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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. Tiny brain is no bar to intelligence, say scientists

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ...  This must mean that much 'advanced' thinking can actually be done with very limited neuron numbers. Computer modelling suggests that counting could be achieved with only a few hundred nerve cells, and ...

4. Dell touts Mini 3 Android smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   Not an iPhone killer Dell has announced plans to introduce yet another Android-based smartphone into an already crowded mobile marketplace. 

According to Dell spokesperson Ron Garriques, the Mini 3 will ...

5. HP has $2.7 billion to buy 3COM

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 11 November 2009

   ... networks to servers. So, there you have it, IBM, HP, Cisco, and Dell are sitting at the edge of the arena, armed to the teeth and ready for battle. HP had previously bagged EDS; Cisco had recently picked ...

6. Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   Opinion Butts are kicked dot com I have been using a Dell Adamo 9.99 for several weeks now in its pre-production form.   I’m at EMC’s analyst event this week in Boston which meant I had to spend ...

7. Best Buy sells Acer notebook for $250

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... that it will also offer deals on products like the Samsung netbook, a machine that comes with Windows 7, and Dell Limited Edition netbooks, individually numbered and designed by artists. Best Buy will ...

8. Microsoft Q1 revenues down 14 percent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 23 October 2009

   ... quarter and particularly by the strong consumer demand for Windows,” said Chris Liddell, chief financial officer at Microsoft. “We also maintained our cost discipline, which allowed us to drive strong ...

9. SSDs inch toward the desktop

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Wednesday, 21 October 2009

   Opinion: There's been a steady flood of news about the emergence of solid state drive (SSD) systems in mainstream products. Samsung has a 64GB miniSATA SSD about half the size of a business card; Dell ...

10. Gartner veep outlines Windows 7 migration costs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... an email filling in some of the background. We pointed out that Gartner’s upgrade estimate was an alarming four times the cost of buying everyone involved a brand new Dell PC. Comments Silver: “The cost ...

11. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... a mystery as to where the figure of almost two thousand bucks a seat to upgrade to Windows 7 comes from. Especially when a quick glance at Dell’s site tells us we could buy any number of quad core, 4GB ...

12. Acer claims it will knock Dell off pole position

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    Taiwanese manufacturer Acer claims that in the next two quarters it will beat Dell and become the world's biggest PC manufacturer.Taiwanese manufacturer Acer claims that in the next two quarters it will ...

13. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... it means, of course, that its customers such as HP, Dell, and a plethora of other companies have regained some badly needed confidence. In after hours trading on NASDAQ, Intel's share price rose by over ...

14. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... tried to take back control of the market and instead lost it to Compaq, Dell, and eventually HP.    IBM brought Microsoft to market, gave them credibility with large business and government, ...

15. Dell Latitude Z charges wirelessly

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 September 2009

    Dell has unveiled its Latitude Z laptop. The high-end machine - which offers wireless docking and inductive charging - weighs 4.5 pounds with a four-cell battery. Dell has unveiled its Latitude Z laptop. ...

16. Dell says it will behave from now on, honest

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    Box-shifter Dell seems to spend more time defending itself in court than making PCs these days. The company has just assured the US Government that it will be a good boy and improve its accounting and ...

17. Asetek liquid cooling chills Alienware's Area 51

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... as installing a standard heatsink." Baum added that the Asetek had worked closely with Dell and Alienware engineers to integrate its cooling technology into the company's latest gaming rigs. "This ...

18. Microsoft confirms no Windows 7 restrictions for netbooks

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    Fears that netbook manufacturers would be forced to install a cut-down version of Windows 7 on their machines have been allayed by Microsoft. Fears that netbook manufacturers would be forced to install ...

19. Windows 7 won't help PC sales until next summer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    ... planning for replacement hardware in the spring, this isn't converted into actual sales until well into the summer. Compal is the main manufacturer of Dell's enterprise PCs, while Wistron will fulfil ...

20. 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 ...

21. Dell grabs Perot for $4 bn

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    Box-shifter Dell has snapped up government IT contractor Perot Systems for $3.9 billion in cash, the companies said today. Perot will become a Dell services unit. Box-shifter Dell has snapped up government ...

22. 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 ...

23. Dell hit for $4 million for deception

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced that Dell and its subsidiary, Dell Financial Services (DFS), have agreed to pay the Attorney General's Office $4 million in restitution, penalties and costs ...

24. Corning says glass shortage not as bad as it thought

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 September 2009

    ... is in full production. The CEO, Wendell Weeks, said: "The display supply chain is expanding in preparation for what we now believe will be a stronger fourth quarter than we originally thought. As a result, ...

25. Apple lines up against Palm, Microsoft. And Apple

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    ... to adversely impact an Apple launch you need to have a product that is intriguing and interesting.   Dell kind of did that with their Adamo 9.99 Prototype,  which we’ll cover later when ...

26. i4i challenges Microsoft's 'weak defenses'

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    ... and Dell launch legal blitzkrieg against i4i i4i pledges to 'vigorously enforce' XML patent as Microsoft appeals injunction Microsoft appeals in XML patent row i4i 'not interested' in bringing Microsoft ...

