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Taiwan based Acer, who are currently the world’s second largest computer maker, have announced plans to introduce some major new products later in the year.

According to Jim Wong, Acer’s global president of IT products and services, we can expect to see an online apps store as well as the company’s first ever e-reader and netbook and maybe even a tablet too.

Acer is hoping the new products will boost the company’s income margin to 3 percent over the next couple of years.

You never know, if they get this right they may even manage steal the top slot from Hewlett Packard.

So what do we know so far? As it turns out, not much, but what we do know is worth knowing.

First the apps store. This is expected to launch towards the end of June and will have hundreds of downloads available initially which will be based on a variety of different operating systems.

The Acer eReader is also expected to launch in the summer but only in five European countries and Asian markets to start with.

We have very few details but apparently it will feature a 6 inch monochrome screen and obviously it will be competing with Amazon, Barnes & Noble as well as Sony.

Acer are currently talking to a number of different publishers, magazines and newspapers with a view to providing content for the eReader device although they didn’t reveal who any of them might be.

“Amazon, Barnes & Noble; they are U.S.-centric. In Western Europe and Asia-Pacific we have publishers to work with, and most of them are content owners,” Wong said.

So what about the Netbook? Well it is expected to launch some time in the 3rd quarter and will run on Google’s Chrome operating system. There is some speculation that it might also have dual boot functionality.

However, Wong said in an interview with Bloomberg that he expects that 12 million of the 15 million netbooks Acer is expected to sell in 2010 will feature Chrome.

“For Chrome, we’re aggressively pursuing to become one of the first, so there’s a change to the Microsoft-Intel environment,” Wong said.

As for the possibility of an Acer tablet, looks like they’re waiting to see what happens with the Apple version first so we basically know nothing other than it’s on Acer’s agenda.

This looks like it’s all happening at Acer this year.

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