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Acer today said it had been contracted by insurance group QBE to provide desktop and server hardware to the company's Australian operations.
One year after Microsoft launched its tablet PC operating system, sales have been disappointing, the choice of models is still poor, and software developers have no incentive to create specialist applications, according to a report by research firm Canalys.
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Acer's C200 provides a decent tablet computing experience, but it is let down very badly by sub-par battery life.
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