Monday, November 16, 2009

Article on Panasonic Laptops...



Type:
Public, TYO: 6752, NYSE: PC

Founded:
Osaka, Japan (1918)
Kadoma, Osaka, Japan

Key people:
Konosuke Matsushita, Founder,Kunio Nakamura, Chairman, Fumio Ohtsubo, President

Industry:
Consumer Electronics

Products:
AVC networks, Home appliances, Components and devices, digital cameras, others

Revenue:
▼7,765,510 Million Yen (US$ 77.2 billion) (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2009)

Operating income:
▼-181,643 Million Yen (US$-1.92 billion) (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2009)

Net income:
▼-419,992 Million Yen (US$-4.43 billion) (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2009)

Total assets:
$64.830 billion (2009)

Employees:
292,250 (Consolidated, as of March 31, 2009)

Website:
Panasonic Global

Article on Samsung Laptops....



Samsung Sens is the notebook computer series made by Samsung Electronics. Samsung notebooks are designed similarly to the Dell Latitude series.


Series Of Samsung

There are seven series of Sens laptops:

1) M
2) N
3) P
4) Q
5) R
6) X
7) G

1) M Series

M series includes laptop computers with large screens (17"~19") and faster processors(Core 2 Duo), graphic cards, etc. For example: M50, M55, M70.



2) N Series

N is Samsung's newly launched netbook line-up, with the emphasis on keeping size, weight and cost to a minimum. The first N-series model worldwide is the Sens NC10.


3) P Series

P Sens was a mainstream notebook - a kind that is noted with the characteristics of being fair in price, heavy, short in battery life, and thick.

4) Q Series

This series is an ultraportable, or at least they are quite light laptops. It has the characteristics of portable laptops: long battery life, small screen size, rather thin and light. Q series includes
Q30
Q40(Core Solo), Q35(Core 2 Duo or Celeron M), and UMPCs,
Q1 and Q1 Ultra.
Recently, the 13.3" screen Q70 was released bringing a new maximum screen size into the Q range. Both the Q70 and 12.1"
Q45 introduce the Santa Rosa platform in Samsung notebooks.


5) R Series

This is the new mainstream line-up after P. It includes somewhat heavier and faster laptops, in fair prices. Its models include
R45, R50,
R65, etc.(discontinued) or R40(budget Core 2 Duo laptop),
R55/R70(high-end),
R19/R20.


6) X Series

This Sens is a thin and light notebook - a kind that shares the characteristics of an ultraportable with exception of being heavier, wider in screen size, and stronger in processing power. It is around 14 inches, such as X06, X1(discontinued) and X11(Core 2 Duo).


7) G Series

G models, which are laptops without batteries, or to be exact, mobile desktops. It is a budget PC series being very heavy in weight and low processing power.
It has two models, G10 and G15.

Article on Gateway Laptops...



Type:
Subsidiary of Acer

Founded:
September 5, 1985 (as Gateway 2000) (Sioux City, Iowa)

Headquarters:
Irvine, California, USA

Key people:
J. Edward Coleman,D. Snyder, ChairmanTed Waitt, Co-Founder Mike Hammond, Co-Founder

Industry:
Computer hardware

Products:
Desktops, Laptops, Servers.

Revenue:
▲ US$ 3.980 billion

Parent:
Acer Inc.

Website:
gateway.com

Article on Toshiba Laptops....



Type:
Corporation TYO: 6502, (LSE: TOS)

Founded:
1939 (merger)

Headquarters:
Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Key people:
Hisashige Tanaka, Founder of Shibaura Engineering Works,Ichisuke Fujioka and Shoichi Miyosi, Founders of Tokyo Electric,Atsutoshi Nishida, CEO

Products:
Digital products, Electronic devices & components, Social Infrastructure, Home appliances, and others

Revenue:
▼¥6,654 billion (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2009)

Net income:
▼¥-343.6 billion (Fiscal year ended March 31, 2009)

Website: Toshiba Worldwide

Article on Fijitsu Laptops...



Type: Public (TYO: 6702)

Founded: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan(Incorporated 1935)

Headquarters: Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Key people: Mazuka (Chairman),
Koichi Hironishi (Senior EVP, Services Business Group),
Tatsuo Tomita (Senior EVP, Products Business Group),
Richard Christou (President, Global Business Group)

Industry: Computer hardware,Computer software,IT services,
ITconsulting


Revenue:
▼ US$46.714 billion (2009)

Operating income:
▼ ¥68.7 billion (FY 2008)

Net income:
▼ US$1.118 billion (2009)

Total assets:
▼ $32.621 billion (2009)

Employees:
165,612 (September 2008)

Website: fujitsu.com

Article on Sony Laptops...



Type: Public(TYO: 6758)(NYSE: SNE)

Founded: 1946 in Japan

Founder(s): Masaru Ibuka,Akio Morita

Headquarters: Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Area served: Worldwide

Key people Howard Stringer (Chairman, President & CEO),
Ryoji Chubachi (Vice Chairman),Nobuyuki Oneda
(Executive Vice President and CFO)

Industry Consumer electronics,Entertainment

Products: Consumer & professional electronic equipments,
Communication & information-related equipments,
Semiconductor,Electronic devices & components
Battery,Chemicals,Sony Pictures Entertainment,
SonyMusic,PlayStation,Blu-Ray

Services: Financial services,Internet service

Revenue:
▼¥ 7.730 trillion ($78.877 billion U.S. (Fiscal Year Ended 31 March 2009)

Operating income:
▼ ¥ −227.8 billion

Net income:
▼ ¥ −98.9 billion

Total assets:
▲ US$ 230.5Billion (2009)

Total equity:
▲ US$ 50 Billion (2009)

Employees: 180,500 (as of March 2008)[1]

Website: sony.net

Article on Dell Laptops...



Type: PublicNASDAQ: DELLHKEX: 4331

Founded: Austin, TX, USA(November 4, 1984 as "PC's Limited")

Founder(s): Michael Dell

Headquarters: Round Rock, TX, USA

Area served: Worldwide

Key people: Michael S. Dell(Chairman & CEO)

Industry: Computer Systems, Computer Peripherals,
Computer Software,ConsultingIT Services

Products: Desktops,Servers,Notebooks,Netbooks,Peripherals,
Printers,Televisions,Scanners,Storage.

Revenue:
▲ $ 61.101 Billion (2009)

Operating income:
▲ $ 3.190 billion (2009)

Net income:
▲ $ 2.478 billion (2009)[1]

Total assets:
▼ $ 26.500 billion (2009)

Total equity:
▲ $ 4.271 billion (2009)[1]

Employees: 76,500 (2009)

Website: Dell.com