Asustek Computer expects to introduce new features for its Eee PC range including "whole-day" battery life and Internet storage.
Despite all the advances and expected job growth in the computer industry, expect the number of programmers to increase by about 2% between 2004-2014.
A year after the Thailand flooding disaster partially derailed production, the global hard disk drive (HDD) industry has fully recovered, with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year, driven by the enterprise market as well as the arrival of the Windows 8 operating system.
In the meantime two accounting supervisors are wiring the alternative formula into 50 new control panels for the computers; they expect to finish the job by Mar. 25 when the machines must start on the first April payroll.
The conference produced news of the first actual Bluetooth-enabled products, including cards from Motorola mot that IBM ibm and Toshiba will use to Bluetooth-ify notebook computers, expected out by at least the end of this year.
The computer maker also expects fourth-quarter earnings to grow 22% to 28 cents per share, matching a First Call estimate, and revenue to grow 18% to $11.5 billion.
PAGE C1 FEARS OF SMALL COMPUTERS The personal computer industry expects to sell tens of millions of low-cost, small, energy-efficient devices intended largely for surfing Web sites and checking e-mail.
While the move had been expected, education officials disclosed yesterday that not all of the costs of developing the site and deploying the computer hardware were expected to be covered by a separate board-associated commercial site that would generate revenue through advertising and corporate sponsorships.
The computer maker is expected to report after the market closes that it lost 11 cents a share, according to First Call.
Along with an expanding world economy, the computer market is expected to improve in both 2010 and 2011 in consumer and corporate segments.
