The Witkin Legal Institute and West Announce Winners of the 2008 Roger J. Traynor California Appellate Moot Court Competition

SAN FRANCISCO - The Witkin Legal Institute and West, a Thomson Reuters business, are pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Roger J. Traynor California Appellate Moot Court Competition.

The competition is a nationally recognized appellate moot court competition. Under an arrangement with the State Bar of California, the Witkin Legal Institute and West have administered the competition since 1999.
Prizes were awarded in three categories:

Best Oral Argument: The Roger J. Traynor Award:
• First place – Hastings College of the Law
• Second place – UCLA School of Law
• Special merit – University of San Diego School of Law

Best Brief: The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers Award:
• First place – UCLA School of Law
• Second place – U.C. Berkeley School of Law
• Third place – University of San Francisco School of Law

Excellence in Appellate Advocacy: The Bernard E. Witkin Award:
• First place – UCLA School of Law
• Second place  –  U.C. Berkeley School of Law
• Third place – University of San Francisco School of Law

In addition, the top individual advocates were recognized:

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Oral Argument
• Frankie DiGiacco – University of San Diego School of Law
• Sarah Jane Fischer – University of California, Davis, School of Law
• Christopher Fredrich – Hastings College of the Law
• Gavin Gruber – Hastings College of the Law
• David Hazlehurst – UCLA School of Law
• Britton Lacy – University of San Diego School of Law
• Kristin Long – Empire College School of Law
• Matthew Olson – McGeorge School of Law
• Caroline Rath – University of West Los Angeles School of Law
• Joshua Siegel – University of West Los Angeles School of Law

All California schools are invited to participate in this annual competition. This year, 47 students from 17 schools participated. The oral argument portion of the competition was held on April 5 at the UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles.

The Witkin Legal Institute prepared the problem and administered the competition. The competition consists of two elements: the written brief and the oral argument. The California Academy of Appellate Lawyers awarded cash prizes to each student on the team with the best brief, and West also provided discount vouchers to participants to purchase volumes in the Witkin Library.

The moot court program is a rare opportunity for law students to interact with appellate court justices at a highly sophisticated level in a real courtroom venue. The Traynor competition is unusual in several respects. The problem is drawn from a real case in the California Court of Appeal, the appellate court in which the vast majority of California lawyers appear most frequently, and the real record in the case is used. In addition, judges are drawn from experienced appellate lawyers and members of the California Courts of Appeal. Although teams are assigned to brief either appellant or respondent, they are required to argue both sides of the case during successive rounds of oral argument.  

About The Witkin Legal Institute
The Witkin Legal Institute (www.witkin.com) is named for Bernard E. Witkin, California’s preeminent legal scholar. It was established by Bancroft-Whitney (now part of West) and the Witkin Estate in 1996 to carry forward the writing of the Witkin treatises in the clear, thorough, and analytical style that is the hallmark of the Witkin Library. The Institute is devoted to continuing Bernard E. Witkin’s legacy of public service to the bench, bar and other law-related organizations, and to undertaking projects that serve the ongoing education needs of California lawyers, judges, and law students.

About West
Headquartered in Eagan, Minn., West is the foremost provider of integrated information solutions, software and services to the U.S. legal market. West is a business within Thomson Reuters. For more information, please visit the West Web site at west.thomson.com

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Lenovo and LANDesk Expand Their Integrated Software Offerings with New Lenovo Management Console

Lenovo and LANDesk Expand Their Integrated Software Offerings with New Lenovo Management Console

Las Vegas, NV— April 28, 2008 Lenovo and LANDesk today announced that Lenovo will offer LANDesk technology as the core of the new Lenovo ThinkManagement Console. The new console provides centralized inventory and reporting of Lenovo client hardware assets, Lenovo’s industry-leading ThinkVantage Technologies, as well as management of Intel vPro enabled devices. Integration tools are also provided to facilitate third party software offerings. The console will also seamlessly integrate into LANDesk’s management solutions, and will be marketed by Lenovo sales representatives and business partners.

Further integration of LANDesk solutions with Lenovo technologies will help customers reduce IT costs by secure automation of systems management functions through a single console included with Lenovo systems.

