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1. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ...  Dell disappoints despite chip up-tick 

 Hardware giant Dell delivered its quarterly results showing a profit of $577 million on revenues of $12.9 billion - a drop in profit of 54 percent. But in the ...

2. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... to make a proper note of a meeting with Dell during the investigation. The Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, published his ruling on the complaint alleging procedural errors by the Commission during ...

3. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   ... made to firms like Dell, IBM, and Hewlett Packard violate antitrust laws. And it also alleges that vendors were threatened if they bought AMD chips rather than the microprocessors made by Intel. Cuomo’s ...

4. Nvidia accuses Intel of 'improper claims,' pulls out of chipset development

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 08 October 2009

   ... Intel platforms, the Nvidia GeForce 9400M/ION brands have enjoyed significant sales, as well as critical success," explained the spokesperson. "Customers including Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer, ...

5. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 22 September 2009

   ... handhelds and then by other devices. Intel is creating a framework to allow customers to build their own app stores. Asus, Acer and Dell are its first customers. Asus will support the developer program ...

6. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 21 September 2009

   ... by the products of Intel's main competitor, AMD." The EU says that Intel rebates to Dell from December 2002 to December 2005 were conditioned on Dell purchasing exclusively Intel CPUs. For example, in ...

7. AMD aims at simplicity for the tech generation

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Wednesday, 09 September 2009

   ... on various aspects of the industry as it is. The venue was Vinopolis, in Borough Market in Bermondsey. Sobon was previously director of marketing for Dell, and has overall responsibility for server, workstation, ...

8. Server sales continue to plummet

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 01 September 2009

   ... will stabilize in the second half of this year. Overall, IBM rules the server roost with 34.5 percent share, HP has 28.5 percent share, Dell and Sun are number three and four with 12.4 percent and 10 ...

9. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google others sued over patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 25 August 2009

   ... Quicklogic, Freescale, Texas Instruments, Google, T Mobile, HTC, Apple, Sony, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Philips, LG Electronics, Research in Motion, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Nvidia, AMD, Dell, AT&T, Verizon, ...

10. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... Pavilion dv6T, Alienware M17, Acer Aspire 5739G, Toshiba Satellite M500, Sony VAIO FW Series, Samsung R522, Asus W90Vp-X1, MSI GX623 and Dell Studio 15. "As consumers increasingly demand greater visual ...

11. Sony falls to Netbook fever

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    ... is that it has a screen with a resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels. But what also sets it apart from the competition is that it will cost much more than machines released by Dell, HP, Samsung and others. ...

12. HP announces AMD 6- and 12-core workstations

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    ... is available for $7800. Dell is, according to our knowledge, the only major vendor to sell a dual-socket W5580 workstation. A Precision T5500 system equipped with two W5580 processors currently sells ...

13. Dell suffers catastrophic profit fall

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 28 May 2009

    Hardware firm Dell is still waiting for a bottom in the PC market, indicating that things are still thorns, thorns rather than roses, roses.Hardware firm Dell is still waiting for a bottom in the PC market, ...

14. Worldwide server revenues slump by 25 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 27 May 2009

    ... one, while Dell is in second place. The good news for AMD and Intel is that IDC expects X86 systems to rebound faster than the overall market in the coming quarters. This is how the cookie crumbles for ...

15. Via claims Dell server win

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 18 May 2009

    Straight from the 'you couldn't make it up' department comes news that plucky Via - the company that insists its name should be written in ALLCAPS - has won a deal with Dell to launch a new range of ...

16. EU hits Intel with $1.5 billion fine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 13 May 2009

    ...  The computer manufacturers named in the Commission’s decision are: Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and NEC. The retailer involved is Media Saturn Holding, owner of the MediaMarkt chain. The Commission’s investigation ...

17. AMD posts controversial virtualization value math

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    ... AMD compares two Dell (AMD/Intel) and two HP (AMD/Intel) servers in ways they can be configured directly from the firm’s websites. AMD said that it configured the systems as closely as possible to the ...

18. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 May 2009

    ... capacity, especially with new customers such as Dell, and an expansion plan made sense. However, AMD underestimated Intel’s strength and ended up in huge debt, supported by the $5.4 billion acquisition ...

