The scoop: ThinkPad Tablet, by Lenovo, starts at $599 (optional keyboard $100).

PC vendor, Lenovo, has reiterated its commitment to its channel partners and their long-term success at its annual Business Partner Roadshow in Sydney.

PR company, Text 100, welcomed the spirit of Christmas early at its annual Xmas in August event.

Lenovo is offering to replace certain batteries sold with its ThinkPad line of laptops, warning users that they may be permanently damaged due to errors.

Showing again that rugged business-oriented laptops can play the thin-and-light game, Lenovo has revealed a slimmed-down ThinkPad that boasts a number of other trademark innovations for the mobile workforce.

Coming up with a great technology product or service is only half the battle these days. Creating a name for said product that is at once cool but not too cool or exclusionary, marketable to both early adopters and a broader audience, and, of course, isn't already in use and protected by various trademarks and copyright laws is difficult--to say the least.