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Subject: China’s e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba has released a new laptop computer in partnership with Hewlett Packard and Intel Corporation
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China’s e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba has released a new laptop computer in partnership with Hewlett Packard and Intel Corporation
The computer, released at the ongoing Computing Conference 2016 in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, runs on Alibaba’s own smart operating system YunOS, and will mainly be used in China’s education sector and in offices
The computer will be used in cloud-based education and multimedia presentations. Governments in Zhejiang, Chongqing and Wuhan have inked cooperation deals to use the computer in their offices to boost efficiency
Alibaba’s YunOS system has been applied in a variety of areas, including wearable devices, automobiles and smart phones
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