Lenovo US news

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – May 15, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today at its Accelerate Channel Partner Conference in Las Vegas previewed the upcoming ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop, the lightest 14-inch Ultrabook™ in the industry.1 With an amazingly thin and extremely powerful design, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon shatters the mold of traditional laptops. Also today, Lenovo announced a new portfolio of ThinkPad laptops in the T, X, L and W Series built to power small businesses, government agencies, educational institutions and large corporations. The laptops range from models designed for extreme portability to mobile workstation performance.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (BUSINESS WIRE), May 14, 2012 - Lenovo (HKSE: 0992)(PINK SHEETS: LNVGY) today announced the Lenovo ThinkStation E31, an entry-level workstation for professionals requiring a powerful desktop workstation within a PC budget. Offered as a mini-tower or small form factor (SFF) both include choices of the latest speedy Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 along with enhanced memory performance and graphics capabilities.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (BUSINESS WIRE), May 14, 2012 - Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) (PINK SHEETS: LNVGY) today announced two new additions to the ThinkServer family—the ThinkServer RD530 and RD630 rack servers. Designed to easily integrate into existing IT infrastructures that handle complex workloads, the servers deliver the powerful processing power and memory capacity needed for compute-intensive deployments such as cloud and virtualized environments. Intelligent power consumption features help deliver a 160 percent improvement in performance per watt compared to previous generation Lenovo servers complement the servers’ raw horsepower. Additionally, built-in full redundancy reduces 90 percent of server downtime due to single point system failure, making the new ThinkServers ideal for IT departments needing high performance, scalability and high availability for even the most demanding applications.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (BUSINESS WIRE), May 09, 2012 - Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) (PINK SHEETS: LNVGY) today announced its new ThinkCentre M92p “tiny” desktop PC, the industry’s first Intel® vPro™ Technology enabled one-litre desktop measuring just the width of a golf ball (34.5 mm). The ThinkCentre M92p, along with the new M72e tiny desktops, exhibits an innovative tiny form factor allowing it to fit in practically any space while maintaining first-class productivity with up to 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ vPro processors.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (BUSINESS WIRE), May 09, 2012 -
Lenovo
(HKSE: 0992) (PINK SHEETS: LNVGY) today announced a new series of
ThinkCentre M and Edge Series desktops and all-in-ones (AIOs) designed
to fit the needs of today’s demanding business environment via a range
of models featuring a blend of essential features, powerful performance
and affordable technology. The new desktops and AIOs not only include
the upcoming 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors for
powerful performance, but also feature the latest in Lenovo design and
performance innovations including intelligent cooling methods and
productive multi-screen functionality.

May 8, 2012—Lenovo Group launched the K-series Lenovo Smart TV products for the China market at a press conference in Beijing today. With today's announcement, Lenovo is now offering products across all four screens -- personal computer, tablet, smart phone and smart TV -- that define the company's long-term "PC-Plus" strategy.

Beijing – May 7, 2012: Lenovo Group and the Wuhan government today held a groundbreaking ceremony for the establishment of the Lenovo (Wuhan) Industrial Base. The site will include integrated facilities for mobile Internet product R&D, production and sales. The new facility will help drive Lenovo’s innovation capability in the field of mobile Internet and optimize its global supply chain, helping the Company to develop and deliver new mobile internet products and bring them to its customers even faster. Total investment over the next five years is expected to be approximately RMB5 billion, and the facility will begin operations in October 2013.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – May 3, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and VeriFone Systems, Inc. (NYSE: PAY) today announced the ThinkPad Mobile POS, a complete mobile point of sale (POS) platform for retail outlets built on the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet and a custom version of VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile Enterprise for Tablet payment solution. With the ThinkPad Mobile POS, retailers can easily configure, customize and manage an end-to-end point of sale platform that  delivers a more efficient and flexible alternative than stationary cash registers, helping to create new revenue opportunities for retailers, and improving the shopping experience for customers.

WHITSETT, NC – May 2, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today marked completion of an expansion project at its U.S. Fulfillment Center (USFC) here, which was undertaken in response to rapid growth of the company’s business in North America, particularly in the consumer PC market. Volume handled through the Center has more than doubled since its opening in 2008, while employment has grown over 40 percent.

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – April 26, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) (ADR: LNVGY) today launched its latest effort to eliminate slow boot up times with Lenovo Enhanced Experience 3 (EE3) for Windows 7. As the third version of an exclusive certification only available on Lenovo Think and Idea-branded PCs, EE3 certified products feature supreme Windows start-up performance and other optimization features. Lenovo EE3 will come standard on a wide range of Think and Idea-branded PCs4 shipping beginning in April.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – April 4, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced the ThinkCentre Edge 91z has earned the prestigious 2012 red dot “best of the best” product design award, the highest distinction from one of the largest design competitions in the world. 

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – April 3, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced the ThinkStation S30, C30 and D30 - three new workstations equipped with the latest Intel® Xeon® E5 processors that improve productivity and reliability. These latest ThinkStations boast upgraded functionally and innovative design, while delivering a quiet, reliable and powerful solution that meet the heavy computing demands of specialized professionals in computer-aided design (CAD) and engineering, film and animation, financial services and healthcare. With faster memory and enhanced energy-efficiency, ThinkStation users will benefit from the improved speed, empowering them to do more – more quickly. 

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – March 27, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced its first enterprise app shop – the Lenovo Enterprise App Shop - to bring end-to-end mobile app services to large businesses, enabling custom management, deployment and publication as well as volume pricing. The Lenovo Enterprise App Shop makes it simple for corporate users to access and use productivity apps on their Lenovo tablet or other Android-based tablet (version 3.1 and higher). 

Washington, DC (March 22, 2012) –  YouTube, Lenovo, and Space Adventures today announced the two global winners of YouTube Space Lab (youtube.com/spacelab), the worldwide science competition that challenged 14-18 year-olds to design a science experiment that can be performed in space.  Amr Mohamed from Egypt (17-18 year old age group) and Dorothy Chen and Sara Ma from the U.S. (14-16 year old age group) were awarded the honor at a ceremony in Washington, DC, attended by members of Space Lab partners including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).  The students will have their experiments conducted by astronauts 250 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and live streamed to the world on a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop via YouTube later this year.

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – March 13, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and SugarSync today announced Lenovo Cloud Storage by SugarSync, the first Cloud storage service to be integrated as an out-of-box experience broadly on Lenovo’s PCs and tablets. Lenovo and SugarSync are working together to offer an industry-leading cloud service so consumers can access, sync and backup their files, photos, music and movies across their devices. Lenovo Cloud Storage by SugarSync will be available on new Lenovo ThinkPad and IdeaPad laptops and Android tablet products worldwide outside of China starting in April. The ability to download Lenovo Cloud Storage by SugarSync is available beginning today.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – March 9, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced that it is expanding its relationship with The Harpeth Hall School for girls in Nashville, Tennessee through a contribution that will elevate The Center for STEM Education for Girls to an international scale. This partnership will provide the needed resources to collect and disseminate research in best practices in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) classrooms at the secondary level, to attract international researchers and educators to an annual STEM conference, and to provide scholarship funds for both educators and students to participate in the Center’s STEM Think Tank and Conference and Summer Institute.

 
Petach-Tikva, Israel. February 27, 2012 - Lenovo Group announced today its commitment to invest in Vertex Venture Capital’s new VC fund as part of Lenovo’s strategy to strengthen its presence in Israel. The Company will make a significant investment in Vertex Venture Capital to pursue new development opportunities in the areas of fixed and mobile broadband communications, digital media technology and applications, enterprise IT and infrastructure and greentech.

San Bruno, California (February 22, 2012) –  YouTube, Lenovo, and Space Adventures today announced the six regional winners of YouTube Space Lab (youtube.com/spacelab), the global science competition that challenged 14-18 year-olds to design a science experiment that can be performed in space.  In cooperation with space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Space Lab will provide two global winners the chance to have their experiment conducted and live streamed to the world using a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop from the International Space Station on YouTube.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – February 10, 2012: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced its first Ultrabook, the IdeaPad U300s, won a Gold Product Design Award from the 2012 International Forum (iF). The iF receives more than 2,000 product entries from around the globe, and the top award winners are bestowed with a Gold Award, known as the "Design Oscar.”