2024年3月10日发(作者：钟离彤蕊)
Lenovo Group Limited is the world's fourth largest personal computer
manufacturer after Hewlett-Packard and Dell of the U.S. and Acer of
2005, it purchased IBM's PC division.
Lenovo produces desktops, laptops, servers, handheld computers, imaging
equipment, and mobile phone handsets. Lenovo also provides information
technology integration and support services, and its QDI unit offers contract
manufacturing.
Its executive headquarters are located in Beijing, China and in Morrisville,
North Carolina, USA. It is incorporated in Hong Kong.
Lenovo makes a variety of products for world wide products
include:
Lenovo ThinkCentre desktops
Lenovo ThinkPad laptops and tablets
Lenovo ThinkStation workstations
Lenovo ThinkServer servers
IdeaCentre desktops
IdeaPad consumer-oriented laptops
Lenovo 3000 J Series desktops
Lenovo 3000 C, N, and V Series laptops
LCD and CRT monitors
ThinkVision projectors and monitors
An agreement allows Lenovo to sell IBM-branded desktops and laptops until
2010.
Ownership
As of October 31, 2008, 50.4% of Lenovo is owned by public shareholders,
42.3% by Legend Holdings Limited, 6.6% by Texas Pacific Group (TPG
Capital), General Atlantic LLC and Newbridge Capital and 0.7% by the
directors. Because the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Chinese government
agency, owns 65% of Legend Holdings, effectively the Chinese government
owns about 27% of Lenovo and is the largest shareholder.
IBM became the owner of 18.9% of Lenovo in 2005 as part of Lenovo's
acquisition of the IBM personal computing division. Since then IBM has
steadily lowered its shareholding in Lenovo. In July 2008 the IBM shareholding
went below the 5% reporting disclosure threshold. In February 2009 the CEO
Bill Amelio was replaced with Yang Yuanqing.
Marketing
Lenovo is active in making sure competitors make accurate and verifiable
marketing claiming. Recently Dell has been receiving a lot of press coverage
over its claim of having the world's most secure notebooks, specifically, its
Latitude D630 and Latitude D830.
According to a National Advertising Division report released in late June 2008,
Dell did not have enough evidence to support its claim as maker of the "world's
most secure laptops" within its marketing filed the complaint
to NAD accusing Dell of making unverified claims.
Most of the criticism made by NAD is around data encryption, both disk
encryption software and disk encryption hardware, used in Dell's commercial
notebooks. Dell uses hardware-based full disk encryption and software-based
full disk encryption from third party vendors such as Seagate Technology.
"Although NAD determined that the advertiser could truthfully advertise its
position as the first in the industry to combine these particular third-party
components in creating secure systems for large businesses, NAD observed
the distinction between the security provided to the individual computers and
the security provided to a large network of computers." "Since not all of the
components of the FDE Encryption Solution are equally relevant for all sizes of
business, NAD recommended the advertiser make this distinction to the extent
it intends to make broad security claims." "On the basis of the evidence in the
record, NAD determined that advertiser demonstrated that it offered features
of computer security that were both unique and meaningful to consumers."
Laptops with full disk encryption are expected to have data-at-rest (DAR)
protection, but still can be vulnerable to cold boot attack, a type of side channel
attack, which takes advantage of data remanence. "However, it also
determined that the broad claim 'World’s Most Secure' was not adequately
supported and was appropriately discontinued."
Name
"Lenovo" is a portmanteau of "Le-" (from Legend) and "novo", pseudo-Latin for
"new". The Chinese name means "association" or "connected thinking" but
can also imply creativity. The name was changed from Legend because it
conflicted with other trademarks registered in the West.
2024年3月10日发(作者：钟离彤蕊)
Lenovo Group Limited is the world's fourth largest personal computer
manufacturer after Hewlett-Packard and Dell of the U.S. and Acer of
2005, it purchased IBM's PC division.
Lenovo produces desktops, laptops, servers, handheld computers, imaging
equipment, and mobile phone handsets. Lenovo also provides information
technology integration and support services, and its QDI unit offers contract
manufacturing.
Its executive headquarters are located in Beijing, China and in Morrisville,
North Carolina, USA. It is incorporated in Hong Kong.
Lenovo makes a variety of products for world wide products
include:
Lenovo ThinkCentre desktops
Lenovo ThinkPad laptops and tablets
Lenovo ThinkStation workstations
Lenovo ThinkServer servers
IdeaCentre desktops
IdeaPad consumer-oriented laptops
Lenovo 3000 J Series desktops
Lenovo 3000 C, N, and V Series laptops
LCD and CRT monitors
ThinkVision projectors and monitors
An agreement allows Lenovo to sell IBM-branded desktops and laptops until
2010.
Ownership
As of October 31, 2008, 50.4% of Lenovo is owned by public shareholders,
42.3% by Legend Holdings Limited, 6.6% by Texas Pacific Group (TPG
Capital), General Atlantic LLC and Newbridge Capital and 0.7% by the
directors. Because the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Chinese government
agency, owns 65% of Legend Holdings, effectively the Chinese government
owns about 27% of Lenovo and is the largest shareholder.
IBM became the owner of 18.9% of Lenovo in 2005 as part of Lenovo's
acquisition of the IBM personal computing division. Since then IBM has
steadily lowered its shareholding in Lenovo. In July 2008 the IBM shareholding
went below the 5% reporting disclosure threshold. In February 2009 the CEO
Bill Amelio was replaced with Yang Yuanqing.
Marketing
Lenovo is active in making sure competitors make accurate and verifiable
marketing claiming. Recently Dell has been receiving a lot of press coverage
over its claim of having the world's most secure notebooks, specifically, its
Latitude D630 and Latitude D830.
According to a National Advertising Division report released in late June 2008,
Dell did not have enough evidence to support its claim as maker of the "world's
most secure laptops" within its marketing filed the complaint
to NAD accusing Dell of making unverified claims.
Most of the criticism made by NAD is around data encryption, both disk
encryption software and disk encryption hardware, used in Dell's commercial
notebooks. Dell uses hardware-based full disk encryption and software-based
full disk encryption from third party vendors such as Seagate Technology.
"Although NAD determined that the advertiser could truthfully advertise its
position as the first in the industry to combine these particular third-party
components in creating secure systems for large businesses, NAD observed
the distinction between the security provided to the individual computers and
the security provided to a large network of computers." "Since not all of the
components of the FDE Encryption Solution are equally relevant for all sizes of
business, NAD recommended the advertiser make this distinction to the extent
it intends to make broad security claims." "On the basis of the evidence in the
record, NAD determined that advertiser demonstrated that it offered features
of computer security that were both unique and meaningful to consumers."
Laptops with full disk encryption are expected to have data-at-rest (DAR)
protection, but still can be vulnerable to cold boot attack, a type of side channel
attack, which takes advantage of data remanence. "However, it also
determined that the broad claim 'World’s Most Secure' was not adequately
supported and was appropriately discontinued."
Name
"Lenovo" is a portmanteau of "Le-" (from Legend) and "novo", pseudo-Latin for
"new". The Chinese name means "association" or "connected thinking" but
can also imply creativity. The name was changed from Legend because it
conflicted with other trademarks registered in the West.