July, 2008 Vol.4

PRETEC' Innovation beyond Storage - Extends from Differentiating Products to Channel Management

Have you ever thought about high-tech can be connected with religion? But the worldwide flash memory pioneer, PRETEC made it happen. CEO of C-ONE Technology Corp., Gordon Yu, recalled this interesting episode while interviewing, "There's a customer who specifically ordered several of our CF Card 333X in a rush, cited that only Pretec card works with their high performance system, in which they have searched super-fast CF cards in the market for a while. We later realized that the application is for the largest Taiwan religion ceremonial event, the cruising of Dajia Mazu; the blazing fast Pretec 333X CF card was adopted to record the clear multimedia video of the high speed camera underneath the Dajia Mazu sedan."

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IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker Shipments Indicates PC Market Growth Continuously Boosted By Portable Adoption In EMEA As Growth In Asia/Pacific Slows
Worldwide PC shipments continued to grow at a healthy pace in the second quarter of 2008 (2Q08), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Shipments were up 15.3% from a year ago – slightly more than second quarter projections and first quarter growth of 14.9%. Solid growth in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region helped offset slower growth in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ). As the IDC report shows although the demand of the United States suffered from getting through economic pressures, Dell still continued its recovery with Dell continued its recovery with another quarter of double-digit growth.