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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 10 million ultra low voltage notebooks to ship in 2009

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 12 May 2009

   ... a target of shipping between five to six million of these during this year but that depends on supplies of components being on target. Further, according to DRAM Exchange, HP and Dell's CULV machines ...

4. Microsoft loses patent case, ordered to pay $388 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 09 April 2009

   ... like Dell and HP. See the original Reuters article republished on Yahoo News.  ...

5. Dell unleashes its Macbook Air rival Adamo

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 17 March 2009

   Dell has begun selling its slim notebook Adamo, which follows a trend set originally by Apple with its Macbook Air and has brought us computers such as Lenovo’s X300 series. You can fall in love with Dell’s ...

6. Vista Downgrade Lawsuit: Microsoft accused of price gouging

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 09 March 2009

   ... to incur an unnecessary expense of $130, perhaps more or less, depending on the retail outlet, and creating revenue for Microsoft in the same amount." Dell is a prime example of this issue. The company ...

7. 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 ...

8. Lawyers to appeal Vista Capable ruling, Microsoft not off the hook yet

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 20 February 2009

   ... court, followed by -- if unsuccessful -- an appeal to the Ninth Circuit," said Jeffrey Tilden, a partner in the Seattle law firm Gordon Tilden Thomas & Cordell LLP, when asked by ComputerWorld whether ...

9. 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 ...

10. Acer launches bargain quad-core notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

      Acer has set its focus on Dell and Hewlett-Packard in 2009: Already the third-largest PC manufacturer in the world, the company reportedly wants to surpass Dell – and pricing appears to be main ...

11. 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 ...

12. Microsoft quietly extends Windows XP lifecycle, again

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 22 December 2008

    ... up to one third of new PC customers are still choosing Windows XP over Windows Visa for their new PCs. Companies such as Dell are offering the Windows Vista “downgrade” on selected systems for a fee of ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. U.S. gets the Dell Inspirion Mini 12

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Friday, 14 November 2008

    Today, the Inspiron Mini 12 was officially launched in the United States after it had its initial test run in Japan. The 12” notebook is a combination of a netbook and an ultraportable notebook. It does ...

17. Dell refreshes iMac clone XPS One

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 October 2008

      Dell has upgraded its all-in-on system XPS One with a larger LCD and new core hardware components. Prices for the new systems start at $1699. Round Rock (TX) – Dell has upgraded its all-in-on system ...

18. 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 ...

19. MontaVista Linux drives Dell's quick-boot feature

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Friday, 03 October 2008

    CEO Rusty Harris revealed MontaVista's role developing the quick-booting, ARM-based processor subsystem expected to ship this year in select Dell laptop models. The "Latitude ON" feature aims to give ...

20. Sony intros ultra-expensive ultra-portable notebook

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 23 September 2008

    ... Intel that netbook implies that such a device is a cheap computer to surf the Internet. Dell, for example, avoids calling its cheap mobile computer a netbook, simply because it believes that consumers ...

21. HP latest notebook will run for 24 hours on one charge, if…

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 09 September 2008

    ... have to worry about their notebook battery running out before their work day is over.” We have heard similar claims before, including 19-hours of battery life in a notebook that is promoted by Dell. ...

22. 5 million iPhone 3Gs and 3 million Macs this quarter, analysts estimate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 22 August 2008

    ... and Gartner rank Apple as the third-largest computer vendor in the U.S., following HP and Dell. On Wall Street, Apple’s market cap is close to Google's market cap.   Student Monitor polled 1200 ...

23. Netbooks and MIDs need some Apple Magic

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Wednesday, 20 August 2008

    ... be exactly what Netbooks and MIDs need. This is IDF week and I have been especially interested in those upcoming Netbooks and MIDs.  I have both the HP and the Dell Netbooks in house and in use ...

24. Microsoft drops, Google and Apple climb in latest ACSI satisfaction study

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... second year in a row and wiped out gains that were made since 2005. Windows-based PC vendors Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, and Compaq declined to 73, 72 and 70 points, respectively. Dell was able to climb ...

25. More than a third of new PC buyers downgrade Vista to XP, survey says

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... shipped within the past six months. "Either these machines were downgraded by Dell or HP, or they were downgraded by the user after they got the machine," said Devil Mountain's chief technology officer ...

26. Shhh. We have a product but it’s a mystery.

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 July 2008

    ... Apple has hefty margins by computing standards: over 30 percent compared to less than 20 for Dell, and just under 25 for HP. So, they must have something up their sleeve, something worth cutting into their ...

27. Dell is serious about Ubuntu: Launches first consumer Linux PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 18 July 2008

      Dell today flipped the switched and is now officially offering consumer desktop and notebook PCs with Ubuntu 8.04 pre-installed. Two notebooks and one desktop join two desktop systems in Dell’s ...

28. Dell Studio notebooks: What color would you like?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 26 June 2008

      Ok, we got it. Design and style are dominating the notebook world this year. If we believe Dell (and Apple’s success), then notebooks are becoming much more a fashion statement for certain consumer ...

29. Dell extends lifeline of Windows XP PCs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 23 June 2008

    Dell has added eight more days to the availability of PCs with Windows XP. The company previously said that final orders for XP PCs would be accepted until June 18, but now extended the deadline until ...

