Acer’s ambition to become the ruler of the portable device market growing up. Taiwanese PC producers are committed to ship more than 40 million notebooks in 2010 and became the market leader.

Acer is growing optimism after seeing the company’s performance was encouraging this year. Acer managed to surpass Dell and took over his position as ruler of the laptop market’s second largest world.

Referring to an article in Digitimes, citing Acer chairman JT Wang, Acer wants to ship about 40 million units in 2010 notebook, which also is expected to put them as a market leader.

But to be number one is not easy. There is still a tough opponent to face, namely Hewlett-Packard (HP). Similarly, HP is also eager to ship 40 million notebooks next year. Apparently the fight two PC vendors will be increasingly fierce.

Wang pointed out that the strategy of ‘war’ Acer different from its competitors. Acer market is more focused on small-medium businesses and consumers while HP and Dell are more focused on the enterprise market. It is expected that this strategy will be able to grow Acer’s performance.

At the beginning of this year Acer notebook shipment target in 2010 as many as 33 million-37 million units. However, due to the encouraging achievements in the second half of this year, Acer revises its target to 40 million units.

Carl Icahn millionaire who is one investor in Yahoo resign from Yahoo board seats. For what reason?

In his resignation letter, Icahn said that the current thought is the right time for him to resign from the Yahoo board so he can devote more time to invest in other companies.

“I’m not sure when this is required the presence of an activist in the ranks of Yahoo directors. Now it’s time I focused on other matters,” Ichan wrote in his resignation letter.

In his letter, Icahn gave praise to Yahoo chief executive, Carol Bartz, who thinks doing extraordinary work.

In addition, Icahn also praised Yahoo’s decision to cooperate with Microsoft three months ago in order to conquer Google, especially in the search engine market. Current cooperation agreement between Yahoo, Microsoft is awaiting approval from regulators.

Icahn is one of the Yahoo shareholders with ownership of 4.5 percent, after selling 12.7 million shares last September. He was one Yahoo investor who loudly called for the replacement of Jerry Yang,  Yang rejected because the Microsoft proposal worth U.S. $ 47.5 billion or about U.S. $ 33 per share.

Sony laptop charger case dealing with problems. Reportedly, about 69,000 Sony laptop AC adapter – including Vaio – drawn from the Japanese electronics company had identified a potential due to impaired short-circuit.

Sony’s decision because the company received four reports from their users that they are susceptible to interference from the AC adapter laptop devices.

Although there has been no reports of injuries from the incident. But seeing action massive withdrawals that occurred this seems enough to make Sony worried.

“Sony takes the initiative to conduct a voluntary recall of certain AC adapter that has the potential to cause short-circuiting and electrical hazards.

AC Adapter Sony has pulled VGP-AC19V17 type issued in 2005. This device is said to be made in China and has been thrown into the market since September 2005 until October 2009.

Followed by Google’s Android OS products, Android 2.0 has been introduced in the android developers blog. joy comes from the developers of Android, which has had hundreds of ideas in their heads, because they will soon be able to try it.

Android 2.0 comes with several new performance. Includes all new API for synchronization, and Bluetooth. Also explained is that Android 2.0 also supports multiple accounts, SMS search function, as well as additional virtual keyboard and a few additional camera menus.

In this version the camera menu now have new options such as scene modes, digital zoom, color effects, white balance, macro focus seta.

Android 2.0 is also called a browser that is more ‘fresh’, and of course has to support HTML5. Users can now perform zooming, by tapping the screen twice.

The phone is already using Android 2.0, one of which is Motorola, with his droids. The phone will be circulated in the market from early November.

Google expands online service with new features music search. Users will be made easy to find, hear, and buy songs online.

In this new service, Google’s alliance with MySpace sites, and Lala.com. Music search facility is called Music OneBox.

“The search results allow you to directly play the whole song to verify whether it was the song you’re looking for,” said Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search at Google. Typically, service providers other music played only briefly, for example for 30 seconds.

Users who want to find a song simply enter the artist name, title, or the song. Then various info about the song you want will be posted, including links to music services from third parties.

One reason for Google releasing this service is so much music search, where since 2004, the topic of music was always in the top 10 list of the most highly sought-after on the internet. OneBox is a new service will be available in the United States.

Several parties, including the music industry positive rate Google breakthrough. “I think Google has changed the game map. Consumers want something that is easier for them and Google gave it,” said Wendy Nussbaum from Universal Music Group.