dell in comment and analysis
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the reader comments page, with this... [01 May 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Microsoft vs EU
Comment With a large PC maker like Dell, after several hours of painstaking work and a certain amount of frustration, you may receive something like £25 back. Microsoft is a pioneer in pushing anti-competition laws to their limits, argues Martin Brampton. [18 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Public sector and PCs - not boring, official
Comment Dell led the pack with its then business focus, then came Gateway - or I should say Gateway 2000 - and there was even Idaho's Micron. So we're left with HP seemingly resurgent in personal tech, Dell the last of the direct big boys - and with its... [29 Aug 2007]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment Greenpeace has spent the last year berating vendors and subsequently there have been significant moves by Apple, Dell, Lenovo and others to clean up their act. Also vendors such as Apple and Dell have set up schemes in the US to take back old PCs... [13 Aug 2007]
Minority Report: Macs gaining enterprise cred
Comment These days, however, this is largely unfair and comparisons between Macs and 'equivalent' computers from Dell, HP and Sony will result in similar prices for computers with similar specifications. Two years is a long time in the tech world. [19 Jul 2007]
The McCue Interview: Richard Snooks, CIO, Capital & Regional
Comment Some of the key technologies in the infrastructure include applications delivered remotely over a Citrix thin-client set-up, a Dell and EMC storage area network, two data centres using ServerIron switching technology from Foundry Networks to... [09 Jul 2007]
Leader: Laptop as the most personal device?
Leader Launches this week by not just HP but rivals Dell and Lenovo go some way to telling us. We know the technology world changes quickly but it comes as quite a shock to hear an executive from a major IT vendor talk about the immaturity of laptops just... [10 May 2007]
Opinion: Global services' level playing-field
Comment After all, Dell has a reputation for writing the book on production-line efficiency. So why is Dell now opening a new production line in India? Here, Kobayashi-Hillary highlights several key trends. The world became used to globalisation in... [02 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.04.07
Round-Up Dell said on its website: "We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our Dell consumer PC offerings. However, while it may have been listening to customers Dell seems to have been doing so rather selectively. [27 Apr 2007]
Minority Report: The 10 worst things about Apple
Comment However, the old arguments persist over why a consumer should buy Apple kit at 'premium' prices when you can pick up an equivalent spec Dell at half the price. A recent Greenpeace report rated it the worst offender on a list of PC companies... [05 Feb 2007]
Where did Dell go wrong?
Comment Faced with poor financials and a major management shake-up, Dell is having a rough time of it. Michael Dell himself, even in recent years, could occasionally be seen in the call centre donning a headset and answering the phone. [01 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: Power matters and friendly Larry
Comment Dell now uses the metric 'performance per watt' when describing hardware, and has a 'green' scheme which includes an energy calculator for customers to measure energy usage for various products. Michael Dell in his keynote said power management was... [26 Oct 2006]
Oracle - how to make friends and influence people
Comment Keynote speeches from large partners - AMD, Cisco Systems, Dell, HP and Sun Microsystems - are planned as well. Oracle may still be digesting a raft of big-name acquisitions - from PeopleSoft to Siebel - but, suggests Dawn Kawamoto, the future for... [25 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.10.06
Round-Up Dell was clearly intended to deliver a fairly standard 'we love what you guys are doing' kind of testimonial but instead decided to congratulate Benioff on the announcement of its Apex programming language, billed as the company's "most important... [13 Oct 2006]
Leader: 'Changing of the guard' for the 2006 Agenda Setters
Leader Dell CEO Kevin Rollins (45) replaces frequent Agenda Setter Michael Dell and Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz (46) takes Scott McNealy's spot. A list of the top names in tech - without Bill Gates? Or Steve Ballmer? [25 Sep 2006]
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