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Let's See How Crazy Black Friday Gets This Year!

Crazy Eddie take note! The Friday immediately following Thanksgiving has long been known as "Black Friday" because it represents the unofficial beginning of the holiday shopping season, or the day when retailers hold massive sales in hopes of steering their (red) losses... Full Story

Posted on November 12, 2008 9:58 PM

Wow! A Quick Boot PC -- About Time!

It is the black hole of the digital age -- the three minutes it can take for your computer to boot up, when there is nothing to do but wait, and wait, and wait some more before you can log... Full Story

Posted on October 27, 2008 4:50 PM

Alienware Comes to Best Buy

Let the buyers beware! You might notice a few extra gamers hanging around your local Best Buy -- Dell has announced it will sell the Alienware Aurora exclusively through 200 Besy Buy locations as well as the store's website.People are... Full Story

Posted on October 17, 2008 5:20 PM

HP Says Touch Me Now!

Hewlett-Packard (HP), aiming to boost its personal computer sales against arch rival Dell (and Lenovo and Apple, too), is increasingly turning to touch-screen technology.HP is now developing a consumer notebook with a touch screen that will debut before year end. It... Full Story

Posted on October 16, 2008 5:59 PM

Netbooks Yes or Netbooks No?

A new report predicts that ultramobile devices will reach 200 million in unit sales by 2013 and will match the market for notebook PCs. ABI Research said products such as netbooks and mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, will gross... Full Story

Posted on September 25, 2008 4:30 PM

SightSpeed Now Available on Linux and Dell Netbooks

SightSpeed today announced that its video and voice communications software is now available on Linux-based "netbook" (mini-notebook) PCs.  Dell Video Chat powered by SightSpeed will come pre-installed on the Linux build of Dell's newly-launched Inspiron Mini 9 device. Dell Video... Full Story

Posted on September 16, 2008 12:42 AM

Dell Goes to Europe with Vodafone

Vodafone and Dell have announced that Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 ultra-mobile notebook will be sold with built-in mobile broadband, exclusively through Vodafone stores and online, and directly from Dell, in key European markets. Available in late September, the Inspiron... Full Story

Posted on September 4, 2008 5:11 PM

Dell's New Line Makes Like Apple

Finally it seems like somebody in the PC business besides Apple has grabbed the idea that style matters -- the message is in the medium, so to speak ...Dell's smallest, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC, the Studio... Full Story

Posted on July 29, 2008 8:33 PM

Dell Video Chat Launches

Today, Dell will launch Dell Video Chat powered by SightSpeed, which will be pre-bundled on all consumer Dell PCs. Landing Dell is a major win for SightSpeed, a competitor to Skype, Microsoft Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and others. I spoke... Full Story

Posted on June 26, 2008 9:15 AM

Are Mini-Notebooks on the Way Back?

Always loved the smallest of the small laptop PCs, but seems they never really took off for a number of reasons -- form factor is limited by keyboard size (chiclets anyone), features tend to not be pushing the envelope... Full Story

Posted on May 29, 2008 1:59 PM

Shame on Dell

The New York Attorney General's Office has won a major suit against Dell, with the court ruling that Dell engaged in fraud, false advertising and deceptive business practices. Read more about it here.Now are we going to see any... Full Story

Posted on May 27, 2008 8:58 PM

Apple Takes Lead in $1K+ Computer Market

Everybody knows that Apple is kicking butt, and now research force NPD has reported huge growth in Apple's share of the so-called “premium” computer market — machines that cost more than $1,000. Less than 18% in January 2006, by... Full Story

Posted on May 19, 2008 8:21 PM

Dell Goes More Seriously after Gamers

Surprising to some, but Dell is abandoning several of its most popular models to focus on its premium line of specialty gaming personal computers. Not too surprising to some, Dell had to do something to juice up its chances... Full Story

Posted on May 13, 2008 2:26 PM

New Dell Notebooks Coming?

The steady pace of computer technology marches on ...According to a report on Engadget (here), Dell is set to launch a series of new Inspiron notebooks.Having had an Inspiron 700m for what sees like ages now, feel good that... Full Story

Posted on May 8, 2008 4:26 PM

Dell picks Fonality VoIP Phone System

I missed my early meeting today with Fonality CEO Chris Lyman about some blockbuster news he wanted to share being announced at ITEXPO. Fortunately, as administrator of the blog server I happened to be checking out Rich's blog entries to... Full Story

Posted on January 23, 2008 12:00 AM

Dell Gets into VoIP Game with OCS 2007

Dell is now in the VoIP game! I was talking with Microsoft's Clint Patterson, Director of PR for Unified Communications, this morning and I asked him about Dell, since I noticed they were listed as one of Microsoft's OCS 2007... Full Story

Posted on October 16, 2007 12:15 PM

Reasons To Switch to a Mac 1, 2, 3 ...

Of course you've seen the Apple TV ads with the "PC guy" and the "Apple guy" (makes me wonder what the "Dell Dude" is dude-ing today). And you've probably considered (or at least thought about) heading away from the PC... Full Story

Posted on March 8, 2007 9:07 AM

A Dell by Any Other Name?

Today's announcement about Michael Dell becoming CEO of his own company through me off guard, especially since the disposed CEO, Kevin Rollins, was at the big Windows Vista launch shindig in NYC just two days ago! Wonder if anyone in... Full Story

Posted on January 31, 2007 6:00 PM

Vista Launch: Midnight Madness All Over Again?

While I'm getting ready for the launch celebration of Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office in New York City today (Bill Gates will come out of "retirement" for one of the presentations), it's very interesting to see how excited everyone... Full Story

Posted on January 29, 2007 10:56 AM

PowerSquid's Got the Power Protection!

Flexity has put a whole new spin (and look!) on one of the essential "back office" elements of personal computing -- the lowly surge protector. (Is there anything more utilitarian than that?) Yes, believe it or not, that dull black... Full Story

Posted on November 7, 2006 2:45 PM

Sony Recalls Sony Batteries

Who said misery loves company? (Well, they would be right in this situation.)Sony is now recalling its own notebook computer batteries (didn't want to leave Dell and the other notebook manufacturers feeling lonely, I guess) to the count of 90,00... Full Story

Posted on October 18, 2006 6:24 PM

Ergo Keys: Any Way You Want Them -- It's Your Keyboard!

It seems like a pretty wacky idea, but having a keyboard that you can customize (I mean really customize) can make a lot of sense. Ergodex's DX1 Input System is the first in a new category of input device that features movable... Full Story

Posted on October 4, 2006 8:18 PM

Dell Does Recycling Right! F-R-E-E

Now we really have something good here with Dell’s announcement of its no-charge recycling program for U.S. customers. Let's just call it was it is -- free! The magic URL is www.dell4me.com/recycling. (About time this got here -- Dell has offered... Full Story

Posted on October 2, 2006 9:36 AM

HP Using Voodoo (No, Not in the Leak Probe)

Not to be outdone by Dell's deal with Alienware (and not to be confused with the Congressional hearing (aka "HP FUD" -- Fear Uncertaincy and Doubt) now going on, Hewlett-Packard plans to buy niche PC manufacturer Voodoo Computers. Voodoo makes cool looking, high-end... Full Story

Posted on September 29, 2006 4:18 PM

More Sony Battery Woes -- As in 7 Million ... and Counting

7 million -- that's right.  That's what Sony's looking at with the latest news on a GLOBAL notebook battery recall. We've got Apple, we've got Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo (IBM) all facing problems with Sony's batteries in their notebook computers. I'd... Full Story

Posted on September 29, 2006 3:51 PM