30. Dell launches final Windows XP PC systems

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 15 June 2008

      Retail and direct OEM sales of Windows XP will be drying up by the end of this month, so it should not be too surprising that vendors are pushing out their XP inventory this month. Dell has added ...

31. 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 ...

32. Dell to support XP after Microsoft stops

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 April 2008

    Microsoft is set to cut off sales of Windows XP after June 30, but Dell has announced that it plans to continue offering the long-standing operating system on its computers past the beginning of summer.  ...

33. Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart served subpoenas in Vista Capable lawsuit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 March 2008

    ... system's marketing campaign. IBM, HP Acer, Dell, Toshiba and Sony have also been sent subpoenas in the case, as has former Microsoft executive Jim Allchin.   In a recently released e-mail from 2006, ...

34. Alcatel-Lucent next company to demand billions from Microsoft and Dell

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 18 March 2008

      Patents have become the single most important income source for many company’s out there: Alcatel-Lucent is latest company that has gone on a crusade to cash in on its patents: Microsoft and Dell ...

35. Unreal creator Tim Sweeney: "PCs are good for anything, just not games”

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 09 March 2008

    ... PC you are using. Sweeney: My work computers are Dell workstations. Currently, I have a dual-CPU setup, dual-quad cores for a total of eight cores, and 16 GB of memory. We at Epic tend to go to the high-end ...

36. Microsoft caught pants down in Intel love affair

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 29 February 2008

    ... after consumers found that some of Dell’s Vista “Ready” PCs were actually just “Capable”. It is everything but good news for Microsoft’s legal team, because it turns out that the company ended up protecting ...

37. Update: Blu-ray and HD DVD support demystified

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 31 January 2008

    ... less of a battle here, as several manufacturers support both formats.  However, the number one manufacturer, Dell, has exclusively chosen to back Blu-ray.  Apple has done the same.  Of course, ...

38. Dell to join (Product) RED campaign

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 23 January 2008

    Dell said that it will begin offering red versions of computers and printers as part of the (PRODUCT) RED campaign, which collects donations for “The Global Fund” to battle HIV in Africa. ...

39. Rob Enderle: 2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft and Linux

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 28 December 2007

    ... too. :)  Thank you. ---------- Analysis:  2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft and Linux by Rob Enderle Introduction Looking ahead to 2008 we are in for one amazing ...

40. Does AMD’s Spider catch Intel’s Penryn in its Web?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 November 2007

    ... wish list for folks in the US and that indicates that volume should be very strong. While we often watch Apple, Dell, HP, Acer (Gateway), and Lenovo in this segment, the big fight is always between AMD ...

41. Dell rolls out XPS One details

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 19 November 2007

    Dell today announced the XPS One, one of its highest-end enthusiast computers to date. Tokyo (Japan) - Dell today announced the XPS One, one of its highest-end enthusiast computers to date. The One has ...

42. UPDATE #3: Ubuntu founder: Ubuntu replacing Windows

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 17 October 2007

    ... which require them. That means that the Ubuntu offers an economic incentive over Windows, which is not the case with Red Hat or SUSE." Ubuntu has recently been offered by Dell US, and more recently ...

43. TG Video: Wirelessly hacking Gmail and more - tutorial

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 11 October 2007

    ... amazed at how many people name their computers with their own first and last names.  People (more accurately IT departments) also like to name their computers by brand names like Dell laptop or Sony ...

44. Ballmer and Dell address missteps, opportunities

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 10 October 2007

    Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Dell CEO Michael Dell separately addressed the issues and opportunities facing their companies during two keynote interviews at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2007 ...

45. Ubuntu's "Gutsy Gibbon 7.10" release Oct 18 with a full 3D GUI

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Wednesday, 10 October 2007

    ... was based on the 7.04 release which primarily uses more traditional GUIs like Gnome and KDE--though it can also use Compiz or Beryl as alternative 3D desktops.  Since companies like Dell and ...

46. TG Daily Special: Leaving Redmond, WA in 24 hours

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 18 July 2007

    ... of Linux: Ubuntu. Ubuntu Ubuntu is an African word meaning a great many things, kind of like "aloha". Ubuntu's demo CD even comes with a video interview of Nelson Mandella where he describes ...

47. Trends in the PC space: HP’s iPhone-like PC, Gateway does color, Dell starts war against crapware

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Friday, 13 July 2007

    ... like me, if Sony has lost the console war, we’ll save a console discussion for the future. Today, we’ll focus on what’s new in the PC market.   A few days ago, Michael Dell launched ...

48. Dell goes color crazy

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 25 June 2007

    Dell has refreshed some of its consumer notebooks and desktops for the second half of the year: Pink, green and yellow Dell computers are coming your way – even with Linux. Round Rock (TX) – ...

49. Computex Wars: AMD vs. Intel vs. VIA - and some unexpected implications

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 08 June 2007

    ... strength and Intel was on the defensive. This year, while AMD continued to show penetration into protected Intel accounts like Dell and Toshiba, Intel hit back hard with announcements that showcased its ...

50. Sandisk announces 64 GB solid state disk drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 04 June 2007

    ... 1.8” solid state disk (SSD) drive. The drive offers twice the capacity of 32 GB units, which are shipping in volume at this time and are sold through system vendors such as Dell. Scheduled for volume ...