27. 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, ...

28. Microsoft wins temporary stay of Word injunction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 03 September 2009

    ... boxing champion Joe Louis, 'they can run, but they can't hide.'" See also HP and Dell launch legal blitzkrieg against i4i i4i pledges to 'vigorously enforce' XML patent as Microsoft appeals injunction ...

29. Netbooks rocket in popularity - especially when they're free

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 31 August 2009

    ...  This ought to be good news for Asus, which pretty much invented the netbook. But according to DisplaySearch, the company is steadily losing market share to the likes of  Acer, HP, Dell, Lenovo and ...

30. Intel forecasts better times ahead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 August 2009

    ... For the rest, the company is sticking with its previous forecasts. The news underlines  other indications of recovery in the semiconductor sector. Yesterday, Dell said that it expected some seasonal ...

31. Dell holds out hope for PC industry

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    Despite turning in quarterly figures showing a fall of 23 percent in profit, Dell thinks that corporate entities will start buying PCs again in the second half of this year, although strong sales to ...

32. HP and Dell launch legal blitzkrieg against i4i

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 27 August 2009

    Hewlett Packard and Dell have launched a legal blitzkrieg against i4i in an effort to overturn an injunction blocking the sale of Microsoft Word. The two industry heavyweights are now demanding that ...

33. 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, ...

34. i4i pledges to 'vigorously enforce' XML patent as Microsoft appeals injunction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 August 2009

    i4i has pledged to 'vigorously enforce' its custom XML patent despite Microsoft's decision to appeal an injunction preventing the sale of MS Word 2003/2007. San Francisco (CA) - i4i has pledged to 'vigorously ...

35. European monitor market shrinks again

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 19 August 2009

    ... share of the volume and Dell with 9.2 percent. The market share order for value in the EMEA market was exactly the same as for volume. All the top five brands showed reduced turnover from the same period ...

36. Dell’s mobile nightmare: The dumbest move yet?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 18 August 2009

    Analyst Opinion - Some companies are gluttons for punishment. Dell, apparently, is one of them. Analyst Opinion - Some companies are gluttons for punishment. Dell, apparently, is one of them. In ...

37. Canadians research zombie attacks

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Tuesday, 18 August 2009

    ... who would come out on top. Indeed, it cannot be often that a research paper bears the title: WHEN ZOMBIES ATTACK! - MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF AN OUTBREAK OF ZOMBIE INFECTION Headed by Professor ...

38. 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 ...

39. Methane results mean life on Mars unlikely

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 05 August 2009

    ... than previously thought. The researchers examined variations in methane levels using computer modelling, and confirmed this conclusion. They found that methane is disappearing from the planet's atmosphere ...

40. Bill Gates Sr. gets highest honor for legal work

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 04 August 2009

    ... the elder Gates said. “I am in awe of the men and women who have been honored with this medal before me … Oliver Wendell Homes, Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O’Connor. … I take some pride in what I’ve ...

41. Apple attempted to suppress exploding iPod

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    ... lithium ion batteries - the same problem that caused a Dell notebook to explode, notoriously, at a conference in Japan three years ago. ...

42. Microsoft and Yahoo still working on pre-nup

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 23 July 2009

    ... were Microsoft's top online executives Yusuf Mehdi, Satya Nadella, and Qi Lu.  However it seems that Redmond's capacious corporate drinks expense account has so far not been enough to make Yahoo say ...

43. Wal-Mart offers $298 laptop

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 23 July 2009

    ... attract the cash-strapped as part of its back-to-school push. It is selling Dell Inspiron laptops for $398 in colors ranging from pink to purple to aqua. Analysts are saying that while the deal could ...

44. Microsoft revenue plummets 17 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 23 July 2009

    ... to save money," said Microsoft COO Kevin Turner. "I am very excited by the wave of product and services innovations being delivered in this next fiscal year." Mircosoft CFO Chris Liddell expressed similar ...

45. Intel rallies stocks and saves economy for now

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 15 July 2009

    ... Dell had indicated that its data shows demand to be stabilized, but growth was still small. Meanwhile, some analysts are saying that Intel's performance hints more at a clearing of inventory backlogs than ...

46. PC shipments fall for first time in years

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 14 July 2009

    ... IT spending,” Wilkins said. “This is hitting desktop and server sales particularly hard.” See Also India suffers first ever negative sales Dell issues profit warning, sort of Netbooks start to flatten ...

47. Dell issues profit warning, sort of

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 13 July 2009

    Box-shifter Dell warned today that demand for its products 'appears to have stabilized' and expects to report only a slight revenue increase in its second quarter, which ends July 31. Austin (TX) - ...

48. Dell screws up pricing again

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 06 July 2009

    Just a few days after Dell advertised two LCD monitors at a tenth of their normal price, the company has done it again, this time with the Latitude E4300 notebook.Taipei, Taiwan - Just a few days after ...

49. China's still got Green Dam on its mind

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 02 July 2009

    News of the death of the software filter Red China wants to put on every PC that enters the country is, it seems, greatly exaggerated.News of the death of the software filter Red China wants to put on ...

50. 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 ...