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• Tech mogul Dell snaps up Magnum archive

  BNET - 2010-02-08

  Computer mogul Michael Dell has purchased the print archive of the famed Magnum photo agency, the international co-operative of photographers that counts Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson among its founders. MSD Capital, the investment firm started by the Dell Inc. founder, announced on Tuesday the acquisition of Magnum's approximately 185,000-image...

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• Dell Precision M6500 Hops On USB 3.0 and Core i5/i7 Trains [Dell]

  BNET - 2010-02-08

  Dell's Precision M6500 is the next in an increasingly long line of notebooks upgrading to Core i5, but it'll be one of the first to also ship with an optional USB 3.0 port. The Precision M6500 currently ships with a quad-core i7 for $2,750, but starting late February you'll be...

  Tags: USB, Dell Computer Corp., notebook, Dell Precision

• Dell upgrades Precision M6500 'beast' with USB 3.0, Core i5

  BNET - 2010-02-08

  It's only been three months since Dell first announced the 17-inch business-minded system, but the Dell folks told me that they wanted to incorporate new hardware as soon as possible into the 1.35-inch barnburning rig. The business blazing comes courtesy of an Intel Core i7 quad-core processor, up to 16GB...

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• Dell ordered back to court in laptop dustup

  BNET - 2010-02-08

  Dell has been ordered back into court to face claims it knowingly sold defective Inspiron 5160 and 1150 laptops. In October 2006, three Inspiron owners - Michael Omstead, Melissa Malloy, and Lisa Smith - filed suit against the PC maker, charging the company with "misconduct in connection with the...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Laptop Computer, Dell Inspiron, Arbitration

• Dell must defend suit alleging defective notebooks

  BNET - 2010-02-08

  A panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed a federal district court's 2008 dismissal of the case against the third-largest personal computer maker.That dismissal followed the plaintiffs' refusal to comply with a district court order that their claims be arbitrated.Dell, based in Round Rock,...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., notebook, District, Plaintiff

• Acer Plans to Expand Server Sales in Competition With H-P, Dell

  BNET - 2010-02-08

  Feb. 8 Bloomberg -- Acer Inc., the world's second-largest personal-computer vendor, plans to boost sales of more- profitable servers this year as it takes on Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. in offering computers to companies."You can't be a PC player just on consumer, we need to be a PC player...

  Tags: server, Dell Computer Corp., Bloomberg L.P., Hewlett-Packard Co., Acer Inc.

• Android based Dell Mini 5 is heading to AT&T with 3G

  BNET - 2010-02-08

  Thanks to some detective work by Engadget on the FCC website, it would appear as though the Dell Mini 5 is heading to AT&T and will support EDGE and 3G frequencies. How do we know this? During a hands on photo session with the Mini 5, a number of photos...

  Tags: FCC, Engadget, Dell Computer Corp., Photograph, AT&T Corp., Dell Mini

• Dell Mini 10 with WiMAX surfaces at FCC

  BNET - 2010-02-08

  Dell through an FCC filing PDF has let slip that the new Mini 10 will soon get a version with WiMAX. The netbook should get Intel's WiFi-Link 6250 and will incorporate both the 4G wireless as well as 802.11n Wi-Fi in a single chipset. No other obvious changes...

  Tags: FCC, Intel Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Wireless, WiMAX, 4G

• Faulty Dell Inspiron case reopened

  BNET - 2010-02-08

  Dell is being sued again over the alleged selling of faulty Inspiron notebooks that contained poor cooling systems and power suuplies.A federal district court dismissed the charges in 2008, but the Court of Appeals in San Francisco has overturned the decision. The Court of...

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• Are We Building Enterprise Software the Toyota Way?

  Seeking Alpha - 2010-02-08

  Dennis Byron submits: A lot of enterprise software was changed or spawned during the 1990s and the first decade of this century based on the success of the Toyota TM Manufacturing or Production System. What is less well documented but clearly linked is that enterprise software development...

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