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1. Brain boffin calls for schools to get back to books

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... Della Sala has dismissed a claim that computer games consoles can improve pupils' maths ability and said that  pupils' performance was just as good when using traditional textbooks. Governments all ...

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. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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, ...

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. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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, ...

10. Dell accused of "dishonest business practices"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    Hardware giant Dell is being accused of engaging in dishonest business practices by an outfit called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).   Hardware giant Dell is being ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. Dell tries to avoid paying up in LCD snafu

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 03 July 2009

    Dell is trying to appease Taiwanese consumers threatening legal action over a pricing mistake. Taipei, Taiwan - Dell is trying to appease Taiwanese consumers threatening legal action over a pricing ...

17. 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 ...

18. Intel + Nokia: In search of relevance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 25 June 2009

    ... a consolidation phase shortly and it will be interesting to see who emerges from that. In addition, there are a lot of rumors surround Palm being acquired with Dell listed as the most likely.   ...

19. Ubuntu aims for a 10 second boot time

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 11 June 2009

    ... be fine tuned by hardware vendors to fit specific hardware configurations, which would allow them to “match Moblin's 5s benchmark on similar hardware.” Ubuntu uses a Dell Mini 9 netbook as a reference ...

20. 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 ...

21. Updated: Verizon promotes $200 HP netbook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 14 May 2009

    ... May 17 Verizon netbook launch comes shortly after a similar announcement by AT&T, which currently offers netbook models from Dell, LG, Acer and Lenovo. Verizon adds: "There is a Gobi chip in the Mini ...

22. 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 ...

23. 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 ...

24. Analyst gets excited about Apple, raises target price by 27%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 13 April 2009

    ... billion, Google is at $119 billion, Dell at $20 billion, HP at $82 billion and Microsoft at $174 billion.  ...

25. Michael Dell says his company is kind of working on the iPhone-killer

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    Dell's rumored smartphone probably does exist after all. That is, if you believe the ambiguously crafted words of the company's CEO, Michael Dell, who said that yes, Dell is kind of working on the iPhone-killer ...

26. 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 ...

27. Can anyone break the carriers' choke hold on the cellphone market?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Monday, 23 March 2009

    I was astounded when the cellular carriers sent Dell's prototype "iPhone-killer" back to the drawing board. I do get it though ... carriers need differentiating products in a crowded market. Still, shouldn't ...

28. 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. ...

29. Microsoft's Windows 7 RC Build 7048 reviewed

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Tuesday, 10 March 2009

    ... finding nearly all necessary drivers from either the install or a subsequent Windows Update (a Dell XPS M1330 wireless adapter and sound driver had to be tracked down manually). Bott has prepared ...

30. Apple tax on the latest Mac gear: 40 percent

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 March 2009

    ... that seems mostly in sync in terms of price vs specs. In fact, the updated all-in-one comes ahead of similar all-in-one systems from Dell and HP - both in hardware specs and, surprisingly, price. On ...

31. ChangeWave: MacBook sales up in next 3 months, HP and Dell down

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 19 February 2009

    ... Apple laptop sales will increase in the next 90 days, according to the report, whereas HP and Dell portables will drop as consumers opt for cheaper netbooks. When it comes to desktops, most prefer Dell ...

32. 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 ...

33. The race to kill the MacBook Air is on

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... as Dell preps a challenger. Dell shifted its teasing campaign into a higher gear ahead of the launch of this highly anticipated MacBook Air-killer, dubbed Adamo Thirteen. Chicago (IL) - Although MacBook ...

34. Dell downgraded by JPMorgan, not diversified enough

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 05 February 2009

    Yesterday, a JPMorgan analyst downgraded Round Rock, Texas's Dell Inc. to "Underweight" from "Neutral," citing the company's lack of diversification in a declining market. The analyst also adjusted his ...

35. Putin rejects Dell's offer of aid

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

      At the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin, the prime minister of Russia, took questions from attendees. The first question from Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell, met with ...

36. Linux saga: Girl drops out of school over Ubuntu

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 16 January 2009

      A young Wisconsin student bought a Dell notebook computer only to find out it had Ubuntu Linux installed. Unable to get her Windows-based Internet CD from Verizon to work, and not finding Microsoft Word ...

37. Microsoft to put Live Search on Dell computers and Verizon cellphones

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 09 January 2009

      This week, Microsoft added two new mid- and long-term distribution deals that will see its Live Search and Windows Live Toolbar preinstalled on consumer and small-business computers from Dell, ...

38. 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, ...

39. Top 10 people in technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Sunday, 28 December 2008

    ... giant HP back into the wind, overtake Dell in PC shipments and recently IBM in server volume, grow the services division organically and through a $14 billion acquisition of EDS, a company that holds numerous ...

40. Update: Dell says no changes to Windows XP downgrade cost

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 09 December 2008

      Update: A previous version of this article claimed that Dell recently increased the cost of downgrading some of its consumer computer systems from Windows Vista from $50 to $150. Dell contacted ...

41. Why did Twitter say no to Facebook?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... advertising. Instead Twitter plans charge customers who utilize Twitter as a means to communicate with other customers or sell products. Companies such as JetBlue Airways, Dell and Whole Foods Market have ...

42. Dell’s Mini 9 gets HSDPA broadband

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 25 November 2008

      Dell is now offering a mobile broadband option for its netbook Internet buddy Mini 9. And if you are somewhat tolerant towards mail-in-rebates, you could convince yourself that you will be getting ...

43. Nvidia's Tesla deskside supercomputer returns as a PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 November 2008

      PC vendors such as Dell will soon begin selling desktop supercomputer built around Nvidia’s Tesla floating point accelerators. Priced around $10,000, these PCs may look innocent, but they pack ...

44. Core i7 PCs launch with prices from $1250 to $13,000

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 November 2008

    ... 64-bit for $1250. The company also offers a version with the 2.93 GHz 940 CPU with 6 GB of memory, a Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card, a 1 TB HDD as well as an 80 GB SSD for $3000. Dell’s entry-level Core ...

45. More dirt in Vista Capable case surfaces

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 16 November 2008

    ... chipset), confusion (Dell, which described the new strategy as “clear as mud”) and anger (HP, which had invested in higher-end graphics systems to prepare for Vista). Microsoft’s internal reaction reflected ...

46. The price tag for LCD price fixing: $585 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

    ... guilty of fixing the prices of TFT-LCD panels that were sold to Dell, Motorola and Apple.  ...

47. Dell ships laptops with self-encrypting hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 09 November 2008

      Seagate is more aggressively pushing its full disk encryption (FDE) hard drives and said that McAfee is now providing enterprise management level tools. Dell is the first manufacturer to ship ...

48. Dell goes Chinese and strikes gold

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 24 October 2008

      Analyst Opinion - This week I was a few days  in China as Dell’s guest. Steve Felice, Dell’s top executive there, Michael Dell and a number of the top players have spent some time explaining ...

49. 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 ...

50. Is Steve Jobs right on Blu-ray and HDMI?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 15 October 2008

    ... of setup and penetration. It is on virtually every HDTV currently shipping and it exists on a number of monitors as well. For instance, I just started using Dell’s Crystal Monitor, which only has an HDMI ...