Just as Dell announced it had finalized its buyout deal, Hewlett-Packard came out swinging, criticizing its rival and declaring it's going after Dell's customers. On Tuesday, Dell, the third-largest PC maker, said executives had finalized ...
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Microsoft's $2 billion loan to Dell, the world's third-largest seller of personal computers, was a signal that the personal computer, Microsoft's Windows, or both, are at growing risk of irrelevance, analysts said Tuesday. The loan was ...
Free from the bright lights of Wall Street, Dell's decision to go private is likely to lead to the company downplaying if not entirely eliminating consumer products in favor of building out its enterprise product portfolio, analysts said. ...
Apple today dropped prices of its Retina-equipped 13-in. MacBook Pro by as much as $300, and lowered the price of its top-end MacBook Air by $100. Some models of the company's laptop line also received processor speed increases, with the ...
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A watch that doubles as a computer and two-way radio has been a technology vision since at least the 1950s. Recently, reports that Apple is building an iWatch have lit a fire under the smart watch concept, at least in part because of ...
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In a question-and-answer session on Reddit Wednesday, Microsoft's Surface Pro team ignored most questions about the tablet's battery life, but hinted that the company might sell an add-on battery pack in the future. Even the team's sole ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy said Monday that personal information about several hundred employees and contractors was stolen in a mid-January hack, but that no classified information was compromised. The agency is working with federal ...
Dell's buyout deal should give the company renewed business flexibility and stealth, but its customers need to know if Dell will be in the PC market for the long haul. "Now, Dell will be able to better compete with HP, Lenovo, IBM and ...
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Smartphones running on a mobile version the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system could arrive as early October this year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Linux OS vendor Canonical, told the ...
Media organisations and journalists are coming under increasingly regular cyber-attacks, with hacking being used as a tool to censor the press. "We have seen distributed denial of service attacks against individual journalists and against ...
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Apple is testing designs for a watch capable of operating as a smartphone-like device, according to people claiming inside knowledge on the matter. Both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times cite sources that say Apple is ...
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That glimmer of hope some are seeing in the economy may be the glint of a diamond or the sheen of a silk scarf. Buoyed by signs of life in the real estate and stock markets, wealthy Americans are spending more freely on luxury goods, ...
Former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has written a book about the chip wars between Intel and AMD. 'Slingshot: AMD's Fight to Free An Industry From The Ruthless Grip of Intel' - is the title of a book written by former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz to be ...
According to a number of reports, Apple is experimenting with watch-like wearable devices with some smartphone capabilities, as the company looks at new product categories to populate. Apple has discussed the design with manufacturing ...
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HP has come out fighting. Following the announcement that Dell had finalised its buyout deal, the technology giant criticised its rival and claimed that it will go after Dell’s customers. On Tuesday, Dell, the world’s ...