Dell

It is truly amazing when you find that someone who has been on the wrong side of every court case they bring to the fore, finally gets one right. I suppose you could say it’s all in the odds, but the attorney general of New York has been on a tear, being on the wrong [...]

This morning came with the announcement that Dell, the Texas-based PC company, will be acquiring Perot Data Systems, owned by H. Ross Perot.
Yes, that one.
The last time Mr. Perot sold a company, Electronic Data Systems, to General Motors, part of the money soon funded presidential runs for Mr. Perot, in 1992 and 1996.
Could this be [...]

A story on Betanews states that Google is going to have Chrome soon found on Sony Vaio computers, as delivered.  The beginning of a move by Google to get Chrome into the mainstream may or may not come with this, as Sony is not really a major supplier of computers. A really big deal would [...]

Sure, I know that title makes little sense, but that conveys the strange tale of the AsusTek company, one that was just recognized as building the very best consumer motherboards, and a maker of various other computer parts, both for the retail, and the OEM, spaces.
And that is the problem. Asus could be much larger [...]

Lately, the general furor and anticipation over the release to the masses of Windows 7 has had the Windows fanboys salivating, and delivering up stories of how OEMs who deliver Linux are going to stop because of high return rates. These high return rates are ostensibly because the users can’t get Linux to work as [...]

With the announcement of the end of the Inspiron Mini 12 netbook, it would seem that it is. Dell is ending the Mini 12’s run because the screen drawing is placing too much demand on the Atom processor, or so they say.
from Tech Connect
Introduced in November (2008), the Inspiron Mini 12 quasi-netbook has pretty [...]

Because not enough people purchased (and kept) their low cost PCs from Wal-Mart, and other vendors, long time PC manufacturer Everex has closed operations in the United States.
Everex was a company with a presence in America since 1983, and at one time, was not known for inexpensive PCs, but general purpose PCs.  Having worked on [...]

So says the New York Times. The story is that longtime security company McAfee, not a close second, in the market share calculations, is tired of playing second fiddle to industry leader Symantec, who holds a bit over half of the market.
As I stated yesterday, Symantec has built its base largely upon the name recognition [...]

Too bad that it is not being honored. Certainly some employee is joining the ranks of the unemployed, after forgetting to proof-read the ad copy for a sale online.
from Tech Connect
Somebody working at Dell is in big trouble as the US-based company got a major headache from an error on the Taiwanese version of its [...]

Do you know how the kids play a game where someone is ‘it’ and everyone else tries to bring them down, and after getting them on the ground, everyone piles on like some mad football play after a fumble?
That is apparently how it will be for Intel for a while. The judgement against them will [...]

Larry Dignan seems to be unusually on top of this story, as he gives more insight to the Oracle buyout of Sun.
Stating that Oracle might have valued the hardware division at zero makes many wonder how all that Sun hardware will continue on. Will it be a third party picking up the pieces, or will [...]

One of the truisms I grew up with was “Figures don’t lie, but any liar can figure”. Over the years, I have found it was applicable in many areas of life, and now I am finding that, more than ever before, it works well in the area of claims for use by software authors.
With the [...]

It’s strange what you find when looking for something else. I came upon a site where the owner was giving a run down of the problems he has had with his Dell laptop.
He was trying desperately to get something done for his website, and after some software manipulation, decided that the problem was hardware related. [...]

Reading through the online version of ComputerWorld, an article delving into the lawsuits filed by a company, heretofore unknown to me, Convolve, located in the ‘little’ town of Armonk, New York. My first thought, was that this company must be an offshoot, or subsidiary of, that really famous company that occupies much of the discussion [...]

An article in ComputerWorld reports that Dell, or possibly Microsoft (who do you trust ?) is changing the rules for downgrades to XP from Vista. After June 30, the only home computers that can be downgraded to XP are the ones designated as gamer machines. No others will be allowed.
The charge for this will [...]