Posted September 23, 2010, 4:34 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
Setting its crosshairs on the competition, Dell has launched new budget-friendly all-in-one and compact desktop PCs in time for the holiday shopping season. The $799 (starting price) Inspiron One 23 competes with HP's TouchSmart series, and to some degree, Apple's…
Posted September 17, 2010, 7:19 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
Dell has begun selling a new 30-inch IPS display. Priced at $1,499 and due to ship in early October, the UltraSharp U3011 features an IPS panel with a roomy 2560x1600 resolution (16:10), and ships "factory-tuned to AdobeRGP and sRGB modes,"…
Dell has unveiled a new 10-inch convertible netbook with an unusual swivel mechanism. Rather than mounting the entire display with a horizontally rotating hinge, the screen flips vertically inside the bezel. Once the panel is facing the opposite direction, the…
Posted September 2, 2010, 5:59 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
Dell has reclaimed the number two position in global PC shipments, bumping Acer back to third place, according to iSuppli. The Taiwanese manufacturer suffered a sales setback during the second quarter of this year that cut shipments by 6.2% sequentially…
Posted August 24, 2010, 6:03 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing
Dell has begun shipping its first smartphone available to US customers. The Aero is currently up for grabs on Dell.com for a respectable $100 when paired with a two-year data plan through AT&T. If you'd rather not be tied to…
Posted August 6, 2010, 11:01 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
Recent leaks suggest that Dell will soon begin shipping a new 30-inch monitor with a 10-bit in-plane switching (IPS) panel and a 2560x1600 resolution. The UltraSharp U3011 would have a pre-calibrated panel from LG capable of producing 1.07 billion colors,…
Replacing its Inspiron 11z, Dell has revealed a new AMD-based 11.6-inch ultraportable notebook. The Inspiron M101z starts at £379 and ships with a 1366x768 LED-backlit display, an Athlon II Neo K125 single-core CPU, ATI RS880M integrated graphics, 2GB of DDR3…
According to posts on the Dell community forum, the system builder has accidentally shipped a "small number" of motherboards with malware-infected system management firmware. Affected units are limited to replacement motherboards for the PowerEdge R410, R510 and T410 distributed by…
Posted July 20, 2010, 10:07 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, IT Security
Dell is hoping to make web browsing a safer experience for corporate and home users with the release of a modified Firefox build that can reportedly keep malware locked into the browser itself, rather than infecting the whole operating system.…
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