“Having these two vendors integrate their solutions provides me with the best possible tools to deliver value to my internal customers at SWBC,” said Gregory Lawler, CIO, Southwest Business Corporation. “I can easily demonstrate the time and money saved in a number of areas. For example, if we have 300 machines that need an update for one of our applications, we can now delver that update in minutes. If we had to install this update manually, it would take a team of technicians several days.”

All Lenovo notebook and desktop PC products manufactured since January 2002 are entitled to receive the Lenovo ThinkManagement Console for no additional charge. All Lenovo clients that support Lenovo ThinkVantage Technologies will support this new console. Additionally, versions that support non-Lenovo clients will be made available for a fee.

Customers using Intel vPro technologies will receive additional benefits for VPro enablement and manageability. When combined with this LANDesk and Lenovo solution, Intel vPro technology helps customers reduce desk-side visits by up to by enabling IT organizations to monitor, diagnose, and repair PCs regardless of operating system or power state.

“Lenovo and LANDesk have made Intel vPro an important component in their offerings, which has helped change the face of IT by providing enhanced security, lower costs and shorter repair times beginning with the first systems implemented,” said Gregory Bryant,
vice president, Business Client Group, and general manager, Digital Office Platform Division. “In the end, IT is no longer saddled with just keeping its computer fleet running, but can now turn to strategic matters.” >>>

LANDesk® Management Suite for ThinkVantageTM Technologies is jointly engineered by LANDesk and Lenovo to provide industry-leading management tools. It includes all the features in LANDesk® Management Suite along with central management for ThinkVantage Technologies.

By delivering solid capabilities that improve productivity and reduce costs, Lenovo ThinkVantageTM Technologies help your enterprise become more competitive and on-demand. ThinkVantage Technologies help make ThinkPad/ThinkCentre PCs less dependent on IT staff or user intervention for basic tasks, such as deployment, backup, security patching and more freeing your users and IT staff to focus on the success of your business.

In addition, The new Lenovo ThinkManagement Console provides centralized inventory and reporting of Lenovo client hardware assets and Lenovo's industry-leading ThinkVantage Technologies, as well as management of Intel vPro enabled devices. Integration tools are also provided to facilitate third party software offerings. This console is available for all Lenovo notebook and desktop PC products manufactured since January 2002 at no additional charge.

* Customers using Intel vPro technologies will receive additional benefits for vPro enbablement and manageability.
* When combined with the ThinkManagement Console, Intel vPro technology helps customers reduce desk-side visits by being able to monitor, diagnose and repair PCs regardless of operating system and power state.
* IT Managers can quickly reduce costs, while helping to achieve positive top-line and bottm-line buisness results. >>>

VMware and Lenovo Announce Agreement to Increase Adoption of VMware Virtualization in China - VMware

Lenovo to OEM VMware Infrastructure Platform; VMware Virtualization Provide Datacenter Relief for High-Growth Chinese Market

BEIJING, China, April 24, 2008 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced an agreement to increase the adoption of VMware virtualization in China. Starting today, Lenovo will sell, distribute and support the VMware Infrastructure 3 platform on Lenovo server systems. This partnership enables businesses and organizations in China to leverage both the performance and scalability of Lenovo servers with VMware virtualization to reduce operating expenses, improve business continuity, strengthen security and reduce their power consumption and carbon footprint.

“Virtualized architectures are gaining momentum in China as a better way to run datacenters,” said Diane Greene, president and chief executive officer of VMware. “Through our relationship with Lenovo and its world-class brand, we are making VMware virtualization more broadly available to the Chinese market. With VMware virtualization, Lenovo customers can quickly experience its significant business benefits including reducing operating and capital costs by as much as 50 percent, delivering applications more quickly and reliably in virtual machines, and improving security across the datacenter and on the desktop.”

“Together with VMware, our customers will have access to a versatile technology that is helping to transform IT in China and around the globe,” said William J. Ameilio, president and chief executive officer of Lenovo. “Coupling Lenovo’s leading server products with VMware’s broad range of award-winning virtualization solutions will help customers as they come to terms with the rapid datacenter growth taking place in businesses throughout China.”

Customers can now purchase Lenovo servers pre-installed with VMware’s market-leading datacenter virtualization and management platform, VMware Infrastructure 3, provided with full support from Lenovo. VMware Infrastructure 3 enables automatic load balancing, business continuity and power management and the ability to move a virtual machine across physical machines to minimize service interruption. VMware Infrastructure 3 is also compatible with VMware’s desktop virtualization and management solutions.

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LENOVO REPORTS THIRD QUARTER 2007/08 RESULTS

LENOVO REPORTS THIRD QUARTER 2007/08 RESULTS
• Quarterly sales jumps 15% to US$4.6 billion
• Quarterly EBITDA (excluding restructuring) of US$244 million, up 91%
• Quarterly pre-tax income (excluding restructuring) surges 190% to US$192 million
• Quarterly profit attributable to shareholders (including restructuring) of US$172 million, up 198%
• Quarterly basic EPS (including restructuring) of 1.93 US cents, or 15.01 HK cents, up 188%
• Net cash reserves of US$2.0 billion (as of December 31, 2007)
HONG KONG, January 31, 2008 – Lenovo Group today reported strong financial results for its third fiscal quarter of 2007/08, which ended December 31, 2007. Sales for the quarter jumped 15%, year over year, to US$4.6 billion, driven by double-digit growth in Lenovo PC unit shipments and sales across all of the Company’s operating geographies. For the seventh consecutive quarter, Lenovo worldwide PC shipments exceeded the average growth rate of the global PC market, with year-over-year growth of 22%, healthily outpacing the industry average growth of 16%.
Lenovo’s segment operating profit margin for the third quarter of 2007/08 was 4.4%, compared to 2.4% in the same period a year ago, and up 0.4 percentage points sequentially, evidence of the Company’s operating efficiency efforts. For the third quarter of 2007/08, Lenovo reported pre-tax income of US$192 million (excluding restructuring) and basic earnings per share of 1.93 US cents, or 15.01 HK cents. Net cash reserves as of December 31, 2007, totaled US$2.0 billion.
“Our outstanding third quarter results demonstrate again Lenovo’s acquisition and integration strategies are correct, with good execution,” said Lenovo Chairman Yang Yuanqing. “Lenovo’s ability to achieve faster-than-market growth and profitability was a direct result of the improvements to our competitiveness. In the next phase, we will maintain our momentum in the relationship business and in the Greater China region, while pushing forward with our transaction and consumer business globally, to continue on the path of profitable growth.”
William J. Amelio, Lenovo’s president and CEO, said, “The quarter illustrates not only our ability to deliver consistent, predictable performance, but also the PC market’s resiliency. The global PC market is expected to grow in the double digits in 2008, given strong outlooks in Asia and emerging markets. We also expect to see an impact from the recent extension of our product offerings to include higher-margin products, such as workstations and servers, to further balance our product portfolio. Despite increasing economic uncertainties, we remain confident in our ability to continue to deliver profitable growth that outpaces our industry.” Amelio also cited Lenovo’s diverse sales distribution, where a full 75% of the Company’s sales are generated outside the Americas.
“We enter 2008 with continuing market momentum and significant progress against our strategic priorities,” said Amelio. “This will be a key year for Lenovo, as 2008 will mark our first year without IBM branding on our products. We believe 2008 will be a breakout year for the Lenovo brand on the world stage, with the implementation of our new global consumer branding campaign centered around “Ideas” and sponsorship of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games.”

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Lenovo IdeaPad U110 Notebook

The new IdeaPad U110 notebook says a lot about Lenovo technology and design. It's won wide acclaim, including best-of-show honors for notebooks at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show.

But the IdeaPad U110 says just as much about you. You know work and life can be easier with a full-featured ultraportable notebook under your arm. And you know a notebook can make a statement.

The IdeaPad U110. Beautiful technology.


Express yourself by choosing an ultrasleek notebook with a distinct sense of style. The aluminum-alloy top cover on the IdeaPad U110 features a unique, etched surface that gives it a one-of-a-kind look and feel. And the U110 is available in two statement-making colors: a shiny black, like formal evening attire, or a flashier, eye-grabbing red.

Other expressive design features on the IdeaPad U110 include:

	An innovative Frameless Screen that extends to the very edges of the top cover, like an edgeless swimming pool.
	'Hidden', touch-sensitive buttons across the top of the keyboard, including user-defined keys for multimedia.
	A dynamic, angled shape, clamshell-style cover and special 'kink' hinge that puts the display in ideal ergonomic position.

Enable yourself with the latest technology for work and multimedia in a truly ultraportable package: The IdeaPad U110 features an 11.1'' widescreen design that's only 0.72''-0.88'' thick and starts at just 2.4 lb.