Tag archive: Dell

First reported by Want China Times earlier today, chairman Terry Gou was meeting with senior managers and stated “”Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.” Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn, the company responsible for creating the majority of iPhones and iPads for Apple. Gou also stated that he would like to learn… Read More

Following their recent attempts to terrify us into buying a gaming PC with the Aurora R4, Alienware has now come over all friendly and announced the X51, a gaming PC that's hidden in a console-style box. With the ability to stand vertically or lay horizontally, the new X51 could happily sit alongside other gaming machines under your TV too. Despite a footprint barely larger than an original PS3, the X51 still packs in plenty of tech, and… Read More

  They once roamed coffee shops and college lecture halls, now it looks like the netbook is heading to that scrap heap of old, unwanted technology—at least that's what Dell thinks. The company has decided at the end of 2011, that it won't be making any more netbooks. The folks at the mydellmini.com forums first noticed Dell quietly pulling the small and inexpensive notebooks from the online store. Try it yourself, a search for… Read More

Once upon a time, desktop PCs were dull, non-threatening beige boxes hidden away under desks. But thanks to Alienware, specifically its new newly updated Aurora R4 desktop computer, they bear closer resemblance to nightmarish mechanical beings come to enslave us all. Alienware says the Aurora is its most advanced desktop PC yet, and judging by the incredible specs, it's hard not to agree. As with all Dell machines, it's expected that… Read More

Many of you may be shocked to find out that Dell is backing out of the US tablet market, but I suspect a good deal of you will be shocked to learn that it was ever in the race to begin with. Today, Dell has confirmed that it has stopped selling the Dell Streak 7, its last Android tablet still on sale in the United States. The company discontinued the Dell Streak 5 back in August. The Dell Streak 10 continues to be available in China, but no… Read More

Get your credit cards ready — the super online savings of Cyber Monday 2011 are finally here. Everyone from big box retailers to online-only outlets are dropping their Web prices left, right and down the middle in an attempt to boost sales. And that means deals aplenty for those of you hoping to make this year's holiday wishes come true without breaking the bank. But with all the scams, spam and confusing clutter out there, it can be hard… Read More

There are a few truisms in the technology world, and one of them is that storage always gets faster and cheaper. Over the long term, that will undoubtedly stay true, but in the near and medium term traditional hard drive storage is facing a major problem: Record flooding in Thailand. The deluge has forced Western Digital and Toshiba to shut down their hard drive manufacturing facilities in Pathum Thani province, near Bangkok, and hard drive… Read More

Chinese computer maker Lenovo moved up a place to become the world's second largest PC maker, according to figures released for the third quarter. Dell dropped from second to third place. Separate figures released by research firms Gartner and IDC on Wednesday had Hewlett-Packard (HP) remaining in top spot in terms of PC market share. Gartner’s figures showed HP as having 17.7 percent share of the market in the third quarter, Lenovo 13.5… Read More

Is your notebook computer dragging you down? Chipmaker Intel is betting heavily that consumers will embrace the company's so-called “Ultrabook” platform: very thin, very light notebook computers that offer the portability of netbooks without the hefty dive in performance. However, unlike mainstream performance notebooks, Intel promises Ultrabooks won't cost much, with prices routinely falling under $1,000. Intel is so… Read More

Technology and patent lawsuits seem to go hand in hand. High-profile cases, such as Apple and Samsung’s international slug-fest, garnered most of the attention, but they’re far from the exception to a rule. Lawsuits are filed constantly, sometimes by parties that appear to be attempting to make a profit in courtrooms rather than stores. The latest demonstration: Internet Machines, LLC’s ongoing lawsuit over PCI Express patents. The company,… Read More

Alienware's M11x gaming laptop/netbook/ultraportable/hard to say what to call it is a pretty powerful device. For around $700 you get a notebook with an 11-inch screen that delivers 6-8 hours of battery life and still plays stuff like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The only catch is that early models of the notebook came with faulty hinges, an issue Dell is now stepping up to address and do right by its customers on. The company has… Read More

Computer maker Dell will be partnering with China's Baidu search engine to make smartphones and tablets based on Baidu's new Android-based Yi operating system, according to Reuters. Neither company has announced any timeframes for the devices, but Chinese media as reported that the first Dell/Baidu devices could be on the market as soon as November. Baidu Yi is Baidu's new entry into the mobile operating system market.… Read More

Canadian patent holding company WiLan has announced it has launched litigation against a broad swatch of technology companies, alleging their product infringe on two patents related to CMDA/HSPA technology, as well as Wi-Fi and 4G LTE mobile technologies. The suit specifically targets Apple, Alcatel-Lucent, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, Kyocera, Novatel, and Sierra Wireless, and cites U.S. patent RE37,802 and 5,282,222—of the two, the… Read More

According to a press release today, Hewlett-Packard is discontinuing webOS and is looking for a ”a full or partial separation of [consumer electronics division] from HP through a spin-off or other transaction.” That's right, the number one PC maker in the world is essentially shutting, or selling, its doors. HP is looking for someone to buy its Personal Systems Group (PSG). This division is responsible for all consumer PCs,… Read More

Ask ten people if a tablet is a PC and you'll likely get a roughly even split between the “yes” and “no” camps. Although few would dispute that tablet devices are not as capable as traditional notebook or desktop computer for some computing tasks—just try developing an interactive Web site using an Android tablet, for example—there's also little doubt that tablets are not just media-consumption… Read More