Knowledge Is Power

  Unknown is whether the Acer brand will continue to become popular in the U.S. In today’s conference call about the Gateway acquisition, Acer President Gianfranco Lanci said he plans to keep all three brands (that’s Acer, Gateway and eMachines). But it hasn’tContinue Reading >

Acer has been around since the 1970s, though I remember the brand most from the 1990s, when I bought my first computer. It was one of the companies that attempted to add color and design to the personal computer, hiring Frog Designs toContinue Reading >

Stan Shih was more than a typical business executive or a computer expert.  Instead, Shih is one of the few executives who made an effective transition between the very different worlds of engineering/computer programing and multi-billion dollar business executive.  Shih’s significance to theContinue Reading >

People who read this blog are probably familiar with Acer, which seemed to spring out of nowhere in the past two years. We all “oohhed and ahhed” at its hot Ferrari laptops (on right), inspired by the Formula One race car. Continue Reading >