A lot more in store
- posted by Michael Walsh on April 26th, 2010
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OK. Confession time. My contributions to this part of the site are in direct proportion to the amount of spare room I have on my desk which more or less sums up the atmosphere over at Acer HQ. Today I got a sneak preview of the Gartner results for 1Q 2010 and there’s very little between the top two brands (Acer and HP) and also I’ve seen what’s coming (and named most of it too) and can actually say that after a long stretch of CPU brags and first to market technologies, the PC market is about to become very interesting. It’s a battle and we’re definitely closing in which explains why I feel like I’ve aged 5 years this year alone!
Gianfranco Lanci on smartphones
- posted by Michael Walsh on March 23rd, 2010
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It’s not every morning you get to sit down with Gianfranco Lanci before he has breakfast and grill him on the subject of smartphones but that’s exactly what Michelle Caruso-Cabrera from CNBC did when she met up with him at the closing ceremony of the Vancouver Olympic Games on her way to the CTIA Wireless [...]
Acer neoTouch P300 Review
- posted by Michael Walsh on March 23rd, 2010
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I’ve stolen this piece so don’t yell at me. I thought it was so well written it deserved to be published here too but it’s not mine.
I got it from those very nice people over at the CLOVE BLOG and all your comments, thoughts and remarks should therefore go there. Unless you want to talk about it with TAG readers that is…
Great article guys!
If proof were needed
- posted by Michael Walsh on March 18th, 2010
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As proof, if any were needed, that my real job is hindering my plans for TheAcerGuy content, here’s a list of what I did today:
1. Product Naming PPT presentation (classified)
2. Service Naming PPT presentation (classified)
3. Website Naming PPT presentation (unrelated)
4. Timeline X ADV checks (read this for the scoop – Great work on respecting the roadmap Acer US!!!)
4. Timeline X press release (see above – looking forward to discussing this)
5. New product press release (classified – great name, he says, modestly)
6. Acer Group Staff Appraisal Guide check (Human Resources. 30 pages. – need I say more?)
7. Projectors series brochure check (yawn)
The Olympics, Acer and a whole lotta people
- posted by Michael Walsh on February 23rd, 2010
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Have you guys been following the Winter Olympics? It’s been getting some pretty good coverage where I’m from but the time delay (Vancouver’s 9 hours behind where I live) is making it hard for me to be a regular.
Which is a shame as there’s something about the Olympic Games (both winter and summer) that make them both a really special. I like the fact that they mix competition and sportsmanship, national pride and cultural equality and that every now and then they produce some truly unexpected heroes.
Quick look at the Acer Aspire One 532G
- posted by Michael Walsh on February 15th, 2010
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Check out this brand new video from the guys from Netbook News. They’re in Barcelona at the Acer stand at the MCW right now and this is a pretty good review of the Acer Aspire One 532G, the first 10-inch Netbook with Intel Atom N450 and NVIDIA Ion 2. Basically with these two little gizmos, [...]
Three updates all at once.
- posted by Michael Walsh on February 15th, 2010
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January – and the best part of February for that matter – was one hell of a month.
It started out of course with the Global Kickoff in Rome where we had to kit the hotel out, prepare all promotional material including stands, showcases, no fewer than 5 videos, too many press releases to count and a make sure everyone’s presentation was squeaky clean.
Then immediately afterwards, we had to start working on the 7 new smartphones due to be presented at MWC in Barcelona. Seven? I thought there were only four new ones… That’s right – three got canned but only after I’d written the web texts. Grrrr…
Update from CES
- posted by Michael Walsh on January 14th, 2010
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No I’m not there. But I know a man who was. John just sent me an update on the Acer Aspire 5738D 3D notebook in the Last Gadget Standing competition. And we did better than you’d think… “The Acer made the distinguished top ten at CES Last Gadget Standing. Although the Acer notebook didn’t win, [...]
Timeline 8 hour contest… And the winner is…
- posted by Michael Walsh on December 17th, 2009
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The Acer 8 hour contest has just closed and the first phase winner chosen.
If you don’t remember what this is all about, it’s a “creative competition” to win more than $20,000 in fabulous prizes, including an Aspire Timeline, a stylish Lucian Piccard watch, a Microsoft XBOX 360, a Microsoft Zune, and $1,000 in cash…
The first phase winner is Tim Ackermans…
Game reviewers wanted
- posted by Michael Walsh on December 16th, 2009
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This is the formal continuation of a thread I started over on the Facebook page.
The idea is to get the Reviews section off to a flying start with reviews of hardware, accessories and games. Right now, as many of you know, there’s a technical problem that’s preventing me from getting hardware over to (and back from) the US, where the majority of my reviewer volunteers are located. But the other two sections are outside this red tape so here’s what I had in mind to start off with.
1. First we form a list of reviewers (max 5 but I’m feeling a little generous right now).
2. We publish a wish-list of games you want to try.
