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…
Sustainable Coastlines update (November 2009)
- posted by Michael Walsh on November 30th, 2009
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Dear Michael, I’ve been so busy picking up rubbish that I haven’t had time to fill you in on those busy weeks leading up to the event. The cleanup was a great success and now it’s time to tell you about how we made it happen. It all started with mapping the rubbish… RUBBISH MAPPING [...]
Earthrace – the new challenge.
- posted by Michael Walsh on November 3rd, 2009
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Remember my involvement with the Earthrace initiative? Well first of all, here’s what Earthrace has become:
The reason I’m writing is that we’ve finally managed to start the bureaucratic ball rolling and are leaping through hoops of fire to try and get them some Acer Timeline notebooks in time for departure.
Getting Acer involved in this is no ordinary feat. The Acer Guy will always be a safety net for any involvement in this but you’ve got to admit this is one hell of politically charged mission: In Pete’s own words, “there will certainly be some risks involved and hopefully we will come back in one piece“. You can just imagine the looks on the faces of the suits in Acer when this proposal lands on their desk for approval later on today.
New Acer Smartphone site!
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 18th, 2009
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After a very busy (and slightly rushed if we’re honest) development schedule, I’m happy to announce the latest arrival to the Acer collection of mini-websites, acer.com/mobile.
This is where we’re going to be showcasing all the latest info on Acer’s new smartphone line up, which for now includes the beTouch E100/101, beTouch E200 and neoTouch (or newTouch if you live in the US or France). You’ll notice the Liquid is a dead banner at the moment, because I haven’t had time to write the content yet!!!
Give me a couple of days…
Anyway, make sure you sign up to the Acer Community and check out the Spinlets feature as this is going to be a really cool app on the Android phones as well as the urFooz cards.
Acer overtakes Dell as world’s number two PC vendor
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 17th, 2009
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Who’d have thought I’d be sitting here in my creative bunker writing this post so soon after my last one?
Well, obviously Gianfranco Lanci did as he’s been dropping hints everywhere.
If you take a look at this chart from those number crunchers over at Gartner, you’ll notice that something very important has happened:
The 2009 Global Press Conference
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 16th, 2009
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You see it just wasn’t gonna happen…
It’d be great to have enough time to actually see some of the events you help create but while the senior management were strutting their stuff and answering some very intelligent questions form the journalists in London last week, I was busy putting the finishing touches to no fewer than 9 different projects.
But for those of you (like me) who didn’t make it, and want to know what was said, here’s a selection of videos I’ve just been pointed to.
Oh, and FWIW I still have those 9 projects on my desk…
VOLUNTARY SAFETY RECALL
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 13th, 2009
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**VERY IMPORTANT** Yesterday I was browsing through various Acer websites looking at the Service & Support pages and I noticed that on every page no matter what country I looked on there was a message for Acer Aspire Aspire3410(AS3410) or Acer Aspire 3810 (AS3810T or TG or TGZ) owners. I clicked and discovered that there’s [...]
Win an Aspire Timeline!
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 7th, 2009
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OK, I admit it: I’m taking this straight off the page of PR Web.
Acer’s New Video Contest Celebrates its New Aspire Timeline Notebook ‘Show Us What You Can do with Eight Hours Plus of Power?’
In what promises to be its most exciting National video competition yet, Acer is inviting consumers to illustrate, through their own original short film entries, what they’d do with the creativity, versatility and freedom the new Acer Aspire Timeline Notebook gives them with its unparalleled eight-plus hours of power from a single charge.
Acer and Trees For Life
- posted by Michael Walsh on October 6th, 2009
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I was just looking through the Acer Australia site looking for contact details for one of The Acer Guy readers and stumbled across this. Before you start sending me questions about where and when, this is the first I’ve heard of it so maybe it’s related to an Acer Australia initiative which, if true, puts [...]
