Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell Inc. has been accused of selling millions of faulty computers to large corporations including Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, and the Mayo Clinic, and an unknown number of small businesses, the New York Times reports. Dell employees did know that the machines did have a high potential to fail, the paper reports, citing [...]

Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell says that users should buy more computers running Ubuntu Linux. The Round Rock, Texas based information technology company says on Dell’s Ubuntu website that the Debian based Linux distribution is safer than Microsoft Windows. "The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack [...]

Redmond (ip-192.com): The latest security patches from Microsoft seem to resolve most issues Windows XP users have with their operating system permanently – with the blue screen of death (BSOD). Complaints are overflowing on Microsoft support blogs. One user identified as DivineMaster writes “I'm seriously hoping that someone will come up with an answer in [...]

Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell has modified the new Google Chrome OS to enable wireless access to the Internet. While the hardware manufacturer does not expect to have a product available until next year's holiday shopping season, it has ported an experimental version of Google's Chromium OS to the PC maker's Inspiron Mini 10v netbook. "Without [...]

Round Rock (ip-192.com): Dell plans to sell its new Mini 3 smartphones equipped with Google’s Android mobile software, as the computer maker enters the growing and crowded mobile phone market. Dell plans to sell the new phone through China Mobile in China and Claro in Brazil. While there was a lot of chatter in October [...]