Lenovo’s announcement comes after competitor Dell entered the Chinese market in March by offering its affordable personal computer aimed at beginning Chinese users.
Buyers of the new PC will use a television set as the monitor. The new PC will be available later this year and will retail for $199 to $399.
“Our focus is to get down to the rural market,” said company spokesman Jay Chen.
Chen said Lenovo latest move was not in response to Dell entering the market and that the company has been selling low-cost PC’s targeted toward rural Chinese families since 2004.
“It’s a natural evolution. We are not responding to our competitors,” Chen said. “After three years of market development in low-tier markets we have gained experience and understanding.”
Around 800 million people live in China’s rural areas and incomes average about $560 a year but are increasing at annual rate of over 10 percent according to the AP.
Lenovo said it has plans to set up a rural sales network of 5,000 dealers to reach farmers and other people.
Lenovo is the third-largest makers of PCs, behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell.
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Google Maps Makes Use Of Crowdsourcing
“They piloted a process in India where people would mark locations with a GPS and input other data such as directions, locations of shopping centers, parks, gas stations, restaurants etc.,” reports Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog. “Google used input from many different people and correlated conflicts to try and arrive at the best data.”
Note Taylor’s use of the term “piloted,” which implies that this’ll show up in many more parts of the world. That could be good - “Gerardo” of GeoDataMaps seems to like Google’s gear (and the process as a whole), and writes, “This ‘care package’ is a very interesting thing for Latin America people. Please, Google people, make some more ‘noise’ about this. There are many people in our countries waiting to do some local mapping . . .”
On the other hand - and admittedly, this is still a ways off - O’Reilly Radar’s Brady Forrest asks, “How long till we are all contributing to some mapping database every time we go for coffee?” There’s less than a direct line between the two, but some folks are already disturbed by the small chance that Google Street View will record an instant of their day.
For the time being, however, this type of crowdsourcing is just a neat way of improving Google Maps. Keep an eye out for its expansion, and don’t fret - Google’s only asking for volunteers.
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