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Martin Campbell , who previously worked on action movies and James Bond films such as GoldenEye and the remake of Casino Royale, shot this film. Lenovo was the first Chinese company to make use of such marketing techniques. Lenovo also used Tech World to announce a refresh of its corporate logo and visual identity. The shift in Lenovo's visual presentation was accompanied by changes in Lenovo's business model.
Lenovo said that it was transitioning from being solely a hardware maker to producing both hardware and software. Lenovo announced several concept and production devices at Tech World including Smart View, a concept smartwatch with two screens and a virtual display; Smart Cast, a concept smartphone with a built-in laser projector that displays content and virtual user interfaces such as keyboards and musical instruments; Lenovo Cast, an Android-based streaming video device; Smart Shoes, concept shoes with a screen to display the user's mood and fitness tracking sensors; the ThinkPad 10 , a new tablet computer; and Cortana integration with Lenovo devices and software, including REACHit, which extends Cortana's search functions to non-Microsoft services.
ZUK , a separate company formed by Lenovo in , announced several products at Tech World, These included slim power banks, 3D printers that can print food such as chocolate, an outdoor sound box, and a Wi-Fi based control system for home automation. Lenovo launched a multi-year advertising campaign called "Goodweird" in the last half of Goodweird is designed to convey the idea that designs that seem strange initially often become familiar and widely accepted.
The Goodweird campaign includes a video with famous images of early attempts to fly with the aid of homemade wings and a bicycle that transitions to a modern-day shot of a man soaring across mountains in a wingsuit before transitioning again to a shot of the Stealth Bomber. Goodweird is part of Lenovo's wider strategy to appeal to millennials with an emphasis on design trendsetters.
A portion of the funding for Goodweird is being directed to prominent YouTubers and Viners. BuzzFeed has been engaged to create relevant content.
In February , Lenovo became the subject of controversy for having bundled software identified as malware on some of its laptops. The software, Superfish Visual Discovery, is a web browser add-on that injects price comparison advertising into search engine results pages.
To intercept HTTPS -encrypted communications, the software also installed a self-signed digital certificate. The head of Superfish responded to security concerns by saying the vulnerability was "inadvertently" introduced by Komodia, which built the application. From October through June , the UEFI firmware on certain Lenovo models had contained software known as "Lenovo Service Engine", which Lenovo says automatically sent non-identifiable system information to Lenovo the first time Windows is connected to the internet, and on laptops, automatically installs the Lenovo OneKey Optimizer program software considered to be bloatware as well.
This process occurs even on clean installations of Windows. It was found that this program had been automatically installed using a new feature in Windows 8 , Windows Platform Binary Table , which allows executable files to be stored within UEFI firmware for execution on startup, and is meant to "allow critical software to persist even when the operating system has changed or been reinstalled in a 'clean' configuration"; specifically, anti-theft security software.
The software was discontinued after it was found that aspects of the software had security vulnerabilities, and did not comply with revised guidelines for appropriate usage of WPBT. At a third time in , criticism arose that Lenovo might have installed software that looked suspicious on their commercial Think-PC lines.
This was discovered by Computerworld writer Michael Horowitz, who had purchased several Think systems with the Customer Feedback program installed, which seemed to log usage data and metrics. Horowitz also criticized other media for quoting his original article and saying that Lenovo preinstalled spyware, as he himself never used that term in this case and he also said that he does not consider the software he found to be spyware.
As of June , a Duo Labs report stated that Lenovo was still installing bloatware, some of which leads to security vulnerabilities as soon as the user turns on their new PC. In Lenovo was caught passing off enthusiast Waqar Khan's Foldable Moto Razr concept video as its own concept video in a presentation to the technology press. Khan asserted that he had never given Lenovo permission to use his video.
While most of the watermarks had been removed the watermark "Concept by WaqarKahnHD" was still visible in some segments of the video.
It appears that Lenovo did not add any content to the video other than their logo. Multiple members of Chinese media who were present have confirmed the story. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Operating income.
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