Dell is getting ready to launch its second Android tablet "within in the next few weeks," according to comments made by the company's Greater China President Amit Midha. The device in question features a 7-inch screen and will reportedly be…
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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