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Lenovo Group Limited is the world's fourth largest personal computer manufacturer after Hewlett-Packard and Dell of the U.S. and Acer of Taiwan.In 2005, it purchased IBM's PC division.Lenovo produces desktops, laptops, servers, handheld computers, imaging equipment, and mobile phone handsets. Lenovo also provides information technology integration and support services, and its QDI unit offers contract manufacturing.Its executive headquarters are located in Beijing, China and in Morrisville, North Carolina, USA. It is incorporated in Hong Kong.Lenovo makes a variety of products for world wide sale.These products include:Lenovo ThinkCentre desktops Lenovo ThinkPad laptops and tablets Lenovo ThinkStation workstations Lenovo ThinkServer servers IdeaCentre desktops IdeaPad consumer-oriented laptops Lenovo 3000 J Series desktops Lenovo 3000 C, N, and V Series laptops LCD and CRT monitors ThinkVision projectors and monitors An agreement allows Lenovo to sell IBM-branded desktops and laptops until 2010.OwnershipAs of October 31, 2008, 50.4% of Lenovo is owned by public shareholders, 42.3% by Legend Holdings Limited, 6.6% by Texas Pacific Group (TPG Capital), General Atlantic LLC and Newbridge Capital and 0.7% by the directors. Because the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Chinese government agency, owns 65% of Legend Holdings, effectively the Chinese government owns about 27% of Lenovo and is the largest shareholder. IBM became the owner of 18.9% of Lenovo in 2005 as part of Lenovo's acquisition of the IBM personal computing division. Since then IBM has steadily lowered its shareholding in Lenovo. In July 2008 the IBM shareholding went below the 5% reporting disclosure threshold. In February 2009 the CEO Bill Amelio was replaced with Yang Yuanqing. MarketingLenovo is active in making sure competitors make accurate and verifiable marketing claiming. Recently Dell has been receiving a lot of press coverage over its claim of having the world's most secure notebooks, specifically, its Latitude D630 and Latitude D830.According to a National Advertising Division report released in late June 2008, Dell did not have enough evidence to support its claim as maker of the world's most secure laptops within its marketing campaign.Lenovo filed the complaint to NAD accusing Dell of making unverified claims.Most of the criticism made by NAD is around data encryption, both disk encryption software and disk encryption hardware, used in Dell's commercial notebooks. Dell uses hardware-based full disk encryption and software-based full disk encryption from third party vendors such as Seagate Technology.Although NAD determined that the advertiser could truthfully advertise its position as the first in the industry to combine these particular third-party components in creating secure systems for large businesses, NAD observed the distinction between the security provided to the individual computers and the security provided to a large network of computers. Since not all of the components of the FDE Encryption Solution are equally relevant for all sizes of business, NAD recommended the advertiser make this distinction to the extent it intends to make broad security claims. On the basis of the evidence in the record, NAD determined that advertiser demonstrated that it offered features of computer security that were both unique and meaningful to consumers. Laptops with full disk encryption are expected to have data-at-rest (DAR) protection, but still can be vulnerable to cold boot attack, a type of side channel attack, which takes advantage of data remanence. However, it also determined that the broad claim 'World’s Most Secure' was not adequately supported and was appropriately discontinued.NameLenovo is a portmanteau of Le- (from Legend) and novo, pseudo-Latin for new. The Chinese name means association or connected thinking but can also imply creativity. The name was changed from Legend because it conflicted with other trademarks registered in the West.