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- Stealth iPhones: Stockpiled at Quanta's Fremont warehouse?
- Stealth iPhones: Stockpiled at Quanta's Fremont warehouse?iPhones are made in China?Hehe, how humiliating for all those Mac zealots who say that PCs are inferior because they are made in China. :)Does anyone care?Does seeing them in their shipping crates change anything?"Darn they saw them. May as well just give them...
- Tags: Desktops, made-in-China, Apple iPhone, Quanta
- Discussion threads 2008-06-07
- Stealth iPhones: Stockpiled at Quanta's Fremont warehouse?
- Forbes Brian Caulfield, who's been tracking the mystery phones' progress from China to the U.S., has posted some pictures of piles of unmarked boxes sitting alongside boxes of iMacs in the parking lot of a Quanta distribution facility in Fremont, CA., located between Apple's Cupertino HQ and the...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Box, 3G, Quanta, Fremont, Forbes, Apple iPhone, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- Quanta rumored to manufacture G2 iPhone
- Two financial newspapers out of Taiwan, Commercial Times and Economic Daily News, reported on 29 May that Quanta Computer Inc. has been awarded a contract to manufacture the second generation iPhone. According to the report Quanta will manufacture 5 million handsets beginning in September 2007.The reports added that "the second-generation...
- Tags: iPhone, Rumor
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Quanta to build the $100 dollar laptop
- Quanta to build the $100 dollar laptopThere is already enough FREEsoftware available to do what 99.9% of the world wants to do on a PC. This hideous development of nothing new software and the practice of convincing people they need to upgrade every three years is nothing but a...
- Tags: INTERNET, Notebooks, IT industry, laptop computer, Quanta
- Discussion threads 2005-12-13
Additional Resources
- The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?
- The message out of Computex this week is loud and clear: The Netbooks are coming. Intel is touting its Atom processor. Acer is on the board with its Aspire one. Microsoft is adapting Windows to the Netbook market. Nvidia says Netbooks will be graphics intensive. The big question: Are buyers...
- Tags: Computex, Device, Acer Inc., Smartphone, Laptop Computer, Netbooks, Computing Device, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- What Microsoft's Been Missing from its Small Business Telephony Play
- Microsoft announced today that it was teaming up with Cbeyond, Inc., and New Global Telecom, Inc. NGT, to combine their digital voice services with Response Point, Microsoft's specification for small offices PBXs. ResponsePoint systems are distinguished by a blue button on the handset. Pressing the button...
- Tags: Cbeyond Inc., Phone, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., ResponsePoint, ResponsePoint System, Telecom & Utilities, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Would you roll out Mac clones?
- The nearly-phantom company Psystar has been getting a lot of attention lately as it claims to be selling fully compatible "Mac Clones." Obviously, their implementation is in clear violation of Apple's EULA and I can't imagine that much will come of this particular company once Apple sues it into...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Tiny notebooks from Dell and HP marching their way to your lap
- ...and it will be a veritable boxing match to see which one comes out on top. In this corner, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC: now available for sale to the public, with five models priced between $499 and $849. Here are some stats: 2.6...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Notebook Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Report: PC demand, chip inventory seems to be normal
- Are concerns about PC demand and inventory builds overblown? A report from Bear Stearns makes the case that PC demand is tracking normal seasonal patterns. According to a research report by Bear Stearns, the PC supply chain indicates a roughly balanced state of affairs. The big takeaways:...
- Tags: PC, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., Chip, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- An Ed Tech laptop rant
- Sorry, folks...as much as I am a supporter of cheap laptops and hardware for kids in developing countries and wherever else it makes sense to have them, I'm fed up with the religion, the politics, and the ridiculous misconceptions that surround them. I'm afraid it's time for a good...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Programming, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Quanta Computers, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Linux, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- OLPC's Negroponte seeks truce with Intel and deal with Microsoft
- During a presentation at the Consumer Electronic Show this afternoon, One Laptop Per Child's Nicholas Negroponte didn't address the recent rift between Intel and his organization. Nicholas Negroponte and his baby, the OLPC Intel recently unhooked itself from the OLPC board of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Kompozer is easy and free
- A reader of Monday's post, How do I make a website, sent me an email suggesting that I look at Kompozer instead of NVU (a free, if limited WYSIWYG editor I mentioned in that post). Since I had a choice between finishing my numerical analysis homework and trying out...
- Tags: HTML, Tool, Kompozer, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Apple's most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possible
- Apple filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday and outlined a few notable items: A list of most valuable vendors, a second corporate campus on tap, component costs and a potential raise for Steve Jobs. Among the highlights: The company outlined its most valuable...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Mr., Campus, Company, Research & Development, Benefits, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Negroponte's laptop finally in production
- Those $100 $200 laptops from Nick Negroponte are finally rolling off the production line at Quanta, the Taiwanese manufacturer of One Laptop Per Child's breakthrough XO laptops. OLPC says Quanta is currently producing 15,000 per month but that those numbers will rise. ...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, XO, Wayan Vota, G1G1, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-07
- OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass production
- Quanta Computer has started mass production of the XO Laptop, the flagship computer of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project. Production began on Tuesday. The laptops are being manufactured in Changshu, China. Quanta said that XO volume will ramp up "over time." In a nutshell,...
- Tags: Quanta Computer Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Microsoft Response Point phone software for small businesses set to RTM
- Microsoft is expected to announce on October 2 that it has released to manufacturing (RTM'd) that its Response Point small-business phone-system software, according to sources close to the company. Response Point, the product formerly codenamed "Edinburgh," will be brought to market by handset vendors. It is targeted...
- Tags: Phone, Uniden, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Response Point, Home Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Office, Networking, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Engineering the 10 TB notebook drive
- Engineering the 10 TB notebook driveEvery 2 years?"Disk capacities double about every 2 years"It's possible you're right but I just got my 300 GB drive because prices dropped when the 500 GB drive came out about 6 months later a 1 TB drive came out. That was over a span...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage management, TB notebook, disk, SATA II, GB Drive, platter, storage, NAS, hard drive, EIDE, notebook
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Supreme Court hears patent case
- The Supreme Court granted certiorari to hear arguments in a case in which Taiwanese manufacturers - led by Quanta Computer - have accused their South Korean rival of using its patents to "shake down the entire computer industry for several billion dollars in duplicative licensing fees," the Associated Press reports....
- Tags: Patent, LG Electronics Inc., U.S. Supreme Court, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Busting deceptive benchmark charts (AMD this time) is necessary, but ultimately is not a solution
- Busting deceptive benchmark charts AMD this time is necessary, but ultimately is not a solutionThis will be correctedjust as soon as hard drive manufacturers learn what a gigabyte is . . . IOW don't hold your breath.Will AMD out-flank the iPhone?Prior to the iPhone release, there were about 30 negative...
- Tags: ZD-Net, journalism business, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- openSUSE to compete with Edubuntu?
- At first blush, the new offering, with a proposed release this fall, appears to have the makings of a serious competitor. Designed as an add-on "EDU-CD" to accompany the upcoming 10.3 release of openSUSE, the so-called "SLEducator" is designed to "[ease] the installation and configuration of an educational network...
- Tags: Classroom Tech, Education Technology, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
BNET Industries
- Quanta Services
- Quanta Services is a contracting services company, delivering end-to-end network services to the electric power, gas, telecommunications and cable television industries. Co. also provides ancillary...
- Quanta Services company page on BNET »
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