| legally if the price is lower, but is this such a good idea, and how will
| this effect pricing in the rest of the world?
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http://itsvista.com/2007/08/us-needs-to-increase-piracy-to-decrease-vista-pricing/
A bare-bone (uncrippled) O/S that is more expensive than a computer? This is
why Microsoft must change. Pay-as-you-go Windows won't fly. Nor will adverts.
That's why Microsoft tries to make Linux not free. Watch the huge number of
Linux PCs that China is now offering (making the OLPC less necessary).
Yesterday:
China remains cautious about One Laptop Per Child
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| China's slow response may be a case of wait and see what happens as a stream
| alternatives begin to appear in the low cost computing market. The OLPC is
| not the only contender in this arena. Let us consider some of the others.
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http://shanghaiist.com/2007/08/02/china_remains_c.php
Related:
Red Hat sees FY07 greater China sales up 100 pct
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| Red Hat Inc., a distributor of open-source Linux software, expects its
| sales in the greater China region to double in fiscal 2007 and grow by
| 85 percent in fiscal 2008, an executive said on Tuesday. "Our plan is to
| have 100 percent growth this year, and 85 percent growth next year,"
| Michael Chen, general manager of Red Hat China, told Reuters in an
| interview.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060926:MTFH04213_2006-09-26_06-26-12_SHA306441&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/rdrsg
Linux gains ground in China
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| Linux has been riding on a wave in China, topping the growth of all operating
| systems in the first quarter of 2007, says an industry analyst.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/specialreports/0,39044853,62028679,00.htm
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