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HP Refreshes Server Lines
News HP, the top seller of servers using x86 processors such as Intel's Xeon, has followed rival Dell with a decision to retreat from selling models using eight processors. Dell cancelled an eight-processor Xeon server plan in 2003, a decision that...
[March 30, 2005, 9:30]
HP Faces Claims Of Spying On Dell
News A former HP executive accused by the company of stealing trade secrets is now saying that he was instructed by the company's management to spy on rival Dell. The most incendiary allegations come in the new countersuit, which claims that HP...
[January 25, 2007, 7:59]
Dell Opts For AMD's Opteron
News Speculation has mounted for years as to whether Dell would adopt the company's chips, despite Dell's exclusive relationship with rival Intel to this point. Dell has agreed to use AMD's Opteron chip in multiprocessor servers by the end of the year...
[May 19, 2006, 8:55]
Dell And Google Join Forces
News Google and Dell have agreed to a first in a series of deals to preinstall Web and desktop search software on the PC maker's computers, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Thursday. Under the deal, millions of Dell PCs will be loaded with...
[May 26, 2006, 8:35]
Compaq Lead In PC Market Slips
News While Compaq continued to top the charts in the second quarter, it led rival Dell Computer Corp.by a statistical hair. IDC showed Compaq with 16.6 percent of the market versus Dell's 16.3 percent, while Dataquest showed the two with 16.8 percent...
[July 26, 1999, 8:20]
Apple Will Support Rival DVD Format
News The DVD+RW format had the early backing of several PC makers, including Dell and Hewlett-Packard, while consumer electronics makers such as Panasonic and Hitachi pushed the rival DVD-RW format. Brown said that in addition to having the top PC...
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
EC Awaits Microsoft's Full Antitrust Compliance
News The EC does not plan to take any action to persuade PC vendors to use the software after HP and Dell expressed disinterest in the unbundled version of Windows. If HP and Dell still prefer to have Windows with [Microsoft's] media player, that's...
[April 4, 2005, 17:15]
Comdex: It's A Wireless Thing
News On the handheld front, Dell Computer will launch its Axim x5 line, while HP will unveil two new iPaqs. With Dell's entry into the handheld market, Microsoft has 30 licensees of its Pocket PC OS. Dell may also clarify whether it will use Intel's...
[November 14, 2002, 12:23]
Ubuntu Lets Loose 'Feisty Fawn'
News Ubuntu got an unsolicited endorsement from Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive of Dell, a computer maker that's been wrestling with how to meet demand for desktop Linux. On Wednesday, the company announced on its Direct2Dell blog that...
[April 20, 2007, 15:45]
Red Hat Launches Global Desktop
News PC maker Dell recently caved into pressure from its user base, which used a forum set up by the company to demand desktops and laptops with pre-installed Linux. Dell acquiesced and announced last month that it would now ship PCs with the Ubuntu...
[May 10, 2007, 14:01]
New Pentium IIIs Arrive
News They are significantly less expensive than 1GHz Pentium III PCs, which began shipping in the past week from Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard Dell, for example, is quoting customers 12 to 15 day lead times on Dimension desktop PCs with the new chips.
[March 21, 2000, 9:22]
IBM And AMD Plot Opteron Tie-up
News While rivals HP and Sun have given Opteron first-class-citizen status, and even longtime holdout Dell has announced Opteron server plans, IBM's Opteron servers were geared for high-performance computing rather than the mainstream business market.
[July 21, 2006, 10:10]
Intel Comes Clean On 64-bit Server Chip
News During his keynote, Barrett demonstrated a 64-bit x86 chip running on a Dell Dimension XPS desktop machine. Neil Hand, director of marketing for the enterprise server group at Dell, said the demand for Xeon servers that can handle large memory...
[February 18, 2004, 11:20]
Dual-core Opterons To Debut Early
News And Intel persuaded a major partner, Dell, from slipping into the AMD camp. AMD may have lost Dell, but things are looking up when it comes to the three other major server manufacturers - in particular with IBM, which was the first of the big four...
[April 8, 2005, 8:55]
Dell Poaches HP Executive
News Dell has hired Brad Anderson, HP's top executive for its ProLiant server line and until now a rival in a key market, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. Number one HP and number two Dell have been jockeying for years in the market for...
[July 1, 2005, 10:00]
Worldwide PC Revenue Remains Flat
News HP, the largest PC maker in the world for two straight quarters, expanded its lead over rival Dell in the fourth quarter worldwide. Additionally, Dell historically sees its PC shipment growth slow a bit in the fourth quarter, in comparison with...
[January 18, 2007, 8:58]
HP Opens New Front In PC Price War
News The Pavilion a210e's $349 opening price undercuts HP-rival Dell, which offers consumer-oriented desktops starting at $399. HP is trying to increase its price competitiveness against Dell," said Toni Duboise, a desktop analyst with ARS.
[June 27, 2003, 14:42]
Compaq Scores Two Mammoth Contracts
News Compaq beat out its fiercest rival, Dell Computer, as well as its would-be acquirer Hewlett-Packard to become Raytheon's primary supplier of Intel-based servers, desktop PCs, workstations and laptops, said Peter Blackmore, Compaq's executive vice...
[December 20, 2001, 14:45]
HP Takes Top PC Slot - For Now
News HP, which finalised its merger with Compaq on 3 May, shipped more PCs than any other PC maker in an overall flat second quarter, but the company's margin over rival Dell is razor thin, according to reports from research firms Gartner and IDC.
[July 19, 2002, 8:15]
Apple's 'fastest PC' Claim Scrutinised
News Although Apple has won praise for the new Macs as a substantial improvement over prior machines, some have criticised the choices made in putting together the rival Dell machine for use in tests developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation...
[June 25, 2003, 7:33]