19. Apple not green, perhaps light green, in power purchases

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    ... Dell buys much more green power than it actually needs.  Chicago (IL) – Green comes in many different shades. And we know that companies exploit their green initiatives for marketing purposes in ...

20. Intel is the largest green power purchaser in the U.S.

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 27 April 2009

    ... million kWh), Dell (554 million kWh) and Whole Foods Market (527 million). Other IT companies in the ranking include Cisco (#9, 401 million kWh), Sprint Nextel (#38, 88 million kWh), Sony DADC  (#40, ...

21. Oracle-Sun: A glass half full

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 20 April 2009

    ... advantage in Oracle owning a hardware business. If anything, it is a disadvantage, both in terms of alienating partners (e.g., HP, Dell, etc.) and in the challenge of making a profit on hardware. If Oracle’s ...

22. Will Apple lose its power to drive market trends?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    ... trends the company sets. Last week I wrote about the Dell Adamo, which has its roots in an Apple idea. And, of course, it is not hard to see how the iPhone is clearly the cell phone every other cell ...

23. Why Sun makes a whole lot of sense for IBM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... was never Sun’s strength and it was clear that it could never reach Dell or HP in this discipline. Its Sparc-based products remained a solid business for some time, but there was no growth left. ...

24. Kindle vs. iPod and AMD Dragon vs. Intel 32 nm: The power of marketing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... race.     I believe 2009 and 2010 will be defined by companies that find a way to make their products stand out and rise above the noise. Coincidently, Dell launched its Adamo site, suggesting ...

25. Apple's Mini DisplayPort to become a part of DisplayPort 1.2 specification

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... put forth by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It is being pushed by Nvidia, AMD and Dell, which offer DP video cards and monitors. HP, Philips, Samsung, Lenovo, Nvidia, Intel, Microsoft ...

26. Glassdoor.com’s best and worst CEOs of 2008

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

    ... approval ratings listed on Glassdoor.com include Steve Ballmer (Microsoft, 44%), Jerry Yang (Yahoo, 35%), Paul Otellini (Intel, 61%), Mark Hurd (HP, 42%), Michael Dell (Dell, 54%) and Larry Ellison (Oracle, ...

27. DisplayPort and HDCP in your Mac: What you need to know

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 07 December 2008

    ... Whatever the motivation may be, here is what you need to know about DisplayPort and HDCP in Macs. DisplayPort (DP) is a royalty-free technology that has been adopted by Nvidia, AMD and Dell, which now ...

28. Stockwatch: Chip makers hit hard by pessimistic 2009 forecast

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 19 November 2008

    ...  Dell -64% 20.3 Google -61% 88.1 Apple -58% 76.7 Intel -55% 69.5 ...

29. Top 500 supercomputer list out today, seven AMD systems in top 10, only one Intel

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 17 November 2008

    ... SunBlade x6250 3,440 27.4 n/a Intel 200 HP 3000 BL460c 2,940 18.9 n/a Intel 300 HP 3000 BL460c 2,520 16.6 281 Intel 400 IBM BladeCenter HS21 2,944 14.5 281 Intel 500 Dell PowerEdge 1950 1,584 12.6 n/a ...

30. Oracle remains best performing tech stock in declining economy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

    ...  1.7 Motorola -77% 9.0 RIM -71% 24.4 Yahoo -65% 14.5 Ebay -65% 15.7 Dell  ...

31. Microsoft market cap drops below $200 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 22 October 2008

    ...  Yahoo -64% 17.2   Dell -61% 23.5   Ebay -59% 19.4   Apple -52% ...

32. Apple cashes in on iPhone, leaves ‘junk’ to others

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    ... as Apple surpassed Dell in the education market with a unit share of 39% - and almost 50% in major universities. Steve Jobs described the iPhone as a player in the netbook category, but said it is not ...

33. Tech mergers ahead?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 09 October 2008

    ...  Yahoo -63% 17.5 RIM -60% 33.4 Apple -56% 78.6 Dell -56% 26.3 Google  ...

34. Financial crisis slams Silicon Valley

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... Sun Microsystems: -76% 3. AMD: -68% 4. Ebay: -59% 5. Yahoo: -57% 6. Apple: -56% 7. Dell: -56% 8. Google: -54% 9. Cisco: -45% 10. Intel: -42% 11. Adobe: -40% 12. Microsoft: -31% 13. Oracle: -28% 14. IBM: ...

35. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... Visual and Media Businesses. Dell announced AMD-based systems. AMD demonstrates its quad-core x86 server processor based on the Barcelona core and establishes Shanghai Research and Development Center to ...

36. Tech stocks hit hard as House defeats bailout plan

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 29 September 2008

    ... with almost 10%, Sun with 9%, Intel with 6%, Microsoft with 6%, HP with 6%, Yahoo with 5%, and Dell and IBM with 4%.  ...

37. High-end coprocessors: An overview

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 September 2008

    ... in July, 2007.  It contained no coprocessors and was simply a host of 1200 Dell server blades.  Their newly added Lincoln machine will go live in October and is comprised of 192 Dell server blades ...

38. Dell mini-notebook offers Linux for a premium

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 04 September 2008

      Dell today announced its first mini-notebook that squarely aims for a market that has been created by products such as the OLPC or Asus EeePC. It comes in a stylish package with an 8.9” screen ...

39. NVISION: Nvidia's quest for second place

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 27 August 2008

    ...   For some time, I have been thinking that PC computing has been too much about work and the fun is being driven out of the market. The kind of fun that created companies like Apple and Dell just ...

40. Apple rumored to be ignoring Centrino 2 chipset

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 July 2008

    ... to our sources, Apple never negotiated or even asked AMD to buy the green team’s processors.) While it would be a bit of an exaggeration to put Apple on the same level as Dell or HP, Intel obviously has ...

41. Dell releases BIOS updates for failing Nvidia GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 July 2008

      Dell is offering BIOS updates to mitigate the effects of faulty GPUs shipped by Nvidia. The BIOS upgrade will not “repair” the GPU, but Dell hopes that the update will alleviate problems caused ...

42. Greener than an Apple: Cherrypal’s $250 PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 20 July 2008

    ... as Emachines, equipped with a single-core processor, 512 MB or 1 GB of memory and a hard drive with 160 to 250 GB capacity. $50 more will get you a new PC from  Dell or HP similar equipped as the ...

43. Playstation 3 processor powers the world’s first Petaflop supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 June 2008

    ... performance, compared to HP with 22.4%. Dell, SGI and Cray follow with 5.4%, 4.4% and 3.2%, respectively. Looking back in history, the supercomputer ranked at #500 would have been listed at position 200 ...

44. Rate your CEO on Glassdoor.com

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 16 June 2008

    ... from Apple currently stands at 92%, Michael Dell at 65%, Steve Ballmer at 57%, Sam Palmisano (IBM) at 49%, Mark Hurd (HP) at 48%, Jonathan Schwartz (Sun) at 38% and Bill Watkins (Seagate) at 33%. Further ...

45. The five big technology trends of 2008

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Friday, 06 June 2008

    ... direction to all-in-one computers seems to be clear at HP, Dell, Sony, and Gateway. They all have been launching products; though Gateway’s offering didn’t does that well.  The most interesting is ...

46. Who needs D-SUB, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort? USB rocks!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

    ... the experience with the device was flawless. Owners of a Macbook Air can use this part to get a second or third monitor. And what is even more interesting: Our screenshot was taken on a Dell 2407WFP-HC ...

47. Dell keeps XPS alive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

      Dell responded to an article published earlier this week by the Wall Street Journal, claiming that the company would kill its XPS line of PCs. Dell says that the paper got it all wrong and the ...

48. 200 million pages and counting: AMD adds to the tally of accusations against Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 06 May 2008

    ... Intel in 2005, claiming that it engaged in unfair business practices in deals with Dell, IBM and HP. The discovery phase has generated an estimated 200 million pages of documents so far.   And it ...

49. AMD aims to increase desktop processor sales with business platform pitch

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 27 April 2008

    ... a triple- or dual-core right away and stay with a dual-core only if power consumption matters. Several vendors, including HP, Lenovo and Dell, will be offering AMD’s business platform in their PCs. Prices ...

50. Dell jumps on the Barcelona bandwagon

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 16 April 2008

    AMD said Dell is now offering five quad-core Opteron server platforms. The long-awaited chip has also finally received VMware certification. Read the complete story here.  ...