Acer + Gateway = The New Picture of Global PC Market

As you may know already, Taiwan PC manufacturer Acer has bought the struggling US PC maker Gateway in a $1 billion deal. The sale will change the ranking of the global PC market. Let's have a look of the global PC market in 2006 first:

• Dell - 17.1% market share
• HP - 17%
• Lenovo - 7.3%
• Acer - 5.9%
• Toshiba - 4%
• Fujitsu/Siemens - 3.7%
• Apple - 2.5%
• Gateway - 2.2%
• NEC - 2.2%
• Sony - 1.7%

With Gateway, Acer will be the third largest PC vendor next year and overtake Lenovo.

In New Zealand, we have a different view of the market. According to IDC, HP toke 36% of the market share in Q2, 2007 and Acer was already the No. 2, followed by Dell.

What's your preference? However, I'm using a Dell desktop and Sony laptop at the moment. Will I buy an Acer, may be not.

Top 5 Search Engines for August 2007

According to Nielsen//NetRatings, the top search engines for August 2007 were (US data):

• Google - 54% market share, 4.2 billion searches
  
• Yahoo! - 20% market share, 1.6 billion searches
• MSN/Windows Live - 13% market share, 1.0 billion searches
• AOL - 6% market share, 435 million searches
• Ask.com - 2% market share, 137 million searches

The New Zealand data is not available, but Google has usually high market share in NZ and AU, around 90%.

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

It's a very cool video illustrating the web world.

Will It Blend? - iPhone

The PRADA phone by LG arrives New Zealand

Are you sick of waiting the iPhone? Are you a big fan of PRADA? Do you want a phone that not many people have? The LG PRADA phone is here - in NZ. Vodafone NZ has brought in 420 units and only available from Vodafone online store. The price is NZ$1,299 (although you could buy it from parallel importers at a much cheaper price). Will I buy it? Not really, I'd rather wait for the USD$399 iPhone.

All New iPod Product Line

As we all knew (you should know already), Apple has released all new iPod product line today. Let's have a quick look of their features and prices.

iPod shuffle

• Capacity - 1GB
• Price - NZ$129
• Display - none
  
• Battery life - up to 12 hours

iPod nano

• Capacity - 4GB, 8GB
• Price - NZ$239 for 4GB, NZ$329 for 8GB
• Display: 2"
• Battery life - up to 24 hours of audio, up to 5 hours of video

iPod classic

• Capacity - 80GB, 160GB
• Price - NZ$399 for 80GB, NZ$549 for 160GB
• Display: 2.5"
• Battery life - up to 40 hours of audio, up to 7 hours of video

iPod touch

• Capacity - 8GB, 16GB
• Price - NZ$479 for 8GB, NZ$649 for 16GB
• Display: 3.5"
• Battery life - up to 40 hours of audio, up to 7 hours of video