By Todd Haselton |
The PC industry recently experienced the largest drop in quarterly sales ever, a decline that was blamed largely on Windows 8 and an increased interest in tablets and smartphones. One of the issues with Windows 8 is that Microsoft released a watered-down version of the…
By Adriana Lee |
As smartphones go bigger and bigger, and tablets get smaller and smaller, there are a few companies unafraid to go the other way. Joining the likes of the Sony Vaio Tap 20 and Asus Transformer AiO, Dell will be shipping its own monster 18.4-inch tablet,…
By Todd Haselton |
Michael Dell is still wrestling with the company’s biggest shareholders to convince them to take the company private. He teamed up with Silver Lake Management and, with his own cash, ended up offering $24.4 billion for the company. Other shareholders think they can make a…
By Roy Choi |
New U.S. domestic sales numbers released Tuesday show Apple accounted for 19.9 percent of all consumer technology revenue in 2012. Apple and Samsung (9.3 percent of all US revenue) accounted for $6.5 billion in increased growth from 2011. Looking at the data, it appears much…
By Todd Haselton |
Reports first surfaced on Jan. 14 that Dell’s top executives were in talks with private equity firms to take the company private. Then we heard that Microsoft may have even pledged $3 billion to help. Reuters said Friday that the actual deal could happen as soon as…
By Brandon Russell |
Dell might go private, and Microsoft wants to help. The Redmond company apparently wants to loan out up to $3 billion as a “mezzanine” investment, which could convert to equity if Dell fails to pay Microsoft back. And that’s about it—for now. Dell is already…
By Todd Haselton |
PC shipments fell 4.9 percent to 90.3 million units shipped during the fourth quarter, which is typically a strong period for sales due to the holidays. Why? Well, it wasn’t necessarily because Windows 8 was a flop, but more because users are turning to tablets…
By Brandon Russell |
Jeff Clarke, head of Dell’s consumer business, confirmed that the company will not pursue the lucrative smartphone market going into next year. At least, nothing is planned for the immediate future. Bye bye, Android. According to Clarke, who spoke with Forbes at the Dell World…
By Todd Haselton |
Dell on Monday announced that it plans to acquire Quest Software for $2.4 billion. Quest Software is best known for its IT applications that are focused on system management, data protection, security, and workspace management. Dell plans to integrate the firm, which currently has more than…
By Killian Bell |
Excited about Dell’s upcoming Windows 8 tablet? No, me neither. But you might be when you see what the company is planning. According to this leaked slide, one of its first tablets will be a 10.1-inch device named the Latitude 10, which looks to be…
By Killian Bell |
PC users can now order a brand new Dell from their smartphone, thanks to the company’s handy new app for Android and iOS. It’s called Dell Mobile, and it makes it easier than ever to browse and buy directly from the Dell website on a mobile…
By Sean P. Aune |
Beginning on Thursday and running through Saturday, Dell & Intel will be hosting a Create.Work.Inspire event at the Villain Studio at 50 North 3rd in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. This is a follow-up to the event the two companies held in San Francisco last month that we…
By TechnoBuffalo Team |
Join our own Noah Kravitz tonight for a liveblog from San Francisco where we’ll get to know the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook a little better. We’ll have live coverage for you from the event, and further down the page you’ll find a chat room for…
By TechnoBuffalo Team |
Join our own Noah Kravitz tonight for a liveblog from San Francisco where we’ll get to know the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook a little better. We’re going to have a liveblog of the event going, as well as a chat room, so if you have…
By Brandon Russell |
The tablet market has become one of the most fiercely contested spaces over the past year and a half. As hard as companies try, nothing has been able to dethrone Apple’s gargantuan iPad, although Amazon’s Kindle Fire is certainly on the right track. Manufacturers are…
By Killian Bell |
While it may be a little later than its rivals, Dell has finally arrived at the Ultrabook party with its new XPS 13 notebook. As the name suggests, the device sports a 13-inch display and weighs in at a whisker under three pounds. It has…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Dell Streak 7 has joined it’s smaller sibling, the Dell Streak 5, in the growing graveyard of tablets that met an untimely demise. Dell confirmed today that the Dell Streak 7 has been removed from sale. The company explained the move to Electronista…
By Killian Bell |
Dell announced a 7-inch version of its Android Streak tablet in just January of this year, which Jon Rettinger got to play around with at CES 2011. Jon’s hands-on video revealed that the device was very unresponsive — despite its dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and 4G capabilities —…
By Sean P. Aune |
Usually the computers you find on special for Black Friday are lackluster to say the least. Manufacturers will dump sub-par chips, RAM and smallish hard drives into a box and call it a “deal,” but it seems BJ’s Wholesale Club and Dell have teamed up…
By Adriana Lee |
Dell XPS 14z, we’re (finally) ready for your close-up. This 14-inch Windows 7 laptop has now graced the company’s website via three different versions, including a base model that starts at $1,000. As such, customers have some configuration options: Processor: Core i5-2430M or Core i7-2640M…
By Adriana Lee |
We may have another casualty of the smartphone wars on our hands now, if you believe this report from WPCentral. According to the site’s source (a “higher up” at Dell), the company has decided not to release its “Wrigley” handset, and in fact will totally…
By Killian Bell |
Dell’s founder and CEO, Michael Dell, took another swipe at HP during his speech at Oracle Open World in San Francisco this week. Dell once again made it clear that his company had absolutely no intentions of abandoning the PC business, and said HP shouldn’t…
By Killian Bell |
If you’re a huge fan of Apple’s MacBook Air, but you can’t stand the thought of using the company’s Mac OS X operating system, then you’re probably looking forward to those super portable Ultrabooks that PC manufacturers keep promising. According to details “leaked onto the…
By Killian Bell |
HP’s decision to drop its personal computing business back in August was met with criticism from rival Dell, which mocked the company’s move to “divorce” itself from the PC business. It’s no surprise, then, that Dell has no intentions of pulling the same stunt.…
