The U.S. Department of Justice has closed the books on one of its cases targeting allegations that high-powered companies swapped unlawful kickbacks in government agency technology contracts.
Nearly four years after whistleblowers filed a lawsuit that named, among other companies, Computer Sciences Corp., CSC has agreed to a $1….
The new face of Dell gaming.
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The Wall Street Journal reported this morning on Dell’s plan to stop competing with itself. Rather than selling both high-end XPS gaming PCs as well as similar products from Alienware (which it acquired in 2006), Dell will shift all of its …
Over the past few weeks, things have heated up again in Lebanon, with the U.S.-backed government on one side and the Syrian-backed Hezbollah on the other.
To many U.S. observers, this might be just another case of tensions flaring up in the Middle East. Do not be …
Apple plans to debut an iPhone platform development track at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference next month, as the computer company seeks to become the Johnny Appleseed of iPhone features.
The iPhone platform will be one of two development platforms set to take center stage at Apple’s developers conference …
Reportedly inspired by an ongoing legal skirmish in New York, tax officials in Texas are investigating whether Amazon.com should be collecting sales taxes from the Lone Star State’s residents.
According to recent reports in the Dallas Morning News, the Texas Comptroller’s office is currently looking into whether …
I’m not a big fan of surveys, so I don’t quote them often. But a recent Consumer Reports survey about PC manufacturers listed Apple as No. 1 in tech support, with Lenovo second, Dell third, and HP dead last. I should also say that Dell came in second in desktops.
I thought the headline should be “Survey says leading PC maker HP dead last in tech support.” But that’s not what happened. The media hailed Apple, trashed Dell, and gave HP a pass.
Horror stories about Dell’s support are all over the blogosphere. Why is that? I mean, why does the media give Dell such a hard time?
Because perception is reality. But aside from being a pithy statement, what does that really mean?
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One of the curses, I suppose, of knowing one’s high-tech history is that way too many news items cause me to go, "Here we go again!"
The proximate tidbit this time is, of course, the news that Hewlett-Packard is acquiring services giant EDS for $13.9 billion. …
Updated at 8:30 a.m. PDT with additional analyst comment.
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it will acquire computer services firm EDS for $25 per share, or $13.9 billion, in a deal intended to boost HP’s services revenue.
On Monday night, HP had confirmed that the two companies were in talks, …
A group of Internet safety experts plans to announce next month a new start-up aimed at helping social networks provide safer Web 2.0 environments for kids and adults.
The company, called Wired Trust, will officially launch July 1. It will be one of the first consulting companies designed specifically …
Parry Aftab wants to make the Internet safer–one social network at a time.
Founder of Wired Safety, a global Internet kids-safety nonprofit, Aftab is turning her passion for protecting kids online into a consulting business for the fast-changing world of Web 2.0 widgets, social networks, and virtual worlds